Thinking
In this brief foray into the deeper philosophical underpinnings of George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone,” we turn to a panoply of classical thinkers. From Hegel’s dialectic to Kant’s categorical imperative, from Schopenhauer’s world as representation to Hume’s skepticism about induction, we will see how
Mind
I've been thinking about a conversation I had last summer. Some friends and I were discussing Richard Dawkins' book, The God Delusion, with Rupert. As always, Rupert's ideas are well thought out and always seem to come out of left field - at least to
Thinking
I was flipping through the latest New Scientist magazine last week when I stumbled across yet another article claiming that a final theory of everything was just around the corner. Each time I see one of these articles I'm reminded of the endless stream of biology and physics
Thinking
“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything immeasurably small or great in your life
Matthew
Thinking
There is a magnificent essay by Schopenhauer in which he asks, how is it that a human being can so participate in the peril or pain of another that without thought, spontaneously, he sacrifices his own life to the other? How can it happen that what we normally think of
Thinking
For over 10 years I’ve been bumping up against Arthur Schopenhauer just about everywhere. His influence on continental philosophy is everywhere. Though I somehow managed to get through Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Jung, for some reason I had just never picked up Schopenhauer. At Barnes & Noble
Thinking
Humor is one of the most under-discussed, unexplored, and undocumented everyday phenomena I know of. Bergson was actually one of the few philosophers in history to take up the difficult task of analyzing what makes us laugh. Ironically, his findings are rather dry and philosophical but he does give his