The Bruce Philosophical Project:
Welcome to The Bruce Philosophical Project. I am confident that this will be my life’s crown jewel.
I have always felt that, although many may decry philosophy as something for older men with beards and those patches on their elbows pattering on about incomprehensible mental masturbation, that is flat-out wrong!!!! Instead, philosophy is the heart and soul of humanity. It leads us forward – with concepts like Immanuel Kant’s moral imperative – and backward – with sick, evil theories like using the faux science of eugenics as an excuse to denigrate races that some claimed to be inferior.
Philosophy is powerful stuff, and there is nothing more important I can give to the world than an intellectually rigorous view of the world and humanity that is positive, directed, and uplifting.
The mission statement of The Bruce Philosophical Project is:
Communicate Truth Understandably: Inspire Positive Change
Notably, Socrates – the father of philosophy – famously said 2000 years ago words to the following effect:
“The only thing I know for sure is that I don’t know anything”
I will not pretend to be Socrates, but in The Bruce Philosophical Project, I will follow in his footsteps with this admonition to myself: To never be so foolhardy to believe that I am sure of things, as that will impair my quest for truth. And – yes – you may have already figured out that if no actual truth can be discerned, then the quest for truth is tautologically a fool’s errand.
But we philosophers – we Socrates Wannabees – nonetheless hope that the quest for truth – even if a fool’s errand is an errand worth pursuing,
If you join me in the Project, I will write articles, and put links out on Threads and X/Twitter, which will make it easy for you to be responsive in giving your views. I will not shrink from honest opinions, no matter how ‘out there’ they seem; however, I will hope for respectful and intellectual discourse as opposed to emotional rants.
If you have an interest in participating in The Bruce Philosophical Project, or know someone who might want to do so, please subscribe here.
In terms of admonitions to myself in this Project:
- I will do my best to seek knowledge and truth in an unbiased manner
- I will be delighted to be proven wrong – and open-minded to it
- I will communicate thoughts in an understandable way, since a brilliant thought that no one can understand is worth very little
- I will have a (slight) bias (sorry no one is perfect) towards being uplifting and positive to inspire good things in society
- If anything treads on what is thought of as politics, as much as possible I will confine my political views to The Bruce Political Project and avoid politics in this Bruce Philosophical Project — although I guess there may some inadvertent (or even intentional) overlaps from time to time.
I do hope you will subscribe, and I covenant to keep it engaging and thought-provoking and never to write articles unless I feel there is something of interest to say.
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