#philosopher
Are you a #philosopher, are able to teach in English, German, French or Spanish, and want to help #students from #Ukraine ?
Here's a pretty neat initiative just for that:
Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1740 ed.)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/77…
16 July 1608: Francis Bacon #writer #scientist #philosopher becomes Clerk of Star Chamber #otd
@JosephMeyer
Hehe forgot to tag column #3 #HOT ;-)
Recalled now #ConTraSt DB since '22
cool features like theories trending graph
https://contrastdb.tau.ac.il/trends-over-time
Finally please enjoy reading IMHO best #neuroscience book of this decade, published last year, available in #OpenAccess by former #neuroscientist turned #philosopher M. Chirimuuta
The Brain Abstracted
An Opinionated History of Neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13804.001.0001
‘The Revolutionary City’ shows how Philadelphia survived war https://www.byteseu.com/1162704/ #Conflicts #HistoricalSocietyOfPennsylvania #LibraryCompanyOfPhiladelphia #MuseumOfTheAmericanRevolution #philosopher #RevolutionaryWar
Today in Labor History July 1, 1766: François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, was tortured, beheaded and burnt on a pyre for reading Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique and, more importantly, for not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. The articles in Voltaire’s work included critiques of the Catholic Church, as well as Judaism and Islam. The general public loved the book, which sold out quickly after its first, anonymous, printing. The religious authorities hated it and censored it in France and Switzerland. Charles Dickens reference the torture and murder of la Barre in his novel, Tale of Two Cities. Voltaire tried, unsuccessfully, to defend la Barre. His writings immediately after the arrest did help several other young Frenchman get acquitted for the same offenses.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #freespeech #censorship #torture #voltaire #enlightenment #execution #books #author #writer #philosopher #fiction #dickens @bookstadon
"#Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, a gifted teacher and dynamic educator, has influenced thousands of #Jewish leaders over his long #rabbinic career. #Philosopher Steven Katz claimed that “no Jewish thinker has had a greater impact on the #American Jewish community in the last two decades than Irving (Yitz) Greenberg.” Rabbi and author Joseph Telushkin described him as “one of #Judaism’s great gifts to the world,” while rabbi and activist Avi Weiss hailed him as “one of the seminal thinkers of our generation.”
Greenberg’s recently #published magnum opus, The Triumph of Life: A Narrative #Theology of Judaism, is arguably the most compelling and thought-provoking $book to grace the Jewish #bookshelf this year."
And while we're in #Córdoba, let's pay a visit to all the city's famous #philosopher sons (who got a monument in town):
Seneca (* c. 4 BCE)
Maimonides (* 1138 CE)
Happy birthday to #philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) who, amongst other things speculated about a teapot orbiting in space. This lino block print of Russell’s Teapot is part of my series of Imaginary Friends of Science of charismatic thought experiments. In this case, the alledged china teapot, in orbit between Earth and Mars is an analogy by philosopher Bertrand Russell 
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#linocut #printmaking #SciArt #teapot #space #planets #philosophy #skepticism #Imaginary #MastoArt
Only for #philosopher
"Quarks and the Cosmic Control Panel Theory by Jalal Khawaldeh"
Think about it
#scienceopen #Preprints
#philosophy
#Quarks
#Quantum
#Quantum_Governance
#Consciousness #Free_Will
#Physics
#Cosmic
#Mind #Hypothesis
#brain #theory
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
<b>Quarks and the Cosmic Contr...
Why Did It Take So Long to Understand #Evolution By #NaturalSelection?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8iBCly2JcI
In this conversation, host #NeildeGrasseTyson and guest #RichardDawkins reflect on #philosopher #DanielDennett’s view that #Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the greatest idea ever conceived. They explore why this insight took so long to arise in #human #history, despite centuries of #philosophical #reasoning.
“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than to be loved” -Niccolo Machiavelli
#philosophy #philosopher #wisdom #politicalphilosophy #truth #fear #love #philosophyquotes #machiavelli #realism #politics
https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/04/a-summary-of-machiavellis-political.html?m=1
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
I feel I am going to have to read more about his guy!
Collection of #Insightful #Quotes From #KahlilGibran
https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/collection-of-insightful-quotes-from-kahlil-gibran
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was a Lebanese-American #writer, #poet and visual artist; he was also considered a #philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.
#ScribesAndMakers 2503.28 — What would your best creative life look like if you weren't bound by reality?
In space, if you strike something you also fling yourself away. You need gravity. Something to strive against. You need hills and valleys, don't you? You have to experience the depths to appreciate the clear air of the snowy peaks.
Unbound by reality makes me think my creative life would lose all meaning. #Philosophy #philosopher
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#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool
#gender #fiction #writer #author #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
I need to know something. Maybe the #bluesci comm can help. I am recently a #PhD in #Chem. I am also a practicing amateur #philosopher / #historian who obtained his minor in Phil in undergrad. This means I read original works and commentary as seriously as I do my own sci #research when I can. 
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I need to know something. Maybe the #bluesci comm can help. I am recently a #PhD in #Chem. I am also a practicing amateur #philosopher / #historian who obtained his minor in Phil in undergrad. This means I read original works and commentary as seriously as I do my own sci #research when I can. 1/
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.