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Category Archives: Philosophy
The Soul of the Marionette
From a review of John Gray’s new book The Soul of the Marionette: In The Soul of the Marionette, however, Gray makes a profound observation when he points out that at present the faith most educated people hold to, especially … Continue reading
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Roger Scruton Interview
The Telegraph has an interview with the excellent paleoconservative philosopher Roger Scruton
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I think I could turn and live with animals…
From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They … Continue reading
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The Neuroscience of Despair
In “The Neuroscience of Despair“, Michael Begun applies philosophical anti-scientism (i.e., the reductionism inherent in neurobiological ‘total explanations’ of conscious phenomena, that is, the materialist philosophical position known as scientism) to the issue of clinical depression: “Together with the popular … Continue reading
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The Trip Treatment
The New Yorker has an in-depth look at medical research into psilocybin’s therapeutic affects. Rod Dreher has a thoughtful essay on the subject. The New Yorker piece includes this video of one cancer survivor’s experiences:
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Movies & the Formation of Ethics
Elites are understandably alarmed at the $300 million trajectory of a certain recent movie, a film that elites fret is allegedly dominates by a real ‘Passion of the Christ’ crowd, while Selma (the pride and joy of Oprah and Spielberg) … Continue reading
The State of the ‘Hard Problem’
Oliver Burkeman has an excellent overview of the core debates in contemporary philosophy of mind as it pertains to the ‘hard problem’ (“Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?“). It’s all in here: Nagel, McGinn, Chalmers, … Continue reading
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Fukuyama on China
In The Guardian, Wesley Yank profiles Francis Fukuyama, whose publications are apparently required reading amongst China’s high level, Communist party members: There are 300 to 400 million Chinese in the middle class; that number will rise to 600 million in … Continue reading
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The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society
Most people confuse “self-knowledge” with knowledge of their conscious ego-personalities. Anyone who has any ego-consciousness at all takes it for granted that he knows himself. But the ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents. People … Continue reading
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Waking, Dreaming, Being
From a review of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy by Evan Thompson: Armed with high-resolution digital tools, researchers have mapped critical steps in cognition and vision, language and even memory. The success of these … Continue reading
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