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Henk bij de Weg
@phil-bytheway.bsky.social
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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
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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
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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
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Where did Spinoza live? New blog with photos philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/12/wher...
#Spinoza #Amsterdam #Rijnsburg #TheHague #photo #biography #philosophy #Enlightenment #Ethica #Ethics
Where did Spinoza live?
Spinoza's Opera Posthuma (Posthumous Works) with the Ethica ,  published in 1677 by his friends after his death.  As regular readers of thi...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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New photo on my Flickr photo website
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#pinhole #pinholephotography #photo #landscape #river #IJssel #Netherlands
Veessen, Netherlands - Look through to the river IJssel
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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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
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New on my Flickr photo website
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#pinhole #pinholephotography #forest #wood #dendolder #Netherlands #autumn
Den Dolder, Utrecht, Netherlands - Autumn in the forest
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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
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New photo on my Flickr photo website
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#pinhole #pinholephoto #castle #landscape #river #zeroimage #Nijenrode #Nyenrode
Nijenrode Castle on the Vecht River near Breukelen, Netherlands
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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What it the difference between performing an action and doing? New blog: philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ai-p...
#action #acting #doing #intention #actionphilosophy #Anscombe #Davidson #analyticalphilosophy
Actions and doings
AI photo by https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator and edited by me. In my blog last week, I stated that I don’t perform an actio...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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New on my Flickr photo website
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#pinhole #pinholephotography #landscape #riverscape #river #IJssel #Netherlands #zeroimage
The river IJssel and IJssel Bridge near Zwolle, Netherlands
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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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
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New on my Flickr photowebsite
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#pinhole #pinholephoto #filmphotography #landscape #dike #Netherlands
Dike Storage House Wieringerwerf, province of Northern Holland, Netherlands. Photo taken with pinhole camera
Dike storage houses are buildings used for storing material for repairing the dike in case of need. Most Dutch dike storage houses have been built about 1900 along the rivers in the centre of the coun...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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New photo on my Flickr photo website
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#pinhole #pinholphotography #landscape #reflection #river #photo #IJssel #river
Dieren on the River IJssel, province Gelderland, Netherlands
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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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
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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
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New photo on my Flickr photowebsite
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#pinhole #pinholphotography #landscape #reflection #river #photo #Lek #river
View on the Ferry House on the Lek near Beusichem, province of Gelderland, Netherlands
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film. It belongs to my series " From Kinderdijk to Kampen", which has been exhibited in the Naarden Photo Festival 2021 and elsewh...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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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
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Not only individuals can be narcissists, the whole society is narcissistic today. New blog philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
#narcissism #narcissist #selfie #egoism #neoliberalism #Spinoza
The narcissist society
Selfie Narcissism is a characteristic of some political leaders. It’s a characteristic that brought them to the top. Narcissism is not only ...
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October 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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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
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New pinhole cmaera photoon my Flickr photo website
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#pinhole #pinholephotography #landscape #cityscape #photo #IJssel #Deventer #riverscape #photo
View on Deventer, Netherlands
Photo taken with a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format pinhole camera on 120 film. It belongs to my series " From Kinderdijk to Kampen", which has been exhibited in the Naarden Photo Festival 2021 and elsewhe...
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October 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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New on my Flickr photo website
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#riverscape #landscape #Schelde #Scheldt #river #Belgium #photo #sunset
The river Schelde at St. Amands on a summer evening (Belgium)
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October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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
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New pinhole camera photo on my Flickr photowebsite
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#pinhole #pinholephotography #landscape #river #ijssel #zeroimage #Netherlands #reflection
The River IJssel near Wilp (Deventer), Netherlands
Photo taken with a Zero Image 135 DeLuxe pinhole camera on colour slide film (Sensia 200).
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September 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Books: Why Montaigne reads them (and why I do). New blog philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-b...
#books #blog #Montaigne #philosophy #Essays
On Books
In his essay “ Of three employments ” ( Essays , III-3), Montaigne distinguishes between dealing with friends, with women, and with books. H...
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September 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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New photo on my Flickr Photo Website showing Dutch heritage
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#photo #photography #heritage #pumpingstation #monument #architecturalmonument #architecture #heritage #polder
Pumping station De Ronde Hoep (left) and the house of the operator near Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands
Pumping station "De Ronde Hoep" was built in 1913 and was one of the first equipped with a diesel engine. Pumping stations like this one keep the Netherlands dry, otherwise large parts of the country ...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM