My Penis And Everyone Else’s. World News [ no US / US Politics news please ] Years ago, an extraordinarily intelligent (and highly academic) acquaintance of mine used Plato's Five Dialogues as a basis for committing suicide. : philosophy. Is Philosophy Literature? The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.
Leif Parsons Is philosophy literature? Do people read philosophy for pleasure? Of course it is, and of course they do. People savor the aphorisms of Nietzsche, the essays of Schopenhauer, the philosophical novels of Sartre. Now let me narrow my query: Does anybody read analytic philosophy for pleasure? Allow me to address the latter reply first. Today, analytic philosophy has a broader scope than it used to. This kind of philosophy, whatever its intellectual merits, doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun.
But what is literature? And what is “the right use of language”? So how does the writing of professional philosophers of the past 100 years or so fare in the light of these three criteria? Individuality? Finally, we come to elegance. Ryle may head the hedonic honor roll of analytic philosophy, but the roll is a long one. An excerpt from this article appeared in print on July 1, 2012. -jackschitt- comments on My Great Grandpa was the president of Guatemala, and no one ever believed me, reddit what is your most unbelievable story? Thisisntnamman comments on ELI5: The Rwanda Genocide, the Tutsi and Hutu conflict. Dear Everybody *my first poem and first post : Poems.
How collective memory saved lives during Japan's tsunami. I am an engineer and a disaster researcher; I went to Japan after the March 11, 2011, magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake to try to identify lessons there that could benefit future disaster-response operations.
In late May, I was following the usual research routine of interviewing individuals involved at the various stages of the disaster response, and particularly those involved in the distribution of critical supplies as part of the relief effort. FOR THE RECORD: Tsunami: In a March 11 Op-Ed about a 1,000-year-old story that saved lives after the Tohoku earthquake, the last name of a Japanese engineer was misspelled. His name is Eiichi Taniguchi, not Tanaguchi. — In a refugee center on the beautiful island of Miyatojima, at the entrance to Matsushima Bay, I stumbled on a story that, by its reach back in time, taught me something unexpected: Collective memory, as much as science and engineering, may save your life. This is the story he told.
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What if I told you instead that if The Joker did not exist, Gotham would be overrun by organized crime families and the corrupt politicians that live in their pockets? And what if I told you that there is mathematical proof of this argument's validity? Curious? Read on. In a recent article in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, two mathematicians and a physicist use a mathematical model show how the "destructive agents" (which they aptly call "Jokers") can help people avoid the tragedy of the commons. With the hyperbole and snark characteristic of This or That feature writing (and Internet media, more broadly), I'll use this fancy mathematical model to assert that The Joker isn't a villain.
See, guys, you're about to make him cry! So before I explain the whole Joker thing, I need to give you a primer on evolutionary game theory. Look at left. Nash was, however, almost as crazy. Yeah, people aren't that smart.