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Modern philosophy, however, has retained, for the most part, an individualistic and subjective character. This is very marked in Descartes, who builds up all knowledge from the certainty of his own existence, and accepts clearness and distinctness (both subjective) as criteria of truth.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
His starting point was reality in its everyday clothes, yet he also spoke in Kierkegaardian tones about the strangest experiences in life, the moments when it all goes horribly wrong — and even the moments when we confront the greatest wrongness of all, which is the prospect of death. There can’t be many people who haven’t experienced a taste of su
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On Bullshit
we live in a world that is fundamentally ambiguous, and that we can have no absolute certainty about how the world ultimately is.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
In modernity the faculty of reason began to function like a high court before which everything else had to appear in order to be judged rational or real as opposed to irrational or illusory or even mad. Reason judges whether claims are true or not, just like a judge would. In the place of the sun of truth in which all things bask, modernity puts fo
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