Thursday, 23 December 2021

'Solutions'

 

Just as there are stones we cannot lift without the help of machines so there are philosophical problems whose solution will belong to the machines we build to solve them, not to us; to us the solution will not seem like a solution.


Wednesday, 8 December 2021

The problem is the problem

 


Is it the world or us that is wrong? Perhaps nothing is wrong at all. 


Thursday, 18 November 2021

Aspirations

 

The most we may hope for are moments of near perfection.  


Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Saturday, 30 October 2021

The Tourist

 


Even the greatest, semi-divine, rules of a society are but quaint colloquial conventions to the philosopher.

Friday, 22 October 2021

Will to Power

 


We could say that all life is functionally mad.


Saturday, 9 October 2021

Perspectivism

 

All our theories are really illusions and the best one may hope for is to be the least wrong it is possible to be. 


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