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  • What is the essence of man?

    What is the essence of man?

    By Markus Uehleke

    What is specific to humans? We explain the different views of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche concerning the philosophical question: what is man? To illustrate this we use a philosophy meme. Read more about it on our philosophy blog.
  • Inherent in all beginnings is a sense of delusion

    Inherent in all beginnings is a sense of delusion

    By Markus Uehleke

    We reflect here on the disparity between statistical data collection and the actually philosophical field of human cognition.