#WB Philosophy
Does TST Philosophy use existential givens?
Existential givens refers to the facts you are born into or cannot simply wish away. TST uses the common word circumstances in context for this.
Is Aristotle’s Entelechy part of TST Philosophy?
Entelechy is Aristotle's concept of a thing’s fulfilled actuality.
Is poverty caused by scarcity?
A handful of billionaires own as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. About a dozen people control over $18 trillion of wealth. Flourishing ...
What is the difference between secular Buddhism and other branches of Buddhism?
Secular Buddhism keeps Buddhist practices and insights, but brackets or rejects the supernatural/metaphysical claims.
What is secular spirituality?
To live within secular spirituality, your exploration of the unknown and unknowable need to stem from testable observations.
What is the difference between ontology and spirituality?
Ontology studies what exists. Spirituality explores what existence means.
What is the difference between being philosophical and spiritual?
Philosophy seeks clarity about reality, knowledge, and life. Spirituality seeks meaning, connection, and orientation within reality.
What is the difference between secular and public spirituality?
Public spirituality is what a culture accepts as spiritual. Secular spirituality is spirituality guided by reality rather than religious or supernatural authority.
What is spirituality?
How we explore meaning, connection, mystery, and the self.
What is Eastern “chee,” or qi?
Qi is the Eastern idea of vital flow: the breath-like energy of life moving through body, nature, and reality.
Why can’t we divide by zero?
Math reveals patterns in reality, but also the boundaries of reason. Reality may be deeper than current math. But we should not pretend an invalid ...
When does religious belief become harmful?
To live your life well-lived, decide where belief belongs. Private meaning can guide your life, but when your belief affects others, you must answer to ...
Can Carl Jung’s shadow work help us think well?
Facing the hidden parts of yourself is shadow work. Notice which mind traps are influencing your thinking, then use critical thinking to test whether those ...
Is Richard Dawkins right that religious belief is harmful?
Religion is not automatically harmful. It can become dangerous when a specific private speculation is promoted as empirically or rationally true. Belief without evidence must ...
Is fiction part of journalism?
Fiction is not journalism, but understanding fiction helps us understand where journalism begins and ends.
Is history a Truth Hammer?
History is a disciplined extension of the journalism truth hammer. Using historical traces like a reporter, historians create stories of the past like a journalist.
What does quantum tunneling imply about metaphysics?
Tunneling shows that quantum systems do not behave classically,along smooth, continuous paths. It's real, the math works, but the metaphysics remains unsettled.
Do the empirical and rational categories apply to vocabulary words?
Words are empirical when they directly describe the material world, and rational when they help structure, organize, relate, or evaluate ideas.
Is 30 Philosophers a philosophical apologia?
30 Philosophers is TST’s historical-philosophical defense in story form: a journey through human thought showing why TST needs realism, evidence, reason, and calibrated belief.
Is there an answer to the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”?
Consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to nature. It may be what happens when evolutionary feedback loops become emotional, predictive, and self-modeling.