Thunking out loud.

[jvar]

So the queen of overthinking has a book of how people think in her hands. These are just some notes I'm taking for thinks I want to have.

• Reality isn't centered around people. Consider objectionable and disgusting things within this context.


• Subdivisions of Philosophy: Ontology (being), epistomology (knowing), ethics (acting)


• Monists believe that the world is all connected into a single whole. In the world of physics, isn't this M-theory?


• Famous monists: Thales said the world is made of water, Anazimenes said the world is made of air, and Heraclitus said the world is made of fire. This sounds poetically pagan.

Comments

[specialagentm.livejournal.com]

What's the name of the book? Sounds fascinating.

[takarosa.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy. I wanted a primer to help me decide which camp I was aligned with for additional reading.

Interestingly, while reading it, I remembered a course I took back in college that I had forgotten about and dug up the textbook. The text is Logic and Philosophy by Howard Kahane. And that brought me right back around to my perennial favorite, Goedel, Escher & Back by Douglas Hofstadter.

[specialagentm.livejournal.com]

Oh no, a Complete Idiots Guide sounds perfect for me. I tend to believe that at best, I know how deeply ignorant I am :-). I'll keep that in mind.

[kitchenalchemy.livejournal.com]

cute and sexy.