of Philosophy and Technology

Philosophy is about things that we already know - truth, knowledge, goodness, beauty, reality, reason, life, death, and more. It’s all about the things that are already there. It’s like the furniture that we have, the computer that we use and the car that we drive. So, if it’s the study of things that are already there, why should I care about it?

Using the furniture as an example, do you know what kind of wood was used and how much does it cost?  How about your computer? What OS are you using and can you manipulate it or does it manipulate you?  What is the make of your car? What’s the mileage and when is the last time you had it tuned-up? Do we ask these questions or we just use these ordinary things around us without any care?  If we ask these questions, we could look at this ordinary things in a different way, we could appreciate these ordinary things better than the “ordinary man” that only use these things.

Thru Philosophy, we could look at these realities in a different perspective. We could accept death better than someone who did not study the realities of life.  We could appreciate the real meaning of beauty because as students of Philosophy we have known what its absence means.

“It is by studying Philosophy, in a clear, step-by-step way, and by profiting from the thought of the great philosophers of the past, that one gains real insight” about the things that we thought we already know about.

My Cordelia!

In old tales we can read that a river fell in love with a girl. Thus is my soul like a river, which loves you. Sometimes it is tranquil and lets your image mirror itself deep and unmoved in it, sometimes it has the illusion of having caught your image, then its wave curls in order prevent you from escaping again; sometimes it softly curls its surface and plays with your image, sometimes it has lost it, then will its wave become black and despairing. So is my soul; like a river that has fallen in love with you.

Your Johannes

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Each man has a seducer within,  once a woman is conquered there is a tendency for men to lose their interest in the subject.  

Johannes in the Diary of the Seducer lured the woman into his embarce using many twisted and manipulative ways, having given herself fully, he then lose interest in her.  After mentally manipulating her, he then made her think that it was her that broke the relationship.  Manipulating her till the end…