Henk bij de Weg
phil-bytheway.bsky.social
Henk bij de Weg
@phil-bytheway.bsky.social
Dutch philosopher (PhD), photographer and cyclist. Author of books and articles. General interest in philosophy but especially the philosophy of mind and action + Montaigne and La Boétie.
Philosophical blogger: philosophybytheway.blogspot.com
Given the rise of autocratic leaders, of the suppression of the freedom of expression; bashing your opponents..., which are threats to democracy and freedom: What are the features of enlightenment?
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#enlightenment #freedom #suppression #democracy
Characteristics of the Enlightenment
Spinoza enlightens the world (image constructed from real photos; no AI) Recently, I attended a lecture on Spinoza, and at the end someone a...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
New pinhole camera photo on my Flickr photo website (different technique than I usually use):
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#pinhole #pinholephoto #landscape #forest #Fujifilm #instax #instantfilm #JollyLook
Nature reserve "De Hees", Soest, Netherlands
Photo taken with a JollyLook pinhole camera onFujifilm instant film.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Montaigne wrote about the vain and idle things people do just for becoming famous; or the useless things people buy just for their prestige. But has anything changed since his days? New blog philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/12/inut...
#Montaigne #vain #idle #useless #vanity #inutility
Inutilities
In his essay “ Of vain subtleties ” ( Essays I, 54) Montaigne writes that “there are a sort of little knacks and frivolous subtleties from ...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What does it mean to reach the goal in our intention? If we happened reach it by luck, can we say that it was because of our intention? New blog about intention and luck
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#action #acting #doing #intention #actionphilosophy #luck #analyticalphilosophy
Intention and luck
Photo taken in Amersfoort, NL, on the Boogschutterplein At the end of my last blog I raised the problem that often it is not easy to say whe...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Recently I argued that waiting is an action, although on the face of it we do nothing. The same goes for omitting and allowing. What kind of action is it? New blog on positive and negative action philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/11/posi...
#allowing #waiting #action #intention #responsibility
Positive and negative actions
In my blog two weeks ago, I argued that waiting – if it is not a waiting that happens to you, because, for instance, you are in a lift that ...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In daily life we spent much time on waiting. Waiting seems a passive affair: it happens to you. Does it? Or is waiting an action? New blog philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/10/is-w...
#waiting #action #practicalsyllogism #philosophy #doing #behavior
Is waiting an action?
Bus stop in Paris My readers may have noticed that I have become increasingly interested in “boring” questions of daily life, such as waitin...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Today my philosophical blog reached the milestone of ONE MILLION views! Thank you all, my dear readers!
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#blog #philosophy #milestone
Philosophy by the Way
Eighteen years of blogs in philosophy
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October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
2 weeks ago, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado got the Nobel Peace Prize. Who was the 1st woman to get it? New blog philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/10/bert...
#Nobelprize #Peaceprize #BerthavonSuttner #MariaMachado #Machado #Suttner #DieWaffenNieder #peaceconference #justice
Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914)
Two weeks ago, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize, although a narcissistic political leader cl...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Too often people draw conclusions about all or many instances of a phenomenon based on too little evidence: A so-called Hasty Generalization, An explanation in my new blog philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/10/hast...
#fallacy #hastyconclusions #logic #argumentation #jumpingtoconclusions
Hasty conclusions
The fallacy “Guilt by Association”, discussed in my last blog, is related to two other fallacies, which I have already treated before: argum...
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October 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
People are only guilty for what they did; not for possible or alleged associations with perpetrators. However this often happens. Blog #GuiltByAssociation philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/09/guil...
#guilt #association #fallacy #hastyconclusions #adhominem #associationfallacy #argumentation
Guilt by association
Photo taken at Fort Breendonk, Belgium, a former fortification,  which  served as a Nazi prison camp during World War II It occurs so often ...
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September 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM