To Make the World Philosophical

As we said before, Marx is the most important point of view in the West, and one of the ways by which Marx became the most important point of view is through a point he made in his doctoral dissertation about how the world within the world which is cultivated by individual consciousness or self-consciousness … Continue reading To Make the World Philosophical →

Death Before Dying

We mentioned that from an in-depth psychoanalytical perspective, it is death and eros which form the basis or the foundation for psychosocial life. Death and eros are the two main drivers or factors behind psychosocial life in general. We covered eros from a Freudian and Jungian perspective to a great extent and degree through the … Continue reading Death Before Dying →

The Universal Standpoint

If doctrine is everything, and doctrine is then derived from method, and method comes down to psychology, then psychology itself combines consciousness, experience, and knowledge into a “richness of relations” which need to be examined and studied, to borrow from Dewey. But what is more important than the origin of these relations is the manner … Continue reading The Universal Standpoint →

Thought and the Modern Worldview

But where do our ideas and our thoughts even come from? To borrow from Hume, ideas – along with “impressions” – make up the two kinds of “perceptions of the mind.” There are sensations, emotions, and passions on one hand, and there are thoughts, reasoning, and ideas on the other hand. To borrow from Hume: … Continue reading Thought and the Modern Worldview →

It’s The Thought That Counts

Our main question, arguably, is the question of human nature, given that the main socioeconomic and sociopolitical issue of our time is the issue of social organization and social hierarchy, and in turn, hierarchy revolves around the individual human nature, with the “essence” being at the heart of human nature. It is therefore individual human nature … Continue reading It’s The Thought That Counts →