Open questions and unachievable goals

A brief exploration of perennial philosophical questions, unsolvable problems, and open questions.

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Rothfuss story about the boy with a screw for a belly button.

Sometimes it's the questions that teach us the most.

Perennial philosophical questions

Is the unexamined life worth living?

// TODO: define the mind/body problem and explain its openness

Open questions

Idealized epistemology.

The point isn't to solve a problem. The goal is inherently unachievable, but worth pursuing, because human knowledge is an exercise in understanding that benefits from being pushed to advance and excel at making human life a little more worth living.

We're all conducting an experiment on what it means, what it looks like, to live a good life.¹

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Footnotes

1. According to Pierre Hadot, this was the original project of Philosophy. ↩