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8 hours ago · Existentialist and phenomenologist Martin Heidegger was also influenced by Heraclitus, as seen in his Introduction to Metaphysics. Heidegger believed that the thinking of Heraclitus and Parmenides was the origin of philosophy and misunderstood by Plato and Aristotle, leading all of Western philosophy astray.
8 hours ago · Combining this career background with exposure to highly interdisciplinary literature ranging across philosophy (ethics, metaphysics, epistemology), heterodox economics, legal theory, gender studies, and organizational theory, my work involves creating and applying novel interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks with which to analyse concepts ...
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8 hours ago · Romantic writers inherited a difficult new concept of the self from eighteenth-century philosophy. The self was a mind, a subject , as distinct from the objects that surround us in ordinary life. When writers attempted to represent this self in writing, they faced a twofold challenge: (1) To represent the self in literature, some object would ...
8 hours ago · Jain philosophy is the oldest Indian philosophy that separates body from the soul (consciousness) completely. Jainism was revived and re-established after Mahavira , the last and the 24th Tirthankara , synthesised and revived the philosophies and promulgations of the ancient Śramaṇic traditions laid down by the first Jain tirthankara ...
8 hours ago · Modernism, with its sense that "things fall apart," can be seen as the apotheosis of Romanticism, if Romanticism is the (often frustrated) quest for metaphysical truths about character, nature, higher power and meaning in the world, modernism often yearns for a romantic or metaphysical centre, but later finds its collapse.
8 hours ago · In general, philosophy remains a realm of commonsense reasoning, but when some part of philosophy requires data, the reasoning becomes more specific and begins to require specialized language, and sometimes the subject grows detached from philosophy strictly speaking and generates a branch of the tree of knowledge.
8 hours ago · Gorgias (PDF) translated by W. D. Woodhead; Phaedrus (PDF) translated by R. Hackforth; The Stranger (Xenophile Version) A Club of Cantankerous Old Men “All that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one.” Against the cult of education and intelligence in the Church; More spurious arguments; Protuberant Compassion and Fake Crossroads
