First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
Kathryn SchulzRegret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
Kathryn SchulzTake away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
Kathryn SchulzThe kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
Kathryn SchulzA whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.
Kathryn Schulz