All memos tagged #philosophy

Robert M. Pirsig is the guy who made me think about Quality with a capital Q — not as some academic abstraction but as the fundamental thing underneath reality itself. His core argument cuts right...

Accepting yourself before helping others is a foundational concept in psychology and philosophy, rooted in the idea that true service or support requires Self-awareness and Self-Acceptance. According...

Ich und Du, usually translated as I and Thou (You), is a book by Martin Buber, published in 1923, and first translated from German to English in 1937. Buber's main proposition is that we may address...

In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the...

'Ego Is The Enemy' is a book by Ryan Holiday which discusses the treacherous nature of ego; a modern work of practical philosophy. [1] In it, Holiday posits that our biggest problems are not caused...

Optimistic Nihilism is a philosophy that posits ultimate freedom in the midst of, and solely enabled by, the utter meaninglessness of existence: “If our life is the only thing we get to experience,...

Abstract: Foucault claims that the concept of humanity and humanism came about in the 19th century and that there will soon be a change in our conception of humanity which sees the human as merely...