Nice to see you too! You were on my mind as I track recommendations and I was looking through them, you were the person who recommended me films I liked the most! Just hoping to hear what you'd liked lately. Also happy to chat on a different platform, and would love to know how you have been! π
@kymberlie.bsky.social Hi Kymberlie, you still on here? Wanted to ask you for film recommendations!
I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza.
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza.
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
I became a father in the past week and I am tired www.bryankam.com/p/fatherhood...
I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
I wrote more about rationalism, empiricism, and foundationalism www.bryankam.com/p/rationalis...
π§ How can ancient wisdom guide us through modern uncertainty? Join me and Stephen Batchelor (author of the new Buddha, Socrates, and Us) for a conversation on philosophical approaches to ethics, doubt, and the good life. Sep 4: interintellect.com/salons/buddh...
Wrote a bit about rationalism and empiricism www.bryankam.com/p/when-philo...
In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...
This is an interesting book which compares and contrasts the world's religions from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism www.amazon.com/Ocean-Divers...
I wrote about #gratitude and its opposites, fear (according to #Nietzsche) and envy (according to Melanie #Klein) www.bryankam.com/p/gratitude-...
Why Aristotle doesn't solve the problems caused by Plato www.bryankam.com/p/the-immane...
Morning Devotion: On my morning routine
open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-...
A word game: #Zhuangzi #schopenhauer #Nietzsche #Wittgenstein open.substack.com/pub/bryankam... #philosophy
Do we learn to categorize? open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
βWhat this age values and takes as its guide, its course, is written text. But written texts are no more than words. Words do have something valuable about them: their meanings and ideas. But those meanings and ideas come from someΒ thing else, and what they come from cannot be transmitted in words. And yet the people of this age, due to the high value they put on words, transmit only the writings. Though this age so esteems them, I do not regard them as worthy of esteem. What these people value about them is not what is really valuable about them. For whatever we can see by looking is only shapes and forms. Whatever we can hear by listening is only names and sounds. Alas! This age takes shapes, forms, names, and sounds as sufficient to attain the reality of that something else. But shapes, forms, names and sounds are ultimately not sufficient to get at what is real there. Thus "those who know do not speak, and those who speak do not know/7 But how could the present age understand this!β
From Zhuangziβs Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what Iβm saying about love in Plato's Phaedrus: www.bryankam.com/p/love-abstr...
I wrote on how the Socratic method changed from Socrates, to Plato, to Aristotle. tl;dr: It started anti-social and became asocial www.bryankam.com/p/some-dange...
I wrote a piece over the weekend on the birth of logic open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
![38 (8) Volition (1)
At SβΊvatthΔ±. βBhikkhus, what one intends, and what one plans,
and whatever one has a tendency towards: this becomes a basis
for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis there
is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When con-
sciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the
production of future renewed existence. When there is the pro-
duction of future renewed existence, future birth, aging-and-
death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair come
to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.112
βIf, bhikkhus, one does not intend, and one does not plan, but
one still has a tendency towards something, this becomes a basis
for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis, there
is a support for the establishing of consciousnessβ¦. Such is the
origin of this whole mass of suffering.113
βBut, bhikkhus, when one does not intend, and one does not
plan, and one does not have a tendency towards anything, no
basis exists for the maintenance of consciousness. [66] When
there is no basis, there is no support for the establishing of con-
sciousness. When consciousness is unestablished and does not
come to growth, there is no production of future renewed exis-
tence. When there is no production of future renewed existence,
future birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, dis-
pleasure, and despair cease. Such is the cessation of this whole
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38 (8) Volition (1) At SβΊvatthΔ±. βBhikkhus, what one intends, and what one plans, and whatever one has a tendency towards: this becomes a basis for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis there is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When con- sciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the production of future renewed existence. When there is the pro- duction of future renewed existence, future birth, aging-and- death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair come to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.112 βIf, bhikkhus, one does not intend, and one does not plan, but one still has a tendency towards something, this becomes a basis for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis, there is a support for the establishing of consciousnessβ¦. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.113 βBut, bhikkhus, when one does not intend, and one does not plan, and one does not have a tendency towards anything, no basis exists for the maintenance of consciousness. [66] When there is no basis, there is no support for the establishing of con- sciousness. When consciousness is unestablished and does not come to growth, there is no production of future renewed exis- tence. When there is no production of future renewed existence, future birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, dis- pleasure, and despair cease. Such is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering.β114
No particular plans today...
I'm looking for sources for ancient/medieval/early modern/modern thinkers (from anywhere) who have disputed 1) the law of the excluded middle, 2) the law of non-contradiction, and 3) the law of identity. Anyone I should be reading?
Doing a series on the correspondence theory of #truth in #philosophy over on tiktok vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/
I released a podcast: Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters. We talk about Plotinus, Chinese philosophy, and more! pod.fo/e/2393d5
They seem to have removed this list of Western philosophers who put processes over objects on wikipedia but I appreciated the list while it lasted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process...
I released the final installment of the Meaningful Living podcast series today. Thanks for all those who participated pod.fo/e/2167b0
