Viacheslav Landakov
@landviach.bsky.social
Eastern Slobozhanschyna Ukrainian. Engineer, lawyer, teacher, amateur philosopher and political activist. Photography ~ drawing ~ writing ~ coding.
Ideas matter!
Ideas matter!
Those swayed by inevitability see every fact as a blip that does not alter the overall story of progress; those who shift to eternity classify every new event as just one more instance of a timeless threat. Each masquerades as history; each does away with history.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Those swayed by inevitability see every fact as a blip that does not alter the overall story of progress; those who shift to eternity classify every new event as just one more instance of a timeless threat. Each masquerades as history; each does away with history.
There is a distinction in #judgments, according to which they are either merely #explicative, adding nothing to the content of the cognition, or #ampliative, increasing the given cognition: the former may be called #analytic, the latter #synthetic, judgments.
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
There is a distinction in #judgments, according to which they are either merely #explicative, adding nothing to the content of the cognition, or #ampliative, increasing the given cognition: the former may be called #analytic, the latter #synthetic, judgments.
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
The particular powers, by which all natural operations are performed, never appear to the senses; nor is it reasonable to conclude, merely because one event, in one instance, precedes another, that therefore the one is the cause, the other the effect. Their conjunction may be arbitrary and casual.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The particular powers, by which all natural operations are performed, never appear to the senses; nor is it reasonable to conclude, merely because one event, in one instance, precedes another, that therefore the one is the cause, the other the effect. Their conjunction may be arbitrary and casual.
A distinguishing feature of a particular “social space” is the set of what counts within that “social space” as the basic “ground rules” for agents to justify their beliefs and to guide their actions.
These sets of authoritative reasons appear as certain and structuring as to count as truth,
These sets of authoritative reasons appear as certain and structuring as to count as truth,
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A distinguishing feature of a particular “social space” is the set of what counts within that “social space” as the basic “ground rules” for agents to justify their beliefs and to guide their actions.
These sets of authoritative reasons appear as certain and structuring as to count as truth,
These sets of authoritative reasons appear as certain and structuring as to count as truth,
#Hegel was aligned with the official position in his criticisms of #Catholicism, which he claimed undermined conscience through the exercise of clerical authority. Hegel argued, that this divided the world into two polar kingdoms: one secular and the other in the great beyond.
#RichardBourke
#RichardBourke
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
#Hegel was aligned with the official position in his criticisms of #Catholicism, which he claimed undermined conscience through the exercise of clerical authority. Hegel argued, that this divided the world into two polar kingdoms: one secular and the other in the great beyond.
#RichardBourke
#RichardBourke
Consider a material object, such as a poker, that persists over time and changes from being hot at t1 to being cold at t2 and has a spacetime career represented by a 4D path.
The #endurantist will say that the poker is #multilocated at all 3D slices of its path corresponding to different times.
The #endurantist will say that the poker is #multilocated at all 3D slices of its path corresponding to different times.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Consider a material object, such as a poker, that persists over time and changes from being hot at t1 to being cold at t2 and has a spacetime career represented by a 4D path.
The #endurantist will say that the poker is #multilocated at all 3D slices of its path corresponding to different times.
The #endurantist will say that the poker is #multilocated at all 3D slices of its path corresponding to different times.
Nothing could drive France further into anarchy than the proposed Revolutionary Army, a roving horde of undisciplined bullies led by inquisitors and demagogues, turned loose with guns and guillotines upon the wretched peasants, and free from any effectual control by the authorities in Paris.
#Palmer
#Palmer
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nothing could drive France further into anarchy than the proposed Revolutionary Army, a roving horde of undisciplined bullies led by inquisitors and demagogues, turned loose with guns and guillotines upon the wretched peasants, and free from any effectual control by the authorities in Paris.
#Palmer
#Palmer
The very concept of the modern state presupposes a vastly simplified and uniform property regime that is legible and hence manipulable from the center.
#JamesCScott
#SeeingLikeAState
#JamesCScott
#SeeingLikeAState
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The very concept of the modern state presupposes a vastly simplified and uniform property regime that is legible and hence manipulable from the center.
#JamesCScott
#SeeingLikeAState
#JamesCScott
#SeeingLikeAState
The collapse of the politics of #inevitability ushers in another experience of time: the politics of #eternity. Whereas inevitability promises a better future for everyone, eternity places one nation at the center of a cyclical story of #victimhood.
