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History of Philosophy

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by Mark Sunwall [21.2K] Metaphysics and the Question of Animal Intelligence in the Thought of Descartes, by Dennis W. Jowers [24.0K] Agana Belea and the Death of Socrates, by Haro

Meaning and the Problem of Universals

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"form." But Aristotle's metaphysics makes no provision, any more than quantum mechanics, for a "hidden" internal "form." Neoplatonism took care of that by making the internal "for

Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche

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other words, metaphysics, theology, psychology, epistemology--or formal science, a doctrine of signs, such as logic and that applied logic which is called mathematics. In them rea

The Rediscovery of the Mind, by John R. Searle

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transcendence, metaphysics, and even knowledge, rationality, and science itself. In philosophy also, it can involve the rejection of knowledge, since Wittgenstein's naturalism red

The Poem of Hashish by Charles Baudelaire

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ill-spent. A taste for metaphysics, an acquaintance with the different hypotheses of philosophy of human destiny, will certainly not be useless conditions; and, further, that love

The Revolutions of 1776 and 1861 Contrasted

https://eclectic-library.neocities.org/spectator/2021/06/2021-06-23-The-Revolutions-of-1776-and-1861-Contrasted

his false and infidel metaphysics into the field of politics. Aristotle had taught, and his teachings had been respected and heeded for two thousand years, that society or governm

Resources on Population Ethics and Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion, aka Mere Addition Paradox

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Felicifia The Matrix as Metaphysics (David Chalmers) The Matrix (Wikipedia) The Matrix Trilogy (official site) KurzweilAI The Experience Machine (Wikipedia) The Repugnant Conclusi

Anti-Nietzsche : A Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche

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unsound metaphysics. For Nietzsche, the only way something can achieve temporary permanence is through the defeat of opposing forces in the power struggle, allowing one’s ow
Nietzsche's irrational doctrines have led to self-destructive right-wing and left-wing extremism.

Ayn Rand, Anti-Communism, & the Left

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her epistemology and metaphysics miss much of the point of modern philosophy. Indeed, her ideal, rather like Mortimer Adler , was Aristotle. This could be good, since Aristotle's

Nietzche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism

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a dynamic will-to-power metaphysics which applies to human and all other beings, and which implies that all things are permanently undergoing some change. 2 There is nothing which

THE CURE OF THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL SICKNESS OF RELIGION Part 2

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away from Neo-Platonic metaphysics and mysticism and their monastic supports. What Luther and Occam had done was to liberate whole sections of Franco-Latin Christianity from the m

https://mcdim.xyz/library/essays/atheism.txt

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stance (the denial of metaphysics, and therefore God), is that they are limiting their own framework through which they could defend their position. Logic is a perfect example of


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