40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist If there’s one thing Friedrich Nietzsche did well, it’s obliterate feel-good beliefs people have about themselves. He has been criticized for being a misanthrope, a subvert, a cynic and a pessimist, but I think these assessments are off the mark. I believe he only wanted human beings to be more honest with themselves. He did have a remarkable gift for aphorism — he once declared, “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” A hundred years after his death, Nietzsche retains his disturbing talent for turning a person’s worldview upside-down with one jarring remark. Even today his words remain controversial. Here are 40 unsympathetic statements from the man himself. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. More of Nietzsche’s genius here. Have a lot on your mind? Everyday mindfulness has transformed my life, and the lives of many others.
Some Moral Dilemmas The Trolley Problem, not in Grassian. Suggested by Philippa Foot (1920-2010), daughter of Esther, the daughter of President Grover Cleveland, but of British birth because of her father, William Sidney Bence Bosanquet. A trolley is running out of control down a track. This is a classic "right vs. good" dilemma. The Costly Underwater Tunnel Compare: 112 men were killed during the construction of Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border (the "official" number was 98, but others had died from causes more difficult to identify -- or easier to ignore -- like by carbon monoxide poisoning): The first to die was a surveyor, J.G. with a return to a completely unfamiliar Earth, against what seems to be genuine love for Preston, with a life in what actually are rather comfortable circumstances in the spaceship.
Idee e teorie filosofiche più rilevanti dell'ultimo secolo Values Explanations > Values About values | Historical values | Research on values | So what? Values is a confusing word that often gets confused with 'value' as in the value you get from buying a cheap, but well-built house. Values are, in fact powerful drivers of how we think and behave. About values Value categories: different spheres into which we place values. Historical values American Values: A list of traditional US cultural values. Research on values Career Anchors: identified by Edgar Schein as shapers of what we do. Values are also often a significant element of culture, where they form a part of the shared ruleset of a group. When I break my values, I will feel shame and guilt. Know the the values to which the other person will subscribe (these are often common sense) as well as the actual values they enact in practice (watch them for this). Beware of the values in practice which can be harmful to you (will they betray you?). See also Social Norms, Guilt, Repulsion, Pride, Shame
The philosophy of The Matrix In The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999) Keanu Reeves plays a computer programmer who leads a double life as a hacker called “Neo”. After receiving cryptic messages on his computer monitor, Neo begins to search for the elusive Morpheus (Laurence Fishburn), the leader of a clandestine resistance group, who he believes is responsible for the messages. Eventually, Neo finds Morpheus, and is then told that reality is actually very different from what he, and most other people, perceives it to be. Morpheus tells Neo that human existence is merely a facade. In reality, humans are being ‘farmed’ as a source of energy by a race of sentient, malevolent machines. The Matrix is based on a philosophical question posed by the 17th Century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. Everything I have accepted up to now as being absolutely true and assured, I have learned from or through the senses. Descartes’s argument is an epistemological one. Like this: Like Loading...
