philosophy

My (as of yet very briefly outlined) Philisophical Beliefs

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Aesthetics

• I am a believer that art has context (hence why I value originality) within the world and time, and is therefore not timeless, and should be viewed as such.
+However, originality is not part of why I consider certain aesthetics better than others. I appreciate Stockhausen's innovations in music, though I don't actually like a lot of it.
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General Views on Life and Stuff

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Here's an article on my general views on, to sound clichéd, life, the universe and everything.

-I'm a determinist, as in, I don't believe in human free will. Though its true that there are natural processes that are inherently undeterministic, human free will is deterministic. Atleast unless someone shows that quantum mechanics is involved in brain activity such that decisions become indeterministic. I feel that the belief in the soul, in free will, and in ego are inherently related and lead to each other.

Philosophy 202: Knowledge (Part 1) - Sorts, Values and Disvalues

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Contents:

Introduction
Section 1: Sorts of knowledge
Section 2: Ends (values) and disvalues of knowledge
Appendix: The Three Groups in this article

Introduction

This article is the first in a group of five about knowledge. It outlines the sorts of knowledge and the positive and negative values of knowledge.

The three articles after this one expand upon the positive and negative values.

My Answers to Some Philosophical Questions

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PLEASE NOTE: The questions are not my questions. They were asked by others and I have tried to answer them. I will be adding more from time to time. Criticisms and/or further questions are welcome.

Why Can't We All Get Along?

We are all members of various groups - ranging through families, clubs, social classes, states, nations, religions, 'races'.

Philosophy 302a: Philosophy of Mathematics [under construction]

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Please note that this is still largely an outline of the intended article.

"When you make the mistake of adding the date to the right side of the accounting statement, you must add it to the left side too" - Accountant's maxim

"Form follows function" - Architect's maxim

"Measure twice, cut once" - Carpenter's maxim.

"I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea." - Frank Wilczek (1951 - )

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Mathematics the product

Section n: Sorts of maths
Section n: Analyses of the sorts of

Philosophy 213: Postmodernism [under deconstruction]

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Contents

Introduction

Section n: The eras of Western thought and their orientations
Section n: (G1a) The rejection of meaning
Section n: (G1b) The rejection of self
Section n: (G2) The rejection of reason
Section n: (G3) The rejection morality
Section n: Why you should reject postmodernism
Section n: How to recognize a postmodernist

Introduction

The new skepticism

Section n: The eras of Western thought and their orientations

This section offers an extremely potted history of Western thought according to the chronic and metaphysical orientations of each era.

The p

Philosophy 205a: Change [under construction]

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Contents

Introduction

Section n: Stasis and change
Section n: Entities subject to change
Section n: Modes of change
Section n: Orientations of change
Section n: Change and the individual
Section n: Change and groups
Section n: Change and the totality

Introductiom

The concept of change is clearly a very important one, yet philosophy has never come to grips with it in any very comprehensive or satisfactory way. The present essay is an attempt to work towards a synopsis of the concept of change.

Philosophy 304A: Philosophy of Art (Part 1) - Art the Product [under construction]

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Contents

Introduction: Art the Product

Section 1: Sorts of artwork
Section 2: Analyses of the sorts of artwork
Section 3: Theories of the nature of artworks
Section 3a: Sorts of pictorial representation
Section 3b: Artistic content, form and context
Section 3c: Sorts of accentuation in artworks
Section 4: Artworks and ethics (right and wrong regarding artworks)

Appendix A: Representation and the number scales
Appendix B: The Three Groups in this topic

Introduction

Section 1: Sorts of Artwork

G1: Autographic artworks.