Philosophy
Brian Sholis and
Philosophy
SpaceXponential and
Nowadays, whenever I feel scared in the face of a decision and yearn for the safety of an optimizing formula, I try to remind myself that there’s another way of feeling safe. It’s not about perfection, about invulnerability, about control. It’s about leaning into the fact that we are imperfect and vulnerable creatures and that even when we’re tryin... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.”
— Pico Iyer, The Pilgrim’s Way on Waking Up
The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World
David Deutsch • 4 highlights
thebeginningofinfinity.comThe man we call an adventurer...is one who remains indifferent to the content, that is, to the human meaning of his action, who thinks he can assert his own existence without taking into account that of others. The fate of Italy mattered very little to the Italian condottiere; the massacres of the Indians meant nothing to Pizarro; Don Juan was unaf... See more
Malaparte vs. de Beauvoir; Idi Amin and the Mamdanis' Antifascism
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anything but its correspondence to facts that were fixed before we started investigating them?
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a mat... See more
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a mat... See more
Céline Henne • Frameworks
Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing” – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org