(or, How to Make Sense of Yourself, part II)
Disclaimer: What follows are my thoughts on love. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I am just a person who likes to think seriously, analytically, about what is important to me. For me, serious thinking is a natural way to express what matters to me. […]
“Humanism is a broad category of active ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on our ability to determine what is right using the qualities innate to humanity, particularly rationality. Humanism is a component of a variety of more specific philosophical systems.”
The opposing view: Anti-humanism.
My own interpretation is that humanism […]
(or, How to Make Sense of the World, part II)
Other people. I only just scratched the surface of other people two posts ago. I had been thinking about something else before I started to write that, and then I got overruled by the logic of my ideas, and just went with it.
Where I want to […]
Socrates, as pundits like me never tire of reminding you, implored us to know ourselves. I like Socrates, because he took nothing for granted.
How do we know ourselves?
I’ve said elsewhere that human beings are a vexing lot. Or something to that effect. We all have different minds. We feel, believe, and think different things. Typically, we realize that, but we are all each of us arrogant. Even people who deny that they are arrogant are arrogant in the sense that, as an […]
I thought of this earlier today, while I contemplated the snow and cold and bleakness outside. Not a new idea, but deserves consideration: build covered parks for improving mental health. Government sponsored with a small admission fee, just a park inside a dome. It would have to be big enough to give a sense of […]