So much has been written in honor of wisdom, as a virtue, on its importance, and its indispensable place in our lives that thinking of its antagonisms immediately meets resistance. Nonetheless, given this central position, which, on one hand, conditions the mind with predetermined schemes, while, on the other hand…

The greatest gift of modern life is the choices we have at our disposal which our parents and generations before them lacked. Today, we think in choices, act on options, strategize alternatives, and strive for possibilities, as such our whole life circles around choices of lifestyle, education, career, relationships, between…

Some time ago, an interesting exchange over the mechanism of rationality led to the idea of retrospective rationalization. This idea, which on one hand, antagonizes the very ground on which rationality stands, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in language. And despite its logical contradictions conditioning rationality with the…

In Hegel’s dialectical movement, contradictions are necessarily internalized, and there is always a remainder, a leftover from the process of sublation. Therefore contradiction is a simple negation of an object, a necessity of its determination, and the remainder is the negation of negation. Simply put the first negation is a…

An optical illusion is described as a deceptive trick which makes us see something else, other than the reality we should see. I think, this description reduces this phenomenon, which exists and is real qua experience, and dismisses it rather naively. I categorized some key ideas on how people view…

“Homo economicus”, or as more commonly known as a rational man or an economic man, is a central figure in economic theory, and despite its controversial nature it sustained its position in extrapolating commercial behavior. As such, this figure exists as an ideal notion, its does not exist in real…

Every strategy is based on the premise of operational effectiveness, without it, strategy does not matter. Michael Porter uses this argument to explain, what is strategy? and he concludes that operational effectiveness is not strategy. Strategy is about choices, while operational effectiveness is a “must have” for a successful strategy…

“Cogito, ergo sum; I think, therefore I am… Rene Descartes” Can this be negated? We are thinking beings, we think without deliberate intervention, our attention griped by this phenomenon which exists, but then, is attention in itself not a form of thinking? Attention assumes this temporal abstracted form of one’s…

A commonly known fact about risk is that it did not occur, yet, and it may never happen at all, and while this property is fundamental to its concept. It’s a necessary misrecognition in this determination, which includes in itself contradictions, fear and hope, mediates into form which manifests itself…