<?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>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:58:33 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Plato, Parmenides, and the Theory of Forms - Part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this installment of the series on Plato's Forms, we'll have a brief look at the major conceptions of the theory, some of the key differences, and dig deep into the one formulation Plato seems to have]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-parmenides-and-the-theory-of-forms-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-parmenides-and-the-theory-of-forms-part-2</guid><category><![CDATA[plato]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:32:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwqSXWA2evTexn6YzPHotJF8R85JZsErvtTWXWSug9sRSphn2akTzQFsk2cuw8x7VxfRdh5CoxQ7QR3vCEtQPRUxUhPk2kv2MZsSfRY98c5uw7X2QLdJHnBXC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato, Parmenides, and the Theory of Forms - Part 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has become a commonplace habit in contemporary quasi-philosophical circles, to roll one’s eyes and snicker, or to sneer and sniff, whenever the mention of Plato’s Forms happens to sour the air. It seems]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-parmenides-and-the-theory-of-forms-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-parmenides-and-the-theory-of-forms-part-1</guid><category><![CDATA[plato]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:27:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2KZBmxW92Gug4zXWE4CBU3pUMp8boEjs3SNzoAghV7EzZudX9Wd9oYcYfQ4Rc6BLKVeWj8c6WmjAZwaeWZydxM7sbvnoqKTukGDn9h8rqX61kWdY1jG2jm786xKrkbLTEwPJ64bY71dtBhCDpSyRTgnjc1YvK6HZo9Tnu7cgwa8KD9F2xk43u5u91Y5NH5ks8Byx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: The Art of The Argument, Stefan Molyneux]]></title><description><![CDATA[This weekend I had a little extra time on my hands, because of the bank holiday. It's been quite a while since I've looked at any work by the growing cadre of freelance internet philosophers. So, I decided]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/book-review-the-art-of-the-argument-stefan-molyneux</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/book-review-the-art-of-the-argument-stefan-molyneux</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 20:13:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQfQgENfxADE6EVYabczqmSF5KeWefV5WL9WRZAoqrTJokeexmKkauAS3kVVtbRJGs8N1Lxj2FnWohRE8KkbPjjNKecKyQYt5nsiaYzv4hpAeDCVnerFs4J?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[[DELETE]]]></title><description><![CDATA[[DELETE]]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/platoandniezsche-theendiswritteninthebeginning-ajnckgb1mb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/platoandniezsche-theendiswritteninthebeginning-ajnckgb1mb</guid><category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:02:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato and Nietzsche - The End is Written In The Beginning]]></title><description><![CDATA[I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.' ~Isaiah 46:10 In The Republic, Socrates repeatedly insists]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-and-nietzsche-the-end-is-written-in-the-beginning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-and-nietzsche-the-end-is-written-in-the-beginning</guid><category><![CDATA[plato]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2018 21:09:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/bqA9tjZHuvznqvTHXvbMaccxm1YkHnhxzWEGSkNTbx5hdo7z25McxHDKBZJCJBBYF3Mq3UEKvdBGYFXNhu3jCnWDoeDHrQZW5i4dpWcoHzFDh8eJeYgtgsdiqWvv7tJfZpmASBcAL8SpZi9jKmwU3zfbWrwQ81iLBoaibnXDpdT9kWQctwjDDSVnymg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippa Foot and I Have An Irritable Exchange About Virtue]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following pseudo-dialogue is based on my reading of part three of her famous essay, “Virtues and Vices”, which can be found here. All of her “dialogue” constitutes direct quotes from the essay. In]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/philippa-foot-and-i-have-an-irritable-exchange-about-virtue</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/philippa-foot-and-i-have-an-irritable-exchange-about-virtue</guid><category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 06:51:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kyJM9JABQLS7EhjmU3VVqJQJsLWXdiMrvdM2cFf9W9XS1AwDWLqKZbiQhxDRLvBCu8c2uLJSqmr93EcR9nSAJ5iAmF5TvV1u4v4oEEPgWo97TdKwbq4upuEJzNhVqwKJ29bM54i?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato Versus Mill On The Pleasure Principle: Mill Loses]]></title><description><![CDATA[…after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-versus-mill-on-the-pleasure-principle-mill-loses</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-versus-mill-on-the-pleasure-principle-mill-loses</guid><category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 18:39:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Gr7d242AAPKgbKabpjWaeqyHnnjCxTc6cRb3hGVTPWWpN6mhy1SnKAnnPPwjtRSox88sbuettJ7rAjJJDVGYpZynPnHqJrD7o9JbHnQLa2ZT8WtW46FTa2AkBYq7PutiBw9a1Aa34q5dfVEsQYQ8D9z5qY8cQu9CmPAdzesHfxSn9mMWGVC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fatal Platonism of the Categorical Imperative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moral maxims are rules governing actions, or commands to act in certain ways considered morally correct. Some of the most well known maxims are those that come to us by way of religious tradition. “Thou]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/the-fatal-platonism-of-the-categorical-imperative</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/the-fatal-platonism-of-the-categorical-imperative</guid><category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:02:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYSuZnwXb98jkCzgPgc4Xo2M2ZU9jdPvGhWCjUz427He3g78tSpUmQQNpfJZBRVc4d2v8zQaycZ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autism and Trolleys – One Good Reason To Reject Utilitarianism]]></title><description><![CDATA[In recent years, it has been speculated that Jeremy Bentham was an autist. This speculation arises out of Bentham’s extreme attempts at systematizing human interactions in his formulation of Utilitarianism.