Philosophy

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first, the Orwellian culture becomes a prison. In the second, the Huxleyan culture becomes a burlesque.

What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countena... See more

Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death

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Flirting isn’t limited to romance. Flirting is an attitude that only playful and happy people can have and enjoy. It’s the virtue of being uncommitted—to people, to philosophies, to bets. Flirting turns uncertainty, something we usually fear, into pleasure.

It’s being able to take yourself less seriously. It’s being able to react to di... See more

Sherry Ning • Diary of A Lover Girl

the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

Berkeley summed up this strange view in Latin as ‘Esse est percipi’ – to be (or exist) is to be perceived. So the fridge light can't be on, and the tree can't make a noise when there is no mind there to experience them. That might seem the obvious conclusion to draw from Berkeley's immaterialism. But Berkeley didn't think that objects were continua

Nigel Warburton • A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)

Descartes thought that

what it means for something

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to physically exist is

for it to take up space. Philosophy students may

remember the term 'Res Extensa.'

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That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.

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And so because existence

means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.

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There is no empty space... See more

The Problem with Video Essays

Philosophy Tube. Descartes.

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