Jamal

I used to live in the North of England and they all said it like that. In Scotland a lot of people pronounce the name of the letter J as jai (like the...

Yes. If after a week it’s still keeping me awake at night, I’ll look into it.

That’s ok, I started it. So, which branch of philosophy serves as an example of philosophy that clarifies … what exactly? What philosophy is, maybe? A...

I don’t know what you’re talking about but I felt it was polite to respond to being tagged, especially as money seems to be involved :grin:

I wouldn’t expect anything less. But I don’t think you did a very good job. You told me how it worked, which I knew already, but the only thing you ga...

More charitably, I suppose it can be interpreted to mean “which of these is the most philosophical?” Or “the most typical of philosophy”.

I don’t think so. To exemplify is to be an example of, and to best exemplify is to be the best example of. So, applied to these branches of philosophy...

Because “exemplifies” and even “best exemplifies” are a bit vague, won’t this just devolve to picking favourites, or answering as to which is most imp...

I voted Social-Ethical, but my real answer is “all of the above”, that Social-Ethical philosophy depends on or feeds off all the others.

From the point of view of conservatism, I think it’s primarily negative. That is, it’s about taking the edge off hierarchy, preventing the flagrant ab...

:cool:

I can see that but I don’t really like that way of putting it. A refusal to play the game can be substantial, in that you’re questioning the starting ...

Indeed. However, I’m currently finding it difficult to stitch all these ideas together.

I just read something and thought it was vaguely relevant. I’m thinking that indirect realism, though popularly often expressed in modern scientific l...

Yes, with grated Uzbek tomatoes, Armenian bread, and Spanish/Italian/Greek extra virgin olive oil, I have enjoyed this several times. @"Noble Dust" Ho...

@"javi2541997" I’m not blaming you for this but I have to confess I was a bit disappointed in the Spanish tomatoes. Russian tomatoes are better. Actua...

Interesting. The irrationality of capitalism requires that if we want low prices, we must demand that supermarket employees get low wages.

Even the nice guys in philosophy have been full of themselves. Kant believed he’d sorted everything out once and for all.

A large Spanish supermarket chain. As far as I can tell, the name means something like “Market Woman” or “Mrs Merchandise”. I guess my translation ski...

My comment was bait to catch anti-Argentine prejudice. You have revealed yourself.

I always thought Mercadona was good. Good quality but not too fancy. Also, they seem to pay and treat their workers pretty well, comparatively speakin...

Question for any South Americans: do Argentines eat steak every day, and do they ever eat vegetables? Maybe they regard chicken as a vegetable?

Ok, well maybe somebody here can help answer the question anyway.

Did she speak the truth?

I have a title for a discussion, taken from Nietzsche, but I’m not sure what to do with it: “The brain diseases of morbid cobweb-spinners” He was refe...

Delicious!

Hi Ali and welcome. It would be good if you could edit your post to include a more accurate English version of the quotation, because the quotation yo...

I’m thinking the problem is sheep testicle stew or something. In my ignorance, that’s what I associate with Mongolia, and I associate Kazakhstan with ...

There are many Kazakh people here and the countries have been friendly and tied together by trade and culture for a long time, so there’s no political...

I discovered ceviche when I was in Spain, and it’s become a favourite of mine. One of the best was in a Peruvian restaurant in Madrid. But it’s surpri...

As for Mexican, there’s one Mexican guy who sells tamales on Facebook.

Popular ethnic foods in Moscow are Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Thai, Japanese, Ukrainian Jewish, Italian, and American. Indian food is mak...

Yep.

Useful post, thanks. It’s well-known that urban settlements and the division of labour led to increasing stratification. The socialist response is tha...

The problem with @"T Clark"’s name is that there’s a space right after the initial letter. The mention box doesn’t start searching till after the seco...

Local, sure. But ethnic? Assuming you mean non-European, it’s very patchy.

I would have been curious about those Freiberg tacos.

Mexican food in general has not caught on much in Europe, no doubt because of a severe lack of Mexicans. That said, I do have a Mexican friend in Spai...

I agree. I’d go further and point out that Stalin was a committed Marxist and not just an opportunist monster as Trotskyists like to imagine. But that...

If human beings have lived in stable egalitarian groups for long periods, that is, if egalitarianism (loosely defined, as in the OP) is significant in...

Fair.

Yes, and without the remotest prospect of a movement for the overthrow of capitalism, I think it follows that liberal democracy must be defended, and ...

Unless the plumber has taken your table after slaughtering you along with all the other lickspittles of the bourgeoisie. (I hope it doesn’t happen, ju...

Fair enough. I don’t find it so easy to dismiss the horrors of the Reign of Terror in France, the Red Terror in revolutionary Russia, the famines in t...

The context is important, but doesn’t really alter the fact that he spoke favourably of non-democratic (and violent) means to achieve a classless soci...

I’m vaguely ashamed of myself for criticizing you, as I’m usually on your side against liberal apologists for capitalism like @"ssu", however, things ...

Of course. It’s just weird to use “Marxism” to refer to a system of government, because it’s primarily an analysis and critique of capitalism. It impl...

That’s fair. On the other hand, what might be called “his economic work” is intimately bound up with his political philosophy, encompassing alienation...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: elbow patches.

Yes, but not just Germany. It’s big in the UK too, probably all over Europe in fact. I’d never heard of Al Pastor. Having now seen a picture, yeah, th...