We all do it. But is there anything philosophically interesting about complaining? Agnes Callard thinks there is. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast she discusses complaint with Nigel Warburton.
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I'M fed up with philosophy bites.
It's been going on for so many years and frankly it's becoming tiresome.
The philosophers have nothing original to say and I have to spend hours editing them to make them sound halfway coherent.
But anyway, enough whingeing.
Here's Agnes Callard.
Agnes Callard, welcome to philosophy bites.
Thanks so much, Nigel.
The topic we're going to discuss today is complaint.
Now, that's not obviously a philosophical topic.
Could you perhaps say why you've chosen that topic?
There isn't too much philosophical work on it, though there is a bit.
I mean, I find it actually strange that philosophers aren't more interested in it.
I think it's a huge part of our lives.
We spend a lot of time complaining.
As a parent, I spend a lot of my time listening to complaints.