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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
— from "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", Wittgenstein
"Discourse cheers us to companionable
reflection. Such reflection neither
parades polemical opinions nor does it
tolerate complaisant agreement. The sail
of thinking keeps trimmed hard to the
wind of the matter."
— from "On the Experience of Thinking", Heidegger
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すべて見る- [In-person] Curiosity Café: Anger (Tickets on Eventbrite)Madison Avenue Pub, Toronto, ON
Anger is considered one of the six basic emotions by emotion researcher Paul Ekman. In its many forms, from mild irritation or simmering resentment to overpowering rage, anger is a core element of our emotional landscape.
Each person has their own relationship with anger. Some individuals feel ashamed of anger and believe it is important to suppress, viewing it as socially undesirable or harmful to oneself. They may struggle to even notice feelings of anger, labelling them as something else or minimizing them. Others embrace anger and perceive it as a source of empowerment or evidence of passion and commitment. In the first half of our café, we’ll examine our experiences of different kinds of anger, and in the second half, we’ll discuss our responses to anger.
A few compelling questions arise:
- What are the differences between various types of anger? (i.e., resentment, frustration, outrage)
- How is anger connected to morality?
- How is anger related to the expectations we have of ourselves, others, or institutions/systems?
- When is anger helpful or harmful? How should we respond to our anger?
- How should we respond to others’ anger?
Join us at our next café to explore the many ways that we experience anger and to contemplate its many roles in our lives.
Space is limited! Please obtain a “Pay-What-You-Can” ticket from Curiosity Café here (link) to attend this event. See the ticketing page for more info about tickets and other options including a limited number of free tickets. Come and hang out with us, grab food, and read through our handout from 6-6:30pm. Our structured discussion will run from 6:30-8:30pm with a 10 minute break in the middle.
Hope to see you there!
(Also check out the next Curiosity Class "The Experience of Grief" on Saturday July 5th and our next Philosophical Skills Workshop "How to Evaluate an Argument" on Saturday June 21)
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This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.
By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
Find out more about Being and Becoming here.
About the Curiosity Café Series:
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
- FTI: Does A.I. help or hurt our critical thinking skills?参加者に表示されるリンク
There was a recent study by MIT that got press which said ChatGPT hurts our critical thinking skills. Is this study valid & did the press report accurately? Are there ways to use LMM’s (like ChatGPT) in a way that helps our critical thinking skills? How should we use AI to improve critical thinking?
Format: Lecture and discussion
Note: social time for our community 15 minutes before the presentation.
To get familiar with our past events, feel free to check out our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmixGB9GdrptyEWovEj80zgAfter registering via zoom, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We publish our event recordings on our Youtube channel to offer our help to anyone who would like to but can’t attend the meeting, so we need to give this clause. If you don’t want to be recorded, just remain on mute and keep your video off.Here’s our legal notice: For valuable consideration received, by joining this event I hereby grant Free Thinker Institute and its legal representatives and assigns, the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish any and all Zoom recordings for trade, advertising and any other commercial purpose, and to alter the same without any restriction. I hereby release Free Thinker Institute and its legal representatives and assigns from all claims and liability related to said video recordings.
- Nietzsche: The Gay Science [Session 47]参加者に表示されるリンク
While the Walter Kaufmann translation is preferred, a link to the free Cambridge translation is here. For this Meetup, we will read aphorisms 177-190, and discuss them one at a time and get as far as we get, carrying forward any undiscussed aphorisms to the following week.
It’s 1882, and a friend has just given you a copy and recommendation of a book by a former professor of philology named Friedrich Nietzsche. Your friend says that he seems to be a philosopher of some sort, even though he doesn’t write like one, and in this book he argues, among a lot of other provocative things, that God Is dead!
This Is the beginner’s mind that this Meetup will take with this book. You may know his contemporaries and antecedents, but you’re here to share YOUR thoughts, not those of subsequent critics.
Recordings and AI summaries of previous sessions are available here.
Suggested texts: The Portable Neitzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann and The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, edited by Walter KaufmannSyllabus (titles are linked to free PDF’s, most of which require a free academia.edu account)
The Gay Science (academia.edu)
Beyond Good and Evil (academia.edu)*
On The Genealogy of Morals (academia.edu)*
The Case of Wagner*
Twilight of the Idols** (academia.edu)
The Antichrist**
Ecce Homo*
Nietzsche Contra Wagner***The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann
**Walter Kaufmann’s, The Portable Nietzsche - Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Week 4 – Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason)参加者に表示されるリンク
What does 'morality' mean, and what does it mean that we are moral? Kant's classic of meta-ethics, the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, tries to address these questions while working towards inaugurating a new approach to metaphysics. Kant's ethical project is broad, covering problems of personal responsibility, virtue, rights, cosmopolitanism, world peace, and religion.
No prior experience with Kant is necessary.
Our Kant reading continues with the Critique of Practical Reason. We'll be covering Book II (Dialectic) at this meetup.
pp 226 - 258 (Gregor, Cambridge Practical Philosophy)
pp 137 - 186 (Pluhar)
pp 5:107 - 148 (Complete Works)Note: Meetings focus on developing a common language and friendship through studying Kant. The host will provide an interpretation of Kant; other interpretations will not be discussed until later in the meeting. Additional interpretations, topics, and questions can be addressed through the Jitsi chat feature.
Reading Schedule:
Week 1:
Preface and Introduction
pp 139 - 149 (Gregor, Cambridge Practical Philosophy)
pp 3 - 25 (Pluhar)
pp 5:3 - 16 (Complete Works)Week 2:
Book I (Analytic) - Chapter I
pp 153 - 186 (Gregor, Cambridge Practical Philosophy)
pp 29 - 77 (Pluhar)
pp 5:19 - 57 (Complete Works)Week 3:
Book I (Analytic) - Chapters II and III
pp 186 - 225 (Gregor, Cambridge Practical Philosophy)
pp 77 - 135 (Pluhar)
pp 5:57 - 106 (Complete Works)Week 4:
Book II (Dialectic)
pp 226 - 258 (Gregor, Cambridge Practical Philosophy)
pp 137 - 186 (Pluhar)
pp 5:107 - 148 (Complete Works)Week 5:
Doctrine of Method
pp 261 - 271 (Gregor, Cambridge Practical Philosophy)
pp 189 - 205 (Pluhar)
pp 5:151 - 163 (Complete Works)There are numerous editions (and free translations available online if you search), but this collection contains all of Kant's Practical Philosophy in translation:
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Philosophy-Cambridge-Works-Immanuel/dp/0521654084/
PDF: https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/kant-practical-philosophy.pdf
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