08 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
How to Prevent Others from Making You Angry
Peace doesn't come by stiffening against
life, but by realizing there's no one to
stiffen. The waves rise and fall and the
ocean never minds. In the same way,
anger, irritation, frustration, they
come and go, but they are not you. To be
unbothered is not to build a wall around
yourself, but to see that there was
never a separate self to defend in the
first place. You see, when something
happens,
a disrespecting word, a sudden
disappointment, a rude interruption,
there's a tiny instant before ...07 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
Meditation Strengthens Focus
This practice of meditation itself sharpens your mind and improves your memory, qualities that are certainly useful beyond spiritual practice, whether in business, engineering, raising a family, or being a teacher, doctor, or lawyer. This practice also helps on a daily basis with anger. When you get irritated, you can concentrate on the nature of the anger itself and thereby undermine its force.
Another benefit of such mental training emerges from the close connection between body and mind. ...Folksonomies: meditation mindfulness
Folksonomies: meditation mindfulness
05 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
Locke Divided Experience into Sensation and Reflection
In his exploration into the nature of belief, seen from the psychological point of view Locke divided experience into two categories—first, sensation, or perception of external objects, and second, reflection, the activity in which the self observes its own state of mind, its own feelings and thoughts. According to Locke all human experience is embraced in these two categories; but the second, reflection, is based in and arises from the first, sensation. Sense impression of the external wor...Folksonomies: philosophy epistemology
Folksonomies: philosophy epistemology
Locke believed every individual was capable of rational thought, and wanted to understand how individuals came to their beliefs.
05 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
Cartesian Methodology Applied to Personal Intellectual Gr...
...Cartesian methodology calls for intellectual individualism; it emphasizes reason as the common possession of all men. The reason that people disagree is that their reason has been perverted by the wrong kind of education, or poisoned by superstition, or vitiated by preoccupation. Descartes held that all men had equal and natural ability to make sound judgments, and to distinguish the true from the false, until and unless these abilities were crippled or stunted by improper education or by ...Folksonomies: philosophy epistemology
Folksonomies: philosophy epistemology
05 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
Aristotle Considered Experiential Knowledge of Lower Value
Aristotle gave the name experience to change which is irregular, and differentiated this from scientific knowledge, or rational knowledge. The only changes that could come within the scope of science were those which moved in the direction of, and which were governed by, final cause——the chick and the oak, again. Typical of the things which Aristotle regarded as certain, and therefore admissible to the realm of science, were the stars of the heavens which could be counted and which moved ...Folksonomies: philosophy epistemology
Folksonomies: philosophy epistemology
02 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
Chess VS Go
The philosophy behind chess is to win decisively. For the winner, victory is absolute, as is defeat for the loser. In chess, both players have the same clear and overriding objective―capturing the opposing king―and accomplish this objective by decimating whatever opposing forces are standing in the way. In go, total victory usually happens between two mismatched players. That kind of victory, as Sun Tzu puts it, is not the pinnacle of excellence. In a go game between two well-matched play...01 OCT 2025 by ideonexus
How to Not Fear Death
Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it—so at least ...25 SEP 2025 by ideonexus
Intelligence in Oral and Print Societies
In a purely oral culture, intelligence is often associated with aphoristic ingenuity, that is, the power to invent compact sayings of wide applicability. The wise Solomon, we are told in First Kings, knew three thousand proverbs. In a print culture, people with such a talent are thought to be quaint at best, more likely pompous bores. In a purely oral culture, a high value is always placed on the power to memorize, for where there are no written words, ,the human mind must function as a mobil...25 SEP 2025 by ideonexus
How Media-Metaphors Change Thought
But our media-metaphors are not so explicit or so vivid as these, and they are far more complex. In understanding their metaphorical function, we must take into account the symbolic forms of their information, the source of their information, the quantity and speed of their information; the context in which their information is experienced. Thus, it takes some digging to get at them, to grasp, for example, that a clock recreates time as an independent, mathematically precise sequence; that wr...25 SEP 2025 by ideonexus
Metaphors Bind Concepts Together in Our Minds
We are told in school, quite correctly. that a metaphor suggests what a thing is like by comparing it to something else. And by the power of its suggestion. it so fixes a conception in our minds that we cannot imagine the one thing without the other: Light is a wave; language, a tree; God, a wise and venerable man; the mind, a dark cavern illuminated by knowledge. And if these metaphors no longer serve us, we must, in the nature of the matter, find others that will. Light is a particle; langu...Folksonomies: new media epistemology
Folksonomies: new media epistemology