Happy and thoughtful #WorldPhilosophyDay!

A 7-quote thread to celebrate.
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
- Heraclitus
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates
"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"
- Plato (allegory of the cave)
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
- Aristotle
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."
- Simone Weil
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [..] and the distinction between true and false [..] no longer exists.”
- Hannah Arendt
"The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself."
- Martha Nussbaum

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Happy #trolleyday!

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A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
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A brakeless trolley nears.

If you don't act, 5 workers (who cannot hear the trolley coming) will die.

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What should you do?
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If you don't act, 5 workers will die.

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What should you do?
The trolley problem fallacy:
Perceiving the world as a collection of levers you can pull.
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