September 2011
1 post
A Marxist Reading of Pokemon
Being a highly culturally relevant show, Pokemon is deeply embedded within a capitalist system where the accumulation of goods – and pokemon - depicts a trainer’s social rank in his world and where the relationship between trainer and animal is one that discourages class consciousness. Pokemon expresses a deep capitalistic notion of economy that promotes the alienation of labor and tries to avoid...
April 2011
3 posts
Best Book EVER! →
Visual Art as a Powerful and Influential Mode of...
In history we can look at different art forms that are representational of a society during a period in time. From the primitive cave drawings of ancient ages to the super realism of the 20th we can observe how art has communicated aspects of a culture and what affect they had. In this paper I explore this idea of art as a non-verbal form of communication. I will explore its role within a society;...
“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)
February 2011
4 posts
Tu me Manques
Il y a des semaines que je ne t’ai vu des jours ne finissant plus des nuits interrompues par le souvenir de ton sourire par la pensée d’être avec toi, de te serrer sans toi je ne suis plus rien je ne suis que souvenir lointain de toi et moi main dans la main je rêve du jour ou je te reverrai pour voir si tu as changé si on peut encore s’aimer tout partager ne plus pouvoir se...
Why
The creator of a line,
neither straight or curved,
indivisible and unbreakable,
for if it were it could not be distinct,
we would not refer to it
as a medium for answers sought
from unforgotten questions
that lies within the mind of the individual,
forever to stay motionless until transcended,
its shadows extends over the light
over the truth so long sought
over this nirvana,
or...
“How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to...”
– Jacques Derrida (The gift of Death)
December 2010
1 post
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An Essay on the Gift: a contractual notion within...
A gift is a thing of mysterious qualities, it has an element of intent within its essence but should not require one, it becomes part of an economic circle but breaks apart from it. A desire to give a gift for someone is occurrence that is seen as kind and selfless. But the possibility of giving a gift is not too close to reality, it fact it a misconception of reality. The gift does not need any...
June 2010
1 post
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May 2010
1 post
Is Philosophy Necessary? →
April 2010
5 posts
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Synthetic a-priori Judgments on Kant and Hume's...
(This is simply a reiteration of Kant’t argument to ground metaphysics contrasted to Hume’s vision of the subject itself)
Kant tries to ground metaphysical foundation according to the existence of synthetic a-priori judgments. Before explaining what a synthetic a-priori judgment is we must first go over his terminology and the foundations upon which he reaches such a...
Jesseph-Craig Debate: Does God Exists? →
Professor Jesseph is one of my professors of philosophy at the University of South Florida and he has been described as “the most impressive debater to date” by Jeffery Jay Lowder.
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A Revision of Reductionism from Quine's Two Dogmas
Shortly after the end of World War I, a new movement called logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism, came into the philosophical world in order to renew any epistemological thoughts that was influencing Europe at the time. Mathematicians, philosophers and scientists came to Vienna and met during a council known today as the Vienna circle. Logical positivism was the resulting model of...
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A Defense on Rawls
Justice is portrayed as blind; fair and equal; according to John Rawls, it is “the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thoughts” (A theory of Justice, John Rawls pg3) This paper will introduce a theory on justice debated by Rawls regarding its role and its establishment compared to other theories such as Nozick’s libertarianism model, which describes an independent...
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A Proposition Against the Choice of Euthanasia
Propositions against Euthanasia
Death is an untold experience every human will eventually come across. Because we have no control over when or how we will pass away, we fear death and its approach, but today’s technology brings us closer to a controlled end of life. We have the right to live and we can assume that we have the right to die, but when our life is threatened by an...
July 2009
8 posts
“Art is not the imaginative creation of unified public objects or limited wholes...”
– Irish Murdoch, quoted in an excellent post by B. Michael titled “Art, Love, and Sex - Iris Murdoch.” Murdoch, a novelist as well as a philosopher, makes this assertion against art in conjunction with a Platonic emphasis on the importance of love, which B. Michael very lucidly explains: if...
What Happens when an unstopable object meets with...
“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never...”
– Lee Segall
"The most useless are those who never change...
So i have decided to keep my tumblr at the condition that i would post about something more interesting. I therefore changed my Blog’s post and will be unreaveling some philosophical thoughts as well as teachings on this blog. Hope you will enjoy this as much as i will!
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius