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Is modern information technology fundamentally changing the way humans acquire and process knowledge?
It would appear that in the contemporary world, it is hardly necessarily for the individual to 'know' anything. Far more important is the ability to cull knowledge from readily available repositories ...
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why people idolize [closed]
Why people like to idolize something. What is the actual instinct in man that makes him greedy to worship something as if it is a holy and top priority. For example, people used to idolize temples. ...
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Is philosophy anthropocentric by definition?
Could all philosophical arguments have an anthropocentric bias, in the same way as a rational argument refers to the beliefs held by that person.
One could say that philosophy either is biased, or is ...
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Is it possible for something PERFECT to be created by humans?
Once in high school, a philosophy professor asked us the following question, as homework:
Is it possible for something perfect to be created by humans?
We were to discuss this question in the next ...
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literature and theories of man's encounter with himself
I am planning on writing a paper on what Sellars calls "the paradox of man's encounter with himself" (Sellars Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man 1962: 6). To quote Sellars in more detail:
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What would be the logical consequences of human will/nature being corrupt?
I'm have a question that I don't think is on topic over on Christianity.SE even though it is the exchanges in chat there constantly raise the issue. This is a kind of thought experiment.
"It is ...
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Would immortality be good or bad for humanity? [closed]
I had a flash after watching some videos of Dr Aubrey de Gray's researches on postponing aging indefinitely. According to him, it will be possible – in a near future – to cure aging process of every ...
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Philosophy of Boredom
"I am convinced that boredom is one
of the greatest tortures. If I were
to imagine Hell, it would be the
place where you were continually
bored" - Eric Fromm
Has there been any ...
