This sounds great on the surface, but it is a right wing idea from neoliberal Milton Friedman, who advocated this to dismantle the welfare state, so healthcare will have to be paid for in a non collective form. It will also not take into account differences in needs. [hr] [hr] This guys premise is that […]
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Do you perform any meditative practices each day? I practice yoga, Ashtanga yoga in the morning for around 25 minutes, which stretches my body out for the day and gets the blood flowing, gives me a nice heat to wake up with. I have found it has helped me to study more too.
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We can often cling to our preconceived notions of truth, so much so that we can be blinded to the truth. A great Zen example of this is when a man loses his home in a fire and finds a charred body which he takes to be his son and so he grieves for his […]
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Here is a PDF of CCRU writings: https://libcom.org/files/%5BCcru,_Nick_Land%5D_Ccru_Writings_1997-2003(BookZZ.org).pdf Please share any resources for Nick Land or CCRU here. I will upload this PDF to the forum later, but iPhone is crap.
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Martin Heidegger investigated the word being and found that it is almost always associated with substance, as the most fundamental term in philosophy itself. But the Greek term ousia, or more fully parousia, corresponds with presence. This designates a homestead, a self-enclosed standing-in-itself. Something is present to us. It stands steadily by itself and thus […]
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Diogenes was a Greek philosopher and was viewed at the time as the ‘true descendant of Socrates’ from those who objected to Plato and his theory of forms. Diogenes is the father of Cynicism. He famously lived in a large ceramic jar and advocated simple ways of living, or asceticism, in order to purify himself […]
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What is ressentiment? The French term ressentiment burst into the philosophy and literature scene when German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote his critiques of morality in Dawn, The Gay Science and On the Genealogy of Morality – these texts are referred to as Nietzsche’s free spirit period. Ressentiment is an expression used to denote suppressed feelings […]
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Another ontological abd metaphysical subject is that pertaining to aesthetics – a very important aspect of philosophy that tries to establish what is beauty, the beautiful, the role of art in our lives and how we can be inspired and inspire others through beauty and live our life experiencing beauty, to be beautiful and to […]
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Ok, so I have been on a rampage of reading over the past few days about this author and luckily, she does discuss all of the subjects I wanted to hear her speak of, including the case of David Reimer who was mutilated at birth by a doctor and the doctor told his parents to […]