Tag: being

  • Political human life.

    Hello. I feel like I made a really good point in my last post, so I wanted to make another post to emphasize it ! Human life is not something that exists outside of the political domain. Which is just to say, in so much as we have a government, and in so much as…

  • Being Modern Mindfully

    I have been reading a huge textbook on mindfulness. It is truly a gargantuan book for mindfulness: a thick textbook with everything, from history, through philosophy (East and west), neurobiology…everything about it. Very cool. One of the things that strikes me, though, about this very academic, clinical and scientific, conventional approach to Being, is the…

  • The solution to the modern human being

    This is purely hypothetical; and a little bit tongue-in-cheek. But I feel like if I would’ve done life all over with the knowledge that I have now, my number one priority would’ve been to make as much money as possible As quickly as possible. Let me say right off, I don’t think that most people…

  • Philosophy of Reference, part 1.

    I have brought this up in another post somewhere. Please put your answers in the comments. I am going to give you the thoughts coming up right now … In philosophy, why is knowledge based in referring to what past authors said or wrote? For example, what is the value, say, for what purpose am…

  • The New Philosophy

    The Moment of Decisive Significance took more than 4 years to write and publish, and it still needs edits. The Philosophical Hack the first and second parts took a little less time, partly because of how Nathaniel approached it.  Actually, The Philosophical Hack is not yet complete, so all and all, for all 6 parts, will probably take…

  • It is Healthy for the World that the Humans Got Sick

    Pollution is going down. And now it appears that wildlife is doing better in the national parks that human beings are not visiting because they’re not allowed to. https://apple.news/AS6Et2Ar_TFmdPVRwXRIN7A Maybe this might allow human beings to have a new reflection upon who and what we are in the world. Maybe we can at least consider…

  • Experiments in Human Kindness

    The logic of being human. The next time someone annoys you or when you get angry at someone for something they do… Attempt to change your viewing. Of course, first acknowledge that you are feeling whatever way. Then consider the possibility involved in their “wanting” with relation to why you might be annoyed or angry.…

  • Psyche-logic

    —excerpt from Healing Fiction by James Hillman. c.1983 The question implicit of the object of the subject is not, like the usual phenomenologically subject-based philosophy, meaning; rather, the question is to what use is philosophy put? For what purpose is the Being of philosophy? Cedric Nathaniel puts this juxtaposition of view in terms of how…

  • Post-trauma: Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent

    Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent — Read on markcarrigan.net/2019/11/11/humans-as-blackboxes-machines-as-transparent/ Interesting problematic. What might this say about us, that we might look to machines and thier analysis of behavioral data to tell us what’s going inside a human being? I tend to agree with the impetus of the excerpt; that…

  • Philosophical Dimension.

    @ it is possible to understand philosophy as having two dimensions. Non-philosophy thus is the philosophical ability to comprehend the use of the real object called philosophy. The issue that philosophy raises against this Confinement of its resources and agency, is that philosophy seeS itself –or permits a view that is itself –as without dimension;…