Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
Islam had a tremendously positive affect on the Western world in preserving the knowledge of the ancient Greeks. The Islamic world from present-day Uzbekistan in the east, to present-day Spain in the west, had had access to Aristotle going back […]
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Does it make sense to talk about people in terms of generations? I think so, if we avoid simplistic characterizations like “Gen X” and “millennials.” For concepts to be useful, they need to define tangible phenomena. I’m going to insert […]
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The truth is out there, and it lies somewhere between the extremes of skepticism and believe-anythingism. That’s especially the case for the phenomena we call UFOs, or as the military now calls them, UAPs. A clear view of the UFO […]
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“Generally speaking, violence always rises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power to find a substitute for it and this hope, I think, is in vain. Violence can destroy power, but it can never […]
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(Video and text below.) How Objects Change One of the biggest problems that ancient Greek philosophers dealt with was the problem of change. Why and how do objects change? Plato had agreed with a number of Greek philosophers before him […]
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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 […]
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Social recognition among individuals and groups is what keeps together communities. Without it, struggles for justice and freedom are impossible. All struggles for justice include the struggle for the authority and power to claim recognition. Excerpt from the book, Rethinking […]
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How to best teaching philosophy so students can understand and appreciate its importance. One of the biggest challenges for philosophy professors is reaching students who have little to no background or interest in philosophy. In the US, philosophy is seldom […]
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This is a very interesting and profound question that speaks to morality and human nature. As with all good philosophical questions, answering it requires challenging our preconceptions. Did Hitler know that he was bad? Well, do we know he was […]
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Today, I watched with interest a BBC news story. It was about the ownership of Taylor Swift’s song recordings being sold by some guy named Scooter to some investment firm. Swift is upset that she wasn’t offered the chance to […]
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