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Judecând după greșelile tinereții sale, puerilă și ipocrită atunci când se detașa de religie (față de care mereu a păstrat un anumit complex), dar își construia propriile proiecte utopice, nu e de mirare că bătrâna disciplină a filosofiei este astăzi neputincioasă în fața vitalității juvenile și arogante a progeniturii sale numită pozitivism (post, neo, hiper,…
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I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme – a possible framework for testable scientific theories (p.167) I do not think that Darwinism can explain the origin of life. I think it quite possible that life is so extremely improbably that nothing can “explain”…
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Princeton University Press: Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google…
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Severe, austere and deeply moving, Xavier Beauvois’s film about monks threatened by fundamentalists is one of the year’s highlights. “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.” The speaker is Luc, an elderly Catholic monk played by 79-year-old Michael Lonsdale, quoting a pensée of Pascal. He…
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