#Philosophers

Sana Nakata

TeachingSana

I’m so angry. We’ve set the conditions once again so that the philosophers, lawyers, art historians, film critics, sociologists, political scientists are more likely to herald from a white, landed

Arie Amaya-Akkermans 🏺📜🗿🏳️‍🌈

byzantinologue

@baglandeniz As a former Arendt scholar I can answer a little: What Agamben & Arendt share is a Verfallsgeschichte (history of decline, I think), they both disbelief modernity's capacity for

elisa freschi

elisa_freschi

Again on the epistemology and ontology of #absence (#abhāva). The author (Helen Beebee) does not want to accept an ontological status of absences and therefore defends the seemingly counter-intuitive view

Conscious Complex

ConsciousComplx

What if We’re Just Bubbles Living in a Bubble Bath?Thread What we’ll explore in this thread:⁃What the multiverse theory is⁃Atomist vs. Stoic thinking ⁃The scientific basis behind the multiverse theory

يودا المالكي

NeuroMaliki

Whenever someone tells me that consciousness will soon be solved by a new neuroscience or physics I tell them to read history a little more carefully. Here's a short thread

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

When I was a student in history classes, a common mantra was: Don't judge past people by present standards; that's anachronistic.One of the shifts happening now is the opening up

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

There are so many courses of action! I'll name a few, beginning with Derrick Bell's critical race approach to racial realism which does not collapse into paralysis but, instead, advocates

W. David O. Taylor

wdavidotaylor

What exactly does justice look like in the psalms? It positively maintains the rights of the weak. It rejects the use of bullying words. It doesn't take advantage of the

Will Kinney

WKCosmo

Thinking about Giordano Bruno again, and about how many of his ideas were hundreds of years ahead of their time (e.g. the infinity of worlds), and how many were just

grayson ⧗

hallowsfilm

colors in harry potter and the philosophers stone (2001): disclaimer: i am making this a series!!! it takes me a very long time to find the pics but i’m really

A. H.

a_h_reaume

CW: Eugenics While it’s important to make young people aware COVID will affect them even without underlying issues, I’m disturbed by the # of pieces mourning young and healthy folks.

kristopher phillips

kristopherGphil

Often unappreciated is how important, and if we are being honest, powerful department admins are. At #SUU, the department of #Languages and #Philosophy is fortunate to have arguable *the best*

David Chapman

Meaningness

“Philosophical beliefs” aren’t beliefs in any normal sense, nor in any useful sense, afaics. This is question #1 in the survey; what could any answer possibly mean?Philosophy is Actually Bad,

Star Wars: The Cantina Talk

thecantinatalk

Man if you genuinely think because you’re religious that means you should “warn” gay people that they’re “living in a life of sin”, please stfu Everyone fucking lives a life

Piet Bosboom 🌜

PietBosboom

Thread; trying to understand the theology of Ibn Arabi. Mainly citing al-Jami's al-Durrah al-fakhirah, al-Lari's commentary on al-Durrah al-fakhirah, Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-hikam & Ismail Hakki Bursevi's commentary on Fusu

H S Joshi

HSJSpeaks

1/ As Nietzsche and others emphasized, man is fundamentally a meaning seeking and narrative seeking animal.This fact is important in making sense of the contemporary crisis of culture, and how