Is it even possible to do so?
How to go about discovering what in the East is called ‘right-action’?
How is “right” defined, and is that definition flexible, subjective, relative?
Relative ‘truth’ is self-refuting, so is relative ‘right’ also self-refuting?
Why can’t we discuss ‘right action’ without constant and overwhelming recourse to the dialectic of ‘need’ and ‘want’.
“Authenticity” [...]
How To Choose The Right Thing To Do
Solved Philosophy
Richard Chappell enumerates some examples of solved philosophy
Zen & The Art of Weak Scholarship
This is perhaps the greatest book review ever written: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, An Unappreciation.
Relativism is Self-Refuting
Is everything relative, including truth? No, Relativism is self-refuting.
Fun with the argumentum ad ignorantiam
Fun with the argumentum ad ignorantiam:
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
The “Internet Library of Early Journals” was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib [...]
Zizek On YouTube
Zizek On YouTube
More On Libertarianism
Daniel Klein argued, at Cato Unbound, that minimum wage laws were coercive, based on the conception of coercion as “the initiation of physical aggression”.
Richard Chappell does an excellent job at Philosophy, et cetera of pointing out three conceptual errors in right-libertarian ideology that Klein falls prey to:
It neglects the coercion inherent in the very institution [...]
Libertarianism Discussion: Axiomatics
In my first post on this subject, I stated that:
1. Libertarianism is highly axiomatic: There’s a set of rules to be applied to evaluate what is proper, and the outcome given is the answer which is correct in terms of the moral principle of the theory. This leads [...]
Socrates Meets Jesus
Socrates Meets Jesus
Behold The Action Philosophers!
Behold The Action Philosophers!
Philosophy Podcasts: Immanuel Kant
From Glasgow University comes a series of podcasts covering the epistemological philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Covering all of the lectures from Dr. Susan Stuart’s class Kant’s Epistemology and Metaphysics (Senior Honours), the podcasts are accompanied by Introductory Reading, Sample examination questions and further resources on Kant. Folks, this is how you teach Philosophy.
…on philosophy
In matters of philosophy, man chooses an answer, and then goes in search of proof.
Peter’s Puritan Principle
The Puritan Work Ethic is a sign value; the perceived difficulty or effort expended in accomplishment of a task, not the outcome of that task, is the measure of the worth or value of the task. Accordingly, something that demands a long period of extreme effort and determination will be worth more than whatever comes [...]
The Minimalist Manifesto
What do I mean when I say “minimalism”? Obviously I am speaking of something outside of the definitions used to describe schools of art or music - but at the same time, I am speaking of something that is linked to them, to the philosophy behind them.
I am speaking of minimalism as a philosophy - [...]
Philosophy Games
Philosophical Games
On Rome
It is fashionable, and has been for some time now, to speak of the glories of Rome. I think it is worth remembering exactly what it is we are enumerating and celebrating by doing so. We are speaking of the things that comprised Rome, that allowed it to become a world (conquering) power: armies, roads, [...]
What Is The UNIX Philosophy?
Linux is often said to be based on the UNIX philosophy. What exactly does that mean, and why should I care?
Basically, the UNIX philosophy is that one-size-fts-all doesn’t work when it comes to computer programs, and therefore, every program should be as small as possible - it should only do one thing, and do it [...]
Actually Interesting Western Philosophy
Nick Bostrom, the Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University published a paper in the Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53, No. 211 that asked the question Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? that agues argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely [...]
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