Philosophy
What We Know
On some days, if you asked me about what we know, with absolute certainty, I’d respond with only that something exists. And if you asked me…
The Scientific Irony
There’s no proof that life has meaning; therefore, life is meaningless. Wait, what?
Freedom = ƒ(Money)?
No, this question is not new. However it’s one I want to ponder with you because it much seems like something truly terrible has happened over the centuries.
Destroying Is Not Arguing, or: Why It Would Be Bad If Jesus Was Here
Arguing is something we have to learn. I observed this again in recent years when I started studying philosophy and went through courses for logic and argumentation theory. These courses…
In Defense of Bad Luck
There seems to be something to luck, and bad luck.
Highlights from Dewey’s How We Think
“The very importance of thought for life makes necessary its control by education because of its natural tendency to go astray, and because social influences exist that tend to form habits of thought leading to inadequate and erroneous beliefs.”
Regarding the Fermi Paradox
When not finding signs of extraterrestrial intelligence says more about us than them.
Highlights from Wattles’s The Science of Getting Rich
“Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.”
On Socialization
Several months back, to myself, I noted how we may have all already been what we’ve later wished to be: for example, authentically curious, interested, open, unbiased, worry-free, joyful, happy, confident, loving. Then, I thought, came socialization.
Highlights from Emerson’s Nature
“Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.”
The Constructivist Preference
When we are presented with conflicting beliefs and ideas, which ones are we to support or assume? That question, in our age of scientism, is usually answered with “those that are true,” or “those that are more realistic”…
Contradictions: a Problem of Logic, a Feature of Reality?
On my list of research topics and article drafts is one that covers root assumptions: assumptions at the core of what we assume about our two realities, psychical and physical reality. One of these root assumptions covers logic…
Highlights from Myer’s Oldest Books in the World
“Study on a subject before giving an opinion” and other truly old realizations.
Highlights from Scovel Shinn’s Your Word is Your Wand
Short excerpts that convey a rather unconventional view on our realities. “Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.”
Living and Mistakes
We can’t make a mistake living our own lives. A counter to the fear of doing wrong, the harmful idea of guilt, as well as unhelpful doubt, the statement’s power lies in the realization that it’s impossible for us to live our lives “incorrectly.”
Why Philosophy Matters
Philosophy is a field that once combined all the sciences and had considerable influence. Over time that influence waned, to an extent that philosophy is now simply one of the humanities, a “second order” discipline that some people wonder what it’s useful for…
Highlights from Paine’s Common Sense
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.”
Highlights from Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience
Launching a new series of highlights and factoids from public domain books, classic or not, that had piqued my interest, and perhaps excite yours. Here from American polymath Henry David Thoreau.
Life’s Golden Rules
From all my cheeky laws and a number of absolutistic posts you already know I have a thing for dramaturgy. The same here.
The Bio Enhancement Paradox
Or, what if Donald Trump was Iron Man.
The Dilemma of the Kind Person
Imagine a fine human being who has a laudable goal. She wants to become a genuinely, cordially, most truly kind person. So she sets on to work on her objective…
On Rationality, and Love
Philosophy can be heart-breaking, or is it the other way around.
On Consciousness
Speaking of which.
New Book: How to Work on Oneself
Doubt led me to explore ways to grow, doubt now led me to ask my editor three times whether or not to publish under a pseudonym: I sketched, in what resembles a fluffy essay, how to learn, how to grow, or—How to Work on Oneself.
Problems, No Problems, Desires
In my own non-academic studies I’ve found common definitions of “problem” unsatisfying. So I’ve tried to redefine “problem” for something more flexible, and I believe there’s a redefinition that holds for common scenarios. Philosophize together with me.
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