“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

similar topics

• Moral relativism: do right and wrong change from culture to culture, or is there a universal standard? When what is normal in one society is horrifying in another, who is right?
• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
• The best way to disagree is to take on your opponent's strongest argument, not their weakest. Why has public discourse gone in exactly the opposite direction?
• The sorites paradox: take grains away from a heap of sand one at a time, and at which grain does it stop being a heap? If no single grain makes the difference, does the fuzziness of that boundary mean our concepts themselves are broken?
• Children who are taught philosophy improve at math, reading, and empathy. Why is philosophy still missing from most schools?