The rufous hornero.
Category: philosophy
What’s the second rule, then?
The first rule is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
~Richard Phillips Feynman
A Treasure Trove of American Philosophy
Professor of philosophy John Kaag discovered an abandoned library in New Hampshire full of rare first edition books of the great works of Western philosophy, many of which were owned by quintessentially American thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James.
Via Art of Manliness (49:28)
Why philosophers could be the ones to transform your 2020
Long-dead thinkers from Socrates to Nietzsche are the latest hot property when it comes to self-help books. But can they really make effective gurus?
By Neil Armstrong @ BBC
Candide
Alan Watts on Aldous Huxley
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
(1:00:30)
Why is there some kind of religion in all human cultures?
Pascal Boyer, the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses how the organization of the human mind influences culture, specifically how religion is acquired and communicated. (28:26)
