Philosophy for a Modern Thinker
Welcome to . New . Ideas .in .Philosophy
The articles on this website explore the ways that consciousness makes sense of reality. The philosophy ranges over psychology, science and metaphysics. A wide view of life is embraced, and this panorama enables me to produce stimulating ideas.
20th century Anglo-American philosophy became limited to analytical logic because psychology was removed from the fields of interest. A living, dynamic philosophy always needs psychological input as the means of validating the flights of ideas. I tie my philosophical interests to dynamic psychology and create original ideas, as well as updating old ones.
What is the value of philosophy ?
It took me years of introspective analysis to realise that a person’s character hinges on the set of beliefs and concepts that he subscribes to. Hence true poverty is not materialistic poverty but conceptual poverty. The fewer ideas that there are in a person’s vocabulary the less likely is it that the person will be able to explore meaning in life. The fewer ideas that are within a person’s grasp, the more narrow and prejudiced will be his outlook on life.
What is the value of psychology to philosophy ?
To answer this question, I open this website with a link to an article that illustrates the inter-twining of these two disciplines. Many more articles can be accessed from the list of additional articles.
how these disciplines interact.
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This website was put on the internet in February 2003
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Ian Heath
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