I was told by this subreddit that there exists such a thing as good philosophy, and that /r/debatereligion is full of bad philosophy. Because this is not a place for learns, I set out to discover learns elsewhere, buying the audiobook of The Great Courses' series, The Big Questions of Philosophy, but I'm finding that this was a grave mistake.
I'm over ten hours in (22 chapters/lectures), and Doctor Johnson has so far answered three "big questions": does God exist, is there free will, and can there be an afterlife. First of all, I'm a little upset that apparently the only "big questions" in philosophy all seem to be religious in nature, and, secondly, all of his arguments have been essentially of the same caliber that I expect of ratheists in /r/debatereligion. His answers have essentially been:
1) There is no god, because if anything was supernatural, we would just call that natural instead.
2) There is no free will because compatibilists are just redefining terms.
3) There is no afterlife because there's no such thing as persons and we're all just arbitrary collections of atoms.
Everything is just presenting the weakest forms of arguments he can imagine, refusing to use the definitions that people commonly accept, and appealing to neuro-science as the answer to all philosophical questions.
The worst thing is, I can't stop listening. I'm getting into shouting matches with my car radio to and from work regularly. I can't turn away.
All I'm asking is, who can I go to for an apology? I'm afraid he's going to start talking about ethics soon.
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