Philosophy
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By adulthood, she had surpassed her father in both mathematics and philosophy, becoming the city’s foremost scholar and taking over his position at the head of the Platonic school, similar to a modern university.
The
philosophy
Hypatia taught drew from the legacy of Plato and Aristotle, as well as the mystical philosopher Plotinus and the mathematician Pythagoras.
And that Copernican revolution continues today to influence science and
philosophy
and technology and theology.
Having totally absorbed this philosophy, I started looking at a lot of problems a little differently.
And Ayn Rand of course, Ayn Rand is famous for a
philosophy
called Objectivism, which reflects another value of Newtonian physics, which is objectivity.
And though it had been dormant for over 1,000 years, it was well preserved in books of Jewish religion and
philosophy.
And they depend too much upon history, upon philosophy, upon religion, upon culture, upon politics.
I think it's where
philosophy
and technology intersect.
She wrote dramas, comedies, and treatises on
philosophy
and mathematics, in addition to religious music and poetry.
I took calculus and
philosophy.
Herbert’s world building also includes a rich web of
philosophy
and religion.
Though meant as an insult, dogs were actually a good symbol for his philosophy— they’re happy creatures, free from abstractions like wealth or reputation.
After Diogenes’ death, adherents to his
philosophy
continued to call themselves Cynics for about 900 years, until 500 CE.
They also attempted to tone down his
philosophy
to be more acceptable to conventional society— which, of course, was fundamentally at odds with his approach.
Still, the
philosophy
of cynicism had admirers, especially among those who wished to question the state of society.
In college, she studied mathematics and philosophy, before taking a research position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pay for grad school.
At the age of 21, Simone de Beauvoir became the youngest person to take the
philosophy
exams at France’s most esteemed university.
But as soon as she mastered the rules of philosophy, she wanted to break them.
Her desire to explore the physical world to its fullest would shape her life, and eventually, inspire a radical new
philosophy.
This
philosophy
challenged its students to navigate the ambiguities and conflicts our desires produce, both internally and externally.
She’d rejected her Catholic upbringing and marital expectations to study at university, and write memoirs, fiction and
philosophy.
Today, those conversations are still informed by de Beauvoir’s insistence that in the pursuit of equality, “there is no divorce between
philosophy
and life.”
She participated in those conversations for the rest of her life; writing fiction, philosophy, and memoirs until her death in 1986.
CA: I mean, do you believe that you can combine your kind of kinder, gentler
philosophy
of work with a successful economy?
This is not a
philosophy.
I'm an American; I don't believe in
philosophy.
And the problem I'm going to talk about is not the familiar one from philosophy, which is, "How can we know whether other people have minds?"
So that's a problem in philosophy, but for today's purposes I'm going to assume that many people in this audience have a mind, and that I don't have to worry about this.
I don't quite mean that the golden rule itself is written in our genes, but you can go to a hunter gatherer society that has had no exposure to any of the great religious traditions, no exposure to ethical philosophy, and you'll find, if you spend time with these people, that, basically, they believe that one good turn deserves another, and that bad deeds should be punished.
Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: "Cogito ergo sum."
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