By Phila Back, Phila Back blog
As ecological consciousness grows more thinkers are putting forth holistic interpretations of the world which tackle the age-old problem of the one and the many that poses the two questions: how can a thing with many parts be one and how can there be many things of one kind?
By Tim Ingold, Resilience.org
The truth is that in a more-than-human world, nothing exists in isolation. Humans may share this world with non-humans, but by the same token, stones share it with non-stones, trees with non-trees and mountains with non-mountains.
By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog welcomes the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 crisis, but a “return to normal” should refocus us on a long list of global climate emergencies, social injustices, and tottering democratic institutions.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We are having worldwide fight not over our view of "the facts", but over what constitutes "the facts." It has ever been thus, philosopher Paul Feyeraband tells us. It's just that now that fight is breaking out into the open and disrupting our lives and our institutions without a clear way to resolve it.
By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
Voltaire gives readers a glimpse of the overwhelming weight of the universe and the worst abuses imagined by human beings. And he does it in a way that we can hold them in our hands, smile at their absurdities, remain fortified against their eventualities, and work to plant and grow new ideas and systems...
By Mariel Cisneros López, Indymedia Argentina
Ecommunitarianism is based on three basic ethical standards logically deduced from the question that Ethics sets out, that is to say, What should I do?
By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
How do we live wise and virtuous lives with all of our human frailties laid bare by a pandemic? Hume, I think, would answer: with others, with humor and kindness, and with constant checks on the assumptions and certainties we hold too tightly and too often in opposition to others, be they viral or human.
By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
What better time to step back and consider alternatives, to review those hidden assumptions about success, happiness and work-life balance, and to do some of the deep thinking that philosophy is famously known and occasionally ridiculed[2] for?
By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
It’s hard to take much comfort in our collective cultural and institutional experience with thinking through the kind of pandemic we now confront. Nor do we seem to have anything as valuable and practical as a paddle with which to leverage our movement out of the hole we’ve fallen into.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Truth is a very difficult thing to come by. Usually, when humans stumble onto it, they don't even know they have. America started out as a nation skeptical of royal prerogatives and concentration of power. We've morphed into a gullible society easily manipulated by dreams of a techno-utopian future.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We humans will always seek reductive explanations for “why” things happen in the world around us and try to use those explanations to gain advantage for ourselves and our fellow humans in the fight for survival within our biosphere. But if we see the limits of such explanations and therefore their dangers, we might move more humbly among the vast array of creatures and Earth systems with whom we live and upon whom we depend for our very survival.
By Erik Lindberg, Resilience.org
Now for the prediction. I think that this revolution will in part come from the fact that we love our children and will reach a point where we can no longer consent to the reproduction of false dreams. Of course this response is likely to be reactive and incoherent (which is a reason for thinking about it now).