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xasha777 · 6 months ago

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In the distant future, on the lush planet of Verdantia, where the flora radiates with bioluminescent hues and the air is perpetually filled with the fragrance of blooming exotic flowers, there exists a mysterious figure known as Elysia Montmorency. Her striking appearance, with flowing orange hair and a greenish complexion, is as enchanting as the verdant forests that surround her home.

Elysia is the last descendant of the ancient House of Montmorency, a lineage that has long been revered for its connection to the planet's unique ecosystem. The Montmorencys have always been caretakers of Verdantia's delicate balance, possessing an innate ability to communicate with the planet's flora and fauna. Elysia, with her ethereal beauty and profound connection to nature, embodies the essence of her ancestors' legacy.

One evening, as the twin moons of Verdantia cast a surreal glow over the landscape, Elysia sensed a disturbance in the natural harmony of her world. The radiant flowers dimmed, and the vibrant leaves began to wither. Guided by an instinct passed down through generations, she ventured deep into the heart of the forest, where ancient secrets lay hidden.

There, she discovered an ancient radio telescope, a relic from an era when Verdantia was part of a grand interstellar network. The device had been dormant for centuries, but now it pulsed with an eerie, otherworldly energy. As Elysia approached, the telescope activated, projecting a holographic image of her ancestor, Henri Montmorency.

"Greetings, Elysia," the hologram intoned. "Our time is short, and our mission is critical. The House of Montmorency has always been the guardian of Verdantia, but now our world faces a threat from beyond the stars."

Elysia listened intently as Henri explained the existence of a rogue celestial body, a fragment of a long-destroyed planet, hurtling towards Verdantia. Its trajectory was erratic, driven by a stochastic process influenced by the gravitational pull of nearby celestial bodies. If it collided with Verdantia, it would bring catastrophic destruction.

To avert this disaster, Elysia would need to harness the full potential of her connection to Verdantia. Using the knowledge encoded in the telescope, she began to manipulate the planet's natural energy fields, creating a protective barrier. This task required immense concentration and strength, drawing upon the wisdom of Henri Poincaré's work in celestial mechanics and the mathematical insights of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

As the rogue fragment drew closer, Elysia's efforts intensified. She could feel the planet responding to her commands, its energy resonating with her own. The protective barrier shimmered into existence, a translucent shield that enveloped Verdantia. The collision was imminent, and every ounce of Elysia's being was focused on maintaining the barrier.

At the crucial moment, the fragment collided with the barrier, and a blinding light engulfed the forest. Elysia felt the impact reverberate through her body, but the barrier held. The rogue fragment disintegrated, its destructive energy dissipated harmlessly into space.

Exhausted but triumphant, Elysia collapsed to the forest floor. The natural balance of Verdantia slowly restored itself, the flowers blooming once more and the leaves regaining their vibrant color. The holographic image of Henri Montmorency flickered one last time.

"You have done well, Elysia. The House of Montmorency's legacy endures. Verdantia is safe, thanks to your courage and our ancient knowledge."

With these words, the hologram faded, and Elysia knew that her journey was just beginning. As the guardian of Verdantia, she would continue to protect her world, drawing strength from her lineage and the profound bond she shared with the planet. The House of Montmorency would live on through her, its legacy etched into the very fabric of Verdantia's existence.

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nicolae · 4 years ago

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SetThings (Telework) - Monadologia (La Monadologie), de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (fragment)

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Monadologia (La Monadologie), de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (fragment)

Monadologia lui Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz scrisă în limba franceză în 1714. Este una dintre cele mai cunoscute lucrări filosofice ale lui Gottfried Leibniz. Este un text scurt care prezintă, în aproximativ 90 de paragrafe, o metafizică a substanțelor simple, sau … Read More

#Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (fragment)#La Monadologie #Monadologia #Filozofie

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anameandaplace · 4 years ago

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Timed Write: Philosophical Reflections

Some thoughts on philosophy and where it comes from:

1. Chronologically, it's common nowadays for the Presocratics to be collectively regarded as founding figures of Philosophy. The Presocratic title is arguably unfortunate inasmuch as the relevant membership includes Socrates' contemporaries and they don't have a lot in common as a whole unless one is willing to be impractically vague about it. Their lives span several hundred years, they're from multiple countries with diverse cultures, and what's left of the work is a sea of disconnected fragments. Outside of researching their lives from a historical standpoint, I don't see much benefit in making a study of these thinkers prior to reading Plato and Aristotle, especially considering a sizable portion of the existing fragments and testimonia come from their writing.

