On Personal Thoughts About Personal Epistemology
The Mad Stoic Blog
by JCorter
4y ago
There are, to my mind, only two ways of understanding the world: the senses and our reasoning. About our senses, we know of our basic ones: touch, smell, hearing, ect. The foundations of understanding the world with our body. To this list, I also include our emotions. We feel them, sometimes rather deeply. Our reasoning is how we understand the world with our mind. With this, we can build the foundation of our personal philosophies. It’s also elusive. We can’t sense our reasoning. Sometimes, our reasoning can invoke emotions, but that doesn’t mean we are sensing our reason. Part of the deba ..read more
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On Pandemics and Reacting to Them
The Mad Stoic Blog
by JCorter
4y ago
The Mad Stoic has been sleeping for a while. Let me check the news here… Oh. Pandemic. Huh. Perfect. OK, so the world is in a handbasket going to hell at the moment, so now seems a good time to come back to the blog. It’s only been… well, some time. I’ll not figure it out. And what a hell of a journey I’ve been on myself. But more on that some other time. Why don’t we look at how the world is and what we can do about it. Current State of the World It seems like half the world is panicking and the other half is acting like this is a hoax or overblown. This puts a Stoic in an i ..read more
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