WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: “Why We Need Greek Words for Love” / The School of Life / Alain de Botton ☮
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Category Archives: Ethics
ANTINATALISM: “The Friendly Antinatalist: Thoughts on Adoption” ☮
Venting my frustration about the ignorance and gross oversimplification of the realities of adoption in recent antinatalism facebook group posts.
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – ETHICS: “Nietzsche on Master and Slave Morality” ☮
Nietzsche’s basic ideas about ethics.
CRITICAL THINKING: “Mr. D. Goes to Washington, Luck (Addendum II: Choice)” / Mr. Deity / MUST WATCH! ☮
Some people have been extremely resistant to my belief that Luck plays an overwhelming role in our lives. This is another attempt to answer various objections.
EMPATHY AND COMPASSION: “What He Did was Breathtaking”
CRITICAL THINKING: “The Way of the Mister: After Religion, Part II ” / Mr. Deity ☮
Where do you go after religion? In part II of this series, we look at the second big question I asked myself after leaving religion.
PRAYER: “So, You Thank God for Your House, Car, and Job?” ☮
PHILOSOPHY – ETHICS (ANIMAL ETHICS): “What if Humans and Animals Switched Places?” / PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) ☮
Eleven Shocking Illustrations Reveal How Animals Feel By Switching Them With Humans.
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: “Arthur Schopenhauer: Deeply Influenced by Buddhist Thought” / The School of Life / Alain de Botton ☮
Arthur Schopenhauer was deeply influenced by Buddhist thought and is in many ways the West’s answer to it: he too tells us to reign in our desires and adopt a consolingly pessimistic attitude to our struggles.
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – ETHICS: “Cornel West: The Difference Between Justice and Revenge” ☮
Institutions—governmental, religious, financial, even revolution itself—have a way of turning stale and sour. “Thank God for the history of the heretics and the blasphemers. That’s my crowd,” says Dr. Cornell West. Quoting from some of history and literature’s greatest thinkers and doers, West presents a poetic lecture on the role of hope in America’s past and its future, and how to make your voice matter. This video was filmed at the Los Angeles Hope Festival, a collaboration between Big Think and Hope & Optimism, a three-year initiative which supported interdisciplinary academic research into significant questions that remain under-explored. For more from Dr. Cornell West, head to http://www.cornelwest.com.
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