Why Philosophy Is A Virus

They tell me philosophy is dead — but they don’t understand it was never alive.

Gem Jackson
Dismantle — Locate
8 min readJun 2, 2021

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Philosophy is what you study if you want to be unpopular.

This shouldn’t be a surprise. Socrates, perhaps the first great public philosopher, annoyed the great and good of ancient Athens to such a degree, they had him executed. It turns out that people rarely…

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Gem Jackson
Dismantle — Locate

Writer and educator in law and philosophy. Also wrote a book.