Be Wary of Your Impressions (Week 8 of Wisdom)
Impressions are your preconscious reactions to the world. Some things are appealing to you, others are appalling. Your reactions to these things are normally outside your conscious awareness.
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The Discovery of Numbers
One of the important ways in which modern people differ from ancient people, is that modern society has mastered risk.
Week 4: The Persian Mirror
Imagine creating the perfect media channel—unbiased, scientific, truthful, fact-based, insightful. How would it differ from what exists today? Perhaps it would function as an independent body systematically…
Mimetic Desire (Week 30 of Wisdom)
What is behind human motivation? Freud would tell you that all human goals are manifestations of the biological need to reproduce. All our desires, including intellectuality and aesthetic taste, are merely…
The Sickness Unto Death Summary (8/10)
In “The Sickness Unto Death”, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard presents the idea that humans are in a constant state of becoming. For Kierkegaard, this process of becoming is defined by a continuous striving…
Irrational Beliefs and Happiness
Reconciling our Irrational Beliefs with Happiness Irrational beliefs and happiness* One of the central questions to life is: How can be happy? That’s not a straightforward question, of course.
Girard and The Problem of Divine Hiddenness
Rene Girard is a celebrated thinker (les immortals) who has left behind a legacy that continues to grow each day.
The Taboo of Uncertainty (Week 38 of Wisdom)
Thomas Hobbes, author of the notorious Leviathan*, had a strange definition for “free will” He presumed that anything, whether animate or inanimate, is considered free if nothing stands in its way. If there are no…
Is it Good to be Superstitious?
If you compliment another person, you must quickly knock on wood to prevent bad luck that might occur to this person, that an evil eye might bring about bad luck. Many people inherit their superstitious beliefs from…
Plato in 90 Minutes Summary (8/10)
Plato in 90 minutes by Paul Stratheren is a book that is part of the 90 minutes series and it tells the story of Plato. The book starts out with an introduction to Plato and it gives a brief overview of his life. It…
The Two Tragedies in Life
* No Expectations… No Disappointments “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it”- Oscar Wilde Achieving goals is a tragedy because you can lose your…
This Article Will Change Your Life Forever!
The internet economy is largely driven by clicks. The quality of information is no longer important as it once was in the pre-internet age. The way modern media outlets grab attention is through sensationalism.