Questions

The Most Important Question Seneca, Jesus, mysticism, and Consciousness. Maarten van Doorn9 min read

Fronteiras do Pensamento

Fronteiras do Pensamento

Zygmunt Bauman A benção e a maldição dos laços humanos O sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman reflete sobre os laços afetivos e a ambivalência de ter segurança ou liberdade.   Denis Mukwege Viver por uma causa O Nobel da Paz acredita que fazer o bem aos outros deve ser um objetivo diário para que a vida tenha mais sentido.               António Damásio "Há três palavras mágicas para o que vivemos: tragédia, incerteza e esperança" “A quantidade de perguntas é enorme enquanto as respostas são muito poucas”: em entrevista, o neurocientista António Damásio fala sobre a pandemia de coronavírus.       Edgar Morin As certezas são uma ilusão Redefinição de valores e prioridades e aceitação das incertezas: o filósofo Edgar Morin reflete sobre efeitos da pandemia global.               Siddhartha Mukherjee Como o coronavírus se comporta dentro de um paciente? "Contabilizamos a disseminação viral de uma pessoa para outra; agora, precisamos começar a contabilizá-las dentro das pessoas", propõe o biólogo e oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee.       Contardo Calligaris Coronavírus como metáfora Em epidemias permeadas por metáforas, o coronavírus representa a suspensão das fronteiras culturais e sociais. Confira a análise do psicanalista Contardo Calligaris sobre a pandemia que afeta a humanidade.

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Spinoza

Spinoza: Finding Freedom in Understanding The philosopher who inspired Einstein Steven Gambardella9 min read

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

Epictetus: There IS a handbook for life

The 1800-year-old handbook for a “tranquil flow of life”

Steven Gambardella Dec 29, 2018 · 8 min read

When we go through troubled times and we are faced with dilemmas, we are often consoled with the cliché “well, there’s no handbook for life.”

Except that there is. It was written in the second century and has been read as an accessible guide to living a good life ever since./.../

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Aristoteles: Property

Aristotle’s Defense of Private Property

Ownership inspires virtue, justice, and unity

Paul Meany

Aug 14

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Asan institution, private property has been critical in Western society and political thought. Modern capitalists defend private property merely on the grounds of efficiency. Socialists, on the other hand, tend to critique it.

Capitalists’ defense of private property rarely extends beyond a calculation of economic benefits. Many assert simply that there is no viable alternative to individual ownership. Private property, they contend, is just the best option within a set of subpar options. This argument, with its pessimistic tone, hardly inspires much love for the concept of private ownership./.../

But throughout history, numerous thinkers have robustly defended and justified the institution of private property: Cicero of ancient Rome, Thomas Aquinas of medieval Europe, and John Locke of the early modern period. The first extensive defense of private property comes from Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., and he believed there were more reasons than efficiency alone to endorse it.

posthumanisme

Le piège du posthumanisme

Mark Hunyadi, philosophe et collaborateur du «Temps», démasque la logique à l’œuvre derrière les promesses de l’homme augmenté

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Augmentation des facultés mentales et physiques, hybridation de l’homme et des machines, immortalité: c’est une vie éternelle, toute lisse au parfum d’huile de jojoba, que nous promettent une poignée d’ingénieurs, de techno-influenceurs et de futurologues réunis sous la bannière du posthumanisme. Les lendemains qui chantent? Ringard! Essayez plutôt le jour sans fin de l’humanité, une utopie dans laquelle tout le monde – ou du moins ceux qui se conforment aux impératifs technologiques – aura le loisir d’améliorer sans fin ses performances et celles de ses enfants par la sélection génétique et la robotisation de ses facultés. Et ce, jusqu’à ce que l’intelligence artificielle prenne le pas sur l’intelligence humaine, point de bascule appelé «singularité» et que Ray Kurzweil, ingénieur chef de Google, situe vers le milieu du XXIe siècle./.../

Walt Whitman on Democracy

Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance

“I can conceive of no better service… than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities and infinite corruptions of democracy.”

BY MARIA POPOVA

“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive,” Zadie Smith wrote in her spectacular essay on optimism and despair. The illusion of permanent progress inflicts a particularly damning strain of despair as we witness the disillusioning undoing of triumphs of democracy and justice generations in the making — despair preventable only by taking a wider view of history in order to remember that democracy advances in fits and starts, in leaps and backward steps, but advances nonetheless, on timelines exceeding any individual lifetime. Amid our current atmosphere of presentism bias and extreme narrowing of perspective, it is not merely difficult but downright countercultural to resist the ahistorical panic by taking such a telescopic view — lucid optimism that may be our most unassailable form of resistance to the corruptions and malfunctions of democracy.

otherness

Bear and Wolf: A Tender Illustrated Fable of Walking Side by Side in Otherness

Otherness has always been how we define ourselves — by contrast and distinction from what is unlike us, we find out what we are like: As I have previously written, we are what remains after everything we are not. But otherness can also be the most beautiful ground for connection — in slicing through the surface unlikenesses, we can discover a deep wellspring of kinship, which in turn enlarges our understanding of ourselves and the other. “The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion,” Mary Oliver wrote in her moving account of what saved her life. “Standing within this otherness… can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”/.../

Amartya Sen

Idea / Political Philosophy Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism Tim Rogan

De Platão a Foucault:

De Platão a Foucault: 136 curtas de animação para aprender tudo sobre filosofia, sociologia e política

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A empresa especializada em educação online Macat produziu uma série de animações curtas sobre as principais teorias de grande pensadores da humanidade. Ao todo, são 136 vídeos com duração de aproximadamente três minutos cada. Todos eles foram disponibilizados gratuitamente no canal da instituição no Youtube. Os temas abordados são bastante amplos, contemplando desde filosofia clássica, com os pensamentos de Platão e Aristóteles, até a filosofia moderna, de Foucault e Judith Butler.

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