Playing With Pointers

One step closer to reflective equilibrium.

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Republic: Book One

I’ve started reading Republic by Plato lately, and in order to publicly shame myself into actually reading it properly, I’ve decided to put up a blog post on each book. The post will consist of sort of a TL;DR with my opinions on the book (Republic refers to each chapter as a book, it consists [...]

Abstraction, Death of Nihilism and The Human Experience

One way of looking at how human beings behave is to talk about our basic desires (food, sex and power) and how they manifest themselves as complex behaviour. The reason the rich guy helped the poor guy is because that helps him demonstrate power, which increases his chances of getting laid. The engineer builds bridges [...]