philoskepsis

['Member']Joined: January 04, 2018 at 06:08Last active: January 20, 2026 at 02:01None discussions3 comments

Bio

I was a member of the old Philosophy Forum until I was on a hiatus around 2014. I found Philosophy Forum's new website and I'm glad to see some familiar faces. I'm currently studying philosophy for my PhD. I'm primarily interested in Marxism, Kant, and political philosophy and recently developed an interest in German Idealism.

Favourite Philosopher

Immanuel Kant, Spinoza, Karl Marx, Hegel, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Derek Parfit.

Favourite Quotations

"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity – and this at the same rate at which it produces commodities in general."

Comments

In: Majoring in Philosophy — view comment

I personally think majoring in philosophy (including studying it at a graduate school) has helped me improve my writing skills. I use to be a terrible...

January 05, 2018 at 03:25

In: The trolley problem - why would you turn? — view comment

Consequentialism would say that pushing the fat man is morally permissible since it yields the best consequence (e.g. saving more people). However, th...

January 05, 2018 at 02:21

In: The trolley problem - why would you turn? — view comment

It's worth to consider different competing views on what you ought to do in the Trolley case. One view states that you should pull the trolley because...

January 04, 2018 at 06:52