What Nietzsche Would Say: How Great Philosophers Would Solve Your Problems

Your friend's boyfriend is cheating on you, you know about it, but she doesn't. Sounds bad, right? What to do? Intervene in someone else's relationship and tell the truth - or keep quiet, letting things slide? What is best for everyone? What is the right thing to do? Who will give good advice? "When it comes to getting to the heart of the matter, great philosophers are the most skilled. The problem is that they are usually so busy thinking about serious things - about life, the Universe and everything else, that they rarely condescend to everyday trifles in their wisdom." Have you been given ugly shoes? Here's a chance to understand what beauty is. Do you watch movies about the uprising of robots with anxiety? Let's find out how artificial intelligence differs from human intelligence. Are you faced with a difficult choice with a bunch of alternatives? It's time to learn to make decisions using game theory. Complaining about a partner who does not help around the house opens up the issue of gender equality. And the question of whether to set up a colleague for one’s own benefit is directly related to Kant’s categorical imperative. Writer and musician Marcus Weeks combines the global approach of thinkers with ordinary, sometimes even awkward or funny questions. The author looks at everyday life through the optics of great ideas and finds that the little things in our lives are just the key to larger problems. “Actually, these problems are not really “philosophical”, but like everything around us, they can be approached philosophically. You can see that some philosophers use such questions as starting points to delve into the hidden meanings and subtexts of the predicament.” In an easy and entertaining text, a whole range of complex questions about personality, the possibilities of the body and mind, the future, God, vegetarianism, medicine, the state, social justice, the ethics of abortion and the right to a dignified death are revealed. Using specific examples, you will understand what the trolley problem is, how Hume's guillotine works, the meaning of Plato's myth of the cave, and how this is connected to the passion for computer games. You yourself will not notice how you are already arguing with Descartes and agreeing with the Socratic dialectic. Marcus Weeks and his interlocutors - philosophers, economists, mathematicians, politicians and writers - teach you to look at things more broadly and, more importantly, from different angles. Different, and sometimes diametrically opposed approaches allow you to understand that life is more complex and interesting than it seems to us. That it is not an equation, but rather a collection of problems with many different solutions.