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What is the meaning of this Zaman Ali quote? [closed]
“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali
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The study of intelligence is an interdisciplinary field of study. What other academic fields, beyond philosophy, theorize/explore intelligence? [closed]
I have embarked on a project developing a unified theory of intelligence, based on the thesis that there is one essential form of intelligence - biological human intelligence (leaving aside the idea ...
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How do analytic philosophers ground analytic philosophy?
Analytic philosophy tends to not be concerned with meta questions and resolves a distinction between analytic truths and synthetic truths, favouring an analysis on the analytic aspect, usually in ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Does the universe include literally everything? Or merely everything that exists? I am asking this because I think that, to give an example, unicorns are not part of the universe, because they don't ...
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In The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, is it allowed for necessary being to have alternatives(like different versions of that category)?
In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that if something could have been diffferent then that thing can not be necessary. My question is can a simultaneosly ...
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Implementing stoicism in daily life
In the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius there is a quote:
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and ...
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Aristotle definition of irony
Several internet sources quote Aristotle describing irony as “dissembling toward the inner core of truth.” I wonder if this is an elegantly worded butchery of Nicomachean Ethics 1108a20. But it ...
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How to distinguish philosophical works from self-help books?
I imagine that the terms philosophical work and self-help book elicit different responses in most people, but there seems to be some overlap. For instance, the works of Epicurus are all about actively ...
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Normative ethics from a non-realist
I'm having some trouble understanding exactly what position a non-realist takes when they present a normative ethical theory.
Definition: Normative ethics is the study of ethical behaviour and is the ...
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How to Study Aristotles Ethics
I know that there have been several posts on where to start reading Aristotle, but I think this one would be a little different approach than usual so I think I should ask.
My aim to study Aristotle ...
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Can every kind of object perform actions?
I am researching about actions and if things that aren't animals can perform them. Does anyone know whether the class of actions includes things done by inanimate objects like clocks and machines?
I ...
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Resources on the Creation of Economic Value [closed]
I'm searching for comprehensive treatises on how the various philosophical traditions see the creation of economic value.
The Wikipedia page linked in the comments isn't as exhaustive as I'd like, e.g....
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Infinite regresses and AI: are they compatible?
I haven't been thinking about this very long, but when I encounter an infinite regress, I recognize it as a problem and then look for ways around that (avoid, make it virtuous, I don't know). I may ...
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Does direct realism rely on colour realism?
It seems to me that, to avoid the idea that the 'colouring' of the data one receives is in the mental representation of it, one would have to say that colours exist in the real world, so the data is ...
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Does second order integrity matter?
I was googling/thinking about 'integrity', and wondered if, similar to second order desires, when one desires that one desires certain goods, and second order virtue, abstract concepts of e.g. ...
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