Last week I wrote a short article about my first thoughts on ethics. Today I thought - why not publish some philosophical quotes. We love them, don't we! Short snippets of wisdom during our busy everyday lives. So here goes, this is the first article where I try it out and who knows, maybe it … Continue reading 6 Philosophical Quotes or a Snack for the Mind
First Thoughts on Ethics
Having finished a roughly 1-month long study module on ethics and fully realising that I am only scratching the surface, I decided to summarise and share my first thoughts on this vast discipline known also by the name philosophy of morality. Like many of us, I too already had some views on certain moral questions and … Continue reading First Thoughts on Ethics
Need for Meaning of our Symbolic Self
For us humans, a sense of meaning is not just a wish or a luxury but one of our crucial needs and most of our lives can be seen in the light of our search for/ creation of meaning in order to satisfy that need.
To Remember or to Forget?
This last article in 2019 is about memories. More specifically, the value and meaning of memories. As the old song tells us "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget". A book that I read recently made me think about the following questions - if you did or witnessed something awful and then for whatever … Continue reading To Remember or to Forget?
Miracles – should we believe in them? (and is this the right question to ask)
Christmas time in the air, it was very fitting that my last philosophy course essay topic was on miracles. It was in the context of the philosophy of religion and focused on the questions of what do we understand by miracles and should we believe in them. image from pixabay While working on the essay … Continue reading Miracles – should we believe in them? (and is this the right question to ask)
Philosophical Argument – how to evaluate its quality?
In the last article I briefly described what a 'philosophical argument' means. This article continues on this, so far, short series and looks at how we can assess the quality of an argument and what it means to say that an argument is valid or sound. As often is the case, it starts with some … Continue reading Philosophical Argument – how to evaluate its quality?
Philosophical Argument – what is it?
In this article, I would like to explore what is a philosophical argument and what it is made of. It is worth clarifying that by 'argument' I do not mean an angry exchange of accusations or any other type of emotionally heated conflict. So, for starters, we should be clear about what philosophical argument is … Continue reading Philosophical Argument – what is it?
Maturity
When are you mature? What does it mean - to be mature? Does it happen automatically as you grow older? I think maturity is not directly linked to your age. We all can think of at least one example when an adult is acting like a child and a young person seems to have an … Continue reading Maturity
Be Ready to Drop Your Assumptions
This last weekend I was working on my first academic philosophy writing, an essay on Hume's views of the "self". He was a convinced empiricist and was sceptical about rationalism and its assumption that we can know things based on and thanks to our reason alone. Hume thought that the only way we can develop … Continue reading Be Ready to Drop Your Assumptions
Getting Our Assumptions Clear
Recently I had an interesting conversation over lunch with a few colleagues, all of us with many years of experience in the same industry. Initially it all went the usual way - we complained about the lack of demand for our products and how the clients didn't understand the real value of these products. The … Continue reading Getting Our Assumptions Clear
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