#phillosophy

[notnocturne]

“I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.”

- The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat

[classicbooks101]

I have had real adventures. I can recapture no detail but I perceive the rigorous succession of circumstances. I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought men; and never was I  able to turn back, any more than a record can be reversed. And all that led me -- where? At this very instant, on this bench, in this translucent bubble all humming with music.

Jean-Paul Sarte, Nausea

[thehumanfront]

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Without a concrete idea of what he is living for, man would refuse to live, would rather exterminate himself than remain on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[rosaruth73176]

Intrinsic Good

Lots of people have been talking about the many amazing aspects of the newest episode. From the brilliance of Janus’s name, to the beautiful sound design. But serious kudos should go to Thomas and friends for taking on the single most quintessential philosophical question there is. Intrinsic Good. Most career philosophers don’t even attempt to touch the subject. So to see it so well explained for those that might not be well versed in philosophy, it is honestly breath taking. I’m sure Thomas and friends don’t need episode ideas but after tackling Intrinsic Good I am confident in their ability to talk on subject matters such as “Why bad things happen to good people”. Or the flip side, “why good people do bad things.” The examples brought up would include the Milligram “Shock” and Stanford Prison Experiments. Both of which are exemplary of how normal, everyday people are prone to commit human rights violations, including murder, simply because an arbitrary source of authority tells them to. This would be a great way to connect previous episode themes with religion and its connection to morality. Here’s to looking forward to more genuinely brilliant and funny material from everyone involved in Thomas Sanders’ productions! @thatsthat24

[zerostatereflex]

There’s something curious about this Universe,...almost like,..

[subtheory]

“Radicalizing the concepts of interpretation, perspective, evaluation, difference, and all the “empiricist” or nonphilosophical motifs that have constantly tormented philosophy throughout the history of the West, […] contributed a great deal to the liberation of the signifier from its dependence or derivation with respect to the logos and the related concept of truth or the primary signified, in whatever sense that is understood.” — from The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing.

[eternal-echoes]

THAT truth should be preferred to friends he [Aristotle] proves in this way. He is the greater friend for whom we ought to have the greater consideration. Although we should have friendship for both truth and our fellow man, we ought rather to love truth because we should love our fellow man especially on account of truth and virtue, as will be shown in the eighth book (1575-1577). Now truth is a most excellent friend of the sort to whom the homage of honor is due. Besides, truth is a divine thing, for it is found first and chiefly in God. He concludes, therefore, that it is virtuous to honor truth above friends.

St. Thomas Aquinas: "Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics," Book I, lect. 6

[thecalminside]

“Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”

Epictetus