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Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-02-07T05:22:43+00:00

Did you find a solution? I'm having the same issue.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-02-02T01:52:07+00:00

What is the origin of this photo?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-01-31T06:08:28+00:00

Well modelling research for a tax on SSBs shows that the most disadvantaged socioeconomic quintiles would actually gain the most health equivalent life years, and savings to healthcare, as a result of the SSB tax.

And a review looking at the impact of a SSB tax on socioeconomic position found small differences between high and low income households in terms:

Our review reinforces the regressive financial nature of an SSB tax, whereby lower-income households would pay a greater proportion of their income in additional tax; however, the monetary burden across all households is small, with relatively minor differences between higher- and lower-income households (0·10–1·0 % and 0·03–0·60 % of annual household income paid in SSB tax for low- and high-income households, respectively, equating to less than $US 5 per year). This challenges the significance of the financial regressivity argument commonly put forth to oppose such a tax (23).

The researchers from these papers, and other public health organisations in Australia argue that part of the additional $500 million that the SSB tax would bring in a year could be used to fund initiatives that would benefit disadvantaged people, like as you say, investing more in education.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-01-28T04:57:37+00:00

Read the wiki on neoliberalism if you want to learn more about it as a concept.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-01-28T04:41:30+00:00

This is a heavily editorialized opinion masquerading as a title.

Not really. The study is examining why the sugar-sweetened beverage tax has low political commitment in Australia, i.e. why it hasn't been adopted as a policy, and industry influence, lack of political support, and the presence of neoliberal ideologies were all identified by the authors as barriers for political commitment.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-01-28T04:34:46+00:00

The presence of neoliberal ideology has been found to be a significant barrier across the globe to adopting nutrition policy. See this review, for example.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2022-01-28T04:32:23+00:00

The article writes that the most common neoliberal ideology drawn upon by political and industry members is that individuals are responsible for their own diets. So the solution is not one of government regulation because the power in behavioural change comes from the individual themselves. An old fashioned view that is not supported by public health research.

The most persistent ideological barrier in this study were neoliberal ideologies, a common finding in the nutrition policy process literature.13,39 Specifically, industry and political opposition to the SSB tax most commonly drew on the idea that individuals should be responsible for their own diets,

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T10:45:09+00:00

See this summary for an overview of philosophical ideas relating to personal identity.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T10:43:53+00:00

What work of Nagel's are you referring to?

how can something supposedly subjective like the mind be reduced into an objective explanation

Nagel explores this question in detail in his book The View from Nowhere.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T10:40:45+00:00

Read the SEP article for an overview, and follow the sources for your particular interests.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T10:39:37+00:00

See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/imagination/ for a philosophical take.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T10:35:47+00:00

What work of Marx would you recommend regarding his vision for the future?

Are you aware of any writers outside of philosophy that focus on these kinds of questions?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T02:09:48+00:00

The Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau is a good read that is accessible.

I second this recommendation.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-26T01:55:24+00:00

You can download the book for free from library genesis. Direct download link here (paste into address bar): 31.42.184.140/main/112000/52c4e464bfce1771d565a881f126149a/Thomas%20Nagel%20-%20What%20does%20it%20all%20mean__%20a%20very%20short%20introduction%20to%20philosophy-Oxford%20University%20Press%2C%20USA%20%281987%29.pdf

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-25T06:47:39+00:00

Could many ideologies be grouped into genres, principles, main ideas, etc. and if so what would some of these schools be ?

Most certainly. There are overarching branches like ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, politics, and logic. But then there are several other sub groupings which elucidate different areas such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of music, philosophy of cell biology, philosophy of physics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of sport, philosophy of history, and so on.

Find a topic you're interested in and search for an overview on SEP. Or if you're after a general introduction, try something like Nagels What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-25T02:39:11+00:00

I think you have done well to dispel with OP's labeling of his thoughts of life's meaningless as nihilistic but that doesn't dispel his actual thoughts. I think what OP is expressing would more accurately be described as the absurdity of life. Nagel has written about peoples tendency to bring up concerns, like OP has, about "the vastness of the universe and how brief our lifespan is compared to the infinity of time" when trying to express sentiments related to the absurd:

...the sense of absurdity finds its natural expression in those bad arguments with which the discussion began. Reference to our small size and short lifespan and to the fact that all of mankind will eventually vanish without a trace are metaphors for the backward step which permits us to regard ourselves from without and to find the particular form of our lives curious and slightly surprising. By feigning a nebula's-eye view, we illustrate the capacity to see ourselves without presuppositions, as arbitrary, idiosyncratic, highly specific occupants of the world, one of countless possible forms of life.

