October 14th, 2011 at 3:16AM
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October 12th, 2011 at 5:22AM

I’m so pondering about this right now :
(in spite of the incomplete assignment on top of my desk)

circusphilosophy:

What is the most meaningful question philosophy can address about the environment?

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October 12th, 2011 at 5:15AM
We cannot, I believe, talk about the real world in any way that is not based on a claim to science, by which I mean the assumption that the world is real and is potentially knowable (if only perhaps in part). Every word we use in speaking and writing involves a theory and a grand narrative.
There is no way to escape this, however much we try or claim to do so. —

 

Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious Disciplines

 

by Immanuel Wallerstein 2002

and so, the limitations of words (and thus any discipline relying on them to communicate). enter, art.

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October 12th, 2011 at 5:15AM
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. — Socrates (via mymainmantho)
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September 27th, 2011 at 6:56AM
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September 27th, 2011 at 6:54AM
evitcelloclamina: Existential Literature Recommendations

evitcelloclamina:

By Fuck Yeah Existentialism

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, The Trial.

Albert Camus, The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall

Levinas, Emmanuel. The Levinas Reader.

Lawhead, William F. The Modern Voyage: 1400-1900.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Soren Kierkegaard,…

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September 27th, 2011 at 6:25AM

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September 21st, 2011 at 2:59PM
Think of the whole of existence, of which you are the tiniest part; think of the whole of time, in which you have been assigned a brief and fleeting moment; think of destiny - what fraction of that are you? — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via mbelt)
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September 21st, 2011 at 2:59PM

schuylerpryor:

Bertrand Russell.  My man.

(via skysprys-deactivated20111127)

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September 21st, 2011 at 2:56PM
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September 21st, 2011 at 2:55PM
majidrazvi: Cognition is biologically constrained. How could it be otherwise?

majidrazvi:

Cognition is biologically constrained. How could it be otherwise?

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September 21st, 2011 at 2:55PM

One day, Plato asked his teacher, “What is love? How can I find it?” His teacher answered, “There is a vast wheat field in front. Walk forward without turning back, and pick only one stalk. If you find the most magnificent stalk, then you have found love.” Plato walked forward, and before long, he returned with empty hands,having picked nothing.His teacher asked, “Why did you not pick any stalk?” Plato answered, “Because I could only pick once, and yet I could not turn back. I did find the most magnificent stalk, but did not know if there were any better ones ahead, so I did not pick it. As I walked further, the stalks that I saw were not as good as the earlier one, so I did not pick any in the end.His teacher then said, “And that is love.”

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September 21st, 2011 at 2:53PM
Thoughtful Cynic: Is POWER the great equalizer among Humans?

thoughtfulcynic:

It is not power itself that is necessarily corrupting, rather its the interaction of power with the vessel into which it is poured. A vessel is still the same whether it contains power or not. An individual who is not corrupted by power is not destroyed by the loss of it. He is comforted in…
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September 21st, 2011 at 2:52PM
psychsquirrel: Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. ~Buddha

psychsquirrel:

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

~Buddha

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September 21st, 2011 at 2:50PM
Reflection transports the man of the future into that ‘between’ in which he belongs to Being and yet remains a stranger amid that which is… — Martin Heidegger, 1938 (via simon-rain)
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