by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health
After considering Plato’s Theory of Forms as one type of essentialist definition, (as I discussed in my recent posts Definitions and Essentialism: Plato and Is There a Platonic Form of Health?) let’s see what Aristotle has to offer. Let’s consider his concept of a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai
I’ve changed my ikigai once before, when I was 28 years old. I was working as an engineer and program manager in the defense industry. It was a high-pressure job, with real money at stake, filled with tense meetings with corporate vice-presidents and “customers”. I...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media
I enjoyed listening to the Aspen Initiative UK Podcast on The Future of Language, especially the thoughts by Tony Thorne @tonythorne007, which reminded me of my recent post: Emojis: Intellectual Crutch or An Expansive New Language? He bought up the point that language...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health, Philosophy
As pointed out by A. C. Grayling in The History of Philosophy,1 Plato believed his Forms were real things: In Plato’s philosophy, the Forms in the Realm of Being are real things: they are not mental objects only. They are Beauty, Truth, Goodness; but they are also...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health, Philosophy
The ordinary language philosopher Raiziel Abelson divides schools of thought about what a definition is into three groups1: essentialism, prescriptivism, and linguistic theories. Roughly an essentialist will be looking for the essence of a word, a prescriptivist will...
