<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:01:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@philosophywonk/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[On Schopenhauer’s Mysticism and Fatalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the Sufferings of the World is one of Schopenhauer’s most famous essays, and rightfully so. It shows both the metaphysical and ethical elements of his philosophy. It is also an introduction to his Fatalism]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/on-schopenhauer-s-mysticism-and-fatalism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/on-schopenhauer-s-mysticism-and-fatalism</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 04:16:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[On History, Science and Craftsmanship – The Three Pursuits of Empiricism]]></title><description><![CDATA[When people explore the knowledge of this world, the world of appearances, people often refer to something as a “science” but it occurs to me that scientific knowledge of how a table is made and how to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@philosophywonk/on-history-science-and-craftsmanship-the-three-pursuits-of-empiricism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@philosophywonk/on-history-science-and-craftsmanship-the-three-pursuits-of-empiricism</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:53:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy Jewish Zombie Day (so funny and edgy I should write for Big Bang Theory)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whaddup Nietzsches? I have several ideas of essays to work on, and thought I'd ask my adoring fans what they're interested in/give feedback on some of these. Your options are: Door A - Hume and Nietzsche]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/happy-jewish-zombie-day-so-funny-and-edgy-i-should-write-for-big-bang-theory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/happy-jewish-zombie-day-so-funny-and-edgy-i-should-write-for-big-bang-theory</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:41:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nazi Zombie Princess Kenny is my spirit animal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beat South Park: The Stick of Truth in three days. Worship me.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gaming/@philosophywonk/nazi-zombie-princess-kenny-is-my-spirit-animal</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gaming/@philosophywonk/nazi-zombie-princess-kenny-is-my-spirit-animal</guid><category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:10:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pointless Post 32409]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beat Halo 4. I would say it's nowhere near as well made as Halos 1 & 2 but better than 3, or about as good. Enjoyed it, but felt it didn't have the originality or environments that made the first few]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gaming/@philosophywonk/pointless-post-32409</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gaming/@philosophywonk/pointless-post-32409</guid><category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:51:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introduction to Aristotle's Ethics]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly, every action and choice of action, is thought to have some good as its object. This is why the good has rightly been defined as the object of all endevour.”]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/introduction-to-aristotle-s-ethics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/introduction-to-aristotle-s-ethics</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge and Truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most famous definitions of knowledge is given though not ultimately supported by Socrates in Plato’s Theaetetus. It is that knowledge is justified, true belief. To have knowledge of something]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/epistemology/@philosophywonk/knowledge-and-truth</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/epistemology/@philosophywonk/knowledge-and-truth</guid><category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:54:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Three Bifurcations in Existence – Or:  A Quick Introduction to the Forms of Skepticism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, first and foremost, is a pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge is just as much an attempt at grounding what a thing is not as much as it is knowing what it is. What is a rock? As a metaphysical]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/on-the-three-bifurcations-in-existence-or-a-quick-introduction-to-the-forms-of-skepticism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/on-the-three-bifurcations-in-existence-or-a-quick-introduction-to-the-forms-of-skepticism</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 20:37:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introduction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, Decided I'd join this wonderful community to spam you all with philosophy essays I create via yargeling (yodeling while gargling and fiddling (playing a fiddle while widdling it). Still learning]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introduction/@philosophywonk/introduction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introduction/@philosophywonk/introduction</guid><category><![CDATA[introduction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 06:34:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral Complicity, Desert and Sympathy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau There is no history. Everything that we are is eternally with us. The Addiction Despite]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/moral-complicity-desert-and-sympathy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@philosophywonk/moral-complicity-desert-and-sympathy</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[philosophywonk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 06:25:39 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>