Bryan Kam

Writing on the origins of complexity, selfhood, modern cognition and suffering, philosophy, history of science, literature, film.

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2025-06-04

I write about #Nietzsche and #Klein's differing views on #gratitude and what they regard as its opposites: fear and envy.
bryankam.com/p/gratitude-and-i #philosophy #psychology #psychoanalysis @philosophy @psychology

2025-06-02

I write about #Nietzsche and #Klein's differing views on #gratitude and what they regard as its opposites: fear and envy.
bryankam.com/p/gratitude-and-i #philosophy #psychology #psychoanalysis @philosophy @psychology

2025-06-02

@douginamug Ah interesting, do you think it was the way reasoning was taught? Or other parts of the educational system?

2025-06-02

@ericmacknight Thanks for reading Eric! I'm really glad you liked it. What don't you like about Substack? I've had blogs for decades, but nobody read them 😅

2025-06-02

@davidsuculum Really glad to hear this!

2025-04-20

@photovotary Thank you so much!

2025-04-19

I submitted my first academic paper! "Neither/Nor: A pragmatic philosophy for oscillating between conceptual and experiential knowledge" bryankam.com/p/an-academic-exe @philosophyofmind #philosophy #psychology #history #science #anthropology

2025-04-17

@photovotary So glad to hear it!!

2025-02-13

From Zhuangzi’s Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what I’m saying about love in Socrates:
bryankam.com/p/love-abstracted

#philosophy #Socrates #Zhuangzi #language

“What this age values and takes as its guide, its course, is written text. But written texts are no more than words. Words do have something valuable about them: their meanings and ideas. But those meanings and ideas come from some­ thing else, and what they come from cannot be transmitted in words. And yet the people of this age, due to the high value they put on words, transmit only the writings. Though this age so esteems them, I do not regard them as worthy of esteem. What these people value about them is not what is really valuable about them. For whatever we can see by looking is only shapes and forms. Whatever we can hear by listening is only names and sounds. Alas! This age takes shapes, forms, names, and sounds as sufficient to attain the reality of that something else. But shapes, forms, names and sounds are ultimately not sufficient to get at what is real there. Thus "those who know do not speak, and those who speak do not know/7 But how could the present age understand this!”

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