• Is the mind a material phenomenon?
  • Are there categorical moral facts?
  • Is there a god (or gods)? 
  • How does one prove that there is an external world?
  • Do states have moral authority over their citizens?
  • Do people have free will? 
  • Is it better (more effective) for a leader to be loved or feared?
  • How and why did the universe begin? 
  • What is?
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
  • Why is the world the way it is?
  • Who are we?
  • Where are we going to?
  • What is the purpose of it all? 
  • What is good and what is evil? 
  • Does logic/reason have limits?
  • If God exists, does it choose what is good and what is evil or just acknowledge what already is good and what is evil?
  • What is knowledge?
  • What is truth?
  • What is consciousness?
  • How should we act?
  • How can we be happy?
  • Why can we not live forever? 
  • Is our universe real?
  • Is there life after death?
  • Can we really experience anything objectively?
  • What is the best moral system? 
  • What are numbers? 
  • What is it to be human?
  • What is it to be a person?
  • Who am I?
  • What makes you, you?
  • What am I? 
  • How is language possible?
  • If you had a different name would you be a different person? 
  • Is it possible to hold a fair race?
  • Is war ever justified? 
  • Can anything be art?
  • What makes something art?
  • What constitutes something being "art?"
  • Do we have to be sad sometimes to be happy other times? 
  • Would you still be you if everyone in the world thought you were someone else?
  • What's the difference between telling a lie and keeping a secret?
  • Is appearance everything?
  • When did you start to think?
  • Do we all have the same rights? 
  • What is a "right?"
  • To what extent do you shape your own destiny and how much is attributed to fate?
  • What is reality? 
  • What makes a good friend?
  • Is your personality more shaped by genetics/nature or nurture/your environment?
  • Who defines good and evil?
  • Is it justified or ok to act wrongly if no one knows and will never find out?
  • Who decides what morality is?
  • How do you know you perceive colors the same way other people perceive them? What if red to you always looks green to someone else?
  • What is true strength?
  • What is true love?
  • Can you ever be truly happy without money?
  • How much control do you have over your own life? 
  • What defines you?
  • What do people strive for after enlightenment?
  • What is intelligence?
  • Is it ever justified to lie?
  • When does consciousness begin?
  • When does life begin?
  • If everything evolved from amoebas, how does the world still have amoebas?
  • Is there a sound if nothing is around to hear it?
  • Does observation alter an event?
  • How does gravity work?
  • Does the "Law of Attraction" exist?
  • What is beauty?
  • What is time?
  • Who are you, who were you, and who will you become?
  • What makes you the same person now who you were ten years ago?
  • What if all your beliefs change radically and/or you lose your memory and forget who you are/were, what makes you still the same person?
  • What is it to be a self?
  • What is it to be your self?
  • Are the mind and the brain one and the same or are they two separate entities?
  • Are you your body, your mind, or something else?
  • Is justice a fact or an opinion?
  • What is it to be just?
  • Is it ever justified to temporarily abandon principles or must they always be lived up to?
  • Is torturing someone ever justified?
  • Is homicide ever justified?
  • Do we perceive objects exactly how they really are? How much of what we perceive is in the object itself and how much depends on our own senses? Does a red soda can possess "redness?" Does an ice cube possess "coldness?" Or are those things perceived because of our bodily senses, nerves, innate abilities...?
  • Do humans have a soul?
  • What is a soul made of?
  • Can a soul exist independent of a physical body?
  • What does a soul do for us? Give us a personality? A certain appearance? Value?
  • Can a soul be reborn into another body?
  • Can a human person be reborn as someone else? What part of that person is reborn? The mind? The soul? The body? Something else?
  • If God or gods exist, are they somehow above humans? Should they be worshiped? Does their opinions of us matter? Should we attempt to please them?
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