What Lao Tzu Believed and How It Shaped Taoism
"Lao Tzu’s existence on this Earth cannot be definitively proven, although the contributions to Taoism attributed to him continue to inspire people generations later."
https://www.thecollector.com/lao-tzu-taoism/
Books by Lao Tzu at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Lao+Tzu
Illustration of Lao Tzu from the book "Myths and Legends of China" by E.T.C. Werner also at PG
Fascinating trilogy of essays by Brooklyn Rail's #RossWolfe critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particularly focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.
https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/
Also a great pod discussion of the series w/ Ross: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138384057
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books @bookstodon
WCP Tokyo 2028 – In 2028, Japan will host the World Congress of #Philosophy for the first time in its history: https://wcptokyo2028.wordpress.com/about/
OK, Imma try to teach you all something about evolution, because I fancy myself a theorist.
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obviously, your first line of adaptive defense in a dynamic environment, is your brain.
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The climate changes, you don’t wait for evolution, you think of ways to keep cool first, thinking is adapting, right? If you didn’t have that brain, it would be straight up fast and brutal darwinism, you might dehydrate the first hotter summer, trying to cross a desert you always could.
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Probably the most active evolution happens there, on the front line, in our brains, and that’s not plainly visible. My idea is that some time after the latest coating of ice, human things changed quickly and not so’s you’d know by looking at them, things changed in human brains, in what has become the majority sort, the sort in charge. That sometime after the ice, human brains started adapting, evolving a new type of brain that is adapted and adapting further for the human created environment that most humans live in.
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Perhaps it’s true that since we make everything for these bodies, we will see a pause in the skeletal changes, but we do not make a world for what was the human brain, we drift into new and horrific social environments and force the brain to adapt. That isn’t stopping.
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It’s half of the human noise, Adapt, get stronger, keep up, fall in line. I’m not asking, I’m telling you. Resilience is adaptation. There is nothing in evolutionary theory that says a steady pressure means evolution stops; it is exactly steady pressure that causes change, steady change.
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So the majority human type’s brain is increasingly adapted for the human social environment and by their social orientation they deem that the socially unadapted are “divergent,” - this means divergent from their evolutionary trajectory, not from anything else, and if we zoom out and take a longer perspective we can see that is the majority of humans who are divergent with respect to the rest of life on Earth this way, that they have parted ways from the larger community of life and that this is the very definition of asking to be selected out.
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Let’s take a break. 😇💜
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #ND #Evolution #Anthropology #Philosophy #Neurodiversity #Psychology
David Hume vs literature
Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy
by Katie Ebner-Landy
David Hume at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1440
Probably the best and most easy to understand text on dialectics, materialism and Marxism I've ever had the pleasure to read.
https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/elementary-principles-of-philosophy/
There are undisclosed discoveries that are used as weapons against people who are considered to wake up people or prevail an opinion against others. This means that certain people you see as good and innocent might actually be the opposite, evil and guilty by secretly sabotaging innocent people to gain themselves the favoring of others.
◇ Maria Truth
...Always Innocent
#justice #history #philosophy #psychology #irony #wit #art #math #memoir #nonfiction #sciencenonfiction #historicalnonfiction
Frankly, I don’t understand what all the damned war is about.
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It’s not fucking Middle Earth, there aren’t monsters, you’re supposed to be the smartest animal on Earth, figure out how to live already, WTF. You already invented birth control, FFS.
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#ActuallyAutistic #Philosophy #ND #Anthropology @autistics
I wrote a book and i am sharing it with everyone. Email request access required (the web is a jungle right now)
https://humble.opticmystic.io/
pdf version available through email request (the web is a jungle right now).
some inspiration was taken from
@pluralistic @emilymbender
you may like @GeofCox @bodhipaksa
@aral
#humble #world #art #books #philosophy #puns #love #typography
Why René Descartes Believed That Machines Will Never Be Able to Genuinely “Think”
According to René Descartes, no matter how advanced or sophisticated, machine intelligence remains fundamentally inferior to the complexity and depth of human intelligence.
by Scott Mclaughlan
https://www.thecollector.com/descartes-paradox-artificial-intelligence/
Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44
French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism Charles Fourier was born #OTD in 1772.
