Apollodorus

How could that possibly be an "insult"? Sharia law was part of the "great civilization" you admire. Good for the emancipation of women and the promoti...

The topic is "Afghanistan, Islam and national success". Perhaps you have forgotten. Pakistan was part of British India and that was where the Muslim L...

So, according to you Muslim Arabs never invaded the countries they invaded, conquered, enslaved and oppressed??? In that case, I wonder why there were...

Try to think a bit harder then. It is a well-known fact that there were major tensions between Hindus and Muslims in British India and that, for geost...

It isn’t about liking or disliking anyone, it’s about seeing beyond propaganda. If we look at the matter objectively, the following points become clea...

Well, I WAS going to say that your “answer” looks like Straussian hermeneutics to me but I resisted the temptation .... :smile: But let’s try to simpl...

Well, if atheism and materialism are your main concern, then it's a different story. I think what tends to happen when someone converts to a new relig...

I think you are not paying attention. You keep forgetting a “small detail”, namely the British Empire, i.e. the largest empire in world history! It is...

Exactly. So it was the Persians that had Plato and Aristotle translated before the Arabs. The Arabs merely continued what the Persians had already sta...

I think you are mixing up your dates, and Arabs with Turks :smile: The All-India Caliphate Committee was founded in 1919. The All-India Muslim League ...

I think this is a (West European) misconception. Plato’s Academy at Athens was closed in 529 AD because it was a Pagan school, but Classical philosoph...

You are probably right there. But I wouldn't blame Christianity for the destruction of the environment. People have always cut down forests to grow cr...

Correct. However, the concept of ethical conduct as conducive to happiness both in the individual and in society, was already central to Socrates, Pla...

The syncretism was Persian and had started during the Second Golden Era (498–622) of the Sasanian Empire, i.e. long before Islam: Sasanian Empire - Wi...

I agree. Give him Islam. :smile: What you are talking about is called "the Golden Age of Islam", not "great Arab civilization". As already explained, ...

Well, if you ask me, when I relate what is being said, I normally use phrases like "They say that ..." etc. and I know of no other way of putting it i...

Pali metta is the equivalent of Sanskrit maitri which seems to be more like friendliness, goodwill, or benevolence, the opposite being ill-will. In th...

Well, as far as I am concerned, I did suggest to @Athena to be a bit more specific: Otherwise it's just a free-for-all and we won't get very far IMO. ...

Not exactly by Muslims. With the exception of Spain, the West remained mostly under Germanic control. It was the Visigoths that initiated anti-Islamic...

But, Baker, if we bear in mind that in Platonism the true individual is the nous, etc. as explained above, then I think there should be less doubt abo...

You could be right that we are less monogamous than we are told we are or than we would like to be. But I think life and nature itself imposes some re...

That's a very interesting perspective and perhaps worth looking into. However, do Native Americans all have a unified settlement pattern, social strat...

I think the main problem is that we have no example of matriarchal society to make an informed judgement with regard to possible benefits of matriarch...

Correct. America is a mixture of cultures. That's why no one calls it "great English civilization". The same applies to the supposed "great Arab civil...

Exactly. Besides, attraction isn't just about beauty. And, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Moreover, I think Ancient Greeks were pr...

Well, apparently, there are different versions of the story so it's hard to tell how we are to read it. You could perhaps say that he was in a way sel...

Correct. I can think of no explanation as to why western governments would pump trillions into Afghanistan and arm the Taliban instead of using the mo...

I don't think so. By "raised by the state" I meant raised at the state's expense, i.e. either by paying the mother or paying carers. Money paid for ab...

What about celebs and influencers who keep posting selfies of themselves in the social media? Could they draw any lessons from the story?

That was my original suggestion.

Exactly. So the state pays .... :smile:

If the mother is paid by the state to stay home and raise children, then why would the state need to pay a basic income to carers? Either way, the sta...

So if someone in the USA is arrested by a female police officer and tried by a female judge are they oppressed by women or by men?

In that case, I'm assuming that the remainder are women. 34% of Federal District Court judges is not negligible. How many are there under the Taliban?

Which amounts to the state raising the children ....

I raised the topic because @Athena mentioned women having to leave children in a daycare center and working like men to support the family, which obvi...

No one was talking about Texas. I was talking about the whole western world and about women who might make different choices if useless governments he...

I think a woman who feels she has no choice, e.g. for economic reasons, does not have a choice. Helping her financially would give her a choice IMO.

So, you think the state shouldn't make itself useful and do something for the people? Some people have abortions because they feel they have no choice...

Good point. I think there isn't much point having family values if no one wants to raise a family. Just think of the thousands of abortions being perf...

The feminist may well say that. However, depending on the area or Western country you live in, institutions are not always controlled by men. There ar...

The term "patriarchy" - with all the negative connotations - also occurs among left-wing and far-left groups where it tends to crop up in slogans like...

Not only that, but in a dictatorship power would be held by one dictator, so I don't think it would make much difference. Would a female Hitler or Sta...

Not exact equivalent but close. The Greek term "basileus" did not necessarily mean hereditary ruler. And in some cases, the basileus was a member of a...

Sure. But the Roman Empire lasted much longer than 400 years. So Roman civilization must have been even better, and Egyptian civilization that lasted ...

I don't need to as I never claimed that there was one. It was you who claimed that there was this "great Arab civilization". Unfortunately, you failed...

I think there is a contradiction there. We condemn war as "good for religion" but we glorify a religion that was spread through war. Plus, by definiti...

I’m assuming that by “Arab civilization” you mean things like architecture, language, literature. and other cultural traits that are characteristic of...

Example of things other than "reminders". But you are not answering my question (which I have asked about three or four times): How does one speak of ...

The fact is that Egyptians, Iranians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, Indonesians, Malaysians, and many others are NOT Arabs. Even Syrians...