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Blog 018, I have struggled to find something to write for this one as I am not ready to answer yet that big question; what image of man do see in our present times? One image that keeps occurring is that of our mortality, what that looks like in a world of ageing populations and

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To understand the origin of compassion care and concern we have to dispel an old myth. That myth being Group Selection. Group Selection was championed by V.C. Wynn-Edwards in 1960 and popularised by an American TV show “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom”. This is a misconception of the evolution of behaviour, Group selection was done

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Blog post 016 adapted form an essay I wrote in 2019. It is a bit of an annoyance to me that largely epistemologically speaking that knowledge is considered a subset of belief, in some manner that knowledge itself is uncertain rather than belief. That belief is considered a necessity to knowledge in the first I

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Reciprocity = Exchange Money what is supposed to be? Money functions in a society is to facilitate reciprocity in trade and labour, money is a tool of reciprocity. However it is true the only true currency is energy. Think what you do, you take the energy it takes to do something and reduce it to

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Blog 014. Finally having fully finished Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’, it truly is a profound and complex book, filling my mind full of image’s. It’s too like a road map for self-improvement or self-overcoming. Its one those books I had for a while and having read the preface I thought that was enough boy

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Blog 012, Theory of Aesthetic Mental Images. Aesthetic mental images play a large part in an animal’s behaviour.  In 1911 Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell presents a Christmas Day Lecture at The Royal Institution, Sir Peter was a zoologist of great weight and is a very respect figure. In his lecture he talked about a series

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Blog 011 so, what can philosophy suggest to help? well since around the time of the sceptics around 100 BCE Relativism, Scepticism, stoicism and more modern philosophy such as Pluralism and Pragmatism have tried to insist that man should not wholly invest themselves in ideology, that man should treat all new information sceptically and beware

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Blog 008. In Hegelian philosophy or thought: moral behaviour is that which maintains the ethical unit set up by society. Any ACT by an INDIVIDUAL on their own behalf is considered as without a moral aspect unless, it can be linked in fact or interaction to the greater wellbeing of society. So, in effect to

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Blog number 005; A Flight of Fancy, A Mortal Soul. To conceptualize life as an immortal being is very tuff indeed. Historically in my view we have missed the mark, conceptualization has never been very different to that of how man the mortal runs things. Too that is the nature of man, mortality, it is