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[theavvinashh]

I'm not worthy of love, but I am definitely worthy of a fucking billion dollars in my account, acres of land, and power.

[goodpark]

The fire is hot, the water cold, refreshing cool the breeze of morn; By who came this variety? from their own nature was it born. And this has been also said by Brhaspati— There is no heaven, no final liberation, nor any soul in another world Nor do the actions of the four castes, orders, etc., produce any real effect The Agnihotra, the three Vedas, the ascetic’s three staves, and smearing oneself with ashes, Were made by Nature as the livelihood of those lacking knowledge and manliness. If a beast slain in the Jyotistoma rite will itself go to heaven, Why then does not the sacrificer forthwith offer his own father? While life remains let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee even though he runs in debt; When once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return again? If he who departs from the body goes to another world, How is it that he comes not back again, restless for love of his kindred? Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brahmins have established here all these ceremonies for the dead—there is no other fruit anywhere.

— from the Carvaka, as cited in the Sarva-darsana-samgraha, in Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht

[quafaie]

While life remains, let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee through he runs into depts...

Carvaka

[omgnikeemalee]

The Rise of Dating Apps [Infographic]

The Rise of Dating Apps [Infographic] by @CarvakaSexToys

*This article is produce on behalf of Carvaka Sex Toys UK Dating apps and websites have really taken off in terms of popularity in recent years. While dating websites have existed for a number of years, it’s been the emergence of the smartphone that has really contributed to the marked rise in popularity of use of concepts like Tinder and Badoo. Tinder and its ubiquitous swiping left and right is…

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[amymcools]

Interview with Peter Adamson on Indian and Islamic Philosophy

Interview with Peter Adamson on Indian and Islamic Philosophy

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I’m honored to present my second interview guest, Peter Adamson, creator and host of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast and Professor of Philosophy at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy and at King’s College London. I’ve listened to his History of Philosophypodcast series for many years: it’s…

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[ox-head]

The reductionist tactics, which [Cārvāka / Lokāyata thinker] Jayarāśi shared with the Mādhyamika Buddhists [1], was traditionally classified by Brahmanic philosophers, e.g. the Naiyāyikas, as an eristical dispute or refutation-only debate (vitaṇḍā) and considered as a non-genuine argument, because the goal of an authentic debate was to strive for truth, understood of course in positive terms. Were such criticisms denying Jayarāśi a genuine argumentative value justified? Clearly not, and for a variety of reasons, the most important being that the main objective of Jayarāśi is indicated in the title of his treatise: the dissolution of all categories. How should we understand it? Was his approach purely negative, eristical, nihilistic or agnostic? His main objective, it seems, was not necessarily the strong claim that no truths can ever be known. Rather his intention was to show the fundamental dependence of our knowledge of reality on cognitive means and categories we accept more or less arbitrarily. The dissolution of all categories implies that the criteria on which all philosophical systems and theories of the world rest are in need of further evidence, which itself is not possible without adopting some of these categories or some other categories which again call for further evidence, but which categories and methods we chose is ultimately our arbitrary decision. To engage in what Brahmanic philosophers would call a ‘genuine debate’ (vāda) one would necessarily have to accept that such an arbitrary decision is ultimate and justified, thus giving up the further search for truth, even though the process would be infinite and doomed to terminate untimely. In other words, contradictions and inconsistencies are, in fact, inherently systemic in the sense that they are generated by a body of propositions each adopted arbitrary for this or other reason, and the systemic knowledge ultimately lacks reliable and coherent foundations. Just as with Pyrrhonism in Sextus' interpretation, Jayarāśi seems to be a perpetual investigator: he discards all theories and propositions that are neither consistent nor proof-tight, for which there is also no compelling evidence. But it would probably be far-fetched to claim that the idea of truth did not represent any value for him.

Piotr Balcerowicz, “Jayarāśi”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[1] The Mādhyamika defense against allegations of negative dialectic “as a non-genuine argument, because the goal of an authentic debate was to strive for truth, understood of course in positive terms“ is that negation served orthodox Buddhist soteriology (which eludes both positive and negative positions/views) through “non-propositioning”: negation being the means of eluding all propositions, navigating a Middle Way through all of them. For the Mādhyamika, then, Buddhist orthodoxy would be nothing other than the very truth argued for and asserted by negation; but, like Jayasari, Mādhyamaka also eludes the obligatory restrictions and terms of the Brahmanical “genuine debate”, and what Brahmanical philosophers presuppose to be “truth”.

[armouredpoet]

Live with full pleasure till you are alive. Borrow heavily for your worldly pleasures, once your body dies, will it ever come back again?

Carvaka

[crowess]

Matter-Spirit, Imaginary, Paxson, Meander

In the glade, I kept drifting into hypnogogic states as dreams crept in. K thinks I might try riding that rather than fighting it or feeling bad about doing so. I want lucidity, so—also, I haven’t been trying to direct my dreams. I’m still in my houses, rooms, and institutions. Before going down into bed, or as I do, I should will to dream of Elethis, the Morrigan, Saiyûnor, etc. I want to get a…

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