Only just discovered this social critic and feminist, but I have to say, I don’t think she’s going to be inspiring to me. So far, I hear lots of ‘scratchy’ ad-hominem rejections of post-structuralism, especially Foucault and Butler, saying they are ‘too abstract’. Also, she said the French can keep post-structuralism because the US hasn’t […]
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@Rubsy and @Ontical We have come across this conspiracy theory that says William Shakespeare could not have written the genius works we know of today because he was uneducated, from the wrong class of people, among many other wacky, confirmation bias ridden reasons. Top suspects for the ‘real’ Shakespeare are: 1.Sir Francis Bacon 2.Edward de […]
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The most basic of questions that noobs and pros can give answers to. Please tell everyone what you think the meaning of life is and why you think so.
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East and West have two different ways of explaining the attributes of ‘things’. The West has historically viewed essences in terms of a priori forms, but more recent philosophers in the existentialism movement, famously Jean Paul Sartre, declare existence precedes essence, which is not saying essences don’t exist, or are not real; it declares there […]
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https://ontic-philosophy.com/attachment.php?aid=60 Anyone up for reading this with me? I have started it today.
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Those who don’t understand ‘property is theft’. I have seen a massive amount of people misinterpreting this observation by Kropotkin/Marx (probably because of those names being anchored trigger words these days.) Instead of understanding the original appropriation through the convention of property and enclosure as theft, they stick to the ‘the rich people I unconsciously […]
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The word ‘inspire’ has the sound of inhalation about it. Like we are breathing in the spirit of creativity from others, embodying it and then we a-spire – which has the sound of ‘without’ breath about it – exhaling the embodied spirit of the other.
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Introduction Humanity is at a critical point, I am looking for a human being, can we find any left? What do our spiritual, religious and social beliefs mean if we have no faith left in humanity itself? Can we at least begin to see that placing the blame on one ethnic group or another is […]
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What is “Spiritual”, “Spirituality”, “Religion” and “Religious”? What does “spiritual” and “spirituality” mean? What does “religion” and “religious” mean? They are often used in conjunction with each other and just as often they are used disjunctively. This inquiry will not be derived from some etymological or historical definitions to begin with; this will be purely […]
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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’ […]