Hello!
I was just wondering if anybody has second-hand Western academic philosophy books (e.g Kant/Schopenhauer/Descartes/Aristotle) that they'd be willing to sell, or if they know a place where I could get them for cheap.
Hello! I am entering Y11 and I wish to major in Philosophy/PPE, etc. I really, really want to take the following four subjects for my A Levels: English Lit, English Lang, Maths, and Further Maths (Philosophy is not offered in my school, sadly).
Do you think this is a suitable A Level combination? I am also thinking of replacing one of the Englishes with History or Politics, as I am passionate about those subjects. Is that a good idea?
By the way, my predicted GCSE grades for Lit, Lang, Maths, and Further Maths are all 9s, which is why I thought I would take those, as my predicted grade for History is lower.
Any advice would be deeply appreciated.
Thank you!
Hey guys, another friendly reminder about this opportunity. Do ask your friends to sign up - it does not take that long at all, and signs up are going to be closing very soon!
Logos Youth Philosophy is a student-led philosophy organization that also runs a philosophy journal. The deadline for submissions is December 15th. There's no theme to choose from, its only 2,500 words of writing and its free of cost. It's judged by a panel of experts, Oxford PPE graduates among them.
Whilst there is a long time yet to go to the submission deadline, I recommend signing up by registering your interest. This not only helps the journal to be planned better, but it also puts you first in line for a free workshop on the art of philosophical and academic writing which is going to be hosted by experts in the field, as we have growing affiliation with students and organizations from universities such as UChicago, Oxford and Cambridge. It takes a very short amount of time and there's no binding commitment as such after you've signed up.
The org is also in the process of initiating a philosophy podcast, and one of its first guests will be Dr. Arnold Brooks, Professor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago, so keep an eye out for it on its website and follow the org's social media (logos_yp).
Check out the website here: logosjournal.org
Instagram: logos_yp
Register your interest now!
if you are not interested, tell a friend! encourage them to sign up!!
Hello guys! Logos Youth Philosophy is a student-led philosophy organization that also runs a philosophy journal. The deadline for submissions is December 15th. There's no theme to choose from, its only 2,500 words of writing and its free of cost. It's judged by a panel of experts, Oxford PPE graduates among them.
Whilst there is a long time yet to go to the submission deadline, I recommend signing up by registering your interest. This not only helps the journal to be planned better, but it also puts you first in line for a free workshop on the art of philosophical and academic writing which is going to be hosted by experts in the field, as we have growing affiliation with students and organizations from universities such as UChicago, Oxford and Cambridge. It takes a very short amount of time and there's no binding commitment as such after you've signed up.
The org is also in the process of initiating a philosophy podcast, and one of its first guests will be Dr. Arnold Brooks, Professor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago, so keep an eye out for it on its website and follow the org's social media (logos_yp).
Check out the website here: logosjournal.org
Instagram: logos_yp
Register your interest now!
if you are not interested, tell a friend! encourage them to sign up!!
Whilst there is a long time yet to go to the submission deadline, I recommend signing up by registering your interest. This not only helps the journal to be planned better, but it also puts you first in line for a free workshop on the art of philosophical and academic writing which is going to be hosted by experts in the field, as we have growing affiliation with students and organizations from universities such as UChicago, Oxford and Cambridge. It takes a very short amount of time and there's no binding commitment as such after you've signed up.
The org is also in the process of initiating a philosophy podcast, and one of its first guests will be Dr. Arnold Brooks, Professor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago, so keep an eye out for it on its website and follow the org's social media (logos_yp).
Check out the website here: logosjournal.org
Instagram: logos_yp
Register your interest now!
Hello guys! Logos Youth Philosophy is a student-led philosophy organization that also runs a philosophy journal. The deadline for submissions is December 15th. There's no theme to choose from, its only 2,500 words of writing and its free of cost. It's judged by a panel of experts, Oxford PPE graduates among them.
Whilst there is a long time yet to go to the submission deadline, I recommend signing up by registering your interest. This not only helps the journal to be planned better, but it also puts you first in line for a free workshop on the art of philosophical and academic writing which is going to be hosted by experts in the field, as we have growing affiliation with students and organizations from universities such as UChicago, Oxford and Cambridge. It takes a very short amount of time and there's no binding commitment as such after you've signed up.
