Michele Pasin / Quotes

Leadership as a right-brain art

Management, remember, is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right brain activity. It’s more of an art; it’s based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you’re dealing with personal leadership issues.

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#leadership #brain #philosophy

A benefit of the sep’s not being crowdsourced is that minority views get more exposure

Another benefit of the SEP’s not being crowdsourced is that minority views get more exposure. Wikipedia’s overview of feminist philosophy is hopelessly short…

This Free Online Encyclopedia Has Achieved What Wikipedia Can Only Dream Of #philosophy

A mistaken assumption

In view of this it should be clear that the widespread opinion according to which in medieval philosophy the sign was characterized by the “classical…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #concept #philosophy #signifying

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

Armchair necessities contradicted by facts

These arguments seem compelling, but attempts to work out from the armchair what is necessary for experience to be possible, as Cassam and Kant do, are always…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #philosophy #method #disorders #evidence

Augustine and the Stoics

In his incomplete early work, De Dialectica, Augustine massively draws on the terminology of the Stoic philosophy of language, though in many points…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #concept-of-sign #philosophy

Bacon's idols of the mind

La pars destruens, ovvero la "parte che distrugge", consiste nell'eliminare le antiche conoscenze errate, le quali non sono altro che illusioni. Bacone…

Metodo Baconiano - Wikipedia #natura #philosophy