Tag: Sigmund Freud

• Counterfactualities?

  Remember Plato’s Cave allegory? In his Republic he describes a scenario in which some people have spent their lives chained in a cave so they can only see the wall in front of them. There is a fire behind them that casts shadows on the wall that they have no way of knowing are only…

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  December 30, 2020

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  Arthur Schopenhauer, counterfactuals, depression, depressive realism, depressogenic thoughts, Joseph Forgas, Julie Reshe, Martin Heidegger, Plato’s Cave Allegory, psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud, University of Tyumen in Siberia

• Does the love of heaven make one heavenly?

  Why do find myself so attracted to articles about religion? I am not an adherent -religion does not stick to me- nor am I tempted to take the famous wager of the 17th century philosopher, Pascal: dare to live life as if God exists, because you’ve got nothing to lose if He doesn’t, and everything…

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  December 16, 2020

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  Alain de Botton, BBC Future, Catholicism, Charon, Christianity, Constantine, Edict of Milan, Edict of Thessalonica, God, Hinduism, Karl Marx, Linda Woodhead, Pascal’s Wager, polytheism, religion, Sigmund Freud, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, the River Styx, Theodosius, University of Lancaster, Voltaire

• Let shame say what it will

  Call me overly sensitive, but I don’t like to be shamed. There, I’ve said it. I suspect it is because shaming causes me to think less of myself: to feel humiliated, demeaned. And yet, there is another side to humiliation that seems to hide in the shadows: the feeling of humility – ‘This amounts not…

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  August 12, 2020

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  appraisal respect, ethics, exemplary individuals, humiliation, humility, Immanuel Kant, Louise Chapman, moral education, moral hydraulics, Pembroke College, shame, shaming, Sigmund Freud, social media, sublimation, University of Cambridge