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Examples of Irony in Philosophy on the World Stage

2014
We want to study irony on the metaphorical stage because it helps us to understand and know our true selves. If we do not try to understand our true selves, then what we do can backfire on us. One example of this is King Oedipus character in Oedipus Rex, a play by Sophocles. Oedipus was obsessed with finding out who killed his father, Laius. Aristotle (
Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan
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Staging Philosophy: Toward a Performance of Immanent Expression

2014
This article claims that the performance of philosophy will obtain a performative character once the operation of thinking succeeds in becoming a conception of the plane of immanence from the perspective of an embodied mind.
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Stages of the Philosophy of Technology

1981
While human history has been marked by a great variety of advanced cultures, the material conditions of life within each one of them have remained unchanged for long stretches of time. Although these cultures developed the arts and crafts to a high degree of perfection, man’s action upon nature was limited to relatively simple techniques based on ...
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Hospice Philosophy in Late-Stage Cancer Care

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981
THE TERM "hospice" has become part of the language of US medicine in the past few years, signifying a system of care for the dying cancer patient. As it applies to medical caring, hospice emphasizes a systematic application of symptom relief, palliative comforting measures for patients and families whether in an institutional or in a home setting.
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A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen

2015
As far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour – although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs respond similarly in play, Seth McFarlane’s fan-base is comprised exclusively of humans. Whilst animals and robots might feature as prominent characters in our favourite comic movies, shows and stand-up routines, we have no reason to suspect
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