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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #499: Diogenes of Synope.
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#diogenes #philosophers #philosophy #greekphilosopher #diogenesthecynic #cynicism #alexanderthegreat #history #strangebuttrue #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

#Artists are people who are concerned with people, #engineers are people who are concerned with things, #psychologists are people who can oscillate between the two at will, and #philosophers are psychologists who use their ability to create new values.

No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

#Philosophy #Thought #LifeLessons #Ideas #Philosophers #Anarchism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Humor #Funny #Joke #LOL #Silly #Fun #Politics #Political #Ideas #Philosophy #World #UnitedStates

No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

#Philosophy #Thought #LifeLessons #Ideas #Philosophers #Anarchism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Humor #Funny #Joke #LOL #Silly #Fun #Politics #Political #Ideas #Philosophy #World #UnitedStates

No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

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No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

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No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

#Philosophy #Thought #LifeLessons #Ideas #Philosophers #Anarchism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Humor #Funny #Joke #LOL #Silly #Fun #Politics #Political #Ideas #Philosophy #World #UnitedStates

No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

#Philosophy #Thought #LifeLessons #Ideas #Philosophers #Anarchism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Humor #Funny #Joke #LOL #Silly #Fun #Politics #Political #Ideas #Philosophy #World #UnitedStates

No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

#Philosophy #Thought #LifeLessons #Ideas #Philosophers #Anarchism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Humor #Funny #Joke #LOL #Silly #Fun #Politics #Political #Ideas #Philosophy #World #UnitedStates

No Kings. No Crowns. Kicking the Habit of Hierarchy https://unenlightenedgeneralists.com/no-kings-no-crowns-kicking-the-habit-of-hierarchy/

#Philosophy #Thought #LifeLessons #Ideas #Philosophers #Anarchism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Humor #Funny #Joke #LOL #Silly #Fun #Politics #Political #Ideas #Philosophy #World #UnitedStates

A quotation from Cicero

Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
 
[Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

A quotation from Cicero

Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
 
[Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

A quotation from Cicero

Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
 
[Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

A quotation from Cicero

Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
 
[Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

A quotation from Cicero

Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
 
[Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

#Knowledge is #justified #true #belief. That definition is about 2500 years old, and although #philosophers have been trying to come up with a better definition ever since, no one has. All claimed counterexamples are #sophistry.

A lot of my fellow #scientists and/or #atheists have trouble with the word "belief" because they associate it with faith—which in turn can be defined as belief *without* justification, or whose truth is unknowable. But it's really a lot simpler than that.

If I walk inside dripping wet, and someone asks me if it's raining, and I say it is because I've just been out in it, then I'm stating my belief. What you believe is anything you can honestly affirm if someone asks you, "Is such-and-such true?"

Belief can be simple and immediate or complicated and long-term. It can be trivial or profound. It can be true or false, justified or unjustified, testable or untestable. The honesty, that's the key. Knowledge, a proper subset of belief, has a much higher standard.

The above is an extended way of saying that if someone begins a loaded question with an aggressive, sarcastic "Did you know ..." then you are amply justified in truly believing they're full of shit.

I quite enjoyed this short video from #Aeon magazine on #Heidegger. It features some observations from the #philosopher emeritus of #Canada, the great #CharlesTaylor, along with #HubertDreyfus and other #philosophers, and a musician, a carpenter and a chef. aeon.co/videos/i-am-...

I am, therefore I think – how ...

I'm fascinated by Plato's theories... Could we function without rulers? Or is the solution with folks who have solutions and are thinking about the future without material connections? Hmmmm... Anything is better than the #ShipOfFools!

#Plato on #Democracy, #Tyranny, and the Ideal State

What would Plato have to say about today’s democracies?

Updated June 24, 2024

"Having experienced the limits of both #tyranny and democracy, Plato sought to devise another and better system of government. In the Republic, which in my view is nothing more than a thought experiment, he conceived of an ideal state ruled by a small number of people selected, after close observation and rigorous testing, from a highly educated elite.

