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The Mirror Lies: Beyond a World Obsessed With Appearances | Refine The Mind
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The Mirror Lies: Beyond a World Obsessed With Appearances. A friend of mine — let’s call him Huck — was walking to a tattoo parlor recently with the intention of getting some new ink, or as he might prefer to think of it, inscribing a new linguistic artifact upon the canvas of his skin. Huck had almost arrived at the tattoo shop when, in an uncharacteristically self-conscious act, he glanced to his side and stared at his reflection in a storefront window. These are just a couple examples of a mega-import...
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21st-Century Sisyphus: Philosophy Comic Asks if Your Life is Meaningless | Refine The Mind
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21st-Century Sisyphus: Unsettling Comic Asks if Your Life is Meaningless. Today I’m going to share yet another splendidly insightful comic from Existential Comics. With some commentary on the ideas presented in the comic. As I said in my last post. 8220;Sharing and elaborating on Existential Comics’ striking, moving, thought-provoking, and/or hilarious philosophy comics seems like a great way to make philosophy education more fun and accessible, and to help popularize philosophy. So Sisyphus is the unluc...
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Rilke on Good Relationships & Why Love is the Most Difficult Thing | Refine The Mind
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Rilke’s Definition of a Good Relationship & Why Love is the Most Difficult Thing. I find myself returning again and again to the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke. A Bohemian-Austrian poet who passed away in 1926. There is something in Rilke’s words that strikes me as the highest quality to which a writer or artist can aspire. It’s a clarity and a purity that communicates something more than the sum meaning of the words. This passage is taken from Letters to a Young Poet. For the past 16 months I’ve been in...
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Guide to Conquering Your Existence | High Existence
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Guide to Conquering Your Existence. In Nietzsche’s most popular book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He described what would become one of his most memorable theories that of the Übermensch. 8220;Overman” refers to Nietzsche’s conception of a man who has literally overcome himself and human nature. In essence, an Overman is one who has superseded the bondage of the human condition and reached a liberated state one of free play and creativity. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche writes of ...
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The Human & the Tortoise: A Mind-Bending Philosophy Comic | Refine The Mind
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The Human & the Tortoise: A Mind-Bending Philosophy Comic. I made a comic! For the first time ever. It involves an angst-ridden human and a sorta-Zen tortoise and plenty of strangeness. I’ll leave it at that. I hope you enjoy. Refine The Mind is now on Patreon. For the cost of buying me a nice beer once every six months or so, you can become a patron. And help to make sure the site continues to exist. Support Refine The Mind. Patron : $1.00 USD - monthly. Philanthropist : $3.00 USD - monthly. And/or get ...
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Sublime Death: A Philosophy Comic Worth Contemplating | Refine The Mind
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Sublime Death: A Philosophy Comic Worth Contemplating. Sometimes I share comics from the inimitable Existential Comics. And provide some commentary on them. Now is one of those times. Sharing and elaborating on Existential Comics’ striking, moving, thought-provoking, and/or hilarious philosophy comics seems like a great way to make philosophy education more fun and accessible, and to help popularize philosophy. So I’ll probably keep doing this. 8216;The Wrath of the Sea’ by Existential Comics. Philosophe...
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