Apes in Drapes is an exploration into the mind, society, and the human reality through language. It's an attempt to build out ideological frameworks to probe deeper into the abstraction of thought and carve out something meaningful.
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Apes in Drapes is an exploration into the mind, society, and the human reality through language. It's an attempt to build out ideological frameworks to probe deeper into the abstraction of thought and carve out something meaningful.
You only know you've gone far enough in a discussion if you hit opinions on free will. So we might as well just start there.
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Further reading in case you want to start diving into some of the big names that focus or touched on free will and determinism, sorted in order of their birth:
Western Tradition(Early) Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plutarch(Middle) Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Laplace(Recent) Godel, Camus, Foucault, Chomsky, Umberto Eco
Arabic Traditional-Kindi, al-Maarri, al-Ghazali, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd
Indian TraditionSidhartha Gautama, Shankara, Rabindranath Tagore, Guru Nanak, Jiddu Krishnamurti
Chinese & Japanese TraditionLau Tzu, Confucius, Wang Fuzhi, Motoori Norinaga, Nishida Kitaro
Some resources:
1. Standford's Philosophy Portal
2. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (I know, the name makes it sound like it's not legitimate. But it's a peer reviewed online resource by professors from various universities. It was started in 1995 when nobody was sure what the internet would be.)
3. Reddit thread with links to some great resources.
Apes in Drapes
Apes in Drapes is an exploration into the mind, society, and the human reality through language. It's an attempt to build out ideological frameworks to probe deeper into the abstraction of thought and carve out something meaningful.
