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The Immortality Project

Philosopher John Fischer has spent his life thinking about what happens to us when we die.  When the Templeton Foundation recently gave $5 million in grants for the study of immortality and life after death, Fischer was asked to select which researchers and philosophers will be funded as they attempt to answer the question: "What happens next?"

Socrates’ Truth vs. Kant’s Enlightenment

In general, Socrates would agree with Kant that enlightenment is furthered best outside of a civic position, but he would not contest that authority must be blindly followed while under its command. Socrates encourages questioning the majority’s decisions, while Kant states that in politically one must not argue and only obey. Both believe that reason and enlightenment must begin with private discussions but differ regarding behavior at public posts. While Socrates’ criterion for wisdom is pursuing truth regardless of position, he believes that it is easiest to seek out privately. Kant considers the government an important agency to influence the public to think more for themselves. Overall, although the specifics of each philosopher’s argument differ, each considers, “the unexamined life is not worth living for men” (Plato 39; 38a).

Kant's wild years!!

He has been famously portrayed as a bore, a man whose habits were so regular that housewives could set their watches by his legendary afternoon walk.

But according to three new biographies, the celebrated German philosopher Immanuel Kant was not such a dry stick after all. Far from being a dour Prussian ascetic, the great metaphysician was a partygoer. He enjoyed drinking wine, playing billiards and wearing fine, colourful clothes.

He had a sense of humour, and there were women in his life, although he never married. On occasion, Kant drank so much red wine he was unable to find his way home, the books claim.

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Heidegger on Gelassenheit

Martin Heidegger’s Conversation On A Country Path About Thinking (1966a) deals with the concept of Gelassenheit experienced as the essence of thinking, a thinking that is not intended as representing, as self-determining thinking, but is conceptualized as “meditative thinking.” Meditative thinking is the kind of thinking that thinks the truth of being, that belongs to being and listens to it.  To understand Gelassenheit as the essence of thinking means to have a different and more radical insight into the essence of who we are. The aim of this paper is to investigate what Heidegger means by Gelassenheit, but not proposing an answer to a “what is” question. This paper is instead an attempt to enact a thinking transformation that through a close reading of Heidegger’s work will lead us on that path towards Gelassenheit, on which a different understanding of man’s innermost being can be glimpsed.

el pensamiento sobre la técnica de Ortega y Heidegger

en este trabajo Antonio Diéguez compara la filosofía de la técnica de Ortega y Heidegger.

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