#philosophy

#philosophy

Sigmund Freud, as an early 20th-century Viennese Lamarckian, should take human nature to be highly malleable, leading to a paradox in his views against this idea.

The phenomenon of time seeming to speed up with age or slow down under boredom presents a fascination, where subjective experience often clashes with clock and calendar time.

Anger does not prove that something is unfair. People can be angry about fair situations or unfavorable situations that are not as unfair as they desire.

Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature... What he saw was not the world, but himself writ large.

"Each of Hanneke's illustrations features the detachment of selves, allowing her figures to float through a metaphysical world that only the cartoon logic can allow; a ballooned, ghost-like ego floating above someone at a computer; or heads lined up in the form of a train's body, their thought bubbles becoming smoke stacks."

Clothes serve three basic purposes: protection, modesty and decoration. Each purpose raises deep philosophical questions regarding their significance and impact on identity and expression.

Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered.

Some Silicon Valley leaders have a bizarre adoration for philosophers like Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and Friedrich Hayek. Alongside these thinkers, Friedrich Nietzsche is frequently mentioned in tech circles.

The experience of frequent and ongoing internal conflict is a perfectly normal part of the human condition. No exceptions; every epoch and culture has struggled with this.

Racing thoughts, tension in your muscles, fear in the pit of your stomach, and the alarming sense that disaster is imminent are the trademarks of our modern-day world-weariness.

For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial, with nothing natural about understanding, consciousness, or intelligence itself, challenging the idea of innate behavior versus learned actions.

What draws me to nature is how persistently it defies capture. I could count each blade of grass, every worm, ant, bud, and splat of bird-shit, and still know nothing about this meadow.

Friendship can be categorized as use, pleasure, or character, revealing the moral values surrounding different types of relational bonds in social contexts.

If someone asks David a question during a talk and he doesn't know the answer right away, he will sit in silence for as long as he needs while he thinks about it.

"My Iranian name is Shadi, which means 'happiness' in Persian. When I immigrated to North America, I felt the need to adopt an English name as well."

David Deutsch argues that the distinction between good and bad explanations is fundamental for advancing knowledge, emphasizing that good explanations stem from unprejudiced thinking, relevance, and specificity.

The philosopher Keith Frankish managed to turn a pickle jar into a profound question: What was your visual experience like when you first opened the fridge? Was there a blank in the middle of your visual field?

To be sure, addicts typically suffer impaired control. But substance misuse doesn't involve tropisms and reflexes. The addict believes, and believes correctly, that there are ways, often requiring help and support, to regain and leverage the power of self-control, and to act and be different in the future than they are now.

Panpsychism, while an intriguing view that suggests mind is fundamental to existence, ultimately leads to inconsistencies that challenge its validity in our understanding of reality.