A Philosophical Manifesto: Hypotheses and Maxims | Athenian Diaries, 2023

== EPISTEMOLOGY
a. Empiricism: start with experience
b. Skepticism: resist the temptation to jump to conclusions
c. Fallibilism: remember the limits, unprovable axioms

Phenomenalism [phenomena VS noumena] / Psychologism / Constructivism, Social Epistemology [assumptions, consensus]

== ONTOLOGY
Abyss of the purposeless chaos of matter
Selection, Evolution of Complexity, Emergence
Entropy, Biological & Cultural Evolution
Naturalism / Physicalism

Reality Realism
Levels of Complexity, but Unity of Science
Reductionism & Emergence

Mechanistic VS Teleological
Entropy & The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Heat Death

Evolution of Biology & Culture
Mechanism of Selection, Random Mutations
Conflict & Consensus

== HUMANITIES
Pragmatics (Axiology): small “v” values
Utilitarianism / Phenomenology
Desires, Common Good, Enlightenment, Harmony
Gramsci: Pessimism of the Intellect / Optimism of the Will

== ETHICS & POLITICS (AXIOLOGY)
a) Values are relative and derivative
b) Yet not arbitrary: objective element of common interest
c) Complex interplay of individual VS collective project

[NAMES]

Heraclitus ("πόλεμος πάντων πατήρ"),
Freud, Nietzsche, Marx
Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan
Buddha, Epicurus, Sextus Empiricus

The Long Scientific Revolution: Thales, Copernicus, Darwin, Turing
Heidegger: always already find ourselves thrown into this world without a manual

Pythagoreans at the Olympic games: merchants, competitors, spectators

Anaxagoras, Empedocles

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Alexander Koryagin, July 2023
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