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“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
—Plato
#PhilSky #philosophy #Monday
—Plato
#PhilSky #philosophy #Monday
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
—Plato
#PhilSky #philosophy #Monday
—Plato
#PhilSky #philosophy #Monday
“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.”
—Paulo Friere
#PhilSky #philosophy #sunday #socialism
—Paulo Friere
#PhilSky #philosophy #sunday #socialism
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.”
—Paulo Friere
#PhilSky #philosophy #sunday #socialism
—Paulo Friere
#PhilSky #philosophy #sunday #socialism
“True mental health consists in a perfect recollection of the past.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
#philosophy #friday #PhilSky
—Arthur Schopenhauer
#philosophy #friday #PhilSky
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“True mental health consists in a perfect recollection of the past.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
#philosophy #friday #PhilSky
—Arthur Schopenhauer
#philosophy #friday #PhilSky
“Cooperatives offer enormous pro-social and environmental benefits but this does not count toward GDP or profits—the only measures of capitalist value, even in a world on fire.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/the-revolutionary-potential-of-cooperatives
#thursday #PhilSky #philosophy #politics
Read here: thereclamation.co/the-revolutionary-potential-of-cooperatives
#thursday #PhilSky #philosophy #politics
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Cooperatives offer enormous pro-social and environmental benefits but this does not count toward GDP or profits—the only measures of capitalist value, even in a world on fire.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/the-revolutionary-potential-of-cooperatives
#thursday #PhilSky #philosophy #politics
Read here: thereclamation.co/the-revolutionary-potential-of-cooperatives
#thursday #PhilSky #philosophy #politics
“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is merely useful for the sake of something else.”
—Aristotle
#philosophy #Tuesday #PhilSky
—Aristotle
#philosophy #Tuesday #PhilSky
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is merely useful for the sake of something else.”
—Aristotle
#philosophy #Tuesday #PhilSky
—Aristotle
#philosophy #Tuesday #PhilSky
“Requiem for a Dream is an artifact of western capitalism evoking Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’”
Full analysis: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream
#PhilSky #film #monday
Full analysis: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream
#PhilSky #film #monday
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Requiem for a Dream is an artifact of western capitalism evoking Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’”
Full analysis: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream
#PhilSky #film #monday
Full analysis: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream
#PhilSky #film #monday
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“The pursuit of an ethnostate has walked Israel into a permanent state of warfare and the monstrous timeline that we find ourselves in only captures the adage: war makes fascists of us all.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-to-end-fascist-terror
#PhilSky #gaza #thursday
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-to-end-fascist-terror
#PhilSky #gaza #thursday
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“The pursuit of an ethnostate has walked Israel into a permanent state of warfare and the monstrous timeline that we find ourselves in only captures the adage: war makes fascists of us all.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-to-end-fascist-terror
#PhilSky #gaza #thursday
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-to-end-fascist-terror
#PhilSky #gaza #thursday
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement.”
—Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta.
#Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy
—Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta.
#Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement.”
—Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta.
#Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy
—Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta.
#Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The past cannot embed a future which leads back to its own alteration, as the alteration would inevitably deny a pathway back to that same future.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel
#PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday
Read here: thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel
#PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“The past cannot embed a future which leads back to its own alteration, as the alteration would inevitably deny a pathway back to that same future.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel
#PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday
Read here: thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel
#PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“Capitalist industry and commerce create the material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.”
—Karl Marx
#PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday
—Karl Marx
#PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“Capitalist industry and commerce create the material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.”
—Karl Marx
#PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday
—Karl Marx
#PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday
“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”
—Thomas More
#philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky
—Thomas More
#philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”
—Thomas More
#philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky
—Thomas More
#philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky
“The meaning of Epstein should not be partisan scorekeeping. These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein
#PhilSky #Friday #Trump
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein
#PhilSky #Friday #Trump
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“The meaning of Epstein should not be partisan scorekeeping. These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.”
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein
#PhilSky #Friday #Trump
Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein
#PhilSky #Friday #Trump
“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.”
—Wittgenstein
#PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy
—Wittgenstein
#PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.”
—Wittgenstein
#PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy
—Wittgenstein
#PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.”
—Rosa Luxemburg
#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
—Rosa Luxemburg
#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.”
—Rosa Luxemburg
#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
—Rosa Luxemburg
#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Once the great mass of people is subordinated to market forces by way of survival, the market is free to act on them in despotic ways.”
Full article here: thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people
#PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism
Full article here: thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people
#PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“Once the great mass of people is subordinated to market forces by way of survival, the market is free to act on them in despotic ways.”
Full article here: thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people
#PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism
Full article here: thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people
#PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism
Fair enough; it is drawn from here although it may be apocryphal, unfortunately. Too bad, I have it in a footnote on Greek philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Fair enough; it is drawn from here although it may be apocryphal, unfortunately. Too bad, I have it in a footnote on Greek philosophy
“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.”
—Aristotle
#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
—Aristotle
#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.”
—Aristotle
#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
—Aristotle
#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson
#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
—Edwin Arlington Robinson
#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson
#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
—Edwin Arlington Robinson
#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.”
—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃
#PhilSky #Halloween #literature
—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃
#PhilSky #Halloween #literature
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.”
—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃
#PhilSky #Halloween #literature
—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃
#PhilSky #Halloween #literature