thinkBuddha - Wayward Thoughts on the Buddhist WaythinkBuddha - Wayward Thoughts on the Buddhist WayA site for reflections relating to Buddhist practice, meditation, philosophy and ethics. Articles
Unconscious Decision Making
2008-04-15 16:53:00 More research into free will. More About: Decision , Decision-Making , Decision making
Free Will and Ethics
2008-04-08 17:58:00 Do we need free will to make us good? More About: Ethics , Free , Free will
Kindness and Philosophy
2008-03-10 14:00:00 Where are our philosophies of kindness? More About: Philosophy , Kindness
Knowledge, Freedom and Limitation
2008-03-02 19:27:00 The pleasures of not knowing. More About: Freedom , Knowledge
The Hard Truths of Science?
2008-02-22 19:13:00 Thoughts on the communication of science. More About: Science , Hard
Vain, Deluded, Pigheaded, Secretive, Bigoted...
2008-02-14 13:53:00 Thoughts on Cornelia Fine’s book, “A Mind of its Own” More About: Vain
Meditation as Unphenomenology
2008-02-07 10:00:00 Meditation, cartography and the territory of the mind. More About: Meditation
The View from the Chariot
2008-01-30 11:03:00 The Buddha: bad psychologist? More About: The View , View
Philosophy and Practice
2008-01-25 19:27:00 The other day I was at the university attending a seminar on practical philosophy. The seminar was being led with considerable verve and gusto by Italian philosopher Franco Volpi, who was talking about practical philosophy, drawing on Foucault’s book The Hermeneutics of the Subject, a book I haven’t yet had the chance to read. The main thesis in the talk was that there has been a tendency in the Western philosophical tradition to conflate what Foucault call the “care of the self” – the various practices that make up much of Hellenistic philosophy, for example Stoicism – with knowledge of the self – the Socratic imperative. As a result philosophy has become impoverished. Something that was always meant to bring about a good form of life becomes merely a means of airy speculation about the world. Here is what Wikipedia has to say on Stoic practices: Philosophy for a Stoic is not just a set of beliefs or ethical claims, it is a way of l... More About: Practice
A Secular Age - Reviewed
2008-01-21 10:54:00 A new review online at thinkBuddha. More About: Secular
Studying Happiness
2008-01-10 16:53:00 Thoughts on happiness and meditation. More About: Happiness , Studying
Meditation as Natural History
2008-01-07 10:30:00 Meditation, natural history, and medieval books of beasts. More About: History , Meditation , Natural , Natural History
Happy New Year
2008-01-01 11:37:00 New Year ’s Greetings More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year
Buddhists in Bars with Balloons
2007-12-30 22:59:00 Buddhist monks and balloon sculptures. More About: Bars , Balloons , Buddhists , Allo
Clarity and Confusion
2007-12-12 11:16:00 Analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and mollusc-based diets. More About: Confusion , Clarity , Clar
More on the Transhumanist Debate
More articles from this author:2007-11-23 17:49:00 More on Marvin Minsky, Tran shumanism and the New Scientist. More About: Debate 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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