An outline of thinkers to consider following Aristotle through to the start of the Seventeenth Century based on my own reading: Sextus Empiricus, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Is the chronological approach to studying philosophy the best available option? If graduate school is of any interest, probably not to be honest. A commonly preferred alternative is an issue or topic based learning strategy.

2. What is my take on the meaning of life and how do I know? How do I explain the act of valuing... or the concepts of reason, and virtue. I'll come back to this and develop more detail later.

How about religion (comments, concerns, questions)? Unitarian Universalism might not be toxic dog shit. This is presently all I'm prepared to speak on given that my background and scholarship is pretty exclusively Christianity-based. If I say "I don't know or care if there's a God" and that makes me agnostic then I'm agnostic. Otherwise I'd rather avoid organized religion and don't voluntarily preoccupy myself with typical religious concerns such as the soul or spirituality.

3. What are some of the issues most attended to by philosophers? I don't think I know for sure without fresh research.

What am I most interested in WRT philosophical topics RN?

I'd like to solidify my understanding of JJ Thompson, Rosalind Hursthouse, Philippa Foot, GEM Anscombe, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings. Mostly material at the intersection of contemporary virtue ethics and meta-ethics related to care and wellbeing. If I can't focus on aspects of life I experience all the time then I doubt I'll ever have anything sincere or of quality to contribute. The thinkers I mentioned get into dealing with child development and giving care too.

I remember thinking JJT's a neat lady but also has a lot of points I disagree with. Anscombe, on the other hand, I agree with on a variety of points but they're all elements of her work picked up by Foot or Hursthouse where I have a better understanding of what they're saying and find it more desirable. I recall Foot's naturalism and Hursthouse on flourishing both being remarkably edifying. Gilligan and Noddings, on the other hand, are the authors most commonly credited with founding so-called Ethics of Care. If I ever get the ball rolling I'll inevitably add Maria Montessori's work to the list, especially her commentary on early education.

4. I'm taking a few cues from Aristotle's Metaphysics here.

Human action is something all living human beings have in common. What do I mean by this? Well, quite simply... we all do things. Humans do some things differently from other animals. One of the most noteworthy is how we think.

Human thinking can be especially complex and involves special tools. Human language and imagination has led to contemporary technological innovation such as the computer used to write this, for an example of the complexity of human thinking. Let's assume a study can be simply defined as organized human thinking to improve the way we do things. In this case reasoning is the type of thinking we do while studying.

Following Aristotle, the study of studying might be called a meta-study. It requires a practical familiarity with study in order to reflect on how it works and what it accomplishes so we can make improvements. Probably not important for a discussion of the basics.

5. So far my remarks have been meta-philosophical for the most part. What do I mean by meta-philosophical? In this instance, meta-philosophy, like meta-anything, aims at providing a definition with examples of a particular tradition from the perspective of a studied practitioner. I've given some chronological perspective, followed by a brief breakdown of topical interests and contemporary issues. Lastly, some elementary exposition on the activity of philosophy inspired by and in response to Aristotle.

For me, it's important to convey the practical value of philosophy. When I say practical value I mean such that it applies to daily life as experienced by the audience I expect to be reading this. My guess is most folks who'd read my scribbles and find them helpful are going to be predominantly English speakers who read quite a bit and already have a positive opinion of philosophical thinking or at least a background.

#philosophy #stream of conscious writing #ancient greek #virtue ethics

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listing-to-port · 8 years ago

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Seven happy biscuits

1. There was once a cookie which had a long and distinguished career in Antarctic science, being rewarded over its lifetime with over two hundred chocolate chips. Finally it was awarded the highest honour that a biscuit in polar science can be granted: the right, upon its death, to be entombed in ice-cream. That biscuit went to its eventual end with joy, and ended its days in deliciousness.