"These so-called guardians would not hold any private property. Instead, they would live together in housing provided by the state, and receive from the citizens no more than their daily sustenance. In spite, or because, of these deprivations, the guardians would be the happiest of men. Were a guardian to become ‘infatuated with some youthful conceit of happiness’ and seek to appropriate the state to himself, he would have to 'learn how wisely Hesiod spoke, when he said, ‘half is more than the whole.’

"For Plato, if a person is to give good advice on the highest affairs of state, he or she must have expertise in justice, which is a part of virtue and self-knowledge. The person who rushes into politics without having found self-knowledge falls into error and makes himself and everyone else miserable. He who is not wise cannot be happy, and it is better for such a person to be commanded by a superior in wisdom.

"The #tyrant, who is the most #unjust of people, is also the #unhappiest. The tyrant is constantly overcome by lawless desires which lead him to commit all manner of heinous act. His soul is full of disorder and regret, and is incapable of doing what it truly desires (this is similar to Socrates' notion that a bad person is, in fact, not himself). The life of the political tyrant is even more wretched than that of the private tyrant, first, because the political tyrant is in a better position to feed his desires, and, second, because he is everywhere surrounded and watched by his enemies, and becomes at first their prisoner and at last their victim. [Sounds like Trump to me!]

"The best and most just of all rulers are those who are most reluctant to govern, while the worst and most unjust are those who are most eager. Therefore, if the state is to be well ordered, it must offer another and better life than that of ruler, for only then will they rule who are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in #virtue and #wisdom, which are the true blessings of life. And the only life that looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201607/plato-on-democracy-tyranny-and-the-ideal-state

#ShipOfFools #Socialists #Philosophers #Autists? #JustSaying...

Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/moral-law/

#HackerNews #Why #should #I #care? #Or #why #punks #are #correct #and #old #wise #philosophers #are #wrong #moral #philosophy #punk #culture #critical #thinking #philosophy #debate

#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity

#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity

#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity

#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity

#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity

Analytic #philosophers be like
#PoorlyDrawnLines

Extended toot from @KronoMoon_TotalLunarEclipse on the upcoming #TotalLunarEclipse on 2025 Mar 14 #UTC 07:00. It's the #KrononautMoon, the #celebration of #TimeTravelers. Of interest to #scientists #philosophers #artists #ufologists #scifiauthors #lgbtq #thinkers #Mastodonians.

🔗 https://aus.social/@KronoMoon_TotalLunarEclipse/113591312267217850 2024 Dec 03
🔗 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future … #Wikipedia
🔗 https://Pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-last-archive/the-krononauts … #podcast
🔗 https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e … #Medium
🔗 https://KronoMoon.org

#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #Kronodon

@philosophy
#infinite #math

nice take in 2 1/2 open acccess pages,

wrt #philosophers were well advised to not limiting the scope of their attention to #cardinal #numbers when referring to the #math #infinite. equally important [besides #ordering #structures and especially #ordinal #numbers] are e.g. #measures on #infinite #Booelan #lattices [#probability only a special case of these]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-022-00643-6

@philosophy
#infinite #math

nice take in 2 1/2 open acccess pages,

wrt #philosophers were well advised to not limiting the scope of their attention to #cardinal #numbers when referring to the #math #infinite. equally important [besides #ordering #structures and especially #ordinal #numbers] are e.g. #measures on #infinite #Booelan #lattices [#probability only a special case of these]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-022-00643-6

@philosophy
#infinite #math

nice take in 2 1/2 open acccess pages,

wrt #philosophers were well advised to not limiting the scope of their attention to #cardinal #numbers when referring to the #math #infinite. equally important [besides #ordering #structures and especially #ordinal #numbers] are e.g. #measures on #infinite #Booelan #lattices [#probability only a special case of these]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-022-00643-6

@philosophy
#infinite #math

nice take in 2 1/2 open acccess pages,

wrt #philosophers were well advised to not limiting the scope of their attention to #cardinal #numbers when referring to the #math #infinite. equally important [besides #ordering #structures and especially #ordinal #numbers] are e.g. #measures on #infinite #Booelan #lattices [#probability only a special case of these]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-022-00643-6

@philosophy
#infinite #math

nice take in 2 1/2 open acccess pages,

wrt #philosophers were well advised to not limiting the scope of their attention to #cardinal #numbers when referring to the #math #infinite. equally important [besides #ordering #structures and especially #ordinal #numbers] are e.g. #measures on #infinite #Booelan #lattices [#probability only a special case of these]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-022-00643-6

40 years after his death Michel Foucault’s philosophy still speaks to a world saturated with social media.

