Plato Quotes Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. The beginning is the most important part of the work. The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike. Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends. If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest. Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us? The eyes ... are the windows of the soul. No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death. God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
Logical Paradoxes Three Minute Philosophy SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow his or her propositions remain, the easier they are to defend by him or her. Use different meanings of your opponent's words to refute his or her argument. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer)
Parataxic distortion Parataxic distortion is a psychiatric term first used by Harry S. Sullivan to describe the inclination to skew perceptions of others based on fantasy. The "distortion" is a faulty perception of others, based not on actual experience with the other individual, but on a projected fantasy personality attributed to the individual. For example, when one falls in love, an image of another person as the “perfect match” or “soul mate” can be created when in reality, the other person may not live up to these expectations or embody the imagined traits at all. The fantasy personality is created in part from past experiences and from expectations as to how the person 'should be', and is formulated in response to emotional stress. Parataxic distortion is difficult to avoid because of the nature of human learning and interaction. Etymology[edit] From the Greek παράταξις, "placement side by side" Taxic - indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus. Attachment theory[edit] See also[edit]
Take The Red Pill Written by Larry and Andy Wachowski April 8, 1996 Link To Script Here - Matrix Manuscript Fave Quotes/Scene... "SCREEN Do you want to know what the Matrix is, Neo? Neo is frozen when he reads his name. SCREEN SUPERASTIC: Who said that? If you want to know, follow the white rabbit. NEO What the hell... SCREEN TIMAXE: Someone is hacking the hackers! Knock, knock, Neo. A chill runs down his spine and when someone KNOCKS on his door he almost jumps out of his chair. He looks at the door, then back at the computer but the message is gone. He shakes his head, not completely sure what happened. Cautiously, Neo approaches the door." Morpheus and Neo - Red Pill/Blue Pill Scene MORPHEUS: It's that feeling you have had all your life. The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. NEO What truth? MORPHEUS That you are a slave, Neo. [Outside, the WIND BATTERS a loose PANE of glass] MORPHEUS Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. NEO How? MORPHEUS Hold out your hands.
Game Theory First published Sat Jan 25, 1997; substantive revision Wed May 5, 2010 Game theory is the study of the ways in which strategic interactions among economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents. The meaning of this statement will not be clear to the non-expert until each of the italicized words and phrases has been explained and featured in some examples. Doing this will be the main business of this article. 1. The mathematical theory of games was invented by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (1944). Despite the fact that game theory has been rendered mathematically and logically systematic only since 1944, game-theoretic insights can be found among commentators going back to ancient times. These situations as recalled by Plato and as vividly acted upon by Cortez have a common and interesting underlying logic. 2. 2.1 Utility
MONTAIGNE - Les Essais La page de Trismégiste Michel de MONTAIGNE Version HTML d'après l'édition de 1595 Table des matières Livre I Livre II Livre III Le livre I en un seul fichier ZIP : Essais I (295 ko). Origine : La page de Trismégiste Contact : trismegiste@bribes.org Wittgenstein’s Ethics and the Value of the Mystical « Douglas Duhaime Although Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) famously declared that “ethics cannot be put into words,” ethical issues continue to pose perennial problems for philosophy, and Wittgenstein’s writings on ethics continue to earn philosophy’s interest and accolades (2005 p.183). In what follows, I outline Wittgenstein’s writings on ethics and briefly discuss the value his approach lends to the mystical objects and experiences in life. In his “Lecture on Ethics” (1929), Wittgenstein informs us that he means many things by the word “ethics,” including: the enquiry into what is good, valuable, or important; the enquiry into the meaning of life; the inquiry into that which makes life worth living; and the enquiry into the right way of living (P.5). Wittgenstein then prepares to introduce an example of a judgment of absolute value. However, unlike relative judgments, absolute or ethical judgments are never facts. References Wittgenstein, L., 2005, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, tr.
Symbolic Logic Symbolic logic is the method of representing logical expressions through the use of symbols and variables, rather than in ordinary language. This has the benefit of removing the ambiguity that normally accompanies ordinary languages, such as English, and allows easier operation. There are many systems of symbolic logic, such as classical propositional logic, first-order logic and modal logic. Logical Symbols The following table presents several logical symbols, their name and meaning, and any relevant notes. Propositions, Variables and Non-Logical Symbols The use of variables in logic varies depending on the system and the author of the logic being presented. La filosofia al liceo è un relitto culturale | Analitico Impertinente Se andassi da un professore di matematica del liceo e gli domandassi se non preferirebbe fare storia della matematica al posto di matematica, mi chiederebbe se sono scemo o sotto effetto di strane sostanze psichedeliche. Perché non accade lo stesso con la filosofia? La ragione secondo me è quasi esclusivamente culturale. L’impianto scolastico ancora in vigore oggi è quello di un secolo fa, ideato dal ministro dell’istruzione fascista Gentile. Gentile era un hegeliano, cioè un seguace di quello strano tipo quale era Hegel, al quale era sorta la balzana idea per cui la filosofia altro non fosse che storia della filosofia. Attraverso lo studio della sua storia, infatti, la filosofia dovrebbe riconoscere se stessa come il proprio tempo appreso in concetti, e capire come una strana entità, tale Spirito Assoluto, si sia sviluppato progressivamente nella Storia. Ora quest’idea naturalmente è profondamente cambiata. Continuerà con un intellettuale Il noumeno è inconoscibile. Saluti intransigenti,
La precisione in filosofia - IMPRESSIONS - Rivista digitale di critica della cultura di Marino Varricchio Tutte le analisi richiedono un linguaggio. La filosofia è una forma di analisi rigorosa. L’espressione di rigore richiede linguaggi precisi. Essendo la produzione di un linguaggio mediata dal pensiero, il grado di chiarezza di un certo linguaggio è funzione del grado di chiarezza dei pensieri di chi lo adopera. Il linguaggio ordinario è, spesso, vago ed condizionato da emozioni. I linguaggi formali, di cardinalità variabile, sono caratterizzati dalla posizione di un alfabeto iniziale e di un certo numero di regole produttive, in base alle quali si possono costruire stringhe di oggetti. Dal fatto che il linguaggio della logica sia comune alla scienza e alla filosofia si possono trarre considerazioni sul carattere comune delle due discipline: una cura della trasparenza e del rigore nell’analisi di un dominio specifico di oggetti. Naturalmente, non è mai bene generalizzare, essendo facile trovare controesempi di quanto affermato.