No, they don't. And no, it couldn't. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

I just opened a new Reddit community, r/philosophyofhappiness, for academic and popular discussion of philosophical matters that matter to people. Please join me there. Also note my YouTube channel linked in bio.

crippled a country for greedy profit moved manufacturing off-shore few things are made here anymore blaming china for taking the chore “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

Chaos in and around us. We have a choice. Give in. Or start organizing our affairs in spite of it. My work can help you see how to go about this. Take a look at it. Visit the Philosophy of Happiness website referenced in my profile, with free access to all my work.

making lovers stay there is no such thing but one can make them go away “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

i am less upset about what you did than that i must live remembering it “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 3. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

Very effective and very discreet support services by professional associations exist for lawyers, psychologists, and physicians. Why is there nothing like this for philosophy professionals?

"Public Philosophy Is Good - For Philosophy and For the Public" A mostly sensible but more aspirational than factual APA blog by The Public Philosophy Network Executive Committee. Its examples show how ill-conceived and bizarre many forays are. blog.apaonline.org/2019/03/...

Interested in public philosophy? Read 6 philosophical essays in the Reflections tab of the website in my profile. All my work is accessible free of charge on that site. Please tell others about this resource. I'd much appreciate your reposting. Thank you and a happy life!

your head resting on my shoulder makes me stronger but not bolder “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

Humans create unnecessarily harsh conditions. To address them, we must comprehend them, question asserted causes, and imagine alternatives. “Knowing” series, Book 1. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #quote

Deutscher Idealismus : Philosophie u. Wirkungsgeschichte in Quellen u. Studien 17 Bände Klett-Cotta, 1981-1994 out of print

500+ short philosophical quotes and poems in each travel-size volume of my 6-part Knowing series. Minimum commitment, about $16. Maximum consideration-provoking, entertaining reading pleasure. Read samples in my timeline. And visit the Knowing tab of the website in my profile.

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Klaus Vieweg Skepsis und Freiheit Hegel über den Skeptizismus zwischen Philosophie und Literatur Studien und Editionen zum deutschen Idealismus und zur Frühromantik, 10 jena-sophia 2007 brill.com/display/title/41101

I curate a series of quotes from philosophical minds (not necessarily acknowledged philosophers) that echo or play into my philosophy and thus can be discussion crystallization points. My quotes and poems serve this purpose as well. See the Knowing tab of the site in my profile.

do you miss life as a real person cleansed by harmonious nature “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher." Thomas Paine Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

University administrators: Departments should be required to state every year the intended societal benefits for each of their courses, as well as reviews of meeting these goals. Philosophy and other unproductive departments would then have to either shape up or be shipped out.

Amazing how many academics presume to judge people in the real world about whom and whose conditions they know only academically.

Witnessing budgetary and societal pressures on higher education planning, contrasted by uncompromising resistance to saving adjustments (combined with naïve "my-heart-goes-out-to the-losers" attitudes) in academic Philosophy, I foresee widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Mindfulness is better called mindlessness. It may have a place. Yet we eventually must turn to arrange existential objectives and pursuits. “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 2. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #quote

Speed-reading, memory, and other brain improvements are essential for humans to remain in charge of aptly applying expanding areas of required and other beneficial information. “Knowing” series, Book 1. Visit Knowing tab of site in profile. Follow timeline for excerpts. #quote

Institutional philosophy is a non-productive anachronism not worth preserving, apart from historical sources. The universal drive for knowledge it once represented long moved to resulting branches represented in university systems, which have developed their own philosophies.

You know what's missing? Courage. Sure, in part, we lack knowledge. And our abilities are limited. But it all stands or falls with our heart. We can feel what's wrong, but are conditioned not to look much at our self and settings to fight for good. Visit the site in my profile.

what if i were her everything i could not bear the fix i'd be in “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

i often think where mankind would be if no one were willing to fight one another “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

"Whoever denies reason does not experience its reality; whoever expects it meets it." Karl Jaspers Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

i don't care anymore about what you said i should let go is this enough to have us back “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 3. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

filled with love that no one wanted she had to kill it to survive “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

Creating philosophy is very different from learning, teaching, or writing about it. The latter are consumptive, reproductive, and intepretive occupations. Thus the non-Anglo world calls creators philosophers, consumers students, reproducers professors, and writers commentators.

Bad times for publishing: All in the industry will be wondering about one another whether they are using, or should use, large language model (LLM) AI, or participants may suggest such use. The probably first lost battle of AI ethics. Glad I already wrote my principal works.

“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.” Jack Kerouac Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

Discrimination stems from fear for position. It stops when it provokes sufficient threat to position. “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 1. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #quote

give and take one thousand months or shorter that's what we've got to work with “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

The until recently medieval state of science disputing animals can think or feel against overwhelming and obvious evidence is a prime example of blind bias in science. But the still ongoing discussions in academic philosophy top that "pigheadedness" by disregarding science.

"Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, 'I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.'" Rumi Follow my timeline for curated practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

why does she whisper in my ear even when we are alone “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 3. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

"The present is pregnant with the future and fulfilled by the past." Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Follow my timeline re quotes and posts on German Idealism and its context. For my philosophy in this tradition, visit the website in my profile.

my love for you is acting cool though it is burning me inside am i a fool not letting you know don't want to scare you that's why i hide “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

"The first and highest law must be the love of human to human. Homo Homini Deus Est ... is the supreme practical maxim, ... the turning point of the world's History." Ludwig Feuerbach Follow my timeline re quotes and posts on German Idealism and its context.

Many philosophy academics fall in the atavistic trap of believing that naming ot citing something/one confers the object's power to them. When it really means nothing unless they connect meaning. Such superstitious superficiality prevents deeper analysis, discussion, and insight.

The most authentic thing you can do when you're alive is to be lively. For more of my quotes, visit the Knowing tab of the website in my profile.

Those of us who do not have a firm grasp of their happiness might be vulnerable to influences or even seek them. They stand to miss out on realizing, in both meanings of the word, their own conceptions of happiness. Do not let this happen to you! Visit the website in my profile.

he was predicting he'd die in august getting ready every year “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #poetry

A while back there was a question among #philosophy colleagues whether they should be humble. It was commonly held they should not (of course). Telling as this conceit is, it also widens and reinforces the gap to actual learning and competence, which is subpar in the Anglosphere.

In my opinion, discussing whether chatbots, i.e. large language systems, are conscious displays mind-blowing ignorance or disregard of both, such systems and consciousness. It impresses me as click-bait-like, attention seeking, "popular" philosophy at its worst.

All 1000 pages of my Philosophy of Happiness book are available free of charge on its eponymous website referenced in my profile, at the Book tab. Or listen to it in its entirety for free. But if you'd like to have an electronic or paper copy, it can be purchased there as well.

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." Jean-Paul Sartre Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

The danger of making up our mind is that it will be made up. “Knowing” series of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2. Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile. Follow my timeline for excerpts. #quote