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    An Antidote to Injustice - The Philosophers' Magazine
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    1. knowlin 30 Sep 2025
      There is a third kind of answer that, without competing with the previous two, demonstrates the value of philosophy, even (perhaps, especially) for students like our imagined protagonist: philosophy is the antidote to the uncritical acceptance of the world and ourselves as we are.

      I like the phrase "antidote to the uncritical acceptance" quite a lot. At first, you may think that an "uncritical acceptance" isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, thinking about it more, do you really want to just blindly accept the world around you? Looking critically at yourself and the world allows you to make changes and work to improve the lives of yourself and others, among many other things, simply because you dared to question.

    2. knowlin 30 Sep 2025
      The way injustice often undermines our agency is by shrinking the horizons of what we think is possible. We simply accept that things cannot be any other way than they are. The kind of critical thinking central to philosophical education allows us to question how things are and, often, to realize that how things are is not how they have or ought to be

      This comment really stood out to me. The idea of injustice affecting us on a deeper level, to the point of changing the way we view the world and our capabilities, is something that I truly had never thought of. Feeling like things cannot change simply because "that's the way things are" may not seem like that big of an issue to each person, but the collective public all having the same mindset is what really allows injustice to thrive.

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