Résultats lu par "J.-M. Kuczynski" dans Toutes les catégories

The draconian moral strictures of some societies is based not on ignorance, but on economic necessity.

Those who are cripples in the realm of action are also cripples in the realm of thought.

Islamophobia is displaced antipathy towards blacks and Jews.

It is argued that creationism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Obstreperousness is sometimes a sign of vestigial as opposed to actual intelligence.

When institutions are young, they work for people. When institutions are old, people work for them.

Bureaucrats (e.g. professors and government employees) are paid so little not because they work for non-profit institutions, but because, were they paid more, their performance (or lack thereof) would be scrutinized.

Sometimes, intellectual specialization is about intellectual depth. Sometimes, it is about lacking of substance attempting to appear legitimate. In the latter case, the specialist responds to inquiries about his area of specialization defensively and narrowly. In the former case, the specialist responds cooperatively and inclusively.

A key difference between psychopaths and non-psychopaths is identified.

Cro-Magnon Man was smarter and generally more capable than we are. So why did he go extinct? Precisely because he was so capable. Whereas members of our species are weaklings who rely on others, members of his species had it in them to be rugged individualists; and that is what they did. But then, when circumstances became too severe, they had no social support and thus went extinct.

A compendium of some of Kuczynski's more readable work on philosophy, scientific methodology, and the theory of knowledge.

A short piece about the psychology of non-buyers.

It is argued that the quantum realm is deterministic.

To have integrity is to be true to oneself. Someone who is half an upstanding citizen and half a criminal is not true to himself and therefore lacks integrity. Someone who is completely an upstanding citizen or completely a criminal is true to himself and therefore has integrity.

Academic journals are clogged with gratuitous scholarship. This prevents the advancement of the corresponding disciplines in many ways, five of which are identified in this short work.

Geekdom is not only not a sign of intelligence, but is a sign of its absence.

One of the ways in which we rationalize bad work on the part of eminent persons is explained.

People who are hyper-aware of other people's thoughts and feelings, sometimes isolate themselves to avoid being flooded with information about other people's psyches, making it seem as though they lack empathy, when in actuality, they have a super-abundance of it.

Don't fight your pychopathologies. Get them to work for you. Identify a course of action in which your psychopathologies are an asset, not a liability. In this way, you will get them to work for you and against themselves.

Evil is displaced antipathy towards one's own superego, whose strictures one has failed to satisfy and which one is therefore trying to overthrow.