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Does science prove that the self does not exist, and if so what would that mean for human society?
This was kinda brought to me be a guy who said science could answer philosophical questions:
"There is no inherent ‘self’, and research supports this. Like a group of cells working together, ...
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Given an infinite future, will we all be reincarnated? [closed]
This is a very speculative question, so bear with me.
Suppose that after the heat death of the universe, time continues for eternity. Occasionally, quantum fluctuations and spontaneous entropy ...
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How do contemporary philosophers' views on the self stand up to Nagarjuna's?
Here is Nagarjuna's critique of the self:
"If the self were its aggregates, it would have arising and ceasing as properties. If the self were different from its aggregates, it would not have the ...
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"Maslow, and Freud and _____X____ ?". I would like help filling in the blank. Understanding the composition of one's self
EDIT: By choice of phrasing of question, I did not mean to convey awareness and endorsement of all works of Maslow and Freud, and I most certainly do not have such awareness, and so cannot/do not ...
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What did Sartre have to say about the unconscious?
What did Sartre have to say about the unconscious? Chat-gpt is trying to convince me that Sartre explicitly calls it a "theory of excuses" and "a device of bad faith", but both ...
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What are Kant's critiques of Hume's and Descartes's conceptions of the self?
What are Kant's critiques of Descartes's conception of the self contained in the Metaphysical Meditations and of Hume's conception of the self expressed in the Essay concerning human understanding? ...
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Quid est ipsus: what is the self?
From my little, torn, pouch of experiences, I present the following sentences, heard/read, it matters not.
My body
My brain
My mind
My soul
Suggests, ex mea sententia, that, the ego (self) is not an ...
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What exactly do People realise, in Self-Realisation?
Self-Realisation is a Truth because there have been people like that. I was wondering what exactly do people realise in Self-Realisation?
Is it some totally new Truth, or something else?
I have my ...
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Was Simone the Beauvoir's conception of woman as Other the first example of an individual's characteristic as a social construct?
I am in no way a philosophy scholar, I have only recently started reading "real philosophy books". I am currently reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and it is only the third or ...
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What if the reality is just someone's memories? [closed]
What if the thoughts I think I’m having are actually someone else’s?
If I am merely observing someone else's memories and thoughts, and never truly thinking for myself, can I be said to exist at all?
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What really is the meaning of "know thyself"? [closed]
Ought, and I think that is the right word, we know ourselves so that we may know others? Does it have intrinsic value, and if so then what qualities of ourselves ought we know irrespective of what ...
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Private language argument as an argument against the self and so egosim
“The words of this language are to refer to what only the speaker can
know — to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot
understand the language.”... Immediately after introducing ...
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What is the difference between bundle theory and mereological nihilism?
Mereological nihilism is the thesis that composition never occurs; the apparent wholes of common sense are reducible to simples arranged "table-wise" or "cat-wise."
Bundle theory ...
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Does Teleonomic Matter imply Subjectivity without Identity? [closed]
The matter part is a term used by David Krakauer about the goal oriented matter. Someone I was talking to mentioned how this is an example of subjectivity without identity but from what I read it’s ...
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What's the difference (if any) between "self" and "consciousness"?
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Philosophy of self
The philosophy of self examines the idea of the self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes self have been proposed, including the self being ...
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