User:Thor Andersen
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My name is Thor. I majored in philosophy.
[edit] Interests
- Adolf Eichmann - "Transportation Administrator" for the Final Solution, a bureaucrat who was held morally accountable for obeying orders—acquiescences to hegemoic ideology, which is arguably the moral situation of complacent first world beneficiaries of the global marketplace.
- Anarcho-primitivism - an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization.
- Bohemian Grove
- Charities - Like purchasing indulgences, but for the 20th/21st century liberal.
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cosmopolitanism - [reminder to self: this article is pretty weak. edit it, especially the critique section]
- Cultural genocide
- Diogenes of Sinope - so consistentl in his skepticism that when asked, 'if there is no truth, what should the philosopher do?' replied only with a wiggle his finger.
- Eleatics - pre-Socratics, arrived at the fundamental truth that the All is One.
- Existentialism, criticisms of
- Folk psychology
- Four humours - special fluids associated with the four basic elements of nature, that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health and a person's personality.
- Globalization - the upshots of which include cultural genocide, slave and sweatshop labor, environmental destruction, animal exploitation, and—perhaps most devestating—the revaluation of "human" life to marketplace terms.
- Halldór Laxness - writer of Independent People and other novels, poems, etc.
- Harmonices Mundi
- Hegel - according to whom the ultimate goal of history was to reach a state approximating that of 1830s Prussia (which happens to be the time he was writing his philosophy).
- Heraclitus
- Herman Melville
- Hippasus - sentenced to death by the Pythagoreans for revealing the secret of irrational numbers.
- Instrumentalism
- Language death - An estimated 50-90% of Earth's more than 6,800 living languages will go extinct within the next 100 years. The people of these cultures aren't dying out naturally, but rather being pressured to abandon their languages and ways of life and assimilate into the capitalist mono-culture. (see: cultural genocide)
- Lemuria
- Logical fallacies (a list)
- Marketplace
- Möbius strip
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - "I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful–of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience."
- Nihilism - human existence is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.
- Ouroboros - the serpent that eats its own tail.
- Phlogiston theory - an obsolete scientific theory of combustion.
- Phrenology - is a discredited theory that claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps").
- Situationist
- Synaesthesia
- Social construction
- Telepresence
- Terror_management_theory - the implicit emotional reactions of people when confronted with the psychological terror of knowing we will eventually die.
- Ultimate fate of the universe
- Value theory
- Waldsterben - forest death
- Weltanschauung - Worldview
- Women's Social and Political Union - the Suffragettes
