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.
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?
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
What do we want to want?
What do I want right now? To sleep, to be at home or in a cozy forest hut with a crackle sound of fireplace and a smell of chocolaty cacao, to be reading something that engages my mind and stimulates my imagination, to be writing driven by my inspiration, to have my friends, family, cat … Continue reading What do we want to want?
What makes you You? An imaginary dialogue with John Locke
Are you the same person you were 10 years ago? What about when you were a child? And what about yesterday? And since we are talking about it – will you be the same person tomorrow? Perhaps we should start by asking what does it mean to be the same person and what a “person” … Continue reading What makes you You? An imaginary dialogue with John Locke
Automatic Misunderstandings and how to avoid them
There is nothing new about it - people misunderstand each other regularly, we all know it and we all do it. However, recently I have been reminded just how easily we fall into the simplest traps of misunderstandings. So easily that when we realize it afterwards (if we do), we are surprised to the extent … Continue reading Automatic Misunderstandings and how to avoid them
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