John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readNov 28, 2024

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It does seem academic philosophy misses quite a lot, given its focus on debating iterations of the same concepts.

For instance, ideals are not absolutes. A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. Monotheism is a category error.

Is time the present going past to future, that we experience as mobile organisms with a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, or is it activity and the resulting change turning future to past. As in tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns?

Given the extent to which we try to impose the linear implications of the former onto the cyclical reality of the second, it is another point the philosophers might want to consider.

Is money both medium of exchange and store of value? Given blood is a medium and fat is a store, there might be serious implications to confusing the two. Does philosophy bother considering this?

What exactly does philosophy examine?

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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