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Against Hegel's westering as bestering

My approach is therefore deeply at odds with that of Hegel. I do not see the history of philosophy as the progressive logical unfolding of ‘Spirit’, which…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #history #Western-philosophy #self

Eastern and western philosophies

Nishida once suggested that we can distinguish traditional Eastern and Western philosophies by the East's prioritizing of nothingness and the West's reliance…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #Nishida #Western-philosophy #philosophy #nothingness

Philosophy engines

The material processes for doing philosophy-speaking, gesturing, writing in alphabetic or ideogrammatic form, or in any symbol system-have a deep effect on…

Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy #philosophy #thinking #reasoning #Western-philosophy

Tiedemann's history of philosophy starts with the Greeks

The idea that philosophy has a uniquely Greek source and that everything prior to the Greeks is simply not philosophy finds its most powerful modern…

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A singular self without a singular thing

The unity we experience, which allows us legitimately to talk of ‘I’, is a result of the Ego Trick – the remarkable way in which a complicated bundle of…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #bundle-theory #unity #brain

A very persistent illusion

If the unified self is an illusion, it is a very persistent one.

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #illusion #unity