LA VÉRITÉ ET LA CROYANCE par J. Llapasset Site Philagora, tous droits réservés © On oppose souvent vérité et croyance dans la mesure où la vérité exige la clarté, la cohérence, un caractère d'objectivité: elle est partagée par tous grâce à des démonstrations et à des preuves. Idée = En effet, la vérité est une idée, un horizon, un idéal qu'on poursuit en faisant des enquêtes pour produire des affirmations de mieux en mieux justifiées. Correspondance = La définition de la vérité comme l'accord entre un discours et la réalité est une définition parfaite pour des êtres parfaits. Cohérence = L'admiration pour la rigueur des enchaînements dans un discours, des déductions en géométrie , a été très grande. Obstacles = Bien souvent les croyances sont des obstacles à la recherche de la vérité. en effet: celui qui croit savoir pourquoi voulez-vous qu'il cherche? Opinion. Conclusion Bien distinguer la croyance vécue comme une passion de la croyance "action" reconnue par un examen critique. Retour à Raison et expérience
Žižek on OOO The core of object-oriented-ontology (ooo) developed by Levi Bryant1 can be summed up by the formula from subject back to substance. And, in so far as subject is correlative with modernity (recall Lacan’s thesis about the Cartesian subject as the subject of modern science), we can also say that ooo follows the premise rendered by the title of Bruno Latour’s famous book, We Were Never Modern—it endeavors to bring back the premodern enchantment of the world. The Lacanian answer to this should be a paraphrase of his correction of the formula “god is dead” (god was always already dead, he just didn’t know it): we were always already modern (we just didn’t know it). We must show why thought, far from experiencing its intrinsic limits through facticity, experiences rather its knowledge of the absolute through facticity. [N]o object ever actualizes the subterranean volcanic core with which its virtual proper being is haunted. Notes
Hegel For Beginners Hegel-by-HyperText Resources Excerpt from Hegel for Beginners Source: Hegel for Beginners, by Llyod Spencer and Andrzej Krauze, Published by Icon Books, 14 of 175 pages reproduced here, minus the abundant illustrations. In 1808, Hegel still talked of constructing some sort of bridge between traditional logic set out in classical form by Aristotle and his own. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) perfected a form of deductive argument called the syllogism. "Classical reasoning assumes the principle of logical identity: A = A or A is not non-A". Why did Hegel need a different logic? Hegel usually referred to the Phenomenology as his "psychology", because it was the only one of his writings which deals with the world, not as it appears to Absolute Mind (or Spirit) but to quite ordinary minds like our own. "But in writing that book I became aware of employing a new and unprecedented way of thinking". Dialectical Thinking Hegel's different way of thinking has become known as dialectical thinking. Totality
Qu’est-ce que la causalité ? Temps de lecture : 14 minutes Qu’est-ce que la causalité ? Qu’est-ce qu’une loi scientifique ? L’objectif de cet article est d’ébaucher les grands traits de ces deux concepts centraux à partir des pensées d’Aristote, de Sextus Empiricus, de Newton, de Hume et de Kant. L’adoption d’une perspective historique permet de souligner à la fois les précisions apportées par ces figures emblématiques, ainsi que les limites de philosophies comportant une part irréductible d’idéalisme. La quête de la causalité Aristote ou la complexité causale Alors que Platon affectionnait des idées éthérées, idées qui ne sauraient côtoyer le monde bassement matériel et obscur ; alors que Démocrite, au contraire de Platon, voyait en l’atome le composant ultime de l’Univers, Aristote a conjugué explicitement la matière et l’idée (i.e. forme). À l’instar des autres philosophes de l’Antiquité, il s’est efforcé de penser le monde dans sa totalité, se demandant pourquoi et comment les choses (objets ou sujets) existent.
Unificazione generale della fisica | Filosofia e nuovi sentieri > di Vito J. Ceravolo* Noi non giudichiamo illusione quel che è esteriore, e nemmeno giudichiamo tale quel che si trova nel nostro interno, nella coscienza. Tutto ciò, noi lo giudichiamo realtà. G.W.F. Abstract:Dopo i preliminari filosofici sulla dialettica da usare nella trattazione della relatività, la si analizza considerandone gli aspetti concettuali, formali, linguistici, fisici e matematici, con accenni di speciazione biologica, sino all’unificazione in un unico sistema. Indice 1. 1. Questo articolo si divide in tre brevi parti. Per trattare la teoria della relatività facciamo un salto nel mondo fisico che è il luogo da cui Einstein ne ha derivato la legge. N.B. Per entrare nel mondo fisico scegliamo quale di queste due sopra-dialettiche usare, confrontando l’informità A=¬A della logica presa a campione[1] di Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, contro questa nostra logica formale A=A capace di accedere sia alla ragione in sé che all’apparente fenomeno (cfr. 2. 3) Sintesi: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.