TheSillymanHimself

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@TheSillymanHimself · 3 years ago

Language Games and Family Resemblances (Wittgenstein)

What is knowledge? What is beauty? What makes me the same person from moment to moment? As a species, we have spent eons ruminating on these questions and others like them, yet we are no closer to an...

10 likes · 3 comments · Philosophy (3a0d)

@TheSillymanHimself · 3 years ago

Evolution and Emotion: Ancestral Guidance

It is easy to be fooled into thinking that our emotions (or at least some of them) are hindrances that a good life is lived in spite of rather than achieved in collaboration with. Indeed, some of our...

2 likes · 0 comments · Philosophy (3a0d)

@TheSillymanHimself · 3 years ago

The Illusion of Certainty.

What are you certain of? What do you definitely know? Is there anything immune to doubt? You might be familiar with the saying “I think therefore I am”. These are the words of Rene Descartes, and...

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@TheSillymanHimself · 3 years ago

The Greatest Virtue? A lesson from Socrates

Today we will be looking at what we can learn from the Socratic idea that the wisest among us do not think of themselves as wise. A sort of meditation on humility. In Plato’s Apology of Socrates’ t...

5 likes · 2 comments · History, Myths, Legends & Mysteries (be45)

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