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themarginalian.org

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature's reasoning itself.
— Martha Nussbaum

2w ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of things in the world—food, safety, beauty, knowledge—and the universe cooperates by containing those things. But there are other things in the universe that do not call to any instinct, that have no utility, that simply exist in their own right.

3w ago

3quarksdaily.com

Why I am still an atheist

If there can be no physicalist explanation of subjective mental experiences, then the project of physicalism falls apart. "If we acknowledge that reality surpasses our comprehension [...] then we are back to mystery".

3w ago

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