It is quite the interesting historical phenomenon that the collapse of the Academy into radical skepticism of Carneades is reincarnated again in the body of philosophy, which is manifest in a movement from totalizing claims that attempt to capture the truth into a radical withdrawal from definitive …

On Definitions and Language

I am well aware that discussing language and its limits using language is a bit of a circus act, although one that we should not shy away from, given the essential role it plays in the totality of human life, especially for philosophy which demands a precision that …

In the light of the multiplicity and plurality of theoretical frameworks and conceptions—each lacking in some aspects of its description and explanatory strength—with regard to consciousness and especially the resistance of such phenomenon even to concise and clear definition, it is rather …

It is quite naive, this view that some hold, the hedonist and utilitarian view of morals which takes reduction of suffering and increase of pleasure as the standard by which to judge the morality of actions, although some would phrase it differently as sadness and happiness instead of suffering and …

The Problem of Reductive Thinking

It is the common outlook of most when asked to account for a phenomenon either of man or society or the world, to default to either a single explanation or a single cause in a way that precludes other explanations. Not only that, but even experts who are drunk on …

Do we have a choice in our actions? Or are we fully subject to laws of nature or the eternal decrees of God as to have no choice in what we do or act? This is a question we will handle, while leaving room for freedom of action and demonstrating the incoherence of deterministic views of reality and …

When one asks who would be considered good, one would typically get three kinds of answers: the first is one which would make it possible for them to also be considered good because everyone wishes to be seen as good, the second is one which would make the good person beneficial to himself because …

What we consider knowledge is not only a mental exercise divorced from any practical implications. The problem is that when we come to see knowledge as such, as something neutral and has no bearing on the manner we live, we fall into cognitive traps that lead to us living a life that is not ours and …

Just as many interpretations can arise from empirical data, so are words and expressions have wildly different interpretations, and so are points have various ways to connect them. But certainly there are some ways that we deem more effective or more true than others, but it is not only that they do …

Love is not a mere feeling or passion, for feelings are reactive to events or demand a satisfaction such as reacting to an event with anger, or demanding sustenance when hungry. Passions are fleeting impulses that inflame and captivate the soul and decay as fast as they are kindled, but love is a …

What is false cannot be true and what is true cannot be false, but every particular person has their opinion about things, opinions even absurd when examined. It is not that these opinions are unjustified or that the people holding them are stupid, far from it. You can see if one is to engage a …

What is it to know? Is it to observe and reason about those aforementioned observations afterwards? If so, under what knowledge do we interpret that which is to be observed to reach that knowledge? Do we need yet another observation to formulate that prior knowledge for interpretation? Where does …

If I were to ask how we justify the idea that logic works for reaching truth or that it is the only standard to measure truth, what would be a good answer? Would that answer be using logic? Would this not be circular? As in the same way that I might say that a book content is true because the book …