Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet George Santayana died #OTD in 1952.
The Sense of Beauty (1896), with a foreword by Arthur Danto, was his first book on aesthetics written in the United States. The Life of Reason recounts the “imaginative” path by which cultures and societies have been shaped. The great philosophical work in which he expounds his ontology and epistemology is The Realms of Being, which establishes four “regions” or domains of reality.
❗❗❗ INCOMING: a book announcement ❗❗❗
This is going to turn out either frabjously amazeballs or utterly disastrous.
https://courtcan.com/2024/09/26/incoming-a-book-announcement/
#AppetiteForParadox #WIP #PeterRollins #pyrotheology #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #MyNextRead #philosophy #theology #DeathOfGodTheology #AtheismForLent #theism #atheism #christianity #faith #doubt
Francis Bacon’s Fables of Life Extension
In his retellings of ancient myths, Bacon called for research to extend human lifespans, but only if those longer lives were spent in the pursuit of knowledge.
By: Livia Gershon via @JSTOR_Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/francis-bacons-fables-of-life-extension/
#Society always tries to convince you that you need a solid reason to do something. It has to be worth your #time, whatever that means, and I always found that idea confusing.
For starters I never chose to have all this time. It was given to me randomly one day and I appeared here with a bunch of it, that everyone always wants.
What's worth my time is for me to decide, society just wants me to think differently so they can have a piece cuz it's valuable.
The UCL Faculty of Laws / Bentham House will be holding a conference 23-24 July in London to celebrate the publication of a substantial Bentham manuscript, A Picture of the Treasury, in which he begins to theorize the "sinister interest" that controls and limits government expenditure.
I'm honored to be one of the featured speakers at the conference, and I'm already eagerly looking forward to our conversation! CFP now available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2025/jul/person-jeremy-bentham-panopticon-penitentiary-scheme-and-picture-treasury
Who can claim Aristotle?
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better
By Edith Hall
https://aeon.co/essays/dont-cancel-aristotle-we-need-his-ideas-to-hone-ours
The consolations of philosophy
In my latest blog post I talk about three books that help me to understand, resist and find hope: The Unaccountability Machine, Stories Are Weapons, and The Dispossessed.
Decentering Judgment: Toward a Postmodern Communication Ethic
Martha Cooper, 1998
in Judgment Calls, ed J. Sloop
"While modernist conceptions of ethics might begin with principles drawn from religion, political theory, or other sources, a postmodern perspective toward ethics will begin with communication. Postmodernity poses a challenge because the very ground for judgments seems to have split apart beneath those who would judge"
Alfred North Whitehead, who died #OTD in 1947, was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8283
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
Schopenhauer argued that the world is but an intricate dream, and what he suggested lies beyond it may shock you.
By Maysara Kamal
https://www.thecollector.com/arthur-schopenhauers-idealism-is-our-world-just-a-dream/
Books by Arthur Schopenhauer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648
**Radical Enlightenment – a World of Open Sources by A.E. Freier
Deutsche Originalversion: https://word.undeadnetwork.de
translated into these fine languages:
english – deutsch – español – русский – français – 中文的 – العربية
https://undeadnetwork.de/bookstack/books/radical-enlightenment-a-world-of-open-sources-translation
Free E-Books on Shaitan Taschenbuch: https://synapse.undeadnetwork.de/books/
SUPPORT: https://word.undead-network.de/2022/03/17/sp/
This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/12/11/radical-enlightenment-a-world-of-open-sources-by-a-e-freier/
#culture #FOSS #kultur #openculture #opensource #philosophie #philosophy #politics #politik
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's most mature plays. Read on to find out more about its magical plotline and various themes.
By Agnes Theresa Oberauer
https://www.thecollector.com/tempest-shakespeare-tale-magic-power-forgiveness/
The Tempest at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1540
In my last blog post of the year I wrote about thinking and doing
Ideas aren't easy
Ideas require a feeling of ease. Execution requires application and effort. The effort of effort is easy to perceive. The effort of attaining ease is difficult to perceive, especially from the outside. It's not true that ideas are easy, but it's an easy mistake to make.
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-12-28-ideas-arent-easy/
The founders’ version of #memes and trash talk involved making obscure references to orators, philosophers, senators, consuls, and generals of the ancient republics.
https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/19/if-you-can-keep-it-from-caesar-and-catiline/
#history #culture #philosophy #Renaissance #SPQR #American #shitposting
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
Plato's cave allegory is a timeless journey from darkness into light, igniting a quest for truth in a world awash with shadows.
By Viktoriya Sus
https://www.thecollector.com/hidden-meaning-plato-cave-allegory/
The Republic by Plato at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497
3 philosophy classics that are better than self-help books
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
By Jonny Thomson
https://bigthink.com/thinking/3-philosophy-classics-that-are-better-than-self-help-books/
The 3 philosophy classics are available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Nicomachean+Ethics&submit_search=Search
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3600
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49965
Simone Weil: Voluntary Worker
The weeks Weil spent working in French factories helped to develop her ideas about the meaning and value of labor.
By: Emily Zarevich
What Is Infinity? A Philosophical Approach
Infinity shapes philosophy, science, and ethics, challenging our understanding of reality, existence, and the limits of human thought.
By Viktoriya Sus
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-infinity-philosophical-approach/
The Summer School on Panpsychism will be held at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb from 1-3 July 2025.
The keynotes are Hedda Hassel Mørch, David Papineau and Philip Goff.
PhD students: Submit 200–250 word abstracts by 31 March 2025 to present.
See: https://panpsychism.ifzg.hr
#panpsychism #philosophy #consciousness @philosophy @cognition
The Summer School on Panpsychism will be held at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb from 1-3 July 2025.
The keynotes are Hedda Hassel Mørch, David Papineau and Philip Goff.
PhD students: Submit 200–250 word abstracts by 31 March 2025 to present.
See: https://panpsychism.ifzg.hr
#panpsychism #philosophy #consciousness @Philosophy @cognition
aos meus queridos estoicos, curiosos ou simpatizantes, compartilho este site: https://stoic.guites.dev .
É baseado num site antigo que eu encontrei perambulando na small web e que gerou muitas conversas boas com o pessoal do trabalho (algumas que deram início a amizades de longa data).
Fui procurar ele essa semana e o site estava desativado.
Então, eis o estoico diário, engasgado.
#stoicism #estoicismo #filosofia #philosophy #surfandoWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb
My blog, misaligned markets is named so because market capitalism has caused markets to become misaligned from the purpose they're supposed to serve. But what is misalignment?
Read about Aristotle's great insight about greed and how it applies to everything from money to climate change.
"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
The Art of Controversy, and Other Posthumous Papers (ed. 1896)
~Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860)
Books by Arthur Schopenhauer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648
American philosopher and psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins died #OTD in 1930.
Calkins' work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists with the most merit, chosen by her peers. Calkins was refused a Ph.D. by Harvard University because of her gender.
