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Richard Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive...
2) Aristotle
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But we call a man well read if his mind is stored with the verse of poets and the prose of historians, even though he were ignorant of the name of Descartes or Kant. Yet there are a few philosophers whose influence on thought and language has been so extensive that no one who reads can be ignorant of their names, and that every man who speaks the language of educated Europeans is constantly using their vocabulary. Among this few Aristotle holds not...
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La invención filosófica en el silencio del futuro es una continuación activa del encuentro transdisciplinar con el fin de poner en práctica y reconocer nuestras diversas invenciones filosóficas. Buscando describir gestos de invención, estos se vuelven relativamente independientes de sus tradiciones, sin ser su negación. Este método implica la autonomía del pensamiento, cualquiera que sea el contexto nacional o continental, incluso si no logra...
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This is a book about the one objective truth of existence, and the countless subjective falsehoods accepted as true by the vast majority of humanity. This book focuses especially on New Age guru Ken Wilber's fallacious system, known as Integral Theory, his "theory of everything", where he attempts to place a wide diversity of mystical theories and the teachings of various gurus into a single framework that supposedly explains everything. Wilber's...
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Scientific materialism isn't the only type of science. Leibniz, the great German genius, was a champion of scientific idealism. The atoms in his system weren't physical, but mental, and he named them monads. A present-day Leibniz might say, "All things are made from mental atoms, which are simple mathematical substances from which all compounds are mathematically derived via the laws of ontological mathematics. Monads are expressed through constant...
6) Hyperreality
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What is time? Scientists know how to measure time, but they have no idea what it actually is. This books explains the deep mystery of time. It clarifies all of the enigmas concerning the tensed and tenseless theories of time, and addresses McTaggart's famous claim that time is "unreal". Hegel's classification of "good" and "bad" infinity is analyzed, and a new mathematics of infinity is introduced, based on the concept of the "finite infinite" as...
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How do you put mind into science? You have to use two concepts called "holenmerism" and "nullibism". These are very old ideas, familiar to philosophers for many hundreds of years. Yet science knows nothing about them. They have dropped off the intellectual radar even though they are the answer to existence. If you want to understand existence, you will have to learn what these two concepts mean. This book will provide you with everything you need...
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History's biggest lie is that there's one "God" and he created the universe out of nothing. Nothing has done more damage to the human psyche than monotheism - the doctrine of an all-powerful "Spy God", the divine peeping Tom, who sentences to hell anyone who doesn't slavishly obey him. In fact, the universe is a mathematical "God factory" and creates infinite Gods over eons of time. The universe, via dialectical ontological mathematics, is converging...
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What is form? What is content? You cannot understand what life and mind are unless you can answer these two fundamental questions of ontology. The secrets of existence are located in the related pairings of form and content, form and matter, mind and life, mind and matter, signifier and signified, quantity and quality, subject and object, interior and exterior, information carrier and information carried. This book provides the explanation of the...
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This is a collection of miscellaneous notes by the author of The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience, The Limits of Reason, and The Thinking Process. These thoughts represent an exploration of spiritual and creative concerns, covering such topics as literature, art, philosophy, and human behavior.
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What's the most radical idea possible, the one least likely to be understood by humanity, the one so far beyond humanity's level of intelligence that whoever champions it is likely to be regarded as insane? Go on, if you're smart you ought to be conceive of a connection so unobvious, so invisible to the masses, so improbable in relation to any other idea, that it will be almost universally rejected. That idea – despised, mocked and reviled by practically...
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There are two kinds of intellectual: Philosophers and Sophists. The former seek the absolute truth while the latter seek the "practical" truth that brings them worldly prestige and success. The weak-minded are far more influenced by Sophists than Philosophers, to the severe detriment of the intellectual progress of humanity. Philosophers have a position based on rationalism, idealism, metaphysics and mathematics, while Sophists hold a position reflecting...
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In 'Plato: Literary Analysis", the renowned philosopher and scholar of classical philosophy delves deeply into the works of the Greek master to unravel the complex interconnections and underlying themes that run through Plato's seven tetralogies. In this masterful work, the author conducts a meticulous critical analysis of the philosopher's major works, exploring everything from Socratic dialogues to Plato's metaphysical and ethical speculations....
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Both our secular culture and our Christian discourse suffer from a lack of appreciation of nature. "Nature" describes the world as we find it, created by God, broken by the fall, exhibiting both stability and change. It is denied in different ways by postmodernists, progressives, evolutionary naturalists, technologists, and transhumanists, but also by Christian fundamentalists and ideologues who fail to recognize the goodness of creation and the possibility...
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There are those, such as scientists, who see only the outside of reality, its appearance, its surface, its phenomenal aspect. They are blind to the inside, the substance, the foundation, the noumenal aspect. They dismiss it as non-existent, or illusion, or epiphenomenon. Scientists are those that believe that phenomena have no underlying noumena. What you see is what you get. Seeing is believing. Everything is appearance. Nothing is concealed. There...
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Are you free, or are you a machine that suffers from a delusion that it's free? Free will is perhaps the most important subject of all because if we are authentically free, scientific materialism is ipso facto false, and the world is in urgent need of a revolutionary paradigm shift. This book shows that free will has a most unexpected advocate – mathematics. Only in a mathematical universe can we be free. Only in a mathematical universe can we have...
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In “The Life of the Mind”, Georgetown University's James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is.
In this volume, Schall, author of “On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs”, among many other volumes of philosophical and political reflection, discusses the various ways of...
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"You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." – Morpheus, The Matrix There are two armies in the world: The Enlightened Army and the Endarkened Army... the Army of Reason and the Army of Unreason, the Army of the Truth and the Army of the Lie. Which army will you join? What's your sacred...
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