Category: Dasein Philosophy
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Coping with the grief of death 2
Have been trying to cope with the grief of death. By thinking of things. By not thinking of things. Avoiding my self. But now I understand. That the only reason that I grief. Is that I have not sat alone. To feel. To cry. To grief. Until the cosmos understands. That there is no need…
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Coping with the grief of death
Coping with grief is difficult. One has to stay focused on forgetting the reasons for being sad in the first place, but the problem is that when someone is sad for a good reason he doesn't want to forget that reason. Most difficult to cope with is the grief due to the death of a…
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Cooperation. Because of… cooperation?!
In nature, organisms often support each other in order to gain an advantage. However, this kind of cooperation contradicts the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin: Why would organisms invest valuable resources to help others? Instead, they should rather use them for themselves, in order to win the evolutionary competition with other species. A…
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On the philosophical dogmas that support humans' belief in Death
Relative publication sites: PhilPapers Contents 1. Agonies that did not exist (Prelude) Once upon a time thinkers in ancient Greece laid the foundations of philosophy before philosophy even existed. Back then, Parmenides and Heraclitus tried to explain what being is in an era where no philosophical dogmas existed. Raw thinking was our tool back then…
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Being fun.
A longitudinal study examined whether children who are well-liked and children who are popular got that way by being fun to hang around with. Results clearly underscore the importance of being fun. Across a two-month period, primary school children perceived by classmates as someone who is fun to be around experienced an increase in the…
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