Emilio Uranga (1921-1988) articulates what we could call Existentialism “a la Mexicana”, Mexican existentialism, or (M)existentialism...It does not escape Mexican philosophers that a thinking of totality, a thinking that transcends contingency and place, has been the hallmark of philosophy since it’s naming by the Greeks.
Review: Witcraft by Jonathan Rée and The History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling
Whereas Rée shows how religion and political radicalism can strike up fruitful alliances, the briskly rationalist Grayling refuses the title of philosophy to any view of the world that involves religious faith...The difference between them is clear from their writing. Rée is entertaining and stylish, Grayling is lucid but lifeless.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 31 – April 7, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring a preview of the upcoming intellectual showdown between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek; China's vagrant philosopher who went viral; Podcaster Joe Rogan as today's Socrates; and a teenager's off-the-grid life in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 18 – April 1, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring Stoicism for Silicon Valley techies; 'The Matrix' 20 years on; civic republicanism's planet-saving potential; and Kierkegaard’s restless and ridiculed life.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 11 – 19, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring the ethics of spawning in a warming world; Peter Singer's Instagram account; the drawbacks of eternal bliss; Puffing & strutting (our primate politics); and a new philosophy of sex
Emotivism: A Minimalist Conceptual Graphic from Philographics
Emotivism: The assertion that all individual ethical judgments are purely expressions of one's own attitude intended to change the actions or attitudes of others.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: March 4 – March 11, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring Socrates' love affair with a woman who helped lay the foundations of Western philosophy; the many wonderful uses of the word, 'dipshit'; digital minimalism or how to de-clutter your technological life; and what America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic.
Eclecticism: A Minimalist Conceptual Graphic from Philographics
Eclecticism: A conceptual approach that does not stick to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories or styles to gain a more varied or balanced insight into something.