John Stuart Mill. [Editor’s Note: This new entry by Christopher Macleod replaces the old entry on this topic by the previous author.] 1. Life John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, then a northern suburb of London, to Harriet Barrow and James Mill. James Mill, a Scotsman, had been educated at Edinburgh University—taught by, amongst others, Dugald Stewart—and had moved to London in 1802, where he was to become a friend and prominent ally of Jeremy Bentham and the Philosophical Radicals.
John’s remarkable education, famously recounted in his Autobiography, was conducted with the intention of equipping him for leadership of the next generation of radicalism. For this, at least, it prepared him well. Starting with Greek at age three and Latin at age eight, Mill had absorbed most of the classical canon by age twelve—along with algebra, Euclid, and the major Scottish and English historians. The intensity of study and weight of expectation took its toll. 2. 2.1 Anti a priorism 2.2 Associationism.
Untitled. “We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind. Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates.
Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Untitled. 4 July 2019 This is the first of a five-part series. Summary of the Series A healthy society balances the collective responsibilities of governments in the public sector with the commercial interests of businesses in the private sector and the communal concerns of citizens in the plural sector. Two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson warned of the problem that now pervades and corrupts America: imbalance in favor of private sector interests—of which Donald Trump is a dramatized version. Fixing capitalism will no more fix this problem than would fixing communism have fixed the broken regimes of Eastern Europe.
Please understand that the real deplorables are those of us who have allowed rampant self-interest (under the guise of Liberal Democracy) to drive so many “deplorables” to vote for deplorable leadership. This, the founding fathers did not do. The plural sector is huge, comprising associations that are neither publicly owned by government nor privately owned by investors. Thesis - Exploration of Value. George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel. Deleuze & Guattari. The Big Questions. The Illusion of Success – Five Truths Revealed — A.J. Wood - The Adobe Wan. I’ve been kicking’ around this blog post for a while, but then I saw some updates from Justin Seeley & Glyn Dewis this week that motivated me to put hands to keyboard.
How many times have you heard or even thought the following to yourself, “If I won the lottery it would solve everything.” “I’d trade places with [insert favorite celebrity here] in a heartbeat.” “[insert rich/famous/beautiful here] must live a charmed life.” “Why can’t I be lucky like [insert name here]?” “I want to be like [someone you admire], they caught all the breaks.” “There are already established leaders in what I want to do.” “How did an idiot/moron/jackass like [insert name] get to be so popular?” If you’ve had any of the thoughts above, you’re not alone. During my travels, I occasionally come across individuals who—despite being inspired by creative genius—are weighed down with the uncertainty of their own skills. You will never find happiness or success if you continually see yourself through the lens of the world. 23b Mary Midgley. The next quote may be the best description of the philosophical stand of Mary Midgley.
It is from "The Myths We Live by" (2004). Read it carefully...do't worry if you do not get the meaning at first reading. I'll explain in detail what she means. It is fundamental for understanding her philosophical views. QUOTE"(..), any explanation [of human behavior] that invoked culture, however vague, abstract, far-fetched, infertile and implausible, tended to be readily accepted, while any explanation in terms of innate tendencies, however careful, rigorous, well-documented, limited and specific tended to be ignored. In animal psychology, however, the opposite situation reigned. Here, what was taboo was the range of concepts that describes the conscious, cognitive side of experience.
The preferred, safe kind of explanation here derived from ideas of innate programming and mechanical conditioning. Ok ..three paragraphs of text. Here is a multitude of ideas fighting for your attention and consent. Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else | BOOK RIOTSixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else. To paraphrase E.B. White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. Every word plays its part. In my more giddy moments I think that a simple comic strip featuring Calvin, a preternaturally bright six year-old, and Hobbes, his imaginary tiger friend, features some of the most lucid sentences committed to print. And when I sober up, I usually think exactly the same. Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes ran between 1985 and 1995.
His comic strip managed to infuse wondering (and wandering) on a cosmic scale into an ageless world of lazy Sunday afternoons, snow goons, and harassed babysitters. So here, in no particular order, is a selection of quotes that nail everything from the meaning of life to special underwear. (NOTE: Check out Part II: Sixteen MORE Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else) On life’s constant little limitations Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help. On expectations On why ET is real. Nelson Mandela Quotes. Science b*tch. Hal Draper: Marx and Engels on Women's Liberation (July 1970) MIA > Archive > Draper (July 1970) From International Socialism (1st series), No.44, July/August 1970, pp.20-29.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive. Not paradoxically, discussion of the revolution in Man begins with woman. The perspective of eventually abolishing the division of labour in society, and therefore also the distortion of human relations which it imposes, leads back to what Marx and Engels pointed to as the very starting-point of the social division of labour: the division of labour between the sexes. Once this question is seen within the context, not simply of a social psychology and attitude (like ‘male chauvinism’), but of the primordial division of labour, then it is clear that for Marx its roots go more deeply into man’s past than capitalism, or the state, or the division between town and country, or even private property. 1 Marx’s Early Views (1842-1846) But there is no attempt at analysis here.