2. Then there's this Rich Tea biscuit that I know, in fact it's the richest Rich Tea biscuit ever because it owns the patent on crunchiness, so it lives in a giant mansion shaped like a mouth with a great swimming pool of tea hidden behind the uvula, and guests usually end up going all soggy at the knees due to the sheer opulence of it all but fortunately there's a bank of de-soggifying beds on the way out.

3. I also knew the shortest Shortbread ever. Its name was Mr. Biscuits, and it was so short that it was able to slip under a closed door, which enabled it to embark upon a life of fascinating crime. Mr. Biscuits was also a master of disguise and successfully evaded detection many times by posing as an unusually large crumb. Despite its undoubtedly stressful life, Mr. Biscuits was as happy as a bee in a foxglove and held amazing parties.

4. Interestingly, the Choco Leibniz biscuit is more intimately connected to mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz than many realise. The Choco Leibniz factory is haunted by Leibniz's ghost, who whispers a tiny fragment of a mathematical proof over each biscuit as it plops from the production line. By gathering biscuits with successive serial numbers together, it is possible to reproduce a number of important theorems that the ghosts of Leibniz and Newton have been working on since the 18th century (the two ghosts having reconciled in death the quarrel they had in life after a vigorous bout of mathematical hatesex). Their mathematical significance gives the Choco Leibniz community a sense of purpose; it is perhaps the most quietly proud of all the biscuits.

5. Or take for example the tiny white Macaron that escaped the Macaron factory to go chasing after rainbows. By dint of long practice it became the most successful rainbow chaser in the world, even helping to pen the song 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' (for which it was not credited). It uncovered so many pots of gold that it was able to fund the development of the colour teal, which had not existed before that time.

6. There was also a green tea KitKat which found itself dropped at the dock of a busy container port. It was able to inch on its two fingers into the relative safety of a nearby rabbit hole, where it lay for a few weeks contemplating the Pacific. During this time it further developed its finger control until it was able to make a passable peace sign. This so startled the local rabbits that they quite forgot to eat it, so the KitKat was able to live, unmolested and content, on the coast for many years.

7. And finally I hear tell there is an Oreo somewhere out West which has learned how to roll and it is maybe the happiest biscuit alive, it's out there on the open road doing mile after mile through the gaudy desert and getting tattered and battered up until it's maybe more of the idea of a biscuit than an actual biscuit but it's made it half-way to Los Angeles and damn it it's going to finish the trip because this biscuit has written a screenplay and it knows just whose biscuit tray to jump into to get the screenplay seen by the right eyes, if you know what I mean.

#lists #biscuits #happy #tea #icecream

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deskripsikangambarberikut · 5 years ago

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Philosophy Reading List

Plato 1. Republic 2. Apology 3. Theaetetus 4. Phaedo 5. Meno 6. Parmenides

Aristotle 7. Nicomachean Ethics 8. Politics

Rene Descartes 9. Meditations on First Philosophy 10. Discourse on the Method 11. Passions of the Soul

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 12. Social Contract 13. Emile, or On Ed

Ludwig Wittgenstein 14. Philosophical Investigations 15. Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Soren Kierkegaard 16. Fear and Trembling 17. Either/Or 18. Concluding Scientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments

Back Again

Aristotle 19. Metaphysics 20. Organon 1-6 (especially Categories & Prior-Posterior Analytics 21. Poetics (22. Physics) (23. On the Soul)

24. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa theologica

David Hume 25. A Treatise of Human Nature 26. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

27. Benedictus de Spinoza - Ethics (28. Leibniz - Monadology) (29. Leibniz - New Essays)

Immanuel Kant 30. Critique of Pure Reason 31. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Moral (32. Critique of Practical Reason) 33. Critique of the Power of Judgement 34. What is Enlightenment?

G.W.F. Hegel 35. The Phenomenology of Spirit 36. Science of Logic

Fredrich Nietzsche 37. On the Genealogy of Morality 38. Thus Spake Zarathustra 39. Ecce homo

John Stuart Mill 40. On Liberty 41. Utilitarinism

(42. Jeremy Bentham - The Principles of Morals and Legislation)

Martin Heidegger 43. Being and Time 44. "What Is Called Thinking?" 45. "The Question Concerning Technology"