About us
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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Friendship and Love — Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
·OnlineOnlineMay 10 - We will read chapter 6 of Book IX. Earlier, we read 1) beliefs about friendship, 2) objects of love, 3) three kinds of friendship, 4) the best kind, 5) state vs. activity, 6) friending varieties, 7) of unequals, 8) loving vs. being loved, 9) friendships in societies, 10) forms of government, 11) right & wrong in these forms, 12) in families, 13–14) complaints by friends, 1) problems with dissimilar aims, 2) with conflicting obligations, 3) whether to break up, 4) relation to oneself, 5) goodwill as jumpstart to friending. Now: like-mindedness.
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Our main translation from here on will be by Adam Beresford (Penguin Classics, 2020), but we will occasionally dip into other older English translations to get more insights and commentaries.
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We are live-reading and discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, book VIII–IX, which is about friendship, social relations, and love.
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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 any of it? (E.g. pride, ambition, bravery, gentlemanliness, generosity, candor, fairness, …)
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. How does one formulate right desires?
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The project's cloud drive is here, at which you'll find the reading texts, notes, and slideshows.2 attendees
Aristotle’s Dialectic — Topics I — Live-Reading
·OnlineOnlineMay 12 - We are reading chapter 10 of Topics, Book I, at Bekker lines 104a3–104a37. In this chapter we will find Aristotle's notion of the dialectical premise--that is, what premises count as dialectical and how someone can go about acquiring more of them.
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We are using the translation by Robin Smith: Topics Books I & VIII (Oxford University Press, 1997). We'll read page 9 and a bit of 10.
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Smith in his helpful "Introduction" forewarns us that because 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
|-- Categories ---- 2023.02.28
|-- On Interpretation ---- 2023.12.12
|-- Topics ---- 2025.10.21
|-- 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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