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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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-## 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 =====
+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/)
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 - [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]]
-## Related topics
+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
-## Specialist curators of this topic
+  * [[user:asimong|Simon Grant]]