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philosophy 101: a documentation of sorts

a week ago, I jumped into a little rabbithole called philosophy. alas, I had no idea it was going to continue for more than a week, but now that we're 4 days further than the originally intended 7 I've found it most sensible to make a side tumblr to document and chronicle my self-learning progress !!

Here are my sources of learning (to be updated as the texts are basically pulled directly from the recommendations and texts from the lecture):

Lecture

Introduction to Philosophy by Jack Sanders

Texts

Classics of Western Philosophy 8th Ed. by Steven M. Cahn (2012)

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Great Political Thinkers: Plato to the Present 5th Ed. by William & Alan Ebenstein

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Course Hero: Study Guide

Jeff Speaks (nd.edu) Philosophy Courses

Works of St. Anselm, Translated by Sidney Norton Deane (2018)

In behalf of the fool by Gaunilo & Anselm's reply

Last Updated: 2023-03-13

#philosophy #self learning #learning resources

update

been doing a lot of reading with the very helpful discovery of Library Genesis. I love it when education isn't gatekept. Anyway, this is a short list of books I've collected and have been reading since my last post. Everything listed here can be found on libgen.

Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy - Lihua Yang (2023)

(The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser - Simulacra and Simulation -University of Michigan Press (1995)

Steven M. Cahn - Classics of Western Philosophy - Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (2012)

#philosophy #self learning

gandalftopsurgery

I think about this all the time.

mbtitime

The 16 types as School of Philosophies

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macrolit

cyber-deviant-deactivated202309

the good place is just a big long ethics lecture presented in an enjoyable way

whencyclopedia

René Descartes

René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, natural scientist, and philosopher, best known by the phrase ’Cogito ergo sum’ (‘I think therefore I am’). He published works on optics, coordinate geometry, physiology, and cosmology, however, he is mostly remembered as the “father of modern philosophy”. He lived in a time preceding the Age of Enlightenment that flourished in Europe in the late 17th and throughout the 18th century, a period of revolutionary ideas in government, individual freedom, and religious beliefs. While not a direct participant in the Enlightenment, Descartes’ legacy would be his influence on those who contributed to the scientific, political, and social changes throughout this age, an age of reason.

some musings

thought I'd give a bit of an update since I've dropped it and picked it up again. Just finished Lecture 6: Anselm and the Ontological Argument yesterday.

philosophers tend to like to use the word "indeterminate" a lot. Like, a LOT.

surprisingly, not many people have actually studied philosophy, not from an academic basis at least. do note that I am self-studying via free academic lectures uploaded on youtube that anyone can access. see pinned. I'm just saying I've directly witnessed this via comment discourse in philosophy video essays that I watch

philosophy can come from anywhere; I've found it pleasantly surprising when consuming content completely unrelated to philosophy (or so I thought) and find philosophical content being discussed

philosophy is not unlike programming in the sense that it uses "if then" statements which is absolutely fascinating and a great example of crumbs of philosophy appearing in places I did not expect

I have found the lectures to be insanely useful because having a teacher break things down unconstrained from textbooks makes things so much easier to understand (i.e. I couldn't figure out Anselm and his ontological argument nonsense until it was explained to me and given real world examples from the professor. lectures save you a lot of time trying to figure something out yourself.)

#philosophy #anselm #ontological argument #musings

#dark academia #way to blue #nick drake #Youtube

I recently threw some of my notes into Obsidian and ngl, the graph of connections is pretty damn cool to look at!!

Anyway, more lectures to watch and more notes to take. My new Apple pen nib came in yesterday so I'm ready to keep on taking more notes and making more connections and learning more things whee!!

#obsidian #philosophy #fira thoughts

lockettopia

My cover illustration for "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato"

I was lucky enough to be contacted by Mateo Duque, one of the editors for the book, and we had a really exciting collaboration to come up with this cover image.

In the sky we have the symbolism for Platos "platonic solids" (polyhedra with identical faces) and Socrates is having a dialogue with Phaedrus under a plane tree alongside the Ilissos river. In the distance is the Acropolis of Athens with a swan in flight, a bird that was associated with Apollo and Plato associated the swan with himself, saying that the swan sang most beautifully nearest death.

This was a dream commission. I hope to get more projects like this in the future. What an honor to do a Plato cover for such a respected publishing company like Bloomsbury!🙌😁🤟❤ a true high point of my illustration career thus far.

If you could share this image with your followers it makes a big difference for exposure and gaining more commission work. As always, your support is everything. xoxo love you all!

"Inner authenticity is no guarantee of ethical morality."

- Slavoj Zizek

#philosophy #quotes #slavoj zizek #authenticity #morality

i'm not gonna lie, I'm at best 2 weeks into my self-guided studies about philosophy but there's already been at least 3 separate instances where I've found a reason to look back and quote from my study notes in actual conversations with people.

that's 3 times more than I originally thought I'd be referring back to my studies and notes.

?!?!

#i didn't realize philosophy was THIS applicable to real life #or maybe I'm just subconsciously aware of it now #so situations where it applies feels like it's popping out at me #fira thoughts