What we’re about
Here is where we get together to exchange ideas, learn, teach, socialize and enjoy our time spent conversing on life’s matters and humanistic approach to life and living!
where we engage in intellectual conversations, friendly debates and open minded discussions.
We are not afraid of reality; topics s hard to touch, issues sensitive to address!
Where we satisfy the hunger of the brains and hearts! Lets form friendships without borders!
From North America to Europe , Asia, Australia,...! We join together online.
For more excitement Please spread the word and get your friends to join as well!
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We will have a variety of events with creative topics scheduled to satisfy different tastes:
*Philosophy, the ancient game applied to our modern day,
*Science, *Spirituality and meditation, *Psychology, *literature and poetry, *Arts, Music and more.
This is a space to QUESTION & LEARN .
If your beliefs ( in every aspect) can not be questioned and criticized, this is not the right group for you!
Founder director, organizer and moderator;
Fika!
: I am a seasoned moderator with background in literature, find arts, political science & education. Life long explorer of the human experience including but not limited to; philosophy, psychology, history, religion and ..!
*** All meetings would be on Zoom for the time being, with screen shots. When recording meetings you will be informed prior to doing so. All meetings would be moderated***
We will have some in person outings if/when time comes.
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The rules ;
- Respect each other's opinion, rude or hostile behaviour will not be tolerated.
- Respect everyone's privacy and comfort level.
- listen to learn, speak to share but, make sure what you say adds value to the conversation
- be on time
- it’s only polite and mandatory to keep your camera on and have a working mic to engage with everyone in a safe transparent environment, if you have an issue with this please contact me through message board to discuss.
- participate at your own risk
- predatory, threatening or bullying behaviour will result in reporting, blocking and banning and possibly more!
THIS IS NOT A DATING/RELATIONSHIP GROUP. PLEASE DO NOT JOIN WITH SUCH INTENTIONS.
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I (Fika) reserve the rights to admit or reject membership and/or participation requests and/or termination of one.
When meeting in person , only members are allowed to join.
I (Fika) reserve the right of ownership to all material under the group’s umbrella (“Minds&Hearts Without Borders,Int’l”)
\- legalities;
By becoming a member and joining events @ Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l, I hereby grant Fika, “Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l”, and it’s legal representatives and assigns, the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish any and all Zoom recordings for YouTube, trade, advertising and any other commercial purpose, and to alter the same without any restriction. I hereby release Fika, Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l and it’s legal representatives and assigns from all claims and liability related to said video/Audio/photo recordings.
By becoming a member of Minds&Hearts Without Borders, Int’l and registering to its in person and/or online events, you are agreeing to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Founder/owner (Fika) Host(s) and Organizer(s) of this Meetup Group from and against those claims, causes of action, liabilities, cost or expenses, including, legal fees, attributable to bodily injury, death, property damage or other claims which you may incur or which may be asserted against you at these events.
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Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind, Existentialism and Phenomenology and ….
Upcoming events
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•OnlineAristotle's Dialectic - Topics I - Live-Reading--European Style
OnlineNovember 4 - We are newly starting Topics, Book I Chapter 1.
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We are using the translation by Robin Smith: Topics Books I & VIII (Oxford University Press, 1997), page 1.
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Smith in his helpful "Introduction" warns us that since we don't know what we are ignorant of, we barbarians don't know yet what dialectic is or why we need it. So there will be learning pain involved as we bootstrap ourselves toward knowing and practicing what we will learn. The payoff will be tremendous and will be commensurate with personal effort.
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A new reading adventure beckons you and your willpower. Join us.
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Organon means "instrument," as in, instrument for thought and speech. The term was given by ancient commentators to a group of Aristotle's treatises comprising his logical works.Organon
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|-- On Interpretation ---- 2023.12.12
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|-- Sophistical Refutations
|-- Rhetoric*
|-- Prior Analytics
|-- Posterior Analytics(* Robin Smith, author of SEP's 2022 entry "Aristotle's Logic," argues that Rhetoric should be part of the Organon.)
