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Love of All Wisdom
http://loveofallwisdom.com
Love of All Wisdom is an attempt to construct a sound and coherent philosophy using the ideas of many different philosophical traditions. The blog's ideas draw especially on the works of South Asian Buddhists (from the historical Buddha through Shantideva to S.N. Goenka) and contemporary Western traditions going back to ancient Greece and 19th-century Germany. The author has a PhD in Buddhist studies from Harvard. The blog is a work in progress, a twice-weekly set of philosophical reflections, and invites comments and debate from any interested readers.
- Author: Amod Lele
- Listed in: Philosophy Religion
- Tags: Buddhism nietzsche aristotle shantideva comparative philosophy cross-cultural philosophy
Recent Posts
Reflections on the ethics of Santa
Heath White of PEA Soup has an interesting new post up called The Ethics of Santa. White argues that parents and educators should not teach their children the myth of Santa Claus, for three major reasons: It involves a lot of lying and deception pra...
The three basic ways of life
One reason I turn back to premodern philosophies so much is that they often show us questions larger than those generally asked in philosophy today. Especially important among these: “what kind of life should I live?” What sorts of major ...
Justice without moral responsibility
I’ve recently been sympathetic to two different positions which seem to stand in some tension with one another. I’ve blogged about them both here, but on separate occasions. On one hand, to some degree happiness seems to require justice: ...
Philosophy and science: comic takes
In light of several recent posts about philosophy and natural science, I thought I’d link to a pair of recent strips from two of my favourite webcomics, Randall Munroe’s XKCD and Ryan Lake’s Chaospet: http://xkcd.com/675/ http://cha...
Following science as a layperson
Perhaps the trickiest thing about trying to be a philosopher today is the explosion of information in natural science: we are in the era of “rapid-discovery science,” as Randall Collins calls it in The Sociology of Philosophies. Aristotle...
Omniscience and manipulation
Andrew Moon of the Prosblogion (probably the leading blog in the philosophy of Abrahamic traditions) was recently rereading Robert Adams’s The Virtue of Faith, and was intrigued by a passage that I also found intriguing. Adams is arguing that u...
