Philosophy
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1 week agoWalking toward Wisdom: the Aporetics of Hiking
Intentional hiking deepens attention, resilience, community bonds, and ethical engagement with self, others, and the environment.
Anger is a bad habit that people tend to pick up from their parents. When a child who was raised at Plato's house was returned to his parents and witnessed his father shouting, he said, 'I never saw this at Plato's house.'
What if, like food or life itself, money carried an expiration date - forcing it to flow rather than accumulate? Could changing the very nature of money reshape our values and bind communities together - instead of often driving them apart?
Improvisation as a musical practice transcends mechanical routines, emphasizing coherence in musical articulations over mere recall of scales or fixed phrases, which leads to true artistic expression.
Philosophers like John Locke and David Hume have historically debated the legitimacy and implications of intellectual property rights, questioning whether owning an idea is akin to owning physical property. Locke's theory emphasizes individual labor as the basis of property ownership, while Hume challenges the notion of ownership tied solely to intellectual creation. In contrast, contemporary discussions highlight the complexities of this issue in the digital age, particularly regarding the accessibility of knowledge versus incentivizing innovation.
In that sense, it's not so different from a lab experiment, where researchers set the stage and observe what unfolds. The aim of these often fantastical scenarios is just as serious: to test, stretch, or even shatter our intuitions about how the world works.
"Each of Hanneke's illustrations features the detachment of selves, allowing her figures to float through a metaphysical world that only the cartoon logic can allow; a ballooned, ghost-like ego floating above someone at a computer; or heads lined up in the form of a train's body, their thought bubbles becoming smoke stacks."
Clothes serve three basic purposes: protection, modesty and decoration. Each purpose raises deep philosophical questions regarding their significance and impact on identity and expression.
Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered.
Some Silicon Valley leaders have a bizarre adoration for philosophers like Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and Friedrich Hayek. Alongside these thinkers, Friedrich Nietzsche is frequently mentioned in tech circles.