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Phenomenology as useful turbo-autism
I was reading the Heraclitus fragments this weekend, and luckily my pdf had the Greek alongside English. Fragment 10 says "Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ", which was translated as "Things keep their secrets". My Greek knowledge, despite being ... posted 4d ago with 2 replies philosophy bookclub learning

Phenomenology as use

You should check out THE ART AND THOUGHT OF HERACLITUS by Kahn. Lots of commentary on Heraclitus filters his fragments through Aristotle and other later philosopher's interpretation. Kahn attempts a purely textual exegesis which attempts to reconstruct Her... 11h ago

You should check out

Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us.... posted 1y ago with 28 replies meta philosophy lifestyle

Welcome to Sofie Cha

Thank you for creating this site - it's tiring having to find good discussions on twitter or 4chan without it devolving into babbling chimps hurling shit at each other & calling others Jewish. 1w ago

Thank you for creati

Is Unitarianism the true religion of the coming civilization?
Jefferson didn't quite get the dates right, but I offer the provocation that he was right in spirit about Unitarianism. Unitarianism takes the best of the Christian tradition and broader European philosophical tradition, and unifies and purifies it of supe... posted 4w ago with 27 replies philosophy gnon theology

Is Unitarianism the

You are right about these things. I will attempt what you have specified. But i'm still lacking two things: a good hook, and "what's the point". We can be as right as we like about philosophy and so on but if there isn't some actual operational program tha... 2w ago

You are right about

A Hidden Gem
One of the reasons I am posting here is to discover some hidden gems that cannot be found easily elsewhere on the web.... (www.sscnet.ucla.edu) posted 1y ago with 9 replies philosophy bookclub

A Hidden Gem

Othmar Spann is a hidden gem i've been working through recently, he's overlooked in the Continental tradition but a great companion piece to Spengler, Hegel, and Yockey. One of the few Catholic writers in the Germanic Continental tradition, even more rare ... 2w ago

Othmar Spann is a hi

The Hellenic View of Existential Risk
When I was a teen, I read much of the Less Wrong and the rationalist work of the day. This provided the basis for a vague worry surrounding "existential risk." The feeling was pervasive, and I would read works about the dangers of AI or other technology to... posted 3mo ago with 10 replies technology rationality philosophy

The Hellenic View of

I think in this discussion, as well as the places where I generally see this particular kind of critique of EA and x-risk come up, there's a conflation of two intertwined but separable core issues. The first is the factual risk of irreparable damage to the... 3w ago

I think in this disc

Pitching a pro-family culture
I'm building a company, although I'm bootstrapped solo right now. I want it to be the most pro-family culture in the world.... posted 1mo ago with 8 replies philosophy startups

Pitching a pro-famil

I'm with the other anon >>3068 on advising against just training the kids into company-starting bourgeois mode of being. The interesting thing would be something closer to an Asian-style industrial conglomerate: take care of your people in their whole live... 1mo ago

I'm with the other a

the correct lesson from western civilizational decline
https://buttondown.com/tZero19e/archive/why-the-west-declines-will-inevitably-die-and/ posted 2mo ago with no replies philosophy

the correct lesson f

Just how alien would the space-octopus be?
It's hard to say what a true alien species would be like. But octopi are pretty alien, and we know a bit about them. One of you doubted that a space-octopus from alpha centauri would be much like us. So here is a xenohumanist thought experiment: SETI has i... posted 2mo ago with 5 replies sociology philosophy intelligence

Just how alien would

intelligent super-ants make a good thought experiment. Let's add the standard set of capabilities: language, learned culture, tool use, fire, reflection, etc. Note these are just capabilities, not values or arbitrary architectural narrowings, but they are ... 2mo ago

intelligent super-an

The devil's argument against the falseness of eden, and God's reason for evil
I have been bothered for some time by the idea that Eden is either coherent or desirable. This idea is implicit in the problem of evil: we see that reality is different from Eden in that it includes a bunch of scary dangerous uncomfortable stuff we would r... posted 3mo ago with 6 replies philosophy accelerationism metaphysics

The devil's argument

The point of the story isn't that the devil is good or even that the devil was right. It’s that this creation (physical reality) is the good one, the pain in it is part of a greater plan and beauty, and the paradise imagined by bronze age semites is fake... 2mo ago

The point of the sto

Xenohumanism Against Shoggoth Belief
People usually think of Lovecraft as a xenophobe. I don't think that's quite right. What he was most afraid of was that the universe, and even most of so-called mankind, was not alien, but insane. He grasped at any shred of higher rational humanity whether... posted 3mo ago with 3 replies rationality philosophy accelerationism