The Article on Divorce ... ... Charles Manson Quotes. Bill Hicks Quotes. This is why the government killed Tupac and Bill Hicks. Any hero that gets a voice that reaches millions is killed. Bill Hicks even joked about it to millions before he was murdered. Hicks in one of his comedy routines said something to this nature 'good people always die and the demons continue to run amok' i find that extremely profound, especially since Hicks died shortly after he was telling the joke to the masses on TV. Tupac had a voice that reached 100's of millions of youth, he was a powerful force speaking the truth when he was ritually murdered. Tupac knew he was going to be killed for speaking about the illuminati and microchips in his music, but he didn't care. That is courage. These are some lyrics from one of his last songs. songs that reached out to 100's of millions of young minds around the world way back in the early 1990's. The world is like a ride at an amusement park.
-Bill Hicks Just a coincidence that Bill Hicks was dead shortly after he was spreading this message to millions of people on TV?!?!?! Never ends! Howard Thurman quotes. Chris Hedges Quotes (Author of War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning) George Carlin Quotes. Thomas Carlyle. David Hume Quotes. The Republic Quotes By Plato. Herbert Marcuse. Herbert Marcuse (German: [maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the universities of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his Ph.D.[2] He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1972), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979).[3][4][5] Active in the United States after 1934, his intellectual concerns were the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology. He offers a powerful critique of modern industrial societies and the material and entertainment cultures they manufacture, arguing that they use new forms of social control to dupe the masses into accepting the ways things are.[6] Biography Early life Emigration to the United States World War II Post War.
Idea. Search results for "charles bukowski" (showing 1-20 of 554 quotes) Soren Kierkegaard summary. Psy. 307; Review for Psy. 462 1. Generally considered the first relatively modern "existentialist" (if we do not consider existential currents in ancient Greek thought, Zen, etc.) 2. In K's view, truth is found through subjectivity, through our individual, unique apprehension of things. a) We do not find truth through a detached "objectivity" but through a deep engagement with the world. b) "The task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. " 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. A. 8. 9. 10. Ll. 12. 13 "Lofty shut-upness" leaves a child able to respond to the world on the basis of his or her individuality. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
Photos du journal. Jean-Paul Sartre summary. 1. EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE. "Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence. " This means that what we do, how we act in our life, determines our apparent "qualities. " It is not that someone tells the truth because she is honest, but rather she defines herself as honest by telling the truth again and again.
I am a professor in a way different than the way I am six feet tall, or the way a table is a table. The table simply is; I exist by defining myself in the world at each moment. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Essayer - definition of Essayer by the Free Online Dictionary. Photos du journal. Photos du journal. Photos du journal.
Photos du journal. Photos du journal. Photos du journal. Salvador Dali Quotes. Socrates Quotes. Thoughtful Quotes - Cool Quotes Collection. What Makes Life Worth Living? My partner is taking a class in psychology and one assignment asks her to write a paper answering the question “What makes life worth living?” For the past few days, she’s been asking the people around her – kids, friends, co-workers – what they think makes life worth living, and the answers have been pretty much of a sort: family, friends, work, music, some possession or other, faith, maybe health. Computer games. Although these answers aren’t necessarily trivial, they strike me as very unsatisfying answers to the question “What makes life wort living?” What about family, friends, work, etc. makes life worth living? Just having them? Then why aren’t most people – who generally have families, friends, and jobs – happier than they are? I think there’s a resistance to answering a question like this honestly.
It’s the same resistance I see when people talk about the GTD weekly review. Probably not. But it strikes me as a really important question. What about you? Photos du journal. Plato on True Love. . —Plato Whereas Aristotle is not nearly as interested in erotic love (erôs) as he is in friendship (philia), for Plato the best kind of friendship is that which lovers can have for each other. It is a philia that is born out of erôs, and that in turn feeds back into erôs to strengthen and to develop it. Like philosophy itself, erôs aims at transcending human existence, at connecting it with the eternal and infinite, and thereby at achieving the only species of immortality that is open to us as human beings. As Nietzsche put it in his book of 1882, , Here and there on earth we may encounter a kind of continuation of love in which this possessive craving of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and lust for possession—a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them.
Plato’s theory of love is fleshed out in the and the . Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma: Hug me, honey, snugly bunny; Love’s as good as soma. All Intelligent and Sentient Beings have a Right to Freedom. We are entering an age when technological advancements will allow other intelligent and sentient beings, besides people, to come into existence; however most governments are not yet prepared to deal with this eventuality. For instance, if a company somehow manages to develop an artificially intelligent computer, would this new being be a property of the company and be forced to work as a slave? Obviously, all the computer’s hardware and software would have been purchased or constructed from the company’s resources, and therefore be owned by the company. Yet how can a company own a sentient being? Another example is what if a biotech company creates and patents a new form of life that is intelligent and sentient?
How can a company, or even people, own an intelligent life form and its entire species, thus completely controlling their fate and rights? How about just owning their DNA? Alan Watts Vault : The Nature of Consciousness. I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now, the first thing, though, that we have to do is to get our perspectives with some background about the basic ideas which, as Westerners living today in the United States, influence our everyday common sense, our fundamental notions about what life is about.
And there are historical origins for this, which influence us more strongly than most people realize. Ideas of the world which are built into the very nature of the language we use, and of our ideas of logic, and of what makes sense altogether. And these basic ideas I call myth, not using the word 'myth' to mean simply something untrue, but to use the word 'myth' in a more powerful sense. So basic to this image of the world is the notion, you see, that the world consists of stuff, basically.
So the world doesn't come thinged; it doesn't come evented. Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Napoleon Bonaparte quote-Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Transcendental Meditation Technique - Maharishi University of Management. Dangerous Minds. Computing machinery and intelligence - a.m. turing, 1950. Friedrich Nietzsche.