Wouldn’t it be cool to have a movie club? Much like the reading group, we could pick a movie and then comment on it here, preferably movies that have philosophical themes, or at least discuss it in a philosophical way.
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What does ‘egoless’ or ‘non-self’ mean? These concepts cause lots of confusion. ‘Ego’ often has the Freudian meaning associated with it if we think about its usage in a common sense way, but we should know by now that philosophy is never common sense. When we hear people talking about ‘dissolving the ego’, we can […]
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The recent negotiations between the Tories and DUP have revealed how Saudi Arabia funded the DUP’s Brexit campaign, some are speculating that the Saudi’s sought a right wing euro-sceptic government for the UK and Ireland in order to have a direct relationship with the UK for arms trading.
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David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which–even at its most abstract–echoes […]
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Ever had those moments of forgetting when you leave a room and only when you return to the room in the same spot are you able to recall what you were thinking about? What can we take from this phenomenon? Do you believe in some morphogenetic (Sheldrake) field or is the Unconscious so vast that […]
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Adam Weishaupt is best known as the founder of the illuminati but he was also a popular philosopher of his time, leaning mostly towards Empiricism. He made three polemics against Immanuel Kant, declaring his philosophy leads to subjectivism or the denial of all reality that is independent of our passing states of consciousness. The charges […]
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Anti-intellectualism is a philosophic doctrine that assigns reason and intellect subordinate places in the world; and either denies or questions the ability of the human mind to comprehend the Truth of the real world. Therefore, hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism usually are expressed as derision of education and philosophy, and in […]
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Why do you think Christianity gets such a bad wrap in modern society? Do you believe it is justified? Do you see it as unfair, that Christianity has formed the basis of our culture for a long time and that it has a positive message for humans in general?
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This is perhaps the most horrifying problem in philosophy, thinkers from Descartes and Newton to Nietzsche and Davidson have tackled this problem. Some of the more wacky explanations are from Liebniz and Berkeley, although I have sympathy for Berkeley and Idealism as it solves the dualist problem of how mind and body interact by simply […]