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/autism-and-trolleys-one-good-reason-to-reject-utilitarianism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/autism-and-trolleys-one-good-reason-to-reject-utilitarianism</guid><category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:39:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2923mN3pnd7PrxqAS8My84z8QnDpEsSBnKFsBYXvnPL8zc6RcQapSmgTgCs79ZtjAM8uprQCBspRQeXdfWUu8U4KMwdLwbdRtsoobHJUFeKDCS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hume, Plato, and the Impotence of Reason]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hume infers from his insight that it is not reason but moral opinion that moves us to act, that reason is not the source of moral opinion. From this, he then further argues that moral opinion is a product]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/hume-plato-and-the-impotence-of-reason</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/hume-plato-and-the-impotence-of-reason</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:29:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kws91ecJjkANAzfstp5ietJ4ACvk9NVTGPDaTdga1pEc786AeWf9FwXzKNP5oGxwttHoECeMhsctV5Dh8t9bv15o9hq9J71BrhTtEauGn6WK1LqNPXSsurCsY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: 12 Rules For Life, Jordan Peterson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules For Life” is an admixture of continental philosophy, eastern mysticism, Jungian psychology, Christian theology, clinical psychotherapy insights, personal biography, and folk]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/book-review-12-rules-for-life-jordan-peterson</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/book-review-12-rules-for-life-jordan-peterson</guid><category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:20:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6pu4ZRycQdDVt1sqVWnsynMAKnsNvUXpwYcG7ceYHR1rxjS71HFD4nngyzUeqvbiYocr1FqNwTpvAauxtqBB9tARTxoU8N9S7GnmvStHtWqmCZrLAyZCx5axFkrFCTSDe7AzbmtM8FAT9yznKHPvFc4Hrt4oiRxA9SfY96PWbXzWYQUhoUZJPe8AALFDnmaY9apL8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judging Virtue Ethics]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been put by some that Virtue ethics lacks a decision-procedure to help us make moral decisions, and is therefore, not a good moral theory. In this essay, I will argue that the decision-procedure]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/judging-virtue-ethics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/judging-virtue-ethics</guid><category><![CDATA[virtue]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:20:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNchGPKLQuxAL7oEwDJ42cT977qXjChbkPNQyTDyn14tspWWxKJuqQ7oGS145vfHJ21m2iwV5dj6R3647fFnDYm5EGA5cUK4Bssw8aNcaSNRi6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it better to be truly just, or merely to seem so? This is the question put to Socrates by Glaucon in The Republic. Jonathan Haidt, in his book, “The Righteous Mind”, counts Glaucon among the cynics]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/book-review-the-righteous-mind-jonathan-haidt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/book-review-the-righteous-mind-jonathan-haidt</guid><category><![CDATA[morality]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:56:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVdxq7SESKhEDdck6mZ7U8iu8gtQVUJy24DMxtBSXv4mACLk2m7NQYEeaRanLyK8RZ7D7GKuvkdMQHaN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Conversation with Schopenhauer On The Idea of Freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[TRANSCRIPT - Audio Here The following is a dialogue between myself and Artur Schopenhauer, in which I basically try to interrogate the text as if I were talking directly to Schopenhauer, in an interview]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/a-conversation-with-schopenhauer-on-the-idea-of-freedom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/a-conversation-with-schopenhauer-on-the-idea-of-freedom</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:32:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad Hoc Essay: Is It Possible To Act Selflessly?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following is my attempt to answer a question posed to me recently. When I look at the question, it seems to focus on the individual. So, I think the easiest way to begin this, is to start with the]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/ad-hoc-essay-is-it-possible-to-act-selflessly</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/ad-hoc-essay-is-it-possible-to-act-selflessly</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:00:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essay: Can The Will Ever Be Regarded As Free?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The question at hand, is whether or not the will can ever be regarded as free. Taken at face value, the obvious answer would be, “of course”. Most people, as a matter of fact, regard their will as “free”,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/essay-can-the-will-ever-be-regarded-as-free</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/essay-can-the-will-ever-be-regarded-as-free</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:39:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Interpretive Analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey]]></title><description><![CDATA[[embed] Script: INTRODUCTION The film “2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of the best-known science fiction classics of all time. Over the decades since its initial release, this close collaboration between]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/an-interpretive-analysis-of-2001-a-space-odyssey</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/an-interpretive-analysis-of-2001-a-space-odyssey</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:20:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eHum3TcD2BhCUux1p9aidEdfv1SQUa4zKgJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato, Freud, Orwell, and the Danger of the Modern Mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[In The Phaedrus, Plato offers up two rapturously beautiful visions of the soul of man. The first, is the Manichaean winged being of pure beauty, trapped against its will in a prison of corporeal form,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-freud-orwell-and-the-danger-of-the-modern-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/plato-freud-orwell-and-the-danger-of-the-modern-mind</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:08:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayn Rand: Still The Boogeyman]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following quote is from a discussion of Plato's dialogue "The Republic", from this course on Coursera. The professor, a Dr. Meyer, is explaining the interactions early in the book between]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/ayn-rand-still-the-boogeyman</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/ayn-rand-still-the-boogeyman</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:48:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau's Social Contract, Book 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” This famous opening line of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s equally famous essay, appears, to our modern minds, to point clearly toward an obvious question:]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/rousseau-s-social-contract-book-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@exitingthecave/rousseau-s-social-contract-book-1</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[exitingthecave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:13:54 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>