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Science is about the mundane, visible world. Religion is about the transcendent, invisible world. Atheists believe that science is the only way to explain the world. Agnostics think it's the best way. But is science actually a system of explanation at all, or merely a good problem-solving tool and method that achieves practical success in the observable world? Isn't science, like God, in need of an explanation? What is its ontological and epistemological...
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Scientific materialism isn't the only type of science. Leibniz, the great German genius, was a champion of scientific idealism. The atoms in his system weren't physical, but mental, and he named them monads. A present-day Leibniz might say, "All things are made from mental atoms, which are simple mathematical substances from which all compounds are mathematically derived via the laws of ontological mathematics. Monads are expressed through constant...
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People can't reason. They don't even know what reason is. "Reason" is almost always harnessed to something that has nothing to do with reason. Believers in mainstream religion are feeling types who "reason" with their emotions, or with their mystical intuitions. Scientists are sensing types. They subordinate their reason to their senses. All scientists are empiricists and are opposed to rationalism, i.e. the existence of a rational order of reality...
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Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." In 1930, France...
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'Meditations on First Philosophy' is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is, made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things, which are not absolutely, certain, and then, tries to establish what can be known for sure. The meditations were, written as if he was meditating for 6 days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday". However, Descartes...
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"Harry G. Frankfurt, 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies" Harry G. Frankfurt (1929–2023) was professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, On Inequality, and The Reasons of Love (all Princeton).
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a landmark account of Descartes, reason, and truth
In this classic...
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Diese Ausgabe von "Philosophie des Unbewußten" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906) war ein deutscher Philosoph. Er gilt auch als "der Philosoph des Unbewussten". Von Hartmann versuchte in seinem Werk Philosophie des Unbewussten zwei verschiedene Denkweisen (Rationalismus...
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Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Private property rights have in the past helped people to develop skills, but such rights were abused. Once these rights are combined with an ethics of responsibility, the book opens the doors to a nonpartisan analysis of income inequality, inheritance,...
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"About one of the hottest new topics in intellectual life: the psychology and biology of morals. . . fascinating." - Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works
"An account of the nature of the human moral organ . . . a lucid, expert and challenging introduction." - Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, MIT
"An intellectual feast that provokes thought and should stimulate...
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Ce livre décrit quelques usages de la raison dans nos sociétés.
Une "méthode thérapeutique en philosophie" nous permet d'éviter d'être enfermés dans des mots qui auraient le pouvoir magique de créer ce qu'ils nomment.
"La pensée en ses commencements", fait sa part au doute, non pas un doute qui paralyse la pensée, mais celui dont l'inquiétude qu'il suscite, demande à être apaisée. "Ne jamais perdre son sang froid" serait la formule...
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Extrait: "le moyen qu'il n'y ait bien des gens qui manquent d’aliments? 1. Si dix hommes mangent ce revenu des terres comme fonctionnaires ou rentiers, sans doute le laboureur sera écrasé par l’impt; mais si ces dix hommes travaillent de leur cté et produisent des valeurs de commerce et d'échange, le prix du bled montera, et au besoin on en fera venir du dehors."
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Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes' Meditations-namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the bad-Reading Descartes Otherwise casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of "Cartesian rationality." In doing so, it discovers dynamic signs of spectral alterity lodged both at the core and on the edges of modern Cartesian subjectivity. Calling for a Copernican reorientation of the very notion...
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An accessible guide to understanding many of the complex technical and special terms implemented by the seventeenth-century philosopher. French philosopher René Descartes authored many works in his lifetime like Discourse on the Method and Principles of Philosophy. But while his "I think, therefore I am" may be easy to grasp, much of the terminology he uses can be challenging. Descartes would frequently introduce terms in his writings without explanation,...
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If, in this Age of Misinformation, you find yourself exhausted by the divisiveness, sickened by the dissent, poisoned by the discord, you are not alone. OF, BY, AND FOR THE HANGED MAN is indeed a memoir equal parts hilarity and vulnerability, but just as important, it is a declaration for navigating our post-truth world. Because as the 21st-Century deepens and humanity fails to keep pace with the rapid advancements, any further divergence will be...
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A deeper look at how people individually and collectively form religious beliefs-and what that means for faith in a society of declining religious affiliation.
Secularism is increasingly a fact of life in Western society. But that doesn't necessarily mean that faith is harder than it has been before. Even in the past when organized religion enjoyed more widespread cultural acceptance, there were still obstacles to true belief. Today, the obstacles...
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Extrait : "La philosophie, oubliant ce qu'elle devait à la parole, l'a quelquefois accusée d'être un obstacle au mouvement de la pensée et aux progrès de la raison. Aucune erreur ne semble plus naturelle, quand on songe aux imperfections et aux vices des langues; et cependant, aucune erreur ne saurait être plus éloignée de la vérité; car l'esprit humain est tout entier dans l'analyse, il est tout entier dans l'artifice du langage..."
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This complete summary of "Think!" by Michael R. LeGault, award-winning editor and writer, presents his argument that 'feel-good culture' and instantaneous results have contributed to a reduction in reasoning and critical thinking abilities, which might cause America to lose its competitiveness on the global landscape.
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