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The Summerbreak lecture
My friends
Together we have covered a long road through the history of philosophy and still we havent reached the end. From the very begining till the last day this effort has been so rewarding and...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-30 13:24:16
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Summerbreak......
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Ludwig Wittgenstein II
In the Tractatus Wittgenstein developed an extreme uniform theory regarding the meaning of words and sentences. All words that have a semantical relation with reality are names. Their meaning consists of the denotatum -...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-27 05:15:54
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the language-games...............
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Ludwig Wittgenstein I
In December 1919 Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein met eachother in the vegetarian Hotel-Restaurant "Pomona", Molenstraat 53 in The Hague, the Netherlands. They stayed there for two weeks and discussed the...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-26 05:44:23
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on the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus....
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The Third Lecture on Bertrand Russell
Russell's entire philosophical carreer has been dominated by the quest for certainty. In the late 60s he has been driven to admit that it is less attainable than he had hoped.
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-23 05:39:08
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logical atomisme......
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The Second Lecture on Bertrand Russell
In the former lecture I gave you a sample of how Bertrand Russell used his analytical method in philosophy. I think it is interesting to begin at the beginning and listen to how Russell saw modern...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-21 15:47:53
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the meaniing of the paradox.....
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Bertrand Russell
A rare thing, a world famous philosopher, but Bertrand Russell was such a philosopher. Maybe more because of his political and other social ideas than because of his theoretical works.
However, also his...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-18 15:33:50
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New ways of philosophical analysis.....
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Gottlob Frege, a second lecture
The contribution of Frege to modern philosophy and logic began with the rejection of the analysis of Aristotle of the statement as a construction of subject / predicate.
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-18 15:01:44
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Language will be the main focus now....
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Gottlob Frege
Let me quote Gottlob Frege:
" The same word is used to indicate a concept and a singular object, which is comprised in this concept. There isn't any distinction between concept and individual object.
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-16 10:30:46
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The linguistic turn................
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Simone de Beauvoir, a second lecture
Simone de Beauvoir played an important role in the rise of feminism. Her books, "The Ethics of Ambiguity, (1947) " and "The Second Sex, (1949)" were unique and maybe "La deuxieme sexe" is still the...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-11 07:29:53
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existentialism with body and mind
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir is the last in the group of existentialist philosophers in my 100 list. She was a (kind of) companion of Jean-Paul Sartre and as the picture on the wall here shows, they were united after death in one...
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Posted by:
herman_bergson on 2008-06-09 04:25:15
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to meet eachother in the emotion.....
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Albert Camus
Although Camus's name is often associated with existentialism, there is no evidence that he was ever deeply influenced by , or very interested in the doctrines of Husserl or Heidegger or even Sartre.
He had a degree...
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Posted by:
herman_bergson on 2008-06-06 05:52:17
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life is meaningless...........
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Jean-Paul Sartre, another lecture on him
No Camus as promissed. I couldn't resist the temptation to spend more attention to Sartre. And I can give a motivation. In last lecture I mentioned the concept of 'bad faith', just like that...
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herman_bergson on 2008-06-04 04:02:37
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Sartre on human condition
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Jean-Paul Sartre: a second lecture
Folowing Heidegger, Sartre argues that mankind is abandoned in the world. This is not to say mankind has been abandoned in the sense of 'left behind' or 'neglected' by somehting or someone.
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Posted by:
herman_bergson on 2008-06-03 05:14:08
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a second lecture on Sartre
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