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by koliber 91 days ago
Most people don’t read Aristotle. If thousands of wannabe philosophers can paraphrase some of his ideas and make them accessible to the masses, that’s a net plus. If they can stroke their vanity along the way, even more people win.

It’s much better than writing bitter diatribes.

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To be fair, he’s a much, much drier read than Plato.
...what is your actual point? I'm pretty sure none of the shit I read on LinkedIn is making "philosophical ideas accessible to the masses", it's churned out 20x regurgitated self-promotional material.

Is this a bot post?

Well, their Bio is full of linkedin speak, so make your own conclusions...
I just translated that to English via Kagi so that I could understand it.
haha. No, actual human here.

My point is that some people find this stuff valuable. You're not the target audience.