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Ytar0 t1_j1r22o8 wrote

Reply to comment by CarousersCorner in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | December 26, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt

For me, compatibilism, combined with different existentialist ideas, helped me get a perspective on my own emotions and a better grasp on how to lead/control them (or in most cases, how not to be affected by them). It made me realize that no one is directly responsible for anything, so take everything with a grain of salt, and it made me, for better or for worse, get a gigantic (hidden) ego lol. I have always been pretty content with my life, but these ideas really hammered it in. So yeah, do tell if this is useful at all :)

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CarousersCorner t1_j1rew49 wrote

I’ll do some reading on compatibilism, for sure. Who would you suggest I start with?

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Ytar0 t1_j1rffhj wrote

To be honest with you I’ve never really bothered to read many of the original philosophical works on these topics, I much prefer to use sites like the stanford philosophy encyclopedia, they also have a page on compatibilism. (Many related pages as well!)

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