Understanding Cognitive Processes, Cosmogenesis, and Freud’s Theories
Cognitive Psychology: Understanding Mental Processes
Cognitive psychology studies mental processes, analyzing and proposing mechanisms to interpret general principles of intelligence. It postulates that human beings are constantly changing and can modify themselves through willpower. Intelligence can be modified through learning, leading to changes in cognitive structure. Effective psychological methods and learning techniques can enhance cognitive performance.
Performance without schooling often
Read MoreNietzsche’s Critique of Platonism: Tragedy & Metaphysics
Criticism of Platonism
The Tragedy
In “The Birth of Tragedy,” Nietzsche describes a new conception of reality where life is pierced by tragedy. The phenomenon of tragedy represents the true nature of reality, showing how the individualized self emerges from the depths of life and dissolves in death. Tragedy expresses the continuous cycle of world construction and destruction. Nietzsche identifies two aesthetic forces, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, that are perpetually in combat, yet cannot exist
Read MoreSocial Minimum and Social Contract: A Comparison
Social Minimum
The social minimum refers to the basic necessities and rights that a society must provide to its citizens to ensure a decent standard of living. These necessities can include food, housing, healthcare, and education. A society has a moral obligation to ensure that all citizens have access to the basic necessities of life, regardless of income or social status. The implementation of a social minimum can take many forms, such as guaranteed minimum income, universal basic income, and
Read MoreHegel’s Phenomenology: Alienation and Abstract Thought
The Cradle of Hegelian Philosophy in Phenomenology
The first concept emerges most clearly in the Phenomenology, as the cradle of Hegelian philosophy. When Hegel sees, for example, wealth, state power, etc., as alienated essences for humans, this occurs only in a speculative manner. They are entities and therefore ideal, just a philosophical estrangement of pure, i.e., abstract thought. All movement ends with absolute knowledge. Abstract thinking is precisely where these objects are missed, and this
Nietzsche: Life, Work, and the Superman
Nietzsche’s Life and Historical Context
Nietzsche (1844-1900), an author as influential in popularity as Heidegger and Deleuze, studied classical philology (he was a Professor of Greek) and had a close friendship with Richard Wagner, who influenced his aesthetics and conveyed to him non-Christian behavior, contrary to the tradition of their parents.
He lived in the second half of the nineteenth century, a period marked by many revolutions that enhanced ties between science and economy in Europe:
Read MoreKant vs. Marx: History, Society, and Human Nature
Kant vs. Marx: Comparing Theories of History
Taking the theory of history as a thread, let’s compare Marx to Kant. We begin with three similarities between both authors.
Similarities Between Kant and Marx
- For both, history is a dialectical structure. Kant, like Marx, argues that history suffers apparent setbacks that may have a sense since the present is not easy to determine. History, as Kant conceives it, is dynamic, and historical movements could be explained dialectically.
- For both authors, there