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The four aitia… That is what Aristotle used as tools of mind in order to fully understand all that is understandable about anything in the universe. For example, you want to know what a hammer is? Well, you’ll just have to ask yourself what is the material cause of this object, or what is
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“According to nature” you want to live? O you nobble Stoics, what deceptive words these are! Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without purposes and consideration, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power – how could you live
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Blessed be the evolution of language and the environmental triggers which contrived its architecture! Language made possible the appearance of coherent, highly social, and clever groups of hominids acting as a single intelligent entity which could more easily foresight mother nature’s squeamish evolutionary roadblocks. As an individual that was part of that group you
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Why are people? The title of chapter one properly defines the reason for this book’s existence. Why their worries, why their struggles, fears, lovings, hatings? What is our purpose on this planet and ultimately in the universe? Why all the bad things in order to feed our visceral hunger for pleasure? Why does the
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This is a very interesting interview taken by Robert Wright, the American journalist, scholar, prize-winning author of best-selling books on popular science including subjects like evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, to Daniel Dennett; Dan is an American philosopher whose research focuses on the philosophy of mind, consciousness, philosophy of science and philosophy
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This is a very interesting interview taken by Robert Wright, the American journalist, scholar, prize-winning author of best-selling books on popular science including subjects like evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, to Daniel Dennett; Dan is an American philosopher whose research focuses on the philosophy of mind, consciousness, philosophy of science and philosophy
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In this second part of the video Richard Dawkins discusses molecular embryology with PZ Myers, by comparing it with the set of sequences of high level computer programming subroutines found in software written in high level programming languages as opposed to machine code languages like Assembler. They also engage into discussions about the politics
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In this first part of the interview Richard Dawkins plays the game brainstorming with PZ Myers, one of the leading professional voices in evolutionary biology, by thoroughly debating the subject of religion, creationism, “intelligent design” and the right way we should educate the people who believe this kind of “fairy stories” to be more
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If you’re thinking creationism (intelligent design) – although i can’t find any good reason you would engage in such a cognitive act – you’ve got to think Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative writer and speaker and the author of numerous New York Times best selling books, but not the least, a speaker against atheism, non-belief (also
