Phi-lo-so-phie

Noun, feminine [the]

  1. Striving for knowledge about the meaning of life, the nature of the world and the position of man in the world; doctrine, science of the knowledge of the meaning of life, the world and the position of man in the world.
  2. personal way of looking at life and things

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  • How the forest brings us into the here and now

    How the forest brings us into the here and now

    This little head belongs to a squirrel that I met in the forest today and with which I engaged in a playful eye duel for three or four minutes. It was one of those moments in the forest that showed me why I come here regularly. Hardly any other place is so suitable and so predestined to bring you into the...

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  • Voltaire on the good life

    Voltaire on the good life

    As mentioned in the introduction to the previous quote, Voltaire was an advocate of the rights inherent in every human being. In Voltaire's opinion, it is precisely this freedom that makes us so unique as human beings. For although we can disagree with everything someone says, we must give the other person the freedom to say what...

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  • Tolkien's real theme behind The Lord of the Rings

    Tolkien's real theme behind The Lord of the Rings

    In a wood-paneled room that was probably a study, an old man sat on a chair in front of several stacks of books. Dressed in a tweed suit typical of the time, he narrowed his eyes briefly and put on his glasses before he began to read aloud. This man was not only a respected linguist and literary scholar, he was also a...

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  • On Hegelian pessimism

    On Hegelian pessimism

    Slavoj Zizek, one of the famous philosophers of our time, once said that Hegelian pessimism was wonderful to see in the late eighteenth century and in the centuries that followed. But we will now take a closer look at what exactly is so special about this pessimism. The term "pessimism" comes from the Latin word "pessimus", the superlative of "malus" and...

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  • René Descartes on the reality of consciousness

    René Descartes on the reality of consciousness

    "The only immediately credible reality is the reality of consciousness." reNÉ Descartes Can we trust reality? Is it credible? That it exists is not at all certain and has already been dealt with in a number of films and books. The only thing we can be sure of - as we learned from the quote above - is that...

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Quote to think about

Not all those who wander are lost.“

j. R. R. Tolkien
Luke in the Kazakh steppe