#TimothySnyder
#TheRoadToUnfreedom
#TimothySnyder
#TheRoadToUnfreedom
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The collapse of the politics of #inevitability ushers in another experience of time: the politics of #eternity. Whereas inevitability promises a better future for everyone, eternity places one nation at the center of a cyclical story of #victimhood.
#TimothySnyder
#TheRoadToUnfreedom
#TimothySnyder
#TheRoadToUnfreedom
In order to present metaphysical cognition as a science, it's necessary to differentiate its sources, which cannot be empirical and whose principles must never be derived from experience.
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
In order to present metaphysical cognition as a science, it's necessary to differentiate its sources, which cannot be empirical and whose principles must never be derived from experience.
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
#ImmanuelKant
#Prolegomena
In all reasonings from #experience, there is a step taken by the mind, which is not supported by any argument or process of the understanding.
If the mind be not engaged by argument to make this step, it must be induced by some other principle of equal weight and authority.
#DavidHume
#AnEnquiry
If the mind be not engaged by argument to make this step, it must be induced by some other principle of equal weight and authority.
#DavidHume
#AnEnquiry
November 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In all reasonings from #experience, there is a step taken by the mind, which is not supported by any argument or process of the understanding.
If the mind be not engaged by argument to make this step, it must be induced by some other principle of equal weight and authority.
#DavidHume
#AnEnquiry
If the mind be not engaged by argument to make this step, it must be induced by some other principle of equal weight and authority.
#DavidHume
#AnEnquiry
Self-consciousness on the Hegelian model is not the awareness of a set of internal objects (sensations, mental occurrences, representations), but rather the assumption of a position in "social space".
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Self-consciousness on the Hegelian model is not the awareness of a set of internal objects (sensations, mental occurrences, representations), but rather the assumption of a position in "social space".
In carrying the kingdom of virtue in his heart alone, Christ relinquished actual life in favour of another possible life. This severance from happiness took the shape of a war on impulse, which passed through innumerable brutal conflicts unleashing atrocities and devastations.
#Hegel
#RichardBourke
#Hegel
#RichardBourke
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In carrying the kingdom of virtue in his heart alone, Christ relinquished actual life in favour of another possible life. This severance from happiness took the shape of a war on impulse, which passed through innumerable brutal conflicts unleashing atrocities and devastations.
#Hegel
#RichardBourke
#Hegel
#RichardBourke
On a common understanding of #persistence, something persists if, somehow or other, it exists at various times. The three rival modes of persistence are #endurance, #perdurance, and #exdurance.
#PhilosophyOfTime
#YuriBalashov
#PhilosophyOfTime
#YuriBalashov
October 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
On a common understanding of #persistence, something persists if, somehow or other, it exists at various times. The three rival modes of persistence are #endurance, #perdurance, and #exdurance.
#PhilosophyOfTime
#YuriBalashov
#PhilosophyOfTime
#YuriBalashov
Toward noon on September 5, 1793, as the crowds were gathering before the city hall, a great darkness settled down upon Paris due to an #eclipse of the sun. The Parisians, whose grandfathers would probably have been struck with fear, laughed at it and proceeded with their business.
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Toward noon on September 5, 1793, as the crowds were gathering before the city hall, a great darkness settled down upon Paris due to an #eclipse of the sun. The Parisians, whose grandfathers would probably have been struck with fear, laughed at it and proceeded with their business.
The revenue of the early modern state from levies on land implied attaching every parcel of taxable property to an individual responsible for paying the tax on it. As straightforward as this procedure seems in the context of the modern state, its achievement was enormously difficult.
#JamesCScott
#JamesCScott
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The revenue of the early modern state from levies on land implied attaching every parcel of taxable property to an individual responsible for paying the tax on it. As straightforward as this procedure seems in the context of the modern state, its achievement was enormously difficult.
#JamesCScott
#JamesCScott
There are always alternatives in politics, and the better ones, such as Ukrainian resistance, will have to be affirmed. If we give up on the ethics at a time of such clear moral choices, we will be giving in to those who say that nothing is true, and therefore everything is permitted.
