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Have phenomenologists considered poetic subjectivities in their investigation of things-for-us?
Dylan Thomas the late Welsh poet said:
“A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe,
helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
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What are the reasons for human conflict? [closed]
In his "The French Revolution, a History", 3.3.II, Thomas Carlyle writes the following:
"for all battle is well said to be misunderstanding"
He is speaking in reference to the terrible conflict ...
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Do IQ tests measure intelligence?
Okay, I am kind of skeptical about IQ tests. I think they only measures the speed of a person's reasoning abilities as well as a small portion of knowledge (or just knowledge). I kind of think that ...
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What is the difference (if any) between Solipsism and subjective relativism
I have just come across these two "doctrines", from reading some online articles. After looking up their definitions on Wikipedia, I have to admit that they seem to be synonyms for the same concept.
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Are ethics subjective? [closed]
I made a claim that ethics are completely subjective; that there is no one correct answer to a question in the form of:
Is insert activity or behaviour here ethical or not?
It was suggested that I ...
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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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Did something improbable happen when I became conscious?
Let's take that person's subjective experience of the universe is given. If we take for example one particular person - lets say the person that is reasoning about this question (denoted with I in the ...
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Personhood and aims
Which philosopher originally proposed having "aims" or "intentions" as a condition of (moral) personhood?
I often see this used in discussions of abortion and euthanasia: e.g., "He does not have ...
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Can we regard the “mass subjectivity” as “objectivity”? [closed]
Imagine that 6 billion people of earth out of 7 billion population (almost 85%) think that a song is beautiful. In other words, 85% of the whole population, subjectively consider a song as being ...
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Which philosophers provide theories of subjectivity?
Which philosophers write about subjectivity? What are some primary sources for philosophical theories of subjectivity?
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Where does the notion of subjectivity break in the case of beauty? [closed]
Sometimes we say that beauty is subjective but it is also felt that it is not that subjective always.
Where does it break? Or is beauty always quite subjective?
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Are there philosophers who examined the reasons for believing in the existence of other people?
While I am familiar with Descartes and the oft-quoted idea, I think therefore I am, I am not familiar with any philosophy that actively sought to rationalize that anybody else exists.
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