Daniel Sanderson, founder of planksip®, bridges classical philosophy with modern science. His book Re-Imagining Plato explores anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience, redefining Plato for today.
The act of searching for, or the highlighting of, the always italicized term " should" will return results of ethical dispensations....
100. M: It should sicken us. This behavior is reprehensible by today's standards. Contemporary historians look to our future as much as our past. We call this combination of feedback, reflection, and contemplation the Proustian Praxis....
Commonly attributed to Hegel, yet the credit should be directed at his student. Compare and contrast your thesis with the antithesis. Where the opposing thoughts meet synthesis happens within the synapse, neurotransmitters are the prime movers, dependent defined internal changing material substance....
Dennett should connect with his suppositions of moral compatibilism as Free Will. Flourishing is a good starting point. What are the preconditions, and future conditions necessary for individuals and societies to flourish? We need to move beyond the echoes of the Nature Nurture debate. Steven Pinker proposes a structure illustrating...
(duplicate) Throughout this book you will notice should italicized. Should implies ought, ought implies ethics. A micro anthology of my Ethics is included in the Summary Statements of this book. For me, Eudaemonia and Ethics are one and the same. I duplicated this one because the use of should so...
Throughout this book you will notice should italicized. Should implies ought, ought implies ethics. A micro anthology of my Ethics is included in the Summary Statements of this book. For me, Eudaemonia and Ethics are one and the same. I duplicated this one because the use of should so close...
Truth is not subjective but our interpretation of Truth is. Starting from a point of certainty we should have commonality. This is science. Am I wrong?...
Subjugating experimentation to subjective experience explains a lot more with the right interpretive programs. That we write! And re-write!! The perpetual test born on the shoulders of men. Sisyphus is no longer rolling a bounder. The mass of humanity shrunk to the size of an algorithm. Sitting at a desk...
Heraclitus should agree… “There is a foul stench, a four letter word for futurity, a future speech act. Fouls a foot and hope remains.” - Dr. Cory Elliot, (fictional phenomenon)...
Indices of net human happiness should be available within our economic models. What happens if veils of ignorance produce more net human happiness?...
Imagine, as a thought experiment, that irresponsibility should be sequestered to obscurity just like irregardless. Following my elaboration of responsibility as a watchword to Freedom and unpacked it to “an ability to respond”, irresponsibility is the complete and utter lack of one's ability to respond. Irresponsibility runs opposite...
The thinking of the thought, the Cogito, should never be suppressed because it can’t be! Attempting is futile. Focusing freedom on the fundamentals of thought provides a sanctuary for liberal sensibilities, a precursor to free speech and the pursuit of happiness....
Safety nets should be axiomatic, not the motivation for social homeostasis. Accomplishing this is another story. Sadly, I haven’t yet worked out these details, complex as they are, quantum physics is easier (for me)....
Education levels the playing field, not laying on a beach or the ability to do nothing (I call this the Amway fallacy). What would you do if you could do anything? Opportunities are as important as any innate or learned ability, with the scales of Justice “weighing in” on the...
The greatest benefit to all with the greatest opportunity for the individual should be the fulcrum we follow. The praxis of the populous....
What portion of the value of your data should be used to sustain individual rights, freedoms, and equal opportunity for all? I think the best way to look at this is to protect the outliers and encourage progress organically promoting policy of smooth regressions (to the mean), a sustainable churning...
Reevaluating the valuation of values is the Categorical Imperative Nouveau. We should have in place to represent the best interests of the many. Few contemporary societal structures or groups act in accordance with these virtues....
Compensation should be transparent....
With community leaders representing the majority and compassionately protecting the marginalized, all group leaders should abdicate passions for power and implement decisions based on empirical evidence and data....
The following statement is my Ethical Imperative: Individuals should “forme” the foundations of all information structures....
Hume's morals arise from his epistemology. This makes sense but should (not) be made in a vacuum. Society is the air we breathe and randomness is the medium in which she travels. Hume is differentiating from strict empiricism through impressions and ideas. I reduce this to its Aristotelian...
Pascal's Wager was on the existence of God. Version 2.0 is secular. This revision is a wager with the probabilities of prosperity, yielding winners and losers, all while providing equal opportunity for all. This playing field should be level for all under a veil of ignorance and...
(duplicate) Thought without doubt is fallacious. Theories are nets cast to collect concepts. The "holy" net of Religious dogma is toxic for the baby and should be thrown out with the bathwater, or should it?...
Thought, without doubt is fallacious. Theories are nets cast to collect concepts. The "holy" net of Religious dogma is toxic for the baby and should be thrown out with the bathwater, or should it?...
From a Socratic perspective, ancient Greece gave us evidence through abstraction, and it reasons that if no evidence is presented, a NULL value should be assigned to the corresponding outcome. Essentially this negates the infinite upside of God's unlikely existence....
Make a flag with a solid black border and transparent fill. We are a transparent people that see beyond our borders. This should be the new flag of our time. The discussion is whether or not a world without borders is utopian? I am still thinking about this....
Government authorities and watchdog organizations should be policing the abusive repurposing of data, but this model on Liberty needs to be revised. A combination of policing and releasing is the strategy that I would forme. Technology reacts to the market, if the market valued intrinsically motivated learning, the resulting benefits...
Problem solving, classification, and giving “forme” defines the function and is the identity of identity. One’s function, divided by one’s forme, equals identity. Grounded cogito ergo sum. One is not better than the other, yet function should always be foundational without fixedness....
Why? But I am not a nihilist, the double negative makes me positive, so to speak. We should not rest in that mental space for long. Albeit, cause and effect classifications are tempered with Big Data, not Big Dada. Dada was pure and utter nonsense but nonetheless a point well...
I argue in Chapter 7 that Marxism should function much like an official opposition but never hold power. A check but not a balance. Marxism is very much like metaphysics. An interesting perspective but not a good place to stay....
I argue in Chapter 7 that Marxism should function much like an official opposition but never hold power. A check but not a balance. Marxism is very much like metaphysics. An interesting perspective but not a good place to stay....
It seems inconceivable that the meditations of Renatus Cartesius took place in a Latin vacuum, more likely visions of thought under the duress of winter’s coldness, and built on the Shoulders of Newton’s Giants....
Imagine a Liberal platform built on the compassions of others voices, The Better Angels of our Nature (2011) is how we should view the world....
We should be chanting “Enlightenment Now” (2018) in solidarity, against the oppressors and propagators of “fake news” and underhanded political card games....