It's a question I've constantly wrestled with in my head, Disco Elysium didn't help with this with jokes like being a fascist cause your gut told you to.

Part of me thinks there is an interplay in the way philosophy might affect your personality, and personality affects your philosophical beliefs. How do you wrestle with that?

  • bruh [any]
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    3 years ago

    Yes. Why would my philosophical beliefs be independent of my personality? It would be quite jarring to see someone like, idk, Bernie Sanders expressing raging nietzscheanism.

    There probably is a connection between philosophy and personality, but that doesn't occur in a void; as with any other literature, media, idea, it will be something which you experience and that will affect you.

    Personality might dictate your search for certain literature, make you prefer one reading over another, or perhaps interpret in the only way you find possible