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By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Why does philosophy appear so difficult? I think one of the biggest reasons is that it’s not written for clarity. Either the author is adopting an outdated style or he’s intentionally complicating a relatively simple concept because people generally dismiss simple concepts. Apparently many philosophers had the feeling, be it conscious [...]
The tauroctony – Mithras slays the bull of the unconscious while looking towards Sol Invictus. By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Carl Gustav Jung drove home to us the reality that myth in a collective sense, and dreams in an individual sense, are reflections of the unconscious. He stated plainly that dreams, along with other myths [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) You said, and your are most famous for this, that God is dead. But why, in all honesty, did you make the same mistake which you so perceptively accused other philosophers of committing? Why, to put in more precisely, did you overgeneralize your own value-feeling (your own morality, even) into such [...]
Self-awareness is genius. The world of form. Plato idealized, the Buddha illusionized, the Gnostics demonized, Nietzsche aestheticized, Jung archetypified, the behaviorists denied, and the evolutionary psychologists instinctualized.
Wael Al-Mahdi “The genius which runs into madness is no longer genius.” -Otto Weininger One of the lasting contributions of evolutionary psychology to our understanding of human nature is undoubtedly a list of human universals composed by Donald Brown. The list runs into the hunderds and includes: Actions under self-control distinguished from those not under [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (or Thus spake Zarathustra according to the older, and more arcane sounding, title) is an ocean of deep thoughts and rare feelings. Pictorially, it is a high mountain, with a chilly, rarified atmosphere, as Nietzsche himself intimated: “the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a [...]
In a business course I took recently, our septuagenarian professor decided to give us a take home exam. He probably got more than he bargained for, because afterwards there was a queue of students in front of his office inquiring about their grades. I didn’t get the grade I’d hoped for, but what really irked me was that he [...]
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