#Philosophy
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Books I Loved Reading in 2024
A year-end list of books the author enjoyed, with brief notes on why each stood out: Cicero’s prose, technical logic texts, philosophy, tragedy, memoir, essays, fiction, biography, and Nietzsche.
Dogmatic Slumber
The comic says Hume’s skepticism pushed Kant away from ordinary philosophy and toward a rational basis for morality and an account of experience, space, time, and causation.
A Brief History of Human Nature
A comic revisits philosophers’ definitions of human nature, from Plato and Aristotle to Derrida, and closes by joking that humans were made to stare at computer screens for 8 hours a day.
The Greatest Happiness Possible
A comic shows a being named “Utility Monster,” framing the idea of maximizing happiness through utility in a single punchline.
Agentic AI Explained: A Philosophical Framework for Understanding AI Agents
The post maps Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle onto AI agent personas to show how questioning, contextualizing, and analyzing can shape multi-agent collaboration and real-world problem solving.
Akrasia
Wikipedia's overview of akrasia, acting against one's own better judgment, from Socrates' denial that it's even possible through Aristotle's rebuttal to contemporary accounts.
An alliance of those who refuse to pretend the exit is already known
Host's closing reading: a politics whose starting assumption is that the situation is genuinely deadlocked and no existing tendency — liberal, left or right — has the resources to unlock it.
There is no future: from despair to avenir
Hope is deferral; you only act in despair. 'There is no future' — the Democratic 'party of the future' is Fukuyamaism; Bernie Sanders alone at Biden's inauguration was avenir.
Ideology as controlled hallucination — but socially
Reframing Anil Seth's cognitive theory as ideology critique: reality is a construction, but the feedback loop runs through the symbolic order, not an individual brain.
What if you can deceive all the people all the time?
Žižek inverts Lincoln: authentic mass awakenings are rare and usually end in catastrophe. What politics remains once the myth of the clear-eyed people falls?
Every epoch reinvents its Shakespeare
Shakespeare's greatness is his ontological incompleteness: each epoch legitimately re-constitutes Hamlet from its own position.
T.S. Eliot: a new work rewrites the whole past
Eliot's retroactive causation: a radically new artwork reorganizes the entire tradition that precedes it — retroactivity at the level of ontology.
Heidegger's historical horizon — and why QM goes further
Heidegger: reality is always disclosed within a historical horizon. Quantum physics asks what stands outside every such horizon — the Lacanian Real.
Paraconsistent logic as the lesson of quantum mechanics
Paraconsistent logic is the formal shape of a materialism adequate to QM: time, space and causality cease to hold without remainder.
The Holocaust: reality vs. the Real
The Real of the Holocaust is non-negotiable; its reality — the meaning installed in collective life — can still be rewritten by ideological shifts.
Feynman's 'nobody understands' taken seriously
Žižek reads Feynman literally: QM discloses a stratum whose structure is incompatible with the grammar of our reality.
Modernity begins after Renaissance (Pascal)
Modernity begins not with the Renaissance but with the Pascalian cut: a subjective interior facing a gray, infinite cosmos.
Subjectivity requires the impenetrable other
With Hegel, Freud and Lacan: a subject emerges only through encounter with another subjectivity whose interiority is a priori opaque.
Malebranche and the rational core of occasionalism
Malebranche's radical split between ideas and matter anticipates a modern insight: their interaction is always mediated by a third term.
We are back in Socratic times
Contemporary crises — ecology, AI, abortion — force a Socratic reflexive stance: before deciding what to do, ask what our concepts mean.
A missão da filosofia chinesa: imortalidade cultural
00:33:39 — A missão da filosofia: imortalidade da cultura chinesa
Índia busca a eternidade, China busca pela realidade
01:10:05 — Índia busca a eternidade, China busca pela realidade
Zongjiao: culto dos antepassados e ensino dos sábios
00:12:03 — Zongjiao: culto dos antepassados e ensino dos sábios
Pascal: alone with your thoughts and mortality
00:13:50 — Distraction as Flight from Loneliness
Attention as the purest form of generosity
00:22:14 — Attention as the Purest Form of Generosity
Genuine attention: clearing space, not forcing will
00:11:32 — Simone Weil on Attention as Waiting
Our problems stem from not being able to sit silently
00:06:14 — Historical Roots from Pascal to William James
Murdoch: at the moment of decision, it's done
00:30:03 — Murdoch: At the Moment of Decision, Most Action Has Already Happened
We become the tools of our tools
00:28:38 — We Become the Tools of Our Tools
Walter Benjamin
German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist whose work links aesthetics, history, language, Marxism, and Jewish mysticism, and whose major essays include aura and historical materialism.
28 Books On Stoicism: The (Hopefully) Ultimate Reading List
A curated Stoicism reading list that ranges from primary texts and introductory guides to biographies, fiction, and links between Stoicism, therapy, and modern life.