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-# Philosophy
+This topic is part of [[gt:learning|Learning & personal development]].
+====== Philosophy ======
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-## What is philosophy?
+===== What is philosophy? =====
 Philosophy is a difficult topic to define, but here are a few attempts - it's:
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 Where are women in the history of philosophy? As with other subjects, they were mostly kept out by men until the late 20th century. The future of philosophy will be more female, which can only be a good thing. The more perspectives as regards gender, race, profession, age and religious, political or sexual orientation the better. A philosophical heritage built by old, white males is a limited one.
-[Here's](https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/philosophy/further-info) our accessible, 15-part, brief history of philosophy.
+[Here's](https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/philosophy/further-info) an accessible, 15-part, brief history of philosophy.
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-## What are the benefits of philosophy?
+===== What are the benefits of philosophy? =====
-- You can learn a lot, increase your understanding, hone your mental powers, discover things that can help in real-life situations, and it's an antidote to the the superficiality of mass culture.
+- You can learn a lot, increase your understanding, hone your mental powers, discover things that can help in real-life situations, and it's an antidote to the superficiality of mass culture.
 - It generates new ideas - and we need them. There are some big problems looming, concerning the biosphere, conflict, artificial intelligence, cloning, nanotechnology and more. For these kinds of issues, the best and possibly only way to come to good decisions is via philosophical debate, and really, philosophers need to be leading those debates, not the people who are actually leading them - corporate leaders and career politicians.
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-## What can I do?
+===== What can I do? =====
 You can read and learn more. Here are two general books on Western and Eastern philosophy:
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-## Further resources
+===== Forum =====
-## Specialist curators of this topic
+This topic belongs to the section [[gt:learning|Learning & personal development]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/learning).
+===== Further resources =====
+- [British Philosophical Association](https://bpa.ac.uk/)
+- [Philosophy Foundation](https://www.philosophy-foundation.org/) - philosophy for children
+- [Sapere](https://www.sapere.org.uk/) - philosophy for children
+- [Arts & Letters Daily](https://www.aldaily.com/) - daily digest of interesting articles from magazines, newpapers, blogs etc. from around the world
+- [15-part, brief history of philosophy](https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/philosophy/further-info)
+- [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy](https://iep.utm.edu/)
+- [History of philosophy podcast series](https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/all-episodes)
+- [Open Culture](https://www.openculture.com/philosophy_free_courses) - free philosophy online courses
+- [Philosophy Bites](https://philosophybites.com/) - top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics
+- [Philosophy Pages](https://www.philosophypages.com/) - western philosophy, inc a timeline of philosophers
+===== Related topics =====
+- [Collaborative finance](cofi:collaborative_finance)
+- [[pgec:Post-growth]] economics
+- [[syst:System change]]
+- [[smal:Small|Small is beautiful]]
+- [[demo:democracy|The democracy problem]]
+- [[ntre:nature|The nature problem]]
+- [[pers:Personal development]]
+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
+  * [[user:asimong|Simon Grant]]