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• REALLY, DID HE DECIDE FREELY?
  on Jul 3, 2011 in Ethics Life Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind Social Philosophy
  Toni “Poika” Illi left the office when he was 55 years old. Everybody respected him in the government machinery. But nothing stopped him from leaving there.Nothing compelled him to stay. He didn’t want to be like everyone else. Huma...
• ON UNFREE persons
  on Apr 28, 2011 in International politics Philosophy of Mind Philosophy
  1) A person x is not able to think than in one way. 2) Free act requires possibilities to do otherwise. 3) However, a person x has not a possibility to think that in this one particular way. (Maybe x is brainwashed or a mind of x is political or.) 4)...
• A Personal Problem
  on Apr 24, 2011 in Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind
  A person x grasps a meaning of the concept “a face”, and grasping it causes an image of a face in the consciousness of x. But how is that causality possible in the Universe? Further, how does the connection of grasping and a mental image...
• Is Philosophy Useful? The Second Suggestion
  on Mar 28, 2011 in Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind
  Philosophizing -> Mental healthy or better reasoning are final causes. Exercising -> Healthy or look or admiration or sex are final causes. That is, one exercises because of wanting to look good. One believes by exercising one will look good.
• SEEING CAUSALITY
  on Feb 6, 2011 in Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind
  You meet a tiger. First, a politician sees a hand and infers from inner feeling “It’s my hand”. He perceives that he points then to himself by his little finger and starts slowly moving it towards his ugly stomach. He sees how his h...
• Is Philosophy Useful?
  on Dec 2, 2010 in International politics Life Social Philosophy Philosophy
  Matias: “Philosophy! But for what reasons? It’s no use!” Maria: “I don’t know… It gives a faculty to recognize when a man or a woman is indoctrinated and brainwashed and a prisoner of some world view. A prisoner of...
• On Categories: An Entity Implies a Thing and a Whole
  on Nov 8, 2010 in Metaphysics Philosophy
  X is one and many A controversial claim! If Mrs. Jones is a person, how can she be many too? And if a group of politicians consists of many individuals, how can it be one when there are actually five persons? One is not identical with five. Next, met...
• What Is Violence Against Humanity: A Suggestion
  on Oct 11, 2010 in Ethics Life Social Philosophy International politics
  The representatives of every species have natural way to act. So have human beings too, a woman or a man, and vice versa. For instance, for birds flying is natural. For fish swimming in the water is the natural function. For humans thinking is the pr...
• Fragments of Philosophy: Is There Ethical Absolute?
  on Sep 15, 2010 in Ethics Life Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind Social Philosophy
  Most people think themselves in situations as agents but not as objects of acts of someone else. Many thinks also that everyone’s own moral beliefs are right and that different cultures’ moral beliefs about the same act are as right. Thus...
• Responsibility 2: Kids deserve better
  on Aug 14, 2010 in Ethics Life Social Philosophy Philosophy
  Kids and their actions are, in partly, their guardians’ responsibility. Kids must be educated as autonomous and critical citizens who are capable to reason their own ends, not politicos’ or guardians’ ends. That’s because resp...

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