BlogHide Resteemsdmt117 (25)in introduction • 6 years agoIntroductoryThe convention is to write a post introducing yourself. I've been struggling with an approach to doing that. I could write about my life - where I've been, what I've done, but that's a long way…dmt117 (25)in philosophy • 6 years agoAristotle's Rational AnimalAristotle famously describes man as a rational animal. We may not appreciate the depths of Aristotle's view if we interpret him within the modern evolutionary categories that are our default…dmt117 (25)in philosophy • 6 years agoSam Harris and Free WillImage Source Tooling around youtube I came along this video of an exercise Sam Harris offered as a practical refutation of free will. The exercise Harris advocates is essentially this: He asks you…dmt117 (25)in philosophy • 6 years agoChesterton and Original SinFrom the introduction to "The Defendant" in the collection of essays In Defense of Sanity : This is the great fall, the fall by which the fish forgets the sea, the ox forgets the meadow, the…
