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What did Kierkegaard consider to be “reflection”?
After mentioning Kierkegaard's leveling and mathematical equality concepts, this passage is quoted:
The individual no longer belongs to God, to himself, to his beloved, to his art or to his ...
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Is there a name for the philosophy of increasing happiness more than reducing it is the only moral good?
I recently answered this question on the ethical duty to help educate others, where I wrote:
I feel like if a person increases "happiness" more in his life then he
decreases the "happiness" then ...
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Is it fair to characterise Ayn Rands philosophy 'Objectivism' as a blending of Nietzsche's Übermensch and American individualism?
I said this to a friend once, but told her to keep it quiet as I couldn't back it up as I haven't read any of her works, nor even a solid introduction. I formed my snap judgement on the basis of a ...
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Can a person be Psychological Egoist and Ethical Egoist at the same time?
Can a person be Psychological Egoist and Ethical Egoist at the same time? Or those terms are not mutually exclusive and one can be both?
