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Bigot, misogynist, and antisocial cynic, Jean-Paul Sartre is an unlikely hero. Yet, Sartre is a hero to some, and not just to bigots, misogynists, and antisocial cynics. He was brave in speaking openly about what few have the courage to even contemplate. For what he contributed to philosophy, he deserves […]
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I lived in the UK from 2012 to 2018. It was long enough to get a strong sense of what makes the Brits tick. It was also long enough to learn what are the goods and bads of Britain. As a place to live, it’s not too bad, all things […]
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Prague, being in the center of Europe, is an intersection of many cultures. Since its post-Soviet liberalization, Prague has become a melting pot of people, languages, customs, and food. One day on the way home, I walked through the underpass near the train station and discovered to my great delight […]
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Listen here: Welcome to the Insert Philosophy Here podcast. Inserting the principles of philosophy into real life. In this week’s episode of the Insert Philosophy Here podcast’s philosophical look on current world events, the dominant world event, of course, is still Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The previous episode, I […]
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Understanding Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is no easy task. That statement is not only about his philosophy but about him as a person. He was Edmund Husserl’s other most notable student, working as Husserl’s assistant after Edith Stein had moved on. When Husserl retired in 1929, he recommended Heidegger be his […]
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Frantz Fanon on Being Black “I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos — and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from […]
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Ever since Descartes published his book Meditations, he has been accused of committing a fallacy of circular reasoning with his argument that God is the guarantor of the truth of our belief in an external world. Descartes’ argument has ever since been derided as the “Cartesian Circle.” The problem is […]
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Understanding Hegel. It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that in the last 100 or so years there has been a war in philosophy. But if we can describe the long “analytical/continental” divide in philosophy as a war, Hegel is at the foundation of one side of it. […]
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Update on a story originally published on 13 Feb. 2019. The No-Deal Brexit Conspiracy is alive and well. All continues to unfold as planned. First, the earlier article that predicated much of what transpired February to July, then, where we are now and what happens next. Original article: One thing […]
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One thing that most Leavers and Remainers can agree on is that the Brexit process has been a mess. Who is to blame for that mess is as contentious an argument as Brexit itself. To understand why Brexit happened and also why the Brexit process has been in disarray, I […]
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