For a long time now, I have noticed that our people argue over issues that are either fundamentally unsolvable, lack precise formulation, have lost their relevance, or are presented in a vague and ambiguous manner. Kabul 24: Sometimes debates also arise over questions that have not been properly framed, and.
If someone claims that “there exists at least one mermaid in the world” or “there exists a being in the world that turns copper into gold by touch,” what position would science take? Kabul 24: In his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Popper draws a sharp distinction between two.
Shakespeare grants Hamlet a love only to destroy it through madness—whether feigned or genuine. Millais, however, paints not the tumultuous scene of words, but their aftermath: the silence that lingers after the collapse. Ophelia floats suspended in a moment; a place where life has not yet fully abandoned the body,.
Failure means not reaching the object, defeat in achieving a goal, losing an external possibility, and so on. Failure always occurs at the level of reality. It is symbolizable—meaning it is painful, but it can be mourned. Kabul 24: Betrayal of desire means retreating from the point where desire is.
Today’s massacre in Sydney showed that we are still living in the era of September 11. An era that, as the opening of a new century and millennium, began a quarter-century ago with the attack on the World Trade Center towers. Kabul 24: Americans called it the global war on.
watched the film Sentimental Value and, after a long time, I once again tasted the pleasure of seeing a truly great and truly artistic film. The film begins with a house and ends with a house. Kabul 24: “The house” is the main character of Sentimental Value: a beautiful, living,.
In Washington, every few years, they pull out a little instruction booklet and call it the “National Security Strategy”—that’s their official term for the document. In short, it’s how America wants to see the world, who it wants to fight, who it wants to ally with, and where to slam.
I used to think that the most common health problem among women in Kabul was iron deficiency and the anemia caused by it, but my clinical experience over the past year has changed that perception. Kabul 24: Because almost every female patient for whom I ordered a vitamin D level.
On the Psyche, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Comte, Foucault, and the Film Dark NunsIs modern psychiatry a singular, unrivaled grand narrative, or — as Lyotard argues in The Postmodern Condition — should it be regarded merely as one petit récit among many parallel narratives? Kabul 24: The human psyche has been.
Today, American officials joined Kurdish leaders in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, to inaugurate the largest U.S. consulate in the world. The visible joy of the Kurdish leaders was most vividly reflected in the words of Masrour Barzani. Kabul 24: He said: “This massive twenty-hectare complex is like.
The later Wittgenstein said that the task of philosophy is to untie linguistic knots. Kabul 24: In his view, many of the things we call “problems” do not arise from the nature of the world, but from the misuse or ambiguity of words.Wittgenstein distinguished between real problems, which concern the.
In On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche seeks to show that what we call “conscience” is not a heavenly, self-evident gift, but a historical product forged through violence and the suppression of instincts. Kabul 24: Instead of asking “What is conscience?”, he asks “How was conscience made, and what is.
