Tag: Metaphysics

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  Book Club: ‘At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, And Apricot Cocktails’ By Sarah Bakewell Chapter Three *Spoilers*

  

  If you would like to read, At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being And Apricot Cocktails along with us, you can buy a copy here. The next chapter of the book is focused on Martin Heidegger. Born in Messkirch, Heidegger took a similar path to Husserl. He didn’t initially intend to…

  August 31, 2021
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  Does Santa Exist? The Problem of Existence

  DISCLAIMER: IF YOU BELIEVE IN SANTA’S EXISTENCE, DON’T READ THIS. This piece was influenced by Dr Christopher Janaway during an Ancient Greek Philosophy Lecture We make the distinction of existence daily but its relevancy increases at Christmas. This is because of Santa. As a society, we teach children that there…

  December 24, 2019
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  Why Hume being a historian is funny.

  IntroductionHistory is incredibly important in the modern day world in order to understand the behaviour of the human race and to predict from current factors what may occur in the future. One of the contributors to our understanding is David Hume through his book “The History of England”. However, as…

  December 28, 2017