Tag: philosophy
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Philosophy is AGAINST democracy. By default!
All great philosophers have in one way or the other been against democracy. And this is something we must always have into account. From Socrates and his "who will rule the boat" question, to Nietzsche, Plato and Heidegger, all great philosophers have been away from the masses. It could not be the other way around anyway.…
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50/50, dying from cancer and how Seneca can help...
Everything is fine. Until you learn that a loved one is dying from cancer. You then panic. You do not know what to do. And it is really bad that the very good film 50/50 shows how the only way out of such a situation is talking to a social worker or to a foreign…
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On the belief in Existence
We see. We feel. We believe that things "exist". And then we philosophize on what "existence" means. And in order to do that we attempt to see what "seeing" is. We try to model reality only to realize that reality continuously escapes us. We analyze things only to see that too much analysis destroys their…
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Matter, Materialism, Materialists vs. Logic
Some say everything is matter. But without knowing what "matter" is. Some say everything is matter. But without knowing what "everything" is. And when some day in the future we find out that our spirit is based on something else, then all we have to do is name this "something" matter... Does it matter anyway?
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