Whenever we do any human thing, we can either do it well or do it poorly. With instruments, we can do things either better, faster, and more; or worse, slower, and less. That is, with instruments they either augment or diminish our doings.
Do thinking and speaking (and writing and listening) require instruments? Yes. We do need physical instruments like microphones, megaphones, pens, papers, computers. But we also need mental instruments: grammar, vocabulary words, evidence-gathering techniques, big-picture integration methods, persuasion strategies. Thinking while sitting meditatively all day in a lotus position doesn't require much instrumentation of any kind, but thinking and speaking well in the sense of project planning, problem-solving, negotiating, arguing, deliberating--that is, the active doings in the world (whether romantic, social, commercial, or political)--do require well-honed mental instruments. That's the Organon in a nutshell.
Are you an up-and-coming human being, a doer, go-getter, achiever, or at least you're choosing to become one? You need to wield the Organon.
Join us.
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•Online🔴MARATHON Discussions!Variety for the Inquisitive minds from around the globe.
Onlinehttps://www.meetup.com/mindshearts-without-borders/events/tdfdssydcfbqb/
- 🔴* CAMERA and MIC MANDATORY____
- Once were introduced, feel free to be on/off
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This Saturday, our Marathon discussion event will concentrate on the above topic however, I will open breakout rooms from the beginning for other proposed topics as well as a social Happy Hour room.
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📌 Meetups very first Marathon Discussions group is five years old with an amazing collection of wonderful attendees!
🔴 Breakout rooms will be provided at the beginning of the event for a variety of topics:- -Applied philosophy
- - Life discussions
- - psychology & Human behaviour
- Politics
- metaphysics
- science , artificial Intelligence & etc.
- Art & Literature
- Happy Hour Room! Meet International friends,
And.. there’s always more.
*SOCIALIZE with INTELLIGENT FRIENDS from AROUND the GLOBE @ our MARATHON SATURDAYS!
Discussions for 10-16 hours✨✨💥
nonestop however, there may be no more new entrees after the first 8 hours. ( 4:00am EST)
If you crave stimulating conversations, discussions, debates, intellectual brainstorming, philosophical pondering, socializing with interesting international friends,**and/or ..**You feel lonely, Are an insomniac,
join us!
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Come and go as you wish.
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•OnlineSelf-Control As Neither Vice Nor Virtue -- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
OnlineNovember 9 - We are reading chapter 9 of NE VII, which resolves puzzle #3 about self-control and steadfastness. Self-control (whether having or lacking) and steadfastness (whether holding or losing) have to do with, respectively, pleasure and pain.
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Take this case: An overweight man resolves on New-Year's Day to be healthy, strong, and looking good with six-pack abs in 18 months. On any day he cannot resist the pleasure of the fattening dessert, he lacks self-control; if he can resist that pleasure, he has self-control. On any day he cannot handle the pain and hassle of the ninety-minute workout at the gym, he is soft-pampered; if he can handle that pain, he is endurant-steadfast.
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Here is the puzzle #3: Can it be that he is actually wrong when having self-control and that lacking self-control is how he can reach his eventual goal, especially if the dietary guidelines or fitness routines he has learned are nothing but junk science? Let's follow Aristotle's train of thought.
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We will read multiple translations starting at 1151a29.
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My summary of chapter 8 on solving puzzle #5, about who is or isn't curable, the decider or the one lacking self-control, can be found here to help you catch up to us. Bring your own questions about the text if you are interested in joining this Sunday's meeting.
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We are live-reading and discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, book VII, which is about troubleshooting the virtues.
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The prerequisite to this book is our answering for ourselves these questions from the prior books, to which we will briefly review:
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1. What is a virtue of character {ēthikē aretē}?
2. How does one come to acquire it? (E.g. [Aristotle’s], ambition, bravery, gentlemanliness, generosity, candor, …)
3. From a first-person perspective in being virtuous, how does one feel and what does one see (differently, discursively) in a given situation of everyday living?
4. From a third-person perspective, how is the virtuous person (of a specific virtue) to be characterized?
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The project's cloud drive is here, at which you'll find the reading texts, notes, and slideshows.2 attendees
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