Category: Conscience
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Soul a Mere Life-Principle? How then Explain Conscience?
Aristotle, and following him Aquinas, thinks of the soul as the life-principle of a living body, that which animates the body's matter. A natural conception, but a dubious one, as it seems to me, one not up to the task of accounting for conscience. We humans are not just alive, we are also conscious both…
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Conscience, Brain, and Scientistic Pseudo-Understanding
Substack latest. If nothing else, philosophy is prophylaxis against infection by scientistic pseudo-understanding. Take the jab! Boosters to follow.
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Rely on Conscience
In matters moral, reason is weak, easily suborned by the passions, given to rationalization, and easily entangled in the threads of its own dialectic. Reason is not to be despised but not quite reliable. In matters moral, it is better to rely on conscience. This advice rests on two presuppositions. One is that conscience is…
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“My Conscience is Clear”
You deceive yourself : you cleared it when you should have borne its burden and bite, the just tax for your wrongdoing.
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The Enigmatic B. Traven and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Substack latest.
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Conscience, Brain, and Scientistic Pseudo-Understanding
Here at Maverick Philosopher: Strictly Philosophical
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The Enigmatic B. Traven and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Do you know who he is? I found out only recently, which I suppose is fitting given the man's Pynchon- and Salinger-like desire for obscurity. A while back, I caught the last half-hour of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, classic celluloid from 1948 starring Humphrey Bogart and John Huston. The Wikipedia article on The…
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Conscience, Brain, and Scientistic Pseudo-Understanding
One of the tasks of philosophy is to expose and debunk bad philosophy. And there is a lot of it out there, especially in the writings of journalists who report on scientific research. Scornful of philosophy, many of them peddle scientistic pseudo-understanding without realizing that what they sell is itself philosophy, very bad philosophy. A…