How I picture what Derrida and Foucault are saying [video]

You may have to switch to a browser to view this video if you are using Tapatalk. [vid=MP4]https://ontic-philosophy.com/videos/how-i-picture-derrida-foucault.mp4[/vid] It may be best to pause the video to read what is on the screen. So, after reading this: https://ontic-philosophy.com/attachment.php?aid=53 I would like to say that I percieve Differance as Kether in Kabballah. Namely: Derrida’s notion of […]

Notes on Spinoza

In Spinoza’s naturalistic and monistic metaphysics, matter and mind are two attributes of the one substance, and everything can be understood as  corporeal, as well as mental1. Looking at nature in its corporeal  attribute, ultimately everything is made up of simple bodies which “are  distinguished from one another by reason of motion and rest, speed […]

Trump Inauguration Crowd Size – The Left Lied

I just checked out this interactive image: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/ I also just watched this video by my friend and co-producer, Doazic: We are all familar with this image: It’s not a substantive topic, which is the important point in Doazic’s video, among other trivial things.

Meaning: What is it?

What is meaning? What does meaning ‘mean’? Vote using the poll, you are allowed multiple choices. If there is anything I haven’t mentioned in the poll for you to vote for, please discuss it below.

Eyes or hands?

Many philosophers place an emphasis on the eyes, the cognitive function of sight, as the main way we think and get ideas, this tradition is most explicit in Plato and Descartes. Other philosophers, notably Heidegger, talk of hands as the main point of recognition, as we ‘grasp’ ideas and craft, that is to say ‘think’ […]

Time

Would you agree that time is perhaps the most meaningful aspect of human experience?

A Few Foucault PDFs

I just set the limit to 96mb for each file that is uploaded via the multi-uploader and it works great! Check out these fantastic works by Michel Foucault

Plato 101

Plato Plato is the guy standing on our left hand side with his finger pointing upwards and his sucessor, Aristotle, who is on the right, is pointing downwards. This painting by Raphael is called ‘The School of Athens’ and it depicts the two very different views of reality and metaphysics that these two Ancient Greek […]

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