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What is your philosophy on life? What is your philosophy on anything? You are the only one that can hold your ideas back in here. Just remember. Greatness only comes from the mind that isn't afraid of the outcome.

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Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economics

Started by Dallas the Phallus. Last reply by Neal on Monday. 2 Replies

Tamar Gendler, Department of Philosophy Chair at Yale University, Cognitive ScientistWho gets what and who says so? These two questions underlie and inform every social arrangement from the resolution of schoolyard squabbles to the meta-structure of…Continue

Tags: wealth, income, social contract, culture, philosophy

Problem of omnipotence

Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Michel May 9. 4 Replies

Maybe this question has been asked here before, but I would still love to hear your opinions on the matter.For the sake of argument let us posit that a god exists and that this god is omnipotent, I posit that the biggest question that would trouble…Continue

Tags: the, universe, of, Origin, Suicide

On morality

Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Michel May 9. 2 Replies

Friends, this is the beginning of a sketch on morality that I have been developing and I would so much welcome comments and questions in developing it further. I am trying to describe my moral position from a philosophical point of view.My thesis is…Continue

Tags: nihilism, god, Illusions, Morality

Free will: A religious Idea

Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Onyango Makagutu Apr 29. 2 Replies

I agree with Friedrick Nietzsche when he writes this All primitive psychology, the psychology of will, arises from the fact that its interpreters, the priests at the head of ancient communities, wanted to create for themselves the right to punish-…Continue

Tags: Determinism, Atheism, Religion, Guilt, Punishment

Have Militant Atheists Created a New Religion?

Started by Neal. Last reply by Neal Apr 10. 13 Replies

For the fans of Waal, a small excerpt from his last book that for the most part I disagree with. His thought that there may be some tie between one's religion growing up and one's militant atheism does not ring true; at least for those militant…Continue

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Should Marriage Be Abolished?

Started by Adriana. Last reply by doone Apr 1. 29 Replies

Provocative post at the site Philosophy Talk. There will be a podcast discussion on it to, if you're interested. The fact that gay people are not allowed to marry in most places in the…Continue

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Problem of Evil

Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Adriana Mar 21. 39 Replies

Epicurus asked this question Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?Then he is malevolent.Is he both able, and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?Then why call…Continue

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Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will

Started by Adriana. Last reply by Onyango Makagutu Feb 20. 43 Replies

Nature News has a very good article on free will, it's a couple of months old, I've been meaning to post on it for a while, but at first I felt we had sort of beaten the free will's dead horse quite a bit, and people may not be interested.…Continue

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Epicureanism: a Secular Doctrine for Happiness

Started by Hiram C. Last reply by Hiram C Dec 26, 2012. 4 Replies

Epicureanism is a humanist philosophical doctrine for human happiness. It requires us to make a firm resolution to live a happy life and to apply philosophical and empirical methods to the pursuit of happiness.Its first tenets are contained in the…Continue

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Comment by Adriana on April 22, 2012 at 5:42pm

Oh, I see why now! It's a book. I guess he's trying to sell the book.

Comment by Adriana on April 22, 2012 at 5:39pm

I could not enlarge them either. That web site is not easy to navigate. I just think the designs were cool.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 22, 2012 at 4:50pm

Hmmm...it would help if I could embiggen them so I could read them. They look fun though.

Comment by Adriana on April 22, 2012 at 4:39pm

Minimalist philosophy posters. Fantastic!

I love determinism, relativism, empiricism. I don't get utilitarianism. Someone explain the symbol to me?

Comment by Neal on April 21, 2012 at 5:04pm

Excellent. =)

Comment by doone on April 21, 2012 at 11:32am

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Comment by doone on February 5, 2012 at 12:46pm

Will We Ever Solve The Consciousness Problem?

Tom Siegfried has his doubts:

[T]he consciousness problem is inherently similar to another famous problem that actually has been proved unsolvable: finding a self-consistent set of axioms for deducing all of mathematics. As the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel proved eight decades ago, no such axiomatic system is possible; any system as complicated as arithmetic contains true statements that cannot be proved within the system.

Gödel’s proof emerged from deep insights into the self-referential nature of mathematical statements. He showed how a system referring to itself creates paradoxes that cannot be logically resolved — and so certain questions cannot in principle be answered. Consciousness, in a way, is in the same logical boat. At its core, consciousness is self-referential awareness, the self’s sense of its own existence. It is consciousness itself that is trying to explain consciousness.

Comment by Adriana on December 14, 2011 at 9:15pm

You may be interested in reading this discussion on Christian apologist philosopher Alvin Plantinga that I posted here in the Main Forum.

Comment by Michel on November 13, 2011 at 1:28pm

@doone - This is a great widget!
I've added it as a page under LIBRARY 2.

Thnx for posting. 

Comment by doone on November 13, 2011 at 12:46pm

"Philosophy: The Kevin Bacon Of Wikipedia"

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We somehow missed this great widget, from back in May, that shows how all paths lead to philosophy... on Wikipedia. Creator Jeff Winters explains

There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to "Philosophy." This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use more general terms.

(Hat tip: Maggie Koerth-Baker)

 

 

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