[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently...
Tiffany Madison
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challenge, essence, flaw, human, human condition, human nature, humanity, illusion, instinct, instincts
NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth failed at two years of uninterrupted human habitation. Both cases re...
Steven Magee
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astronauts, base, biosphere, both, cases, continuously, earth, environments, extracting, failed
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a...
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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analysis, astronomy, certainty, comprehension, data, determinism, eyes, formula, free will, human mind