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Tag Archives: morality
Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Pt. III
This follows Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Pt II. and Wittgenstein on Philosophy. We will now explore the reasons Wittgenstein gives for our philosophical misunderstandings. “(a) The tendency to look for something in common to all the entities which we commonly subsume … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, ants, confusion, ethics, food, Heidegger, language, language games, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mechanism, mental state, misunderstanding, morality, Philosophy, psychology, thinking, thought, understanding, values, Wittgenstein
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Anarchy – Mission, Feasibility, and Implimentation
I remember when I first realized that the notions I had regarding politics and social affairs could most closely be called Anarchy. I was in one of my Spanish literature class (to my delight my second major, Spanish, was filled … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, building codes, capitalism, chomsky, democracy, democratic republic, direct democracy, economics, freedom, fundamentalist, fundamentals, government, Hobbes, ideal, liberterian socialism, liberty, Locke, loyalty, malatesta, morality, morals, nationalism, Noam Chomsky, politics, republic, socialism, solutions, spirituality, system, thought, Virginia Wolfe
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Boiling Spirits
This is a great story with many applications: There’s an oft told anecdote about a medical missionary in a remote place, who watches, in horror, as people give untreated well water to their babies. The children regularly get diarrhea, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, belief, communication, culture, health, language, missionary, morality, myth, spirits, translating, understanding, value, witchcraft
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Beyond Theism/Atheism
Puff Daddy: “Let’s change the world, BIG.” Notorious BIG: “Can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.” Beyond Atheism/Theism “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s; I will not reason and compare; my business is to … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, belief, brand, catholicism, Christianity, discipline, division, faith, freedom, Gandhi, gentiles, gnostic, God, Gospel of Thomas, heaven, Hegel, history, judaism, knowledge, Leibniz, love, morality, Nietzshe, ownership, Pascal, raft, religion, Spinoza, spiritual, theism, tolerance, truth, unity, William Blake, wisdom, Wittgenstein
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Mahatma Gandhi on God, Truth, and Religion
I wanted to provide one of the biggest influences behind my two posts on Atheism. No human being has ever inspired a more successful Active Philosophy. Each color change is a selection from the book All Men Are Brothers By … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Philosophy, ahimsa, atheism, bible, Christianity, existence, expedition, Gandhi, Hinduism, humility, individuals, Koran, leisure, love, Maker, morality, names, nonviolence, peace, reality, religion, roads, Sanskrit, sports, superiority, truth, universe, Vedas, violence, Zend Avesta, zest
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Correlation – First Truths
Gottfried Leibniz was a contemporary of Spinoza (they are called the two greatest rationalists after Descartes – read correctly either way) who had reviewed the Ethics but did not agree philosophically on the grounds that it contradicted Orthodox belief. His … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, atom, body, conception, contingent, contradiction, creation, criticism, essentialism, God, independant, infinity, Leibniz, morality, necessary, negation, Philosophy, scholarship, soul, space, Spinoza, substance, time, truth, vacuum
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