Mark Ray Martin Parrott is an American philosopher, writer, musician, photographer, designer, and programmer, known for his early adoption of independent, small press publishing, and as developer and editor of GetWiki, a Wiki website focusing on Philosophy and other subjects. M.R.M. Parrott's books include the Timeless (M.R.M...

There are key elements of Philosophy, Theology, Teleology and Ontology present throughout The Matrix Series. The overall story involves a critique of a society much like our own which has allowed technological controls to run amok, impinging on freedoms, but...

A Matrix Philosophy All Rights Reserved © 2003, 2008, 2024 M.R.M. ParrottThe text of this article includes versions which appeared on rimric folio in 2003, and from multiple authors in public newsgroups in 1999, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the authors, republished here with permission and/or fair use. All rights...

PseudoPhilosophy is any idea or system that masquerades itself as Philosophy while significantly failing to meet even basic intellectual standards. The term is frequently pejorative, and most applications of it are quite contentious. The term bears the same relationship to Philosophy that PseudoScience bears to Science, or Anti-Matter to Matter. PseudoPhilosophy is simply “Bullshit”, in the common vernacular. The...

American Indian Philosophy is based on the tribal histories, cultures, Languages, and traditions of the early peoples of “The Americas” originating before colonization, histories which are still active today. Many key philosophical traditions developed across the very broad geographical area of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia,...

Modern Philosophy is Philosophy done of course during the “Modern” era of Europe, Britain, and North America. It is not a specific doctrine or school, and while it should not be confused with Modernism in Art or Modernity in History in a literal way, they are all clearly facets of the same era. Although there are certain...

The history of Philosophy in the West begins with the Ancient Greeks, particularly with a group of philosophers who came to be known as the “Pre-Socratics” - because they appeared before Socrates brought dramatic change to Philosophy. This is not to say that there weren't other pre-philosophical rumblings in Egyptian, Semitic, and...

Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century is reacting to two major forces affecting its way of life. The first, a dismantling or destructive force, comes primarily from Academia, while the second, a rebuilding or constructive force, comes mainly from the diversity of voices and media through which philosophers or thinkers can now...

African Philosophy is the study of the Human Experience, Reality, and Knowledge from the traditional cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa. Modern Northern Africa by contrast is too strongly influenced by the overlapping Middle-Eastern Religions to be included here as Philosophy. In traditional African Philosophy,...

Eastern Philosophy is a diverse body of approaches to life and philosophizing, particularly centered on understanding the process of the Universe and its endless becoming. In Western Culture, the term “Eastern Philosophy” refers very broadly to the various philosophies of “the East”, namely Asia, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and other nations. ...

What is Philosophy? This question is as “philosophical” and profound as any of the big questions philosophers ask. The diverse, cultural activity of Philosophy is the historical study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general and universal aspects of all things. It is a study carried out, not only by...

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