SCHOPENHAUER AND BUDDHISM by Peter Abelson, Philosophy East and West, Vol 43, #2 (April 1993): p 255-78.
君子不器
SCHOPENHAUER AND BUDDHISM by Peter Abelson, Philosophy East and West, Vol 43, #2 (April 1993): p 255-78.
An Introduction to Schizoanalysis – ….Consider the example of surveillance: the Wikileaks’ Cablegate, the Snowden Documents, the Afghanistan War Logs, the recent Panama Papers—if massive leaks such as these are any indication, the present construction of systematic thought alluded to by Reich operates in a highly securitised and surveilled political climate—a diffuse matrix of new…
Dialetheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Dialetheism: A dialetheia is a sentence, A, such that both it and its negation, ¬A, are true (we shall talk of sentences throughout this entry; but one could run the definition in terms of propositions, statements, or whatever one takes as one’s favourite truth-bearer: this would make little difference in…
False consciousness Mr Stedman Jones is even critical of parts of “Capital”. In one passage, Marx set out to answer a puzzle. Changing levels of supply and demand explain why the price of a commodity goes up or down, but does not explain why the equilibrium price of that commodity is what it is. For…
Epiphenomenalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Epiphenomenalism is the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. Behavior is caused by muscles that contract upon receiving neural impulses, and neural impulses are generated by input from other neurons or from sense organs. On the…
Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away…