D.G. Philosophy

(note: when you study philosophy, critically, you can critically think) Feel free to share this on social media You’re welcome and you can all thank me later                                                                [Epic] Levels of ‘Woke’ “Basic bitch” level                Level -1 [modern western/American logic] Keep your mind occupied and do not think just focus on work and go out and make more money [to survive]. Level 0- Freedom Caucus/Tea Party [philosophy/ logic]: status quo (i.e. Bush made an honest mistake when he invaded Iraq). Level - Denial, projection, obfuscate, make excuses [logic]: “ Trump is going to make a g...

Responding to (An Annotation of): July 13, 2018- July 16, 2018 The Problem of Free Will (And How to Solve It) It has been many years since I have undertaken the matter of free will. Imagine yourself sitting on the jury for a courtroom trial of the infamous Neckbeard the Pirate. Looking over the list of charges, you see what appears to be quite the nefarious career: Looting, pillaging, extortion, raping, kidnapping, murdering… the list goes on and on. Not only that, but the defendant doesn’t even deny his actions. He confesses outright to every last crime, plus a few extra that didn’t even make the list. It seems to be a textbook open-and-shut case, except for an unusual plea. “Please don’t send me to prison!” says Captain Neckbeard. “I had no choice. You see, years ago, the Canadian government installed a microchip in my brain that forced me to do their evil bidding. It wasn’t really me who committed those horrible crimes. Here we encounter the issue of identity...

Figure I The Sphere of Politics The delirium of the world of the pure ideological is a space that is a construct however it is a space where opinions make more sense than logical facts. I hope that it comes to no surprise that facts are not always logically intuitive. For many individuals the subjectivity of political theory is fascinating. The power of the rhetoric of a political ideology can influence just about anything in the realm of the human civilization. Natural phenomena such as gravity and the seeming magic qualities of mathematics are out of the grasp of any human being. Part of the appeal of the hard sciences is that the rigour of physics is out of reach for a majority of ordinary people. This leaves physics in the hands of a select few. The pristine nature of the sciences makes the realms of mathematics and physics unappealing. In 2012 I realised how critical political science is. It occurred to me that politics is much...