Philosophical Dictionary
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Aesthetics and morals: do we morally prefer what we perceive as beautiful?
By Markus Uehleke
We explain philosophy memes so you actually know why you're laughing. -
Society of Control: What Deleuze Saw Coming After Foucault’s Panopticon
By Markus Uehleke
In 1990 Gilles Deleuze wrote five pages arguing that Foucault’s disciplinary society was already ending. Prisons and factories were giving way to codes, access cards, endless training and debt. What did he mean by dividuals, why does the panopticon meme get Foucault backwards, and was Deleuze right? -
Schopenhauer and Hinduism: The Upanishads, Moksha and the Denial of the Will
By Markus Uehleke
Schopenhauer called the Upanishads the solace of his life and put them next to Kant and Plato. He read them in Latin, via Persian, and built an ethics of renunciation that sounds a lot like moksha. Did he borrow his philosophy from India, and why does the meme about sex and the will to live get him right? -
The philosophy of a chair: Ok, but have you tried to define definition yet?
By Markus Uehleke
We explain philosophy memes so you actually know why you're laughing. -
Philosophers don't answer questions ...
By Markus Uehleke
We explain philosophy memes so you actually know why you're laughing. -
It's not hoarding when it's books
By Markus Uehleke
We explain philosophy memes so you actually know why you're laughing.
