Idealism vs Materialism
The cluster revolves around philosophical debates on the nature of mind, thoughts, and reality, contrasting idealism and materialism while referencing Descartes, Plato, Aristotle, Berkeley, and related concepts like monism and solipsism.
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The ghost of Descartes slightly disagrees ;)
That's a matter of philosophical disagreement (ferex, Platonism).
Your philosophy is a couple thousand years stale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes
Perhaps you're discovering monism
Is this not a form of Idealism?
You might want to look at https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/46w6qp/comme...andhttps://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/NoM%20-%205.p...
Descartes and his duality strike again.
Not true at all. It's something philosophers and mathematicians have explored.Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlQaP4c_Jxk
You're essentially describing Idealism vs Materialism.Related is Nietzsche thinking he was the one to overturn Plato. Heidegger thought that Nietzsche was instead the logical conclusion of metaphysics. Heidegger's project was about "returning to the Question of Being" which he thought was first occluded by Plato, so he is in strong conversation with the Pre-Socratics. Deleuze has an interesting critique of Plato built on flipping the latter's hierarchy of model and co
Are you kidding? Go read Hegel's phenomonology of mind and get back to me on that