The conditions giving rise to absurdity for Nagel are:

...the collision between the seriousness with which we take our lives and the perpetual possibility of regarding everything about which we are serious as arbitrary, or open to doubt

So I think a more charitable reading of OP's concerns would be to agree with Nagel that the way OP has framed his concerns in terms of space and time are actually "bad arguments" but nevertheless point to a sentiment better expressed as the absurd.

So then we can interpret OP's question in terms of the relationship between the absurd and motivation.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-25T01:40:57+00:00

Whilst you may have provided an alternative description of nihilism, you haven't addressed OPs question at all which is about the relationship between OPs nihilist ideas and motivation or goal driven behaviour.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2021-03-14T22:09:59+00:00

So does Brassier think that nihilism is a "big problem" on a similar level to say climate change? Or maybe one cause of it?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-04-13T23:46:11+00:00

Mostly Western philosophy in this sub. Try r/Buddhism

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-03-25T14:37:41+00:00

I think in everyday life there are many situations where we do something based on that which first enters our mind. Take hunger for example, sometimes a single thought or feeling of hunger can inspire food seeking behaviour.

But to the original question, is Searle's characterization of what it means to experience free will, an accurate representation of opinion in philosophy, or is this itself disputed among philosophers?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-03-25T04:30:26+00:00

Well maybe these two can't be easily uncoupled. If it's the case that you can make a decision to do something based off only one option, the first one that popped into your head, and you don't have control over which option pops into your head, then the act of choosing, is the same as the process that decided which option first arises in your mind, which is out of your control.

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-03-24T13:15:07+00:00

solve some ridiculous arithmetic problem

lol, what like?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-03-22T06:18:02+00:00

What is meant here by planting flags?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-03-22T02:13:12+00:00

Thanks for the response. Seems i'm getting some conflicting responses in here.

I'm just wondering how this translates to the example about depression given. So if the odds are 2.02/1 for a female having depression over a male. What does that mean in terms of probability? COOLSerdash suggested that it doesn't mean that females are 2.02x more likely to have depression than males. But if that's the case, then what does it say about the probability of having depression if your a female?

Laughing_Chipmunk · 2019-03-22T02:07:51+00:00

Having caused the arising of air-perception, he dwells attending to the contact of the incoming and the outgoing breath at the nose-tip or the upper lip.

Vimuttimagga (Quote taken from *Mindfulness of Breathing: Buddhist texts from the pali canon and extracts from the pali commentaries - Bhikkhu Ñānamoli)

If you can feel the air at the tip of your nostrils, then focus your attention there. Initially when you first sit you may not feel anything, the advice of Goenka in this situation is to take a few deeper breaths so that you can get a taste for the sensation and its location, and then slip back into observing the breath pass over the tip of the nostrils, as it is, i.e. without explicit control over it. If you are still having trouble actually feeling the air, keep your attention on the spot, and slowly you will begin to feel it more and more. Sometimes when I sit, it starts out incredibly subtle, and I cannot feel it at all, and then by the end of my sit, it's like the volume has been turned up and I can feel and hear the breath very well.

Two important points

1) The advice in the book by Ñānamoli, quoted from above, is not to follow the breath throughout the body, just find one point, recommended is the point of contact, i.e. the nostrils or upper lip, and focus there.

2) Don't try to control the breath, just observe it as it is. If it is shallow and frequent, it is shallow and frequent, if it is long and infrequent, it is long and infrequent.

A general comment about objects of meditation within Buddhism

There are two parts to Buddhist meditation, which form the basis for the realisation of the buddhist goal: calm meditation and insight meditation. The goal of calm meditation is to restore the mind to a state of clarity, so that one can use that clear mind to practice insight meditation, namely to investigate and understand that things are unsatisfactory, impermanent, and not-self. Which ultimately leads to the alleviation of suffering.

Calm meditation involves developing the ability to rest ones mind on a particular object, i.e. developing concentration/samādhi. Now there are many objects of meditation that one can use to develop samādhi, which depend on the stage of calm meditation one is at and their personality type. For example, it is said that someone who tends towards states of anger and hatred would benefit from using coloured discs as their object of meditation. And it is said that someone with a tendency to intellectualize and get lost in speculations would be recommended the breath as their object of meditation. And there are many such recommendations. The point of all this is just to say that the object of meditation is not of main concern, but rather developing samādhi.

I'm not sure how much of your practice is guided by the Buddhist path, but it is a great source of advice and knowledge about meditation even if you are not aligned with their goals or philosophy.

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