Apollodorus

I agree that this was probably one factor but surely not the only one? Buddhism had many centuries to defeat Hinduism before the arrival of the Mughal...

Not at all. It may be vague in general outline but less so once you've looked into the more detailed facts of it. Most scientific theories start off a...

Well, even if some Buddhist teachings aren't flawed in terms of logical consistency, they may still be "flawed" in the sense and to the extent that th...

If I’m not mistaken, the traditional means of knowledge (at least in Indian philosophy in general) is said to be (1) pratyaksha personal experience, (...

Well, you are accusing me by implication: the author is a "Nazi", his book must be promoting "Nazism" (as well as "Odinism" and "anti-semