Determinism is much deeper than accidentalism. Its an extraordinarily common idea, even in Antiquity. Antiquity is the time of ancient Greece and Rome with thinkers like Plato, Socrates, Epicurus, Aristotle and Diogenes. This is a tremendously important time in the lifespan of philosophy but thats not the focus of this episode. The Oxford Dictionary of …
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Episode 5- Accidentalism
Accidentalism is prevalent in several fields including art, theology, ethics and metaphysics. Generally it can be understood in all contexts as there being an opportunity for random chance to occur. For this episode I will only focus on metaphysics and we may try to do ethics but that one is a little difficult to explain. …
Episode 4- Why is Philosophy so Annoying?
“Technology is not equivalent to the essence of technology. When we are seeking the essence of ‘tree’, we have to become aware that That which pervades every tree, as tree, is not itself a tree that can be encountered among all the other trees.” That’s Martin Heidegger in The Questions Concerning Technology. Philosophy can be …
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Absurdism
The philosophical notion of the absurd is very abstract but present in all of our lives. The absurd is this jarring realization that despite the fact that we naturally want to have a meaning and purpose in life, we aren’t able to because our universe is meaningless We all encounter this phenomena eventually but how …
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