My fellow philosophers,
I hope this finds you well and wrapping up an enjoyable week. It was a bit hectic over here at TPP between big announcements, new campaigns, and of course our work with Descartes and Kant.
I’ll paste some noteworthy blurbs and the links to this week’s newsletters below, make sure to let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
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Until next week my friends, get some good rest.
Matt
PS, I can’t tell if I should apologize or pat myself on the back for Thursday’s title, what do you think?
Monday
Therefore (drumroll) I’ve decided to take advantage of Substack’s paid subscriptions to support the vision, growth, and potential of TPP! But don’t worry, you won’t have to start paying.
As a heartfelt thank you to all existing subscribers, I’m going to provide free membership to anyone who subscribes before Wednesday, December 8!
Tuesday
In her book Stoic Warriors author Nancy Sherman notes,
“The Stoics argue that human flourishing—that is, our happiness or wellbeing (what the Greeks call eudaemonia)—is not a matter of the state of one’s body, even its global condition being healthy or diseased. Rather, as I have noted before, the body and its states constitute what the Stoics call ‘indifferrents,’ that is, external goods, outside our full control, to which happiness is indifferent, so to speak.”
Wednesday
"Thus the whole of philosophy is like a tree; the roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches that issue from the trunk are all other sciences.”
Thursday
Both Hume and Kant lived through the European Enlightenment which saw a major shift from defensive, survivalist, often superstitious thought patters into objective, verifiable, and scientific observation.
Hume was a loud voice in his time challenging the notion that human ideas are credible simply because they are accepted widely, people die for them, or people believe in them passionately.