5 May 2010
"What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence." Ludwig
Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
http://bit.ly/dBYLUY
10/11 Apr 2010
The Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged' are examples of Objectivism.
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19 Mar 2010
The French
philosopher, Rene Descartes is well known for the propostion "cogito
ergo sum" - 'I think, therefore I am'
18 Feb 2010
David Hume was a well known advocate of Scepticism. He was also a
follower of the Epistemology and Induction movements
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9 Feb 2010
Friedrich Nietzsche's "Beyond Good And Evil" contains many
aphorisms and attacks on past philosophy
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27 Jan 2010
Philosopher Fritjof Capra referred to Zen as
"living with spontaneity simplicity and total peace and presence of
mind" http://bit.ly/5Rhk8P
25 Jan 2010
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential
philosophers in the history of Western philosophy.
http://bit.ly/5jvSaw
21 Jan 2010
"The object of the superior man is truth" Confucius 551- 479 BCE
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"Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought." Henri
Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
http://bit.ly/7icLNI
20 Jan 2010
Utilitarianism holds that the value of an action
resides in its utility/use for the production of
pleasure or happiness http://bit.ly/7nA1Xt
20 Jan 2010
Philosophy must
render man morally better. This was the philosophic labor, the quest in which Plato spent his whole
existence http://bit.ly/5BgMYO
19 Jan 2010
Italian philosopher, Machiavelli, wrote "The
Prince" in 1505 - it gives advice on how government
can control its people
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