The org is also in the process of initiating a philosophy podcast, and one of its first guests will be Dr. Arnold Brooks, Professor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago, so keep an eye out for it on its website and follow the org's social media (logos_yp).
Check out the website here: logosjournal.org
Instagram: logos_yp
Register your interest now!
And the object of desire and the object of thought move in this way; they move without being moved. The primary objects of desire and of thought are the same. For the apparent good is the object of appetite, and the real good is the primary object of rational wish. But desire is consequent on opinion rather than opinion on desire; for the thinking is the starting-point. And thought is moved by the object of thought, and one of the two columns of opposites is in itself the object of thought; and in this, substance is first, and in substance, that which is simple and exists actually. (The one and the simple are not the same; for 'one' means a measure, but 'simple' means that the thing itself has a certain nature.) But the beautiful, also, and that which is in itself desirable are in the same column; and the first in any class is always best, or analogous to the best.
I can think of two interpretations: first is the more stricter one, that is, Aristotle is essentially comparing neurons moving to how celestial objects move in primary heaven. This means that there is no direct causal link between the movement of EVERY SINGLE object in the universe (e.g moving of chalk, headphones, plants growing, e.t.c.) and the unmoved mover is only responsible for the primary heavens which move in a circular manner and continuously because god is their object of desire (i.e how my neurons move when I think of a giraffe, for example).
However, the way I personally saw it was a bit different. Everything might desire to be perfect and might thus "move" in that direction. Since god or the unmoved mover could be described as perfect/ or as the teleological end of everything, it is the love or desire of perfection that makes things move. And I mean perfection in a very vague sense, as in "fulfilling whatever purpose" an object may have.
Which interpretation is "correct"? I found the second one to have much broader implications both metaphysically and ethically, but the first one just seems the correct way to do it.
I'm doing a class on Aristotle's physics (our first class detailed Book I.1, I.4-I.6). I find his writing very dense, and I struggle to grasp his ideas (e.g. 3 principles of nature, how he represents Plato vs other philosophers, how he represents the forms, his problem with Anaxagoras).
Is there any line-by-line commentary that will help me understand him?
Thank you
Chance me:
Intended Major: Philosophy, PPE, Philosophy & politics, Philosophy and theology… w/ potential minor in piano performance
Rising sophomore (going into Y11)
International / no aid required
Indian male
Hooks: none
Honours:
1- won a semi-prestigous piano competition, invited to play in carnegie hall
2- grand-finalled the worlds largest under-15 british parliamentary competition (icyd)
3- quartered harvard invitational JVPF
4- shortlisted john locke (hopefully something more comes out of that…)
5- won 1st in mena round of another piano comp, invited to play in hong kong
ECs
1- debate
2- piano
3- started my own philosophy blogue (animal ethics related) >50 subscribers
4- started my own philosophy website aimed to make phil accessible to common people (w/ a strong focus on animal ethics)
5- research internship with cambridge PHD on ai sentience (8 wks)
6- got in (but did not do) a fellowship for animal ethics advocacy, got $2.5 k in funding, planning to reapply next year
7- internship in a vegan cafe (continuing my animal ethics niche)
8- currently building a moral weight calculator (philosophy pet project- you input what you’re eating, say chicken/fish and it tells you the ‘moral weight’ of what you’ve just eaten)
9- research (submitted into peer reviewed journal) on to what kind of regulation is best for animal welfare, especially in factory farms
Plans:
1- IPhO (international philosophy olympiad)
2- concorde review
3- more essay competitions, more debate competitions (national team MAYBE)
4- i’m on track to start a philosophy club in my own school, and then the plan is to open several chapters in other schools combine this with my website and stuff
Grades:
As of now - predicted all 9s in my GCSEs
Colleges:
1- uchicago (i have SSEN ED0)
2- mit phil
3- yale
4- oxford phil + theology, or ppe
And many more… but those are my dream colleges/unis
thanks!