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Without Shame | Du Temps Trouvé

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Shame is a useless emotion. In fact, I’m going to go one higher – shame is a harmful emotion. Let’s take the following situation: I’m on the bus, and I see someone of darker complexion than myself sit down next to me. I get a little nervous because, maybe this person is a bit thuggish? Then I feel ashamed, because I’m not that sort of person to think those thoughts. What’s the grand sum of this situation? You ar...

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Materialist Neoplatonic Buddhist Reincarnation | Du Temps Trouvé

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Materialist Neoplatonic Buddhist Reincarnation. As you might be able to tell from the title, I’m trying out for a new television series, kinda like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but with philosophy. It will be phenomenal. Ok, now that I just lost almost all of my audience, what the heck am I talking about? Even as a card-carrying atheist, I still find Plotinus to be one of my biggest intellectual influences, up ...

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Vexing Links (6/13/2015) | vexing questions

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. A blog about metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of religion. Online and L.A. Area Tutoring. Larr; Short Riddle. Everyday Apologist: What is Scientism? Posted by Daniel Vecchio. Some recent links of note:. Paula Gottlieb has updated the entry “ Aristotle on Non-contradiction. WWII’s death toll. Subscribe to my friend Tim Hull’s Everyday Apologist. YouTube channel (do it now! Ed Feser’s Neo-Scholastic Essays. Is out (and I want).

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The Modesty of Maydole’s Temporal Contingency Argument | vexing questions

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. A blog about metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of religion. Online and L.A. Area Tutoring. Larr; Vexing Links (5/25/2015). Short Riddle →. The Modesty of Maydole’s Temporal Contingency Argument. Posted by Daniel Vecchio. In a sense, The argument originates with Thomas Aquinas’s third way, but is developed by Robert Maydole, who fuses it with a modal ontological argument to devise an ingenious new argument. P3 Every temporally ...

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On a Tangent: Addendum | Du Temps Trouvé

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. On a Tangent: Addendum. I’ve created more pictures based on the previous post. I’ve represented the different approximations as surfaces, and put all of them in motion so that you can better see how they work. The page is at http:/ blog.dutempstrouve.com/math-art/contour-approximations/. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. I’m a 30-year-old ex-philosophy student, looking to make a difference in the world. I was reading people like Plato and Confucius, who had this insane idea that the purpose of understanding the world better. Was to go back and do something with it. Clearly writing journal articles about obscure points in their writings would be a better lifestyle? 8230; Or not. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.

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Against Agnosticism | Du Temps Trouvé

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Sometimes, atheists are called to come to center. This may be from believers: if you simply don’t have evidence that God exists, then the rational thing to do is to withold judgement on the matter, rather than to disbelieve in God. Or it may be from moderates who lambast atheist “fundamentalism” as much as that of the religious. It’s a fair complaint, so I figured that I would answer it. But there’s no &#8...

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Arbitrariness and Meaning | Du Temps Trouvé

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Why drive on the right side of the road? The left works for the Brits. Why start question-words with wh- instead of k-, as does Sanskrit, Farsi, and certain dialects of Ancient Greek? Why read left to right? We could go right-to-left, like Hebrew and Arabic, or even top-to-bottom as is sometimes done with Chinese. Why is. The square root of -1, when (-. Al-Ghazali similarly writes,. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Life Resolutions | Du Temps Trouvé

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. New Year’s resolutions bore me. Lose weight, eat healthier, blah blah blah. Really cool things to do take more than a year anyhow. And at the other end of the spectrum, I find myself a bit annoyed at questions like “What do you want to do? 8221;, as if the point of my life were to be summed up in one career. But the thing about the long-term is that it’s made up of the short-term. What am I doing. Pick up at lea...