Monty Python’s philosopher’s drinking song

Immanuel Kant was a real pissantWho was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggarWho could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consumeWilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel'] And Wittgenstein was a beery swineWho was just as schloshed as Schlegel. There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya‘Bout the raising of [...]

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Elegant Snaarsiverse

I bought Brian Greene’s best-selling popular science novel, “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory” today. Hopefully, I’ll have something both philosophical and irrelevant to say about string theory after reading the book. But first off, let me say that string theory is really a fool’s quest, and here’s [...]

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Creation/Evolution controversy explained

It’s SO simple, really. Ken Ham, the protuberant creationist apologist, has a neatly packaged Answer-In-Genesis to the question of why Evolutionists “refuse” to believe. Be you creationist or evolutionist, you may be surprised to find out that the controversy is not about the actual evidence for or against your position. No, we can never look [...]

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More ethical nonsense.

I found another interesting ethical philosophy survey. My Results:1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)2. John Stuart Mill (92%)3. Ayn Rand (85%)4. Nietzsche (83%)5. Epicureans (80%)6. Kant (80%)7. Thomas Hobbes (80%)8. Jeremy Bentham (79%)9. David Hume (76%)10. Cynics (67%)11. Prescriptivism (67%)12. Stoics (67%)13. Nel Noddings (55%)14. Aquinas (47%) 15. Spinoza (43%)16. Ockham (41%)17. Aristotle (40%)18. Plato (32%)19. St. [...]

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Totally wrong, but interesting …

You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Man is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility. Existentialist 63% [...]

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determinism and ethics – a family portrait

A previous post has the title ‘Moral Relativism?’ and the subsequent discussion had very little to do with moral relativism. It had everything to do with the philosophical quandary surrounding the concepts of determinism and free will. This post will also have nothing to do with moral relativism. I have been working on the problem [...]

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Moral relativism?

So yesterday afternoon I found myself very nearly defending a form of moral relativism, which discomfited me, since I do not believe in moral relativism. This bothered me so much that I checked out The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on moral relativism*, just to brush up on it. Let me explain how I ended [...]

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the cosmic wheel

A bit of wisdom I read today: Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, “here and now” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.Jose [...]

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okaaaaaaay …

Every day I take breaks from the work on my desk and I check out the latest news through my Yahoo! home page. Not often, but once in a while I check out the usually frivolous/inane/pointless/annoying comments that users post to the articles. The following post is no exception: Although nothing prevents you from dreaming [...]

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