by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Philosophy
If you have a chance, rut around your attic and look through some of your old high school books. If you’re fortunate, you will find an old dog-eared copy of Aristophanes’ play The Clouds. Reread this book and spend some time on considering the why behind...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
Let’s consider these quotes about scientists from Nietzsche’s Essay, David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer: An honest natural scientist believes that the world conforms unconditionally to laws, without however asserting anything as to the ethical or...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy, Writing
Here’s a definition of culture I recently read in Nietzsche’s essay David Strauss, the confessor and the writer: Culture is, above all, unity of artistic style in all expressions of the life of a people.Nietzsche Here’s one of the Oxford English Dictionary’s...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy, Physician Career
I just received the book Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations via Amazon. (Thank you Amazon!) It’s recommended reading for the one-day course An Introduction to Wittgenstein: Games, Pictures, Rules, and Therapies which I will be taking this May through...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Philosophy
Here is Kant’s “Togetherness Principle”: Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.Kant Although this is usually considered part of Kant’s theory of cognitive dualism about sensibility and understanding, I think it also has something to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai, Philosophy
Here’s a clue to discovering your ikigai. When you wake up at 5 a.m. on a cold winter morning, and then you leap out of bed, start your cup of coffee, and deep-read a book with a pencil in hand, I can guarantee the subject of that book has something to do with...
