What are your views on rights? Are they innate, or are they constructed? Do you think rights are a good thing to have in society, or do you believe they cuase problems?
Written by Socrates
In Deconstruction, the metaphysics of presence is consideration (challenging) of the usually unchallenged assumption that is the privileged (and so present) idea by various means such as attending to the dependence of the idea on its opposite, on the trace, to use Derrida’s term, of that which is not present or attended to. There is […]
Written by atreestump
Another upload for a future reading, please comment if you tackle it in the mean time.
Written by atreestump
I have uploaded this for an official discussion in due time, but if anyone wishes to tackle it, please feel free to leave comments here.
Written by atreestump
Before I read any Derrida, I stumbled upon this thinker. John L. Austin was a British Analytic Philosopher of Language. Along with Wittgenstein, he proported Ordinary Language Philosophy – Ordinary language philosophy is a philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers develop by distorting or forgetting what words actually mean […]
Written by Burk
“True” and “truth” are words that are not so easy to define (even though we use them all the time and may even think they’re simple). In an attempt to gain some clarity about them, I want to try to restrict them to what is clearly the case, and where they turn out to be […]
Written by atreestump
Around the Medieval Period, the depiction of Christ on the cross would show him with a titled head, usually down towards the right side. It is interesting because it is conveying the very moment of death. Sometimes the tilt is subtle with a gaping mouth, which gives the impression that he taking a final breath. […]
Written by Socrates
Who’d have thought it? Diesels are not environmentally friendly? Who’d have thought that leaving the market to take care of the environment by arranging a partial petri dish type study would have been a barrel of bollocks? Now consumers are going to be hit with more tax and our planet is still on a one way […]
Written by atreestump
This really cool, huge image of a peasant woman with a chicken in her arms is just around the corner from me.
Written by Rubsy
Here is a pot I have made. It’s a copy of a 1699 Wedgwood Staffordshire Potter. [hr]