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May 11, 2020 · Post 2 One of the common misunderstandings of Wittgenstein’s later writings is that he rejected the Tractatus. And while it’s true that Wittgenstein did reject some of his earlier premises (e.g., that there was a one-to-one correspondence between names and simple objects in the world – more on what names and simple objects …

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Immanuel Kant What You Need to Read Before You Read Kant 22nd April 2024 is the 300th birthday of Immanuel Kant. Anja Steinbauer introduces the man and gets you ready for his three Critiques.. When asked by students to recommend a good introductory book to philosophy, my old philosophy professor used to growl “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason”.At first glance this seems absurd: Kant’s ...

BigMike wrote: ↑ Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:00 pm Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms the right to "freedom of thought, conscience, and religion," including the right to change one's beliefs and manifest them in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. While this principle seems noble, a deterministic perspective invites …

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Jan 8, 2025 · The whole point of creating and then sustaining ethical language pertains to the fact that in regard to things like classroom behavior and marriage and sporting events, different people will respond differently to the same behaviors.

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Wizard22 wrote: ↑ Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:23 am It is only relative to other objects that a 'Force' can occur, exist, or interact. Therefore there is no actual grounding for Human claims for Universality. Then what Humanity believes to be "Physical Laws, Chemical Reactions, Necessary Forces, and General Causality" are all based on subjective human understanding and Human Epistemology.

Films Good Will Hunting Tamás Szabados gives it an existential analysis.. The heart of the movie Good Will Hunting (1997) is an encounter between Will (Matt Damon), a twenty-year-old working class prodigy, and an apparently burnt-out middle-aged therapist, Sean (Robin Williams). This is in fact a story of a Buberian I-Thou relationship which …