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Martin Janello

@martinjanello.bsky.social

Normative, public, meta-philosopher. See my website: https://www.philosophyofhappiness.com. Please join me at https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophyofhappiness and https://www.youtube.com/@Philosophyofhappiness.

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Consciousness Formed Before Life Itself, Scientists Sayβ€”And the Evidence Could Be in This Asteroid Sample Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness.

No, they don't. And no, it couldn't. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

20.01.2026 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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I just opened a new Reddit community, r/philosophyofhappiness, for academic and popular discussion of philosophical matters that matter to people. Please join me there. Also note my YouTube channel linked in bio.

22.01.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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crippled a country for greedy profit
moved manufacturing off-shore
few things are made here anymore
blaming china for taking the chore

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
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#poetry

06.01.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chaos in and around us. We have a choice. Give in. Or start organizing our affairs in spite of it. My work can help you see how to go about this. Take a look at it. Visit the Philosophy of Happiness website referenced in my profile, with free access to all my work.

06.01.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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making lovers stay
there is no such thing
but one can make them go away

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
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#poetry

05.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i am less upset
about what you did
than that i must live
remembering it

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 3.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
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#poetry

05.01.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very effective and very discreet support services by professional associations exist for lawyers, psychologists, and physicians. Why is there nothing like this for philosophy professionals?

05.01.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Public Philosophy Is Good - For Philosophy and For the Public"

A mostly sensible but more aspirational than factual APA blog by The Public Philosophy Network Executive Committee. Its examples show how ill-conceived and bizarre many forays are.

blog.apaonline.org/2019/03/...

05.01.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interested in public philosophy? Read 6 philosophical essays in the Reflections tab of the website in my profile. All my work is accessible free of charge on that site. Please tell others about this resource. I'd much appreciate your reposting. Thank you and a happy life!

05.01.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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your head resting
on my shoulder
makes me stronger but not bolder

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

05.01.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Humans create unnecessarily harsh conditions. To address them, we must comprehend them, question asserted causes, and imagine alternatives.

β€œKnowing” series, Book 1.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
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#quote

05.01.2026 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deutscher IdealismusΒ : Philosophie u. Wirkungsgeschichte in Quellen u. Studien

17 BΓ€nde

Klett-Cotta, 1981-1994

out of print

05.01.2026 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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500+ short philosophical quotes and poems in each travel-size volume of my 6-part Knowing series. Minimum commitment, about $16. Maximum consideration-provoking, entertaining reading pleasure.

Read samples in my timeline. And visit the Knowing tab of the website in my profile.

05.01.2026 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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looking up to hot air balloons
all my idols have long flown

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

05.01.2026 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Klaus Vieweg

Skepsis und Freiheit

Hegel ΓΌber den Skeptizismus zwischen Philosophie und Literatur

Studien und Editionen zum deutschen Idealismus und zur FrΓΌhromantik, 10

jena-sophia 2007

brill.com/display/title/41101

05.01.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I curate a series of quotes from philosophical minds (not necessarily acknowledged philosophers) that echo or play into my philosophy and thus can be discussion crystallization points. My quotes and poems serve this purpose as well. See the Knowing tab of the site in my profile.

05.01.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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do you miss life as a real person
cleansed by harmonious nature

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

04.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher."

Thomas Paine

Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

04.01.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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University administrators: Departments should be required to state every year the intended societal benefits for each of their courses, as well as reviews of meeting these goals. Philosophy and other unproductive departments would then have to either shape up or be shipped out.

04.01.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazing how many academics presume to judge people in the real world about whom and whose conditions they know only academically.

04.01.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Witnessing budgetary and societal pressures on higher education planning, contrasted by uncompromising resistance to saving adjustments (combined with naΓ―ve "my-heart-goes-out-to the-losers" attitudes) in academic Philosophy, I foresee widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth.

04.01.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mindfulness is better called mindlessness. It may have a place. Yet we eventually must turn to arrange existential objectives and pursuits.

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#quote

04.01.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Speed-reading, memory, and other brain improvements are essential for humans to remain in charge of aptly applying expanding areas of required and other beneficial information.

β€œKnowing” series, Book 1.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow timeline for excerpts.
#quote

04.01.2026 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Institutional philosophy is a non-productive anachronism not worth preserving, apart from historical sources. The universal drive for knowledge it once represented long moved to resulting branches represented in university systems, which have developed their own philosophies.

04.01.2026 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You know what's missing? Courage. Sure, in part, we lack knowledge. And our abilities are limited. But it all stands or falls with our heart. We can feel what's wrong, but are conditioned not to look much at our self and settings to fight for good. Visit the site in my profile.

04.01.2026 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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what if i were
her everything
i could not bear
the fix i'd be in

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

04.01.2026 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i often think
where mankind would be
if no one were willing
to fight one another

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

04.01.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Whoever denies reason does not experience its reality; whoever expects it meets it."

Karl Jaspers

Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.

04.01.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i don't care anymore
about what you said
i should let go
is this enough to have us back

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 3.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

03.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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filled with love
that no one wanted
she had to kill it to survive

β€œKnowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry

03.01.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0