SubscribeA thought experiment was put to me recently:
Assume you have been charged with a crime. In court you are able to conclusively prove that free will does not exist and therefore you can not be held responsible for this act.
I was asked to reflect on this philosophically. Although this seems more to be a legal [...]
The Horizon of Reason
Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception
Month: February, 2007
Living without free will
Heraclitus and Freud
It dawned me a little while ago that the human condition is one of ongoing tension between the way the world is (ontology) and the way our mind works (psychology).
The world is inherently unpredictable – even our best attempts to make it predictable ultimately fail. We have trouble predicting the weather more then a few [...]
Don't Stare into the Abyss
About fifteen years ago my friends and I discussed one of Nietzsche’s famous aphorisms in from Beyond Good and Evil:
“146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” (Source: Project Gutenberg)
This almost mystical utterance [...]
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