Musings on Psychological Forces
One thing I have been thinking a lot about lately is the idea of self-confidence. In order to become good at something, one must start by being bad at it […]
One thing I have been thinking a lot about lately is the idea of self-confidence. In order to become good at something, one must start by being bad at it […]
Kant’s categorical imperative is just a reformulation of the Golden Rule. Discuss. As the centre-piece of Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, the categorical imperative is the maxim that rational beings should […]
Continuing to Answer the Free Will Dilemma: I have addressed the question of whether or not beliefs about an agent’s autonomy can provoke a behavioural difference and have concluded that […]
1. How is self-knowledge of the will achievable? Is it only accidental, or can it be willed? 2. Isn’t resignation the only sensible thing given the subject’s lack of autonomy? […]
I’ll talk here about one major theme that has begun to creep up on me and it is the question about whether or not it is ethical to kill microorganisms, […]
“Life is certain to the will-to-live; the form of life is the endless present” This statement seems to contain within it the answer to a question I posed recently, namely, […]
I want to now examine the difference between interpreting phenomena in terms of persons and interpreting them in terms of nature as a whole. I am beginning to see that […]
Am I free? Well, I need to first define the concept “free” clearly before I can proceed. There can arise several very dire confusions as regards this issue if the […]
I want to talk about something that has been bothering me a lot lately in the aim of perhaps disentangling my neural circuitry just a little bit. This is the […]
Breathe, breathe in the air. What else can one do? Any and all dead. None but some awake. Through tapping into unfathomable energies we make stuff that is unique. True […]
so this is like a stream of consciousness thing where i just write what i feel and just let it stream out real smooth and jazzy, no questions asked no […]
The Problems of Human Reasoning I want to talk about the problems of human reasoning and the human perspective on intellectual issues. Firstly, there is a problem of rigidity which […]
What did language give humanity? Some would argue our entire civilization and, indeed, our very consciousness are a direct result of the initial evolutionary development of language. They claim that […]
today i engaged in a detailed study of the philosophies of free will and determinism. i checked out a book from my library called “Freedom Evolves” by Daniel Dennet. in […]