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I’m unsure how to properly formulate this question but am nonetheless going to make an attempt at asking it anyway:

If I think therefore I am here in this plane of existence, then where is the (lucid) dreamer?

Not all conceptions of the soul from antiquity is equitable, they operated off of medical theories that wasn't body based as we have since the renaissance. Winds had a effect from heaven and body, in a manner not the same but not to dissimilar to how the heavens in astrology could dictate the movem...

Would anyone be so kind to describe what the ancient Greek concept of the so called ‘psuche‘ is all about? I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Where upon do you base the statement that there is only one truth?

What is this enlightment that you speak of? Is there truly such a thing or do we just create dogma upon dogma of what we consider relatively plausible truth? Besides, I think of the plausability of those supposed truths as relative. The more I philosophise, the more aware I become of my ignorance an...

“Will is free-will but it is not only free [...] ‘free-will’ is a pleonastic term since there is no such thing as a non-free will.” Agency and Freedom ch. The Twilight Zones of Free Will by Aurel Kolnai

I'm a philosophy aficionado particularly interested in ethics and political philosophy. I'm currently reading Rousseau's Discourse on The Origin of Inequality. I'd be thrilled to receive some recommendations on 18th century philosophy on ethics, politics or economics. Greetings from Amsterdam, Tijge...