Greek gods were assholes, which might explain the rise of rationality and the birth of Western philosophy there. And also Plato.
Do listen to episode 109 of The Seen and the Unseen, where I am joined by philosopher Rebecca Goldstein (@platobooktour): https://t.co/O4OshZh2yb
https://twitter.com/amitvarma/status/1099879059767611394?s=19
"I will go out on a limb and say you cannot properly understand Plato unless you have read some Heraclitus and Parmenides and thought hard about them."
Dr Angie Hobbs (@drangiehobbs) recommends the best works of presocratic philosophy. #ancientphilosophy
https://t.co/yJkTUMhm5Z
"You must explain what it is for a life to have value: until you can do that your ethical theories are empty and void."
MM McCabe, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at King's College London, picks the best books on Socrates.
https://t.co/a3jh94DWwU
"How can we show whether the happiest life is going to be the just life or the unjust life? If we’re going to try to answer that about the individual mind or soul, let’s look at the city in big letters, like a model for the soul."
The best books on #Plato https://t.co/Kq5pz0hVbP
The Best Books on Aristotle, chosen by @edithmayhall, author of Aristotle's Way @five_books https://t.co/oqMtYuymQL
"Philosophers, and in particular the Stoics, were persecuted by several Roman emperors. They really didn’t like this constant reminder that you should be doing better than you are doing."
@mpigliucci looks at classical #stoicism and its modern resurgence. https://t.co/br6vIcPx7U
"First of all, outside the New Testament, St Augustine is the most influential person in Western Christianity by far. Secondly, he was a wonderful, wonderful writer & a deeply passionate man." https://t.co/RhNxEaUcCH
"If you go back to Hume, Locke or Descartes, you find that they weren’t writing for professionals in university, they were writing for their educated peers. Every educated mind should be engaged with the great questions."
A C Grayling: Ideas That Matter https://t.co/Y5Qi1S3bEm
"Kant is interested in the limits to what we can know; he’s interested in the limits to what we can use pure reason to ascertain; he’s interested in the limits to what we can even think about."
Professor Adrian Moore recommends the best books on #Kant
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"I think it’s the greatest work of philosophy ever written by anybody. And I’ve worked on Plato, Aristotle, Descartes; I teach Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant; and I have studied Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein."
Stephen Houlgate makes the case for #Hegel. https://t.co/jAv31iI4Dh
"It’s a mistake to think you could read Marx as a scientist or an economist without understanding the Hegelian framework of his thought. That’s why I chose to begin with Hegel."
@PeterSinger examines the best works of 19th century philosophy.
https://t.co/shChi3Go9c
“Much of what Marx was doing has similarities with what we do in political writing today, which also involves a lot of parody and satire. ”
The best books on Marx & Marxism, a #readinglist by Terrell Carver (@TerrellCarver) https://t.co/6MjtEXTpgI
“There’s something powerfully repulsive about Nietzsche”: Simon Critchley (@CritchleyUpdate) introduces the landscape of continental philosophy #WorldPhilosophyDay #readinglist https://t.co/9VcIfZ7LZj
“Those who by-pass Wittgenstein do so to their own detriment, for they are neglecting the most original philosopher of our times."
Professor Peter Hacker examines the life and thought of Ludwig #Wittgenstein https://t.co/zC912hRVGI
"One of the great oversights when we talk about classical American philosophy is not noticing how brilliant Margaret Fuller was. Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe all considered her probably the most intelligent woman of their day."
John Kaag on US Philosophy. https://t.co/1vyUmbF33t
"I think that pragmatism is a philosophical movement that dominates philosophy in America from the early 1900s to the present day, and that Quine sits very prominently in the story."
From CS Peirce to WV Quine, Prof. Robert Talisse examines pragmatism. https://t.co/XQq5G4L51N
"Mengzi offers a conception of human nature, the virtues, and ethical cultivation that is a plausible alternative to Aristotle."
Offering a corrective to parochial philosophy departments, @BryanVanNorden discusses the best works of world philosophy
https://t.co/6UvI48A58M
"Metaphysics came back. It reappeared sometime in the 1960s or 70s and now it’s one of the dominant areas of philosophy and people are just doing metaphysics unashamedly," says @timcrane102 https://t.co/pNcphYG4Yq
"In chemistry you might learn about different kinds of chemical changes. In metaphysics you ask ‘What is change? How is change possible?’"
Philosopher Tim Crane demystifies the field of analytic metaphysics. https://t.co/eHqWwFg9rG
"I don’t see the subject as restricted to nerdy philosophical papers in refereed journals. Some of the most important contributions have been literary."
British philosopher Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) picks the best introductions to philosophy. https://t.co/144ZVaPrRz
"We mustn’t assume that our intuitive picture of the mind is correct. If we want to understand the mind as it really is, then we must go beyond armchair reflection and engage with the science of the mind and brain."
@keithfrankish on philosophy of mind.
https://t.co/6hELskg1W0
“Imagine how you would design society if your enemy were to decide your place in it”
Jonathan Wolff of the @BlavatnikSchool on what he considers to be the five best works of political philosophy. https://t.co/2IFxokQFce
"Darwin's idea, that the same processes occurring slowly and steadily today also have been active throughout Earth history, slowly but steadily shaping the landscape, is known as uniformitarianism."
Happy Darwin Day. Here's @adammaloof on Earth History: https://t.co/FiapqPLw33
ICYMI: Once every 10,000 years, a black hole in a galaxy reveals itself by ripping apart a passing star. These tidal disruption events have given astronomers a new way to map the hidden cosmos. https://t.co/R3NughPo2h
https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1100131572584513537?s=19
Virgin Galactic reaches space again – this time with a passenger https://t.co/k9SGi3SOYm https://t.co/qR2NVxrvJN
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1100129925779075072?s=19
Victoria-ORF Kolkata inter-university debate — Has social media opened up the public space? https://t.co/2IGgix1mf7 https://t.co/YxQ2POqlq7
https://twitter.com/orfonline/status/1100130816582172672?s=19
Social science researchers who want to study the internet in India using data mining and analytic techniques are challenged by constraints in #access, and the availability of #bigdata https://t.co/eIZ8HxrEoy
https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1100130816028434433?s=19
Indian literature and Indian Philosophy both will flourish by embracing the ideas of "Yeats". - Prof. Margaret Mills Harper @MakrandParanspe https://t.co/TqA5GGVQmc
https://twitter.com/ShimlaIias/status/1099931679488118785?s=19
Because she inspires lust and sexuality in men, she rules over childbirth and midwives. She is lust, which is not seen as bad or sinful in Nahua, or Aztec philosophy, but rather as something potentially dangerous and disordering. Rather, sex and sexuality are sacred. https://t.co/TVbAeKwU6i
https://twitter.com/MiCorazonMexica/status/1100139393367433216?s=19
Tlazolteotl, who is also known as Ixquina, the Filth Eater. She is the Teotl of disorder, of trash, of chaos and excess. However, she is also rules over sexuality. She is unordered nature, which is what is meant by Tlazolli; she represents chaos which awaits order. https://t.co/fNK66qP8l1
the Orchid and the rOse: Bruno Ganz, Gary Gutting, and Roderick MacFarquhar https://t.co/aWwcgyZYJQ
Because Thou Art: Art ought to be an enabler https://t.co/K7AWNqsMTC
Savitri Era: I won't allow anyone to wash my feet https://t.co/BeOE0J36sm by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar
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