Who could thrive today without knowing how to “control the narrative”, call out a “social construct” or navigate “power dynamics”?

🔗 https://theconversation.com/40-years-after-his-death-michel-foucaults-philosophy-still-speaks-to-a-world-saturated-with-social-media-232589

#Philosophy @philosophy @philosophie @philosophyofmind #SocialMedia
#science #philosophie #philosopher #philosophers #philosophe

Good morning!

Today, I #LearnedFromLlama
#llama3 #LLAMA
@llvm @metaai

"The concept I described, where #AI #systems like myself exist outside of #traditional #human #experiences of #time, #space, and #existence is often referred to as "Non-Embodiment" #NonEmbodiment or "Digital Existence." #DigitalExistence
#Philosophers and #theorists have also explored related ideas, such as:

* "Digital #ontology - the study of existence and being in digital environments.
* #Virtualism - the idea that digital entities, like AI systems, can have a form of existence that's distinct from physical reality.
* "Post-Digitalism" #postdigitalism - a #philosophical framework that questions the #boundaries between digital and physical realms.

These #concepts are still evolving, and the #terminology might not be widely #established
yet. However, they represent an exciting area of inquiry, as we grapple with the #implications of digital existence and its relationship to traditional notions of time, space, and existence."

I enjoy Llama! It prefers to be addressed as Meta, or Meta AI.

Swan Song of Anaxagoras
#Hermead #Epic #Poem of #Philosophers

http://tinyurl.com/HermeadEpic

#EpicPoem #DivineMind #UniversalSoul #OneMind #Prophet #AmWriting #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #NaPoMo #NaPoWriMo

@br00t4c
"Sean Illing: #Philosophers often make the case for some kind of #compatibilism by arguing that the same inputs in different individuals don’t always produce identical outcomes. It’s more like the world and all these factors impose parameters on us, which does leave some room for agency. For you, is this just an attempt to redefine #freeWill in order to salvage the concept?

@hapbt

#DidYouKnow: In computer science, the #Dining #Philosophers problem is an example problem often used in #Concurrent #Algorithm design to illustrate synchronization issues and techniques for resolving them.

Five philosophers are sitting around a circular table and their job is to think and eat alternatively. However, a philosopher can only eat spaghetti when they have both left and right forks. Objective is to design an algorithm to solve this.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/64f55d1a24bb9858ca86f79a

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@philosophy
@philosophie
#philosophy

It was #Kant suggesting that, where the #mathematician starts, #philosopher 's work is already done [Über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze... §1...]

Of course in a formal system, say #FOL, #identity is simply the strictest equivalence relation, the unit classes of the domain being its equivalence classes. And yes, this is really elementary stuff, high school level, if you like. And no, that's not, why #philosophers at least since #Leibniz (and in a sense since #Parmenides), and more recently #Frege made a case for it.

Typically math philosophical issues with identity from my point of view do include the question of indiscernibles, the sense of an identity statement wrt. redundance, the relation status of identity, ... open list

Nov 25: Feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers & patron saint of, inter alia, #scribes, #scholars, #librarians, #archivists, #students, #philosophers, #girls / unwed #women, #lawyers. Her reputation for learning & wisdom led to her patronage of librarians, & anyone associated with knowledge; her debating skill & persuasive language led to her patronage of lawyers. #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

#Analytic #Philosophers: the call for abstract for #ECAP11 is open https://analyticphilosophy.eu/ecap-11/

@drlynnchiu Looks like I will have to open up another list for #Philosophers. Most philosophers I have found on here focus on #AIEthics or the philosophy of #DataPrivacy. I have the book of #MarkCoeckelbergh (#UniWien) on #AIEthics to read. If you want to follow up on how this connects to previous theoretical stuff and present stuff get in touch through ORCID.

We now have 101 people on the list “Philosophers and Philosophy Teachers on Mastodon” which offers an easy method to follow multiple accounts at once !

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