#TimothySnyder
#TimothySnyder
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
There are always alternatives in politics, and the better ones, such as Ukrainian resistance, will have to be affirmed. If we give up on the ethics at a time of such clear moral choices, we will be giving in to those who say that nothing is true, and therefore everything is permitted.
#TimothySnyder
#TimothySnyder
I offer in the #Prolegomena such a plan of a general critique of pure reason which is sketched out after an #analytical method, while the #Critique itself had to be executed in the #synthetical style, so the science may present all its articulations in their natural combination.
#ImmanuelKant
#ImmanuelKant
October 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I offer in the #Prolegomena such a plan of a general critique of pure reason which is sketched out after an #analytical method, while the #Critique itself had to be executed in the #synthetical style, so the science may present all its articulations in their natural combination.
#ImmanuelKant
#ImmanuelKant
This change in nature of bodies happens sometimes to some objects: Why may it not happen always, and with regard to all objects? What logic, what process of argument secures you against this supposition? I want to learn the foundation of this inference. No enquiry has removed this difficulty yet.
October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This change in nature of bodies happens sometimes to some objects: Why may it not happen always, and with regard to all objects? What logic, what process of argument secures you against this supposition? I want to learn the foundation of this inference. No enquiry has removed this difficulty yet.
A successful #LinearGrouping. The eye might easily be led across and out; however, the line of transition pauses first at the standing figure and then at the less-defined man in the rear. Thus, we are led across and back in an elliptical line of movement.
#Rembrandt
#TheSyndics
#HenryRankinPoore
#Rembrandt
#TheSyndics
#HenryRankinPoore
October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A successful #LinearGrouping. The eye might easily be led across and out; however, the line of transition pauses first at the standing figure and then at the less-defined man in the rear. Thus, we are led across and back in an elliptical line of movement.
#Rembrandt
#TheSyndics
#HenryRankinPoore
#Rembrandt
#TheSyndics
#HenryRankinPoore
A theory of knowledge that takes something as self-evident based on a variety of assumptions that are certainly not so self-evident is, as #Hegel puts it, itself only an appearance ( #Erscheinung) and, as such, can make no claim to being true or better than the others.
#TerryPinkard
#Phenomenology
#TerryPinkard
#Phenomenology
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A theory of knowledge that takes something as self-evident based on a variety of assumptions that are certainly not so self-evident is, as #Hegel puts it, itself only an appearance ( #Erscheinung) and, as such, can make no claim to being true or better than the others.
#TerryPinkard
#Phenomenology
#TerryPinkard
#Phenomenology
Christ fled relationships in the actual world on the grounds that all available ties were fatally compromised. This resolution became an integral if ominous part of his embassy: ‘Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.’
#RichardBourke
#RichardBourke
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Christ fled relationships in the actual world on the grounds that all available ties were fatally compromised. This resolution became an integral if ominous part of his embassy: ‘Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.’
#RichardBourke
#RichardBourke
Much of contemporary #PhilosophyOfTime is an ongoing battle between two rival ontologies of time, #eternalism and #presentism.
October 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Much of contemporary #PhilosophyOfTime is an ongoing battle between two rival ontologies of time, #eternalism and #presentism.
Calling for order, authority, confidence, unity and efficiency, #Robespierre was ceasing to be revolutionary in the old sense of the word. In 1793, “Revolutionary” referred to the stabilizing of an accomplished fact, #TheRevolution.
#R.R.Palmer
#TwelveWhoRuled
#R.R.Palmer
#TwelveWhoRuled
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Calling for order, authority, confidence, unity and efficiency, #Robespierre was ceasing to be revolutionary in the old sense of the word. In 1793, “Revolutionary” referred to the stabilizing of an accomplished fact, #TheRevolution.
#R.R.Palmer
#TwelveWhoRuled
#R.R.Palmer
#TwelveWhoRuled
Three factors made the “ #MetricalRevolution” possible: the growth of market exchange; popular sentiment and Enlightenment philosophy favored a single standard throughout France; the Revolution and especially Napoleonic state building enforced the metric system in France and the empire
#JamesCScott
#JamesCScott
October 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Three factors made the “ #MetricalRevolution” possible: the growth of market exchange; popular sentiment and Enlightenment philosophy favored a single standard throughout France; the Revolution and especially Napoleonic state building enforced the metric system in France and the empire
#JamesCScott
#JamesCScott