Tag Archives: fate

Universe

Posted on March 15, 2010 by activephilosophy

So recently, I was talking about the notion of the Big Bang and the timeline of the universe with deadondres and we came to a discussion on the difference between and religious creation myth and the (scientific) big bang theory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Quick Ideas | Tagged confusion, end, fate, legend, misunderstanding, myth, Philosophy, science, start, story, terminology, terms, universe | 2 Comments

History Reimagined

Posted on July 27, 2009 by deadondres

We imagine the future containing an infinite amount of possibilities. The present is more concrete, for obvious reasons. Sandwiched between the to-come and what-has-come. But all of our conceptions of history suggest that the past can only have happened one … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Philosophy | Tagged causality, cause and effect, choice, concept, fate, fossil, future, history, now, paleontology, past, possibility, present, thing, time | Leave a comment

An Important Distinction

Posted on June 28, 2009 by deadondres

This will help structure the foundation of Active Philosophy, taken from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: “Accordingly the Transcendental Analytic leads to this important conclusion, that the most of the understanding can achieve a priori is to anticipate the form … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Philosophy | Tagged a posteriori, a priori, Active Philosophy, balance, capital, capitalism, categories, causality, cause and effect, empiricism, ethics, evidence, fate, gravity, idea, idealism, infinity, justice, Kant, labor, law, laws, Marx, money, morals, myth, nations, nature, notion, noumena, particles, phenomena, Philosophy, reality, reason, religion, science, skepticism, thought, zero | 8 Comments

The Metaphysical Dilema

Posted on June 22, 2009 by deadondres

In Necessary and Contingent Truths, I asked whether you the reader thinks the metaphysical necessarily exists/functions based on the presence of the extant/physical. One way to view the Metaphysical are the laws/properties governing existence, another is God, or truth, or … Continue reading →

Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes | Tagged a priori, common sense, descartes, destiny, dilema, empiricism, fate, freedom, hume, immanuel kant, immortality, jouissance, Kant, knowledge, laws, limitations, logical positivism, metaphysics, Philosophy, practicality, problems, rationality, thought, truth, world | 1 Comment

Convention

Posted on April 29, 2009 by deadondres

Each day there are more people on this Earth. Carbon dioxide levels continue to rise to what climatologists estimate may be the highest in millions of years. At the same time, there are some that insist vehemently that our way … Continue reading →

Posted in Quick Ideas | Tagged 1984, attitude, capitalism, censorship, choice, climate change, convention, decision, doublespeak, earth, fate, George Orwell, global warming, green, justice, logic, media, new, norms, orthodoxy, possibility, poverty, prejudice, progress, propoganda, psychology, record heat, research, slogan, temperature, thought, truth, Wittgenstein, work | 1 Comment

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