Q: Thank you for replying. I must say, your goodwill and faith in people is quite admirable. I agree that a shift towards creative / artistic production is something of great value and represents a[…]
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Why do we continue to evade the truth? …Are we dumb or are we evil?
Everyone in the Western World and beyond knows that we hold the key to personal/societal/cultural/financial transformation. We know that everything we do is wrong. Instead of going out and doing exactly what we should, ie[…]
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what is life ? i am not able to understand the things around me. i am not able to define myself, my position.
In the old days, prior to Individuality, your Identity was entirely a function of what slot your community plugged you into. You might be the Village Idiot, the Village Chief, the Village Medicine Man, the[…]
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How do you define reality and illusions in life?
From the time I was very young, I worried about the question of whether the true nature of Reality was as we perceive it or not. And if we could be deluded about the nature[…]
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Is this statement a tautology: “If there were no opportunities there would be no crimes” ?
It depends on how strictly you want to define the word “tautology”. A) FORMAL: If you wanted to evaluate it this statement as a formal tautology you would have to rewrite it as a formal[…]
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who is the philosopher that said a real philosopher are the ones that question?
You are probably thinking of Socrates. To be exact, he said that the wiser man is the one who knows he knows nothing rather than the person who thinks he knows something (but does not).[…]
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What does Sartre mean by “Existence precedes essence?” What is essence and existence? What makes him conclude this? What further effect does this have on meaning, value, and freedom?
Essence in this case refers to the ancient philosophical idea (most closely associated with Plato) that all things have a predefined, ideal set of characteristics. For instance, the Essence of a chair is that it[…]
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HI THERE..when we say time doesnt have any meaning in the life after death so we are living here and there now!how can it be possible?what happened to our soul in that case?and whataya think about the events we see from future?there are some connection between our soul in here and other life?
I can’t give any definitive answer to this question, but I can offer you a portrait of a situation that might be analogous. Picture yourself as a character in a book. Time only has meaning[…]
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How are The Truman Show and Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method alike?
Both wrestle with the concept that everything we ordinarily view as “reality” could be in fact a highly convincing illusion.
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Is this sentence a question or a metaquestion?
It’s both. It has the form and function of a question, so it is a question, but it is about the questioning process, so it is also a metaquestion. Formal languages such as first or[…]
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