Xenohumanism Against

We need a school of true anthropology. 3mo ago

We need a school of

Who's the next political philosopher?
From x dot com:... posted 12mo ago with 2 replies politics philosophy

Who's the next polit

I was surprised that Byung-Chul Han, named last month "the internet's new favorite philosopher" wasn't mentioned, but I suppose one can be buzzy in one part of the internet without attracting the attention of another. Maybe he is not a "political philosoph... 12mo ago

I was surprised that

The beach is the only place of enjoyment that the human species has discovered in nature.
I went to the beach today and wanted to write about it. I don’t have a manifesto. The beach makes me feel good.... posted 12mo ago with 4 replies philosophy lifestyle health

The beach is the onl

I have not read Lefebvre, but it sounds similar to thoughts I've had. The beach, the real one out there on the coast and not just some piece of watery sand on the local waterway, is a little slice of titanic permanently wild landscape. Civilization can't r... 12mo ago

I have not read Lefe

Learning from the Other/making sense of the past: Zhang Jingsheng's utopia of German aestheticism and Confucian statecraft
It seems to me that there have been several conversations here lately that circle back to the idea of lessons from the Other as one part of progress. It seems to come down to the idea that America, embarking on its own Century of Humiliation, or at least i... posted 13mo ago with 1 reply ideology philosophy history

Learning from the Ot

There would also be a complicated quasi-religious system put in place. He is against feudal superstitions, and imagines instead a system of belief based on aesthetics. He calls for the construction of temples devoted to the cultivation and worship of aesth... 13mo ago

There would also be

Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion II
Our reading this time was chapter IV, The Buffer Fringe. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read that chapter.... posted 14mo ago with 3 replies philosophy history bookclub

Tragedy and Hope Rea

I think there is a tendency in parts of the dissident right to look for some "outside" source to blame for woke ideas, and I often wondered whether or not they are correct. But the discussion of the ideology of the Round Table group made it clear to me tha... 14mo ago

I think there is a t

Based Japanese Education
A few months ago, I encountered one of the most based tweets that I have ever seen. My Japanese is mediocre, so this is largely a machine translation, but I will try to do her writing and the classical poetry justice.... (twitter.com) posted 14mo ago with 6 replies philosophy history education

Based Japanese Educa

There are a few guess for the time of the composition, possibly after the poet was discharged from his duties by the emperor in 744. It would match the mood. I like this version in Taiwanese Hokkien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuUz0NZJtg.... 14mo ago

There are a few gues

On Religion
IMO, the #1 insight I've absorbed from our general sphere is a far better grasp of the holistic significance of religion and theology within human society. In this regard, I found Wolf's article on Abraham especially insightful. I especially owe him for hi... posted 1y ago with 13 replies politics philosophy theology

On Religion

Glorious. Right on. With respect to the other transcendentals, I've recently been thinking the way we should launch this philosophical movement is radicalizing around the natural law ("The Idea") operationalization of Truth. Beauty is very charismatic, but... 1y ago

Glorious. Right on.

Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
Some of you may have already seen this piece; I think it’s worth revisiting following the book club. In it Nietzsche offers more details on the relation between tyrant/warrior and philosopher/artist in the ancient Greek polis. It’s another of his early... posted 1y ago with 5 replies ideology philosophy nietzsche

Nietzsche - Homer's

Yeah there's a phase shift with Plato to philosophy as a self-conscious program and type, with a politics. Alamariu points out tyranny and proto-philosophy existed for a while pre-plato, but true philosophy only really comes into being with xenophon and th... 1y ago

Yeah there's a phase

on facing death
how should one face death? the two common/standard answers i see are to ignore death entirely, which i think is the atheistic standard, with doctors avoiding being frank about a patient's death and schools never really bringing it up, and few people thinki... posted 2y ago with 17 replies philosophy lifestyle

on facing death

I think when i was a bugman atheist I was secretly terrified of death, that was the root cause of extropianism/transhumanism/radical life extensionism... it's just fear of death.... 2y ago

I think when i was a

Don't be a fat.
posted 2y ago with 12 replies philosophy lifestyle health

Don't be a fat.

Dieting beyond what is comfortable for your digestion seems much more energetically taxing than simply increasing your activity, which actually *builds* your energy. The human body is a perfect example of a structure that becomes more, not less powerful th... 2y ago

Dieting beyond what

Ideology is not for arguing or justifying. It is for living.
A forum is an ideological thunderdome in which we can train the martial art of ideology.... posted 2y ago with 9 replies politics ideology philosophy

Ideology is not for

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