@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSince it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
@hippyjo@c.imCan you imagine Sisyphus as a happy man?
Did the gods accidentally give him joy and meaning hidden in his never-ending focus?
Or is this a grand deception, and the recipe for a factotum?
#philosophy #purpose #happiness
@outer@mas.toIt ain’t necessarily so—
The things that you’re liable to read in the Bible—
It ain’t necessarily so,
—IRA GERSHWIN, 1935
#Philosophy #Religion #Music is the Best
@sherold@mastodon.online“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
#quotes #philosophy #language
@outer@mas.toI know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
--Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001
#Freedom #Zoo #Philosophy
@outer@mas.toIn the beginning was Chaos.
So...what's new? Longer legs?
Magnum Chaos design, as shown in a 16th-century design in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy
#Religion #Chaos #Philosophy
