My first blog. I want to share some of my thoughts. As my main interest is mindfulness, I mostly will write about this subject. Everyday I try to be more mindful. Why? Because I find it a good way to feel more free and less lost. And if you become happier, you also will be better for others, including nature - and we all are nature....
Cora Diamond on eating animals - with the help of Wittgenstein´s ideas
Cora Diamond is a new name for me, even if she has worked as a professor in Philosophy in the states for a long time and is still teaching at the university of Virginia, even she is over 80 years old. She has written a lot about Wittgenstein and that has helped her to express her view of the topic. Although she, like Wittgenstein, has lived in a hut in Norway - and actually brought Tractatus with hes - she seems to be different and for sure more glad than W. Anyways, its W: s writings that interests her and especially his critics of metaphysics and ethics in philosophy. As it is said in Tractacus : " Whereof one cannot speak , thereof one must be silent." And of ethics philosophy should not speak - why? Is it like in Buddhism - its better to sit in silence and let know yourself, than to speculate about what will happen when we die? But for sure there ethical guidelines in Buddhism, but the behaviors is often named skilful, not good (or bad). Another
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