A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their successors?
A philosophical razor (like Occam's) is a type of heuristic used to eliminate unlikely solutions to logical problems.
Kant was one of the most influential thinkers in modern history. His philosophy of morality doesn't just have lofty, theoretical implications; we can apply it to our everyday lives as well.
The Love of Wisdom
In case you haven’t noticed, our experience with unschooling has had quite an impact on our homeschooling philosophy. This homeschooling method often gets a bad rap because of so many negativ…
Plotinus was a Greek philosopher who lived 204-270 CE. He founded the Neo-Platonist school of thought. This sculpture is now in the Ostiense Museum, Ostia Antica, Rome, Italy.
Hello! Welcome! It’s a beautiful show, isn’t it? You can always expect a nice greeting from the art of Andrea Fraser, which interrogates the details and distinctions of the art world with a beaming smile — before going in for the kill. Fraser is the ardent successor of a generation of artists whose querying of museums and their procedures came to be known as “institutional critique”: Hans Haacke, say, who polled visitors to MoMA about their income and political views, or Daniel Buren, whose unvarying stripes exposed how the museum directs attention and turns mere pictures into works of art. Fraser, in turn, examined not art’s spaces but its languages, and probed the discourses that museums — not to mention art magazines! — use to legitimate art, and themselves. In Official Welcome (2001), she mercilessly parroted the prattle of gallerists, donors, and taciturn artists, all giving the same toasts on the art world’s never-ending cocktail party circuit. (“He may be obsessed with death,” says Fraser, channeling some dumb dealer, “but only because he has such an incredible passion for life.”) Performances were followed by videos, in which art and politics got mixed up with sex. In Little Frank and His Carp (2001), Fraser listens to the Guggenheim Bilbao’s ludicrous audio guide and becomes uncontrollably turned on. Then came Untitled (2003), which dramatized the workings of the market in a peculiar way: she fucked a collector on camera, and sold the video in an edition of five.
Tu próximo presidente ni siquiera puede citar tres libros.
Children are not small-size adults. Therefore, they have to be treated in accordance with their stages of development. Many examples showing how the parents and community in general not treat the children according their stage development levels....
The 15th century Japanese art of “Kintsugi” (golden joinery) or “Kintsukuroi” (golden repair) involves the mending of shattered ceramics with “urushi” lacquer and powdered metal — most commonly gold. The central philosophy of Kintsugi is that an object is made … Continue reading →
As the blog Slim Expectations turns 3, they have celebrated with a blogging contest filled with a whole lot of prompts (including themes...
In the Platonic school of philosophy, the Demiurge is a deity who fashions the physical world in the light of eternal ideas. In the Timaeus, Plato credits the Demiurge with taking preexisting
We are all philosophers. This is a very personal answer to the question asked by Ryan Hupfer about the 10 philosophy books it is essential to read.
What would John Rawls have to say about Mitt Romney?
Because really, what better way to express affection for your loved ones than by buying them punny, philosophy-related lawn ornaments?
On a regular day, you would never dream of spending 6 hours turning an avocado into a piece of art, or covering an entire page of your notebook with mind-blowingly intricate doodles, but it's amazing how creativity is sometimes spurred by a lack of focus. According to Wharton University professor Adam Grant, procrastination actually makes your brain more inventive, and some of the most famous thinkers (Martin Luther King Jr., Leonardo Da Vinci) were known to produce their best work at the last minute - I Have a Dream, anyone?
Dead babes we'd bang.
Few people have heard of one of nature's most healthy grains. It's called Einkorn, and here are 25 reasons it is one of the most nutritious grains.
