Recent content by Riddley Walker

That's not how academia or science traditionally looks at it. The idea of a canon, or a science is that new knowledge or new perspectives are built on what came before, like in Western Philosophy. You can go back to Plato and see how ideas have developed from one philosopher to the next, each...

Well, we have all of human knowledge that came before us, the Tower of Babble, The writings of Aristotle. The Library of Congress, the Bible, The Koran, The Internet, everything written since the writing was invented. All the canons stacked to the moon. You can take it all as authority or...

Quoting Louanna Learning: Which is why Existential philosophy is the most sophisticated form of philosophy yet. Throughout all the various perspectives of the existentialists, they all agree that the only way to know anything is through subjective inquiry. You can't count on the outside world...

When we explore what it is that we can really know, it is tempting to fall back on Descartes' concept of "cogito ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am". In other words, knowledge is founded in our experience of the self. We know that we exist because we perceive. However, the Eighteenth century...

Gwendolyn MacEwen, one of Canada's greatest poets, was a high school dropout, published more than 20 books of poetry and won Canada's Governors General Award for poetry at the age of 28. She died age 46. A Breakfast for Barbarians by Gwendolyn MacEwen my friends, my sweet barbarians, there is...

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