Is Philosophy Useful in Modern Times?
Updated 31 October 2025
Imagine scrolling through TikTok late at night, consuming endless personalised content. Each video perfectly matched to your interests, each frame designed to keep you engaged. Now consider Plato’s allegory of the Cave, where prisoners are chained in a dark cavern, only able to see shadows cast on the wall. Having never seen the real world, they mistake these shadows for reality itself. Sound familiar?
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Is Philosophy Useful in Modern Times?
Imagine scrolling through TikTok late at night, consuming endless personalised content. Each video perfectly matched to your interests, each frame designed to keep you engaged.
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The Man – Chapter 1 The Town
The woman snatched the medicine from the chemist’s outstretched hand.
The Man – Chapter 2 Jail
“I need to go now” he said to the cop. It was not an order, there was no anger…
The Man – Chapter 3 The Aboriginal Settlement
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