Tag Archives: Schopenhauer
Language and the Natural World
According to linguistic anthropologists Homo sapiens developed a capacity for language between 100,000 and 30,000 years ago. Opinions will vary as to how the capacity developed but it seems likely that it was the result of an ongoing evolutionary process … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, Goethe, language, linguistic entities, mental world, nature of the world, physical world, Schopenhauer, the world as idea
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Mind Over Matter
In a recent Scientific American article dated April 19 titled “Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality?” Bernardo Kastrup muses over the fact that inexplicable lab results may be telling us we’re on the cusp of a new scientific paradigm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardo Kastrup, Kant, mental realm, objective knowledge, Paradigm Shift, physical realm, Quantum Anomalies, Schopenhauer, scientific observation, Spinoza, subjective knowledge, Thomas Kuhn
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The World as Form and Function
Reality is created by observers in the universe – John Archibald Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (1911-2008) Today I am revisiting the views held by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Idea (1818), and his rejection of naïve realism, or what has been … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmos, evolution, form, function, Kant, life, matter, Schopenhauer, thing-in-itself, universe, world
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