He developed a comprehensive system of societal organization known as Fourierism which influenced many writers and thinkers such as Dostoevsky, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and many others. He is is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.
About Fourier at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charles+fourier&submit_search=Go%21
👋 Hi, I’m Mark — welcome! This is my #introduction.
I share a mix of #philosophy (#Objectivism), #Perl coding, and the occasional nonsense. You might also see #ballroom #dance, #cosplay, and #music on #BassGuitar — sometimes all in the same week.
For a great starting point on Rand, try _The #AynRand Reader_: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/
You’ll find me every year at at #DragonCon in #Atlanta, plus #DeltaHCon and #Comicpalooza here in #Houston.
Glad you’re here — pull up a chair.
#AynRand is quoted, misquoted, praised, and vilified — often by people who haven’t read her.
_The Ayn Rand Reader_ offers excerpts from her #fiction and #nonfiction: her ideas, her voice, her terms.
If you’re serious about understanding her — whether to agree or disagree — start here: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/
#philosophy #books #bookstodon #literature #AynRand #Objectivism
Another great discussion w/ #RossWolfe about his trilogy of essays critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw
(the trilogy is here:
https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/)
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #socialism #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
What Is Aristotle’s Divine Blueprint for the Cosmos?
The divine is at the heart of Aristotle’s model of the cosmos, responsible for the intricate motions of the heavens and the Earth.
by Maysara Kamal
https://www.thecollector.com/aristotle-cosmos-blueprint/
Aristotle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2747
An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock, Not a God
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, allowing him to explain lunar phases and eclipses
By David Warmflash via @SmithsonianMag
German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born #OTD 300 years ago!
Kant’s most famous work, the "Critique of Pure Reason", is often considered one of the most significant works in the history of philosophy. In this book, he introduced the concept of a priori synthetic judgments, arguing that our ability to perceive & understand the world is shaped by the ways our mind structures experiences.
Books by Immanuel Kant at PG:
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist George Herbert Mead died #OTD in 1931.
He is considered one of the founders of social psychology and the school of thought known as symbolic interactionism. Mead’s most influential ideas revolve around the concept of the self, which he saw as arising from social interaction. Mead’s ideas were mostly published posthumously, with his students assembling his lectures and notes into books.
Private Open Source via @robey https://lobste.rs/s/sapeid #culture #philosophy
https://brokenco.de/2026/04/01/private-open-source.html
Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born #OTD in 1899.
In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he attempted to delineate the limits of language. The book is structured around a series of numbered propositions and sub-propositions, which build on each other to create a dense, almost mathematical argument. In Philosophical Investigations, he introduced the concept of how words take their meanings from their function in various forms of life and activities.
What Were the Philosophical Aftershocks of the Devastating 1755 Lisbon Earthquake?
The devastation wrought by the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake changed how Europeans viewed and handled natural disasters.
https://www.thecollector.com/1755-lisbon-earthquake-philosophy/
Voltaire
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas https://lobste.rs/s/eedsds #ai #philosophy
http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
My Software North Star https://lobste.rs/s/g6lkw1 #philosophy
https://kristoff.it/blog/north-star/
Too much sadness, too much terror;
There is a reason my dog is named “Linus” — “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” is one of the most beautiful examples of Linus Van Pelt being an amazing philosopher from the [IMO] #Spinoza school.
#DogsOfMastodon #philosophy #enlightenment #rationalism #art #comics #SocialCommentary #PoliticalCommentary #CharlesMSchulz
![Lithograph, "Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University](/proxy/post_attachment/152525/628e13e6de.jpg "Lithograph, \"Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier\", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University")
