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• Wow, never looked at it that way before

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 434
  Mike Flynn offers up a humourous-yet-deep observation of an example of circular reasoning that demonstrates a key flaw in René Descartes’ famous phrase: “I think; therefore, I am” but “I think” already assumes an “I” that is. Does your head hurt yet, good reader? Share and Enjoy:
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• A Few Random Thoughts…Spinoza, Descartes, Latour

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 421
  Descartes philosophized laying in bed, it is said, and Spinoza did so at the work bench where he ground lenses during the day. A difference in affects of philosophy. Genevieve Lloyd says in her “Male, Metaphor, and the Crisis of Reason” that female designates the undifferentiated, and that the male ...
  2 days ago

• Descartes in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) (Paperback)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 143
  Descartes in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) (Paperback)…
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• Trading Radar for 12/2: Aeropostale (ARO), Synopsys (SNPS), Shan...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrows trading session: Before Market Opens: Economics: 7:30am EST Challenger Job Cuts - no Street consensus 8:15am EST ADP Employment Report - Street sees (150K) Earnings: Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNO) – consensus ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Certainty of Consciousness and Time as the Foundation of Knowledge

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  “All men by nature desire to know,” said the Greek Philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) in his Metaphysics; and this phrase has remained relevant to all humanity from his time to this very day. Curiosity, for better or for worst, is present in the youngest of children to the oldest of adults regardless of race, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What is consciousness? And do we really have it?

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  Sigmund Freud~The French philosopher Descartes placed introspection, a form of consciousness, as an essential condition of his philosophical system. But what does consciousness actually mean? What are the conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to label someone as being in a conscious state?Perhaps the most ...
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• Meditation XXIII, David Hume (1711-1776) – Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  David Hume~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is [...]
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• Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music

  
  Kottu — Authority: 168
  Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music When Im dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. -Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury emerged as a popular singer when Elvis, Mick Jagger, Ian Gillan, John Lennon, Barry Gibb, Mike Love etc dominated the music world. When he ...
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• Meditation XXII, John Locke (1632-1704) – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  John Locke~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is [...]
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• Meditation XXI, René Descartes (1596-1650) – Meditations on the First Philosophy, and “Objections and Replies”

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  René Descartes~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Absolute Objectivism as the Defect of Subjective Critique

  
  Sub Specie Aeterni — Authority: 112
  In the chapter entitled “The Critique of the Subject” in the volume Who Comes After the Subject (edited by Cadava, Connor, and Nancy), Michel Henry embarks on a critical history of the philosophy of the subject. While he claims that the history of the critique of the subject has “numerous convergent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rene Descartes

  
  Positive Motivational Quotes — Authority: 127
  “When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.”
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• Meditation XIV, Epistēmē, A Brief Introduction to Epistemology

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  Sigmund Freud – The Science Museum, London~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present [...]
  3 weeks ago

• The Thirteenth Meditation, Historia – The Philosophy of History and History in Philosophy

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 124
  The King’s Library~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it has been before the [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Diving Headlong into the Murky Waters of Thought

  
  The Soul of Japan — Authority: 117
  ( Depth of Knowledge Strength of Knowledge and the Pillars of Truth ) Philosophy is the science of wisdom, if you can classify it as such. Actually, the literal meaning of philosophy is love of wisdom, love meaning “philo” wisdom “sophy.” But why I chose philosophy as a precursor for this discussion is ...
  4 weeks ago

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