#philosophy

#philosophy

Dictators like to move people around. Stalin, for instance. From the summer of 1941 through the fall of 1942, with the Russian front facing massive bombardment and Nazi troops on the ground, he decided to relocate civilians, and entire industries, to safer regions in the eastern Soviet Union. The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.

The student is Maggie Resnick, played by the dependably charismatic Ayo Edebiri. She's a struggling doctoral candidate in the philosophy department at Yale, and she puts her request to Alma Imhoff, brought to life by a striking Julia Roberts, over dinner. The pair are sitting in Alma's elegant apartment, a tasteful space warmed by rich wood paneling, amber light sources, and distinctive sconces.

The best horror stories are those that don't rely on jump scares or bloodied campground killers to frighten. The scariest part of The Wicker Man isn't its eponymous effigy; it's realizing what the natives of Summerisle will do to placate their gods. And while the ghosts haunting the Overlook Hotel may unnerve readers of The Shining, it is Jack Torrance's maniacal relapse that truly grips the spine.

A therapeutic goal is to replace self-destructive or self-defeating emotional rules with more functional ones and find healthier ways to respond to emotional experiences.

Anger is a bad habit that people tend to pick up from their parents. When a child who was raised at Plato's house was returned to his parents and witnessed his father shouting, he said, 'I never saw this at Plato's house.'

The cave symbolizes mental entrapment in illusions, reflecting cultural narratives and emotional defenses that influence perceptions and hinder true understanding.

What if, like food or life itself, money carried an expiration date - forcing it to flow rather than accumulate? Could changing the very nature of money reshape our values and bind communities together - instead of often driving them apart?

Improvisation as a musical practice transcends mechanical routines, emphasizing coherence in musical articulations over mere recall of scales or fixed phrases, which leads to true artistic expression.

Philosophers like John Locke and David Hume have historically debated the legitimacy and implications of intellectual property rights, questioning whether owning an idea is akin to owning physical property. Locke's theory emphasizes individual labor as the basis of property ownership, while Hume challenges the notion of ownership tied solely to intellectual creation. In contrast, contemporary discussions highlight the complexities of this issue in the digital age, particularly regarding the accessibility of knowledge versus incentivizing innovation.

In that sense, it's not so different from a lab experiment, where researchers set the stage and observe what unfolds. The aim of these often fantastical scenarios is just as serious: to test, stretch, or even shatter our intuitions about how the world works.

Sigmund Freud, as an early 20th-century Viennese Lamarckian, should take human nature to be highly malleable, leading to a paradox in his views against this idea.

The phenomenon of time seeming to speed up with age or slow down under boredom presents a fascination, where subjective experience often clashes with clock and calendar time.

Anger does not prove that something is unfair. People can be angry about fair situations or unfavorable situations that are not as unfair as they desire.

Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature... What he saw was not the world, but himself writ large.

"Each of Hanneke's illustrations features the detachment of selves, allowing her figures to float through a metaphysical world that only the cartoon logic can allow; a ballooned, ghost-like ego floating above someone at a computer; or heads lined up in the form of a train's body, their thought bubbles becoming smoke stacks."

Clothes serve three basic purposes: protection, modesty and decoration. Each purpose raises deep philosophical questions regarding their significance and impact on identity and expression.

Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered.

Some Silicon Valley leaders have a bizarre adoration for philosophers like Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and Friedrich Hayek. Alongside these thinkers, Friedrich Nietzsche is frequently mentioned in tech circles.

The experience of frequent and ongoing internal conflict is a perfectly normal part of the human condition. No exceptions; every epoch and culture has struggled with this.

Racing thoughts, tension in your muscles, fear in the pit of your stomach, and the alarming sense that disaster is imminent are the trademarks of our modern-day world-weariness.

For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial, with nothing natural about understanding, consciousness, or intelligence itself, challenging the idea of innate behavior versus learned actions.