The straussian reading of ‘people who engage in philosophy’
Memeplexes engaged in blackmail by causing their adherents to suffer if you try to prevent the conditions favorable to the meme indoctrinating more people. If that’s too abstract imagine a cancer that causes pain if you don’t eat sugar.
Suffering itself is an anti meme and one ea (mostly, so far) failed to not do substitution effect on.
I didn’t know what “straussian” means so I looked it up.
The “Straussian” approach to the history of political philosophy is articulated primarily in the writings of Leo Strauss. Strauss wrote extremely careful, detailed studies of canonical philosophical works along with essays explaining his approach. The most controversial claim Strauss made was that philosophers in the past did not always present their thoughts openly and explicitly. They used an “art of writing” to entice potential philosophers to begin a life of inquiry by following the hints the authors gave about their true thoughts and questions. The overriding purpose of Strauss’s own studies was to prove that philosophy in its original Socratic form is still possible by showing the persistence of certain fundamental problems throughout the history of philosophy. The most pertinent of those problems, not merely to political philosophy but to human life as a whole, was the problem of justice. Strauss also insisted that “historicism” is based on a philosophical account of the character and limitations of human knowledge and that it can be refuted, therefore, only on the basis of a philosophical argument. ― The Straussian Approach by Catherine Zuckert in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy
But I can’t tell exactly what ‘people who engage in philosophy’ means and why it’s in quotes. It sounds like the title of an essay but a web search doesn’t find anything.
Do you feel comfortable giving an example of such a memeplex?
Suffering is indeed an antimeme—and a broad-ranging one too. This is a new addition to my collection. Thanks.
I didn’t know what the substitution effect is either so here’s a definition.
The substitution effect is the decrease in sales for a product that can be attributed to consumers switching to cheaper alternatives when its price rises. ― Source
Whoops different substitution effect. The tendency to replace a difficult question with an easier one without noticing that we did so. Related to bike shedding and aether variables.
Wonder what antimemes are an integral part of the LW egregore.
The straussian reading of ‘people who engage in philosophy’
Memeplexes engaged in blackmail by causing their adherents to suffer if you try to prevent the conditions favorable to the meme indoctrinating more people. If that’s too abstract imagine a cancer that causes pain if you don’t eat sugar.
Suffering itself is an anti meme and one ea (mostly, so far) failed to not do substitution effect on.
I didn’t know what “straussian” means so I looked it up.
But I can’t tell exactly what ‘people who engage in philosophy’ means and why it’s in quotes. It sounds like the title of an essay but a web search doesn’t find anything.
Do you feel comfortable giving an example of such a memeplex?
Suffering is indeed an antimeme—and a broad-ranging one too. This is a new addition to my collection. Thanks.
I didn’t know what the substitution effect is either so here’s a definition.
Whoops different substitution effect. The tendency to replace a difficult question with an easier one without noticing that we did so. Related to bike shedding and aether variables.
the correct name is attribution substitution.
“philosophers claim they are seeking truth but they are really seeking peace”