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Believing in the Greatest Value of Human as a way to God:

http://ludstvo.org.ua/doctrine_en.…

What do you think about this new religion?

Hello everyone,

I doubt this is the right place to post this so I apologize if it's wrong.

I recently applied for graduate programs in philosophy all over the US. I realized at some point that I was doing about an hour of research a day and just storing it for myself. This seemed a bit on the selfish side so I decided that I would publish my findings on this blog. This blog is my research into how to survive as a career philosopher.

http://philosorapters.blogspot.com/


This blog is designed to keep you updated on professional news and movements in philosophy today, trolled from many site over the internet.
Firstly, particular focus is on the professional aspects of philosophy such as how to create a good C/V, prepare ones application, Publish papers, and understand hiring practices.
Secondly, I'm also quite interested in why philosophy, specifically critical thinking, is not taught in high school, and other issues in the profession.


I will be posting my findings that I think could be beneficial to other undergrads, graduates as well as post-doc students.

Please feel free to comment, criticize, or suggest research material.

Yet again, I apologize if this is posted in the wrong place,

I hope this blog might help philosophy students prepare for the job market if that is where they want to go.

All the best,

William Parkhurst
http://philosorapters.blogspot.com/

Well it seems like this society is dead and no one is interested in philosophy any more. Is it really so?

Hi friends,
If you like philosophy, ethics, and asking questions about what is the best way to live our lives, you will like this!

In the last few months, I've been reading the famous book "The Meditations," by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He was one of the main followers of Stoic philosophy, a practical way of living that was the most popular philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman world, centuries before Christianity.

Not only was Marcus one of the most powerful people in the world at the time (about AD 200), he was also known for his integrity and incorruptibility. Few emperors have been like Marcus, close to Socrates' ideal of the "philosopher-king."

"The Meditations" is a wonderful and thoughtful book of Stoic "spiritual exercises" that Emperor Marcus wrote only for himself, to improve his self-discipline. The Stoics were big on strong emotional and mental self-control.

If you or anyone you know is dealing with disaster or misfortune, feels trapped, is depressed, has anger management problems, or who gets easily upset---"The Meditations" has very wise advice that may really help! It teaches you how to resist pain and stay calm throughout any kind of disasters. Maybe now we would call it "cognitive behavioral therapy."

"The Meditations" is not perfect, and I strongly disagree with some parts of it. Yet leaders from politics, business, and the military have read it for centuries with great inspiration. Bill Clinton says he rereads it every year. I feel that Barack Obama, who always seems calm and cool through any disasters or stress, lives in a Stoic way. Whether you are religious or not, you may profit from its wisdom. It's a very practical book.

I've actually read not one, but TWO top translations of "The Meditations" (Hicks and Hays)! My favorite one is by Hicks. It's the clearest.

Since we all are short on time, I've cut and paraphrased the best parts of both translations into one document. It took a few months. I've cut 185 pages to 35.

Here is my condensed version of "The Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius! You may read it in 3 ways:

http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~r… (HTML)
http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~r… (Word document)
http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~r… (Kindle/Mobipocket ebook)

Enjoy. Let me know what you think.

Hello, friends.

As the previous maintainer of this community—atacuivel—has graciously granted me maintainership over this community, I am inviting those who are interested to join a newer community I have created called sign_studies. This community will promote semiotic study, the study of signs and semiosis (sign-action, sign-processes). Semiotics offers an inherently interdisciplinary field of inquiry, as well as a perspective that should appeal to anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, phenomenology, cognition, communication, meaning, language, etc., so I hope to attract a diverse group of intelligent and reflective thinkers. Please peruse the community profile for more info.

Since learnphilosophy has been rather inactive of late, I also encourage members to post. Right now.

Your friendly, neighborhood moderator,
Stephen (essius)

Hello all,

As research assistants in Harvard's Cognitive Evolution Lab, we're conducting a study on the psychology of moral decision making. To help us out, you can take either (or both) of our brief (<10 minute) surveys (which are accessible here: http://rivanathans.googlepages.com… and here: http://rivanathans.googlepages.com…) and send them to us via e-mail. Full instructions can be found in the text of each survey.

Thanks so much to all those who participate!

Regards,
Jay Musen and Riva Nathans

This  is experimental direction in a science and the literature through merge of poetry and a science (philosophy). This direction did not exist till now in the pure state. Earlier there was a direction in poetry? Philosophical poetry (Empedocl, V. Solovyov, M.Voloshin, I.Brodsky, O.Khajyam, etc.), but did not exist directions in a science of philosophy?  in  rhyrm philosophical gamble. One of representatives of German classical philosophy F.Schelling, named a similar direction didactic poetry.

The method of rhyming of philosophical positions is entered for popularization and generalization of philosophical questions which arise in connection with disclosing of the basic concepts describing surrounding and a private world of the person. Therefore, in any way it is impossible to name poetry and verses Poesophy, even, in spite of the fact that externally poeses (so I name each separate product in Poesophy) Are similar to verses. In the Poesophy I try to reflect where probably to generalize, and in process of intellectual opportunities to develop, ideas of representatives of philosophy and a science since the most ancient times (an ancient philosophy, and ancient religious doctrines) finishing modern concepts of a postmodernism and poststructuralism and existentialism, not passing thus medieval and German classical philosophy, sociology, Russian historiosophy, and scientific divinity.

By means of poeses, in a cycle Poesophy, I have tried to open such concepts close to everyone person as: time, essence, authority, money, value, conscience, kindly, the true, system, etc. Poesophy is difficult for perception, however it is calculated on the people who are not having intellectual taste to metaphysics in the classical (is textual-speculative) form and to whom it would be reasonably interesting will familiarize with philosophical gamble in more accessible and popular (art) form. Section? Поэсофия? It will be probably interesting to such segment of the reader which is inclined to search for the classical maintenance in the new form.

               I think that Poesophy may be intresting for the mass auditory, and I want to offer you the partnership for publishing of Poesophy. It published in internet in Russian edition (http://www.stihi.ru/readers.html?m…), and it published on paper forms in Russia.

 

Authority

 

The authority

The authority this aspiration of force,

will is force of aspiration -

force releases will.

The law of freedom a criterion,

and imperous will forces the expression,

regulate the will under authority.

Authority through value - possession,

value through authority - management.

The order bears authority to people,

people aspires to run into the chaos.

Outside of authority the will is freedom,

but without freedom will - authority.

 

 

Money

 

Money it is a crack,

between authority and freedom -

the authority in money is released.

Incomes for money the purpose,

means for authority - charges,

in authority of money are enthralled.

The price as weight of cost – to finance,

The cost as weight of the price – to Invest.

The price of freedom - the sum of all money

 and cost – zero of nothing.

The purpose of money to save up authority to itself,

the purpose of authority to save up another of money.

 

 

Kind

 

The kind  is a pardons consequence,

love the reason of pardon-

it  fondle to an evil.

The evil  is a  revenge’s action,

hate is  the reason of the revenge-

it is indifferent to kind.

Kind as means of a revenge – evil,

evil  as means of clarification - goods.

We come to following true –

in a pardon kindly and a victim  one:

outside of a pardon kindly - unselfishness,

but in a victim unselfishness - kind.

 

 

True

True is a of all points of view

a mirror curve,

the truth and lie in it are deformed:

the first turns in exact

a mirror reflected second –

the true arising revives.

If the reflected truth - the validity,

the reflected lie – the  visibility.

True in moral meaning,

only as the love sensed:

outside of true the truth - error,

but sincerity in the truth -  true.

 

Space

A space is a hole

among themselves and infinity.

External in a hole fails,

and with internal becoming enen

by  eternity - the space extends.

Inside of a thing space - materiality,

outside of a thing space - importance.

In time space that,

as soul in eternity an empire –

in space emptiness - nothing,

but time as a nothing -  space.

 

Nothing

 

Nothing is not something,

really or probably,

in being transcendentally exist.

Being absent itself in eternal,

reflects existence in false,

denying itself attracting.

Nothing as essence of denying - darkness,

nothing as denying of essence - emptiness.

If the border is reflection

of finiteness in eternity:

time as essence is change,

but time as existence - nothing.

 

 

Being

 

Being is a presence of everything,

at forms of the limited matter,

and at the maintenance of ideal infinity.

The knowledge defines being

as a reality in four measurements

existing between nothing and eternity.

The God without being - everything,

all without the God - nothing.

The eternity is true outside of duration

of the nature that, existing, does not live.

The Universe as essence is the validity,

 the nature as the existence – being.

 

 

 

 

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Time

 

Time is something an average  between

that the friend the friend is pregnant:

movement and an idea.

The first the last the clothes called time,

dresses in sense.

Temporariness inside of sense - moves,

immovable in sense - It is thought.

I also do the conclusion

that time is think of a seed:

outside of an idea time - movement,

but in an idea movement - time.

 

 

Read all my Baltasar Gracián posts.

Today, I start a long project on my blog. Over the next months, I plan to gradually post the entire book, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia), by Baltasar Gracián. Even though he wrote it in 1647, his wisdom, wit, and practical advice on living sound unbelievably modern.

He should provoke some lively discussions here (and on my blog), if you guys are willing to have them.

Many have translated this book from Spanish. The versions I own and like best are by Christopher Maurer (1992) and Joseph Jacobs (1892, but modernized in 1993 by Shambhala Publications).

You may read both the full Christopher Maurer version and the full Shambhala version here. I will post BOTH versions daily on my blog. Enjoy!

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Book flap

"Throughout the centuries, mankind has produced three great, timeless wisdom books: Machiavelli's The Prince, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and Baltasar Gracián's The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle....

[It] was written 300 years ago by one of Spain's greatest writers---a worldly Jesuit scholar and keen observer of many in positions of power. Gracián's work draws on careful study of statesmen and potentates who managed to combine ethical behavior with worldly effectiveness. Each of the elegantly crafted maxims in this volume offers valuable insight on the art of living and the practice of achieving.

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Introduction

The Art of Worldly Wisdom [AOWW] is a book of strategies for knowing, judging, and acting: for making one's way in the world and achieving distinction and perfection. It is a collection of 300 aphorisms too delicious not to share with friends and colleagues, too penetrating not to hide from enemies and rivals. Its ideal reader is someone whose daily occupation involves dealing with others: discovering their intentions, winning their favor and friendship, or defeating their designs and "checkmating their will." Like all aphorisms, these are meant to be read slowly, a few at a time....

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All of Baltasar Gracián's 300 aphorisms:

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