September 2011
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Watchbooksinthekitchen:
Louis C.K. on Tom Sawyer and his “dirty little homeless white trash creep” friend, Huck Finn.
If you aren’t watching Louie, you’re a little empty inside and just don’t know it yet.
(via)
The second line nailed it. Best TV series in a long time.
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“Not out of fear but out of a feeling of what is right should we abstain from...”
– Democritus, quoted from Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato
August 2011
3 posts
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“What they do not comprehend is man’s helplessness. I am weak, small, of no...”
– Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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“Their [the Nazi’s] view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there,...”
– Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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“Nationalist ideology divides society vertically; the socialist ideology divides...”
– Ludwig von Mises
July 2011
21 posts
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“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“It is only because the institutions of this country are a mass of...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves,...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“That mankind are not infallible; that their truths, for the most part, are only...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“How often, when smarting under some unforeseen misfortune or disappointment,...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record that he...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty (via epiphanyrambler)
… This is one of those quotes from philosophies and schools of thought that seem so great and good at first, but I feel like an insane socialist utopia could be derived from this statement. I’m just not crazy enough to sit and think of the ways this...
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“That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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“[…]such phrases as “self-government,” and “the power of...”
– J.S. Mill - On Liberty
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J. S. Mill - On Liberty
It’s been quite a time since my last post. After studying John Stuart Mill’s essay “On Liberty”, I felt the desire to share some of his thoughts with you, for I think that, although the essay was published in 1859, it has lost little of its importance. The majority of people today still value their own moral beliefs higher than the liberty of others, and rarely hesitate to...
March 2011
1 post
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“I say that man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in...”
– Immanuel Kant
February 2011
3 posts
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“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be...”
– J.S. Mill
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
January 2011
5 posts
“Can’t believe
How strange it is to be anything
At all”
– Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with...”
– Friedrich August von Hayek
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“Do you want to walk along? Or walk ahead? Or walk by yourself? One must know...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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“as if every passion did not include its quantum of reason.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche fighting the rejection of passion in the Enlightenment.
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The Egalitarian Program by Ludwig von Mises →
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises explains the roots of egalitarianism and socialism, paying special attention to the part land distribution plays in it and comes to a very critical conclusion.
December 2010
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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
November 2010
3 posts
Judith Curry on Anthropogenic Climate Change →
Anthropogenic climate change is a theory in which the basic mechanism is well understood, but in which the magnitude of the climate change is highly uncertain owing to feedback processes. We know that the climate changes naturally on decadal to century time scales, but we do not have explanations for a number of observed historical and paleo climate variations, including the warming from...
getao:
Arioso: Adagio Cantabile from Henryk...
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Music Monday (2)
This music monday’s charts are quite rich in diversity: Post-Rock, Sludge, Blues, Jazz, Indie, Trip-Hop. Maybe I haven’t found the perfect autumn-music yet.
October 2010
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Heidegger and nature during Sein und Zeit
Heidegger’s interpretation of nature in Sein und Zeit is quite doubtable: In SuZ, Heidegger gives priority to praxis over theory, even so when concerning nature. He states that nature is first of all experienced in its Zuhandenheit (readiness-at-hand). Some examples: A mountain is a quarry, a river is waterpower. He helds other views as secondary: A theoretical approach (the mountain...
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“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead...”
–
Rollo May (via americanexistentialism)
As Heidegger put it, angst is at the core of existential thought. Not the fear of something special, but the boundless angst of the naked “that” of the world. But what is revealed through it is also the freedom that we have in the world, the...
“Take care, philosophers and friends, of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. (via ex-ist)
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On Heidegger's understanding of philosophy
What is one of the greatest tasks of philosophy?
Martin Heidegger would probably reply: Philosophy must rely upon itself as the “free questioning of the Dasein (there-being) on its own” (from: Phänomenologie und Theologie).
Philosophy must not give in to any kind of religion or even metaphysics, it cannot view the world from a singular point from where everything is explainable. It...
predatorywaspobserver asked: I would highly recommend reading "Eyeless in Gaza". I am 245 pages in and I am constantly amazed at Huxley's genius as a writer and thinker. Readers are doing themselves a great disservice if they only bother reading "Brave New World" and skip his other incredible pieces of work.
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is certainly one of the most interesting groups I’ve discovered lately. The music itself is hard to describe as it is a very experimental approach to jazz. With their fusion of jazz or traditional instruments in general, connected to, as well as heavily edited and mutated by electronics they create a truely unique sound.
I’ve recently seen them live...
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“[…]we view all things through the human head and cannot cut this head off;...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, in: Human, All Too Human
joyshapes-deactivated20110807 asked: Can you recommend a good intro to Heideggerian existentialism? :)
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“The surmounting of morality, in a certain sense even the self-mounting of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, in: Beyond Good and Evil
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“One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, in: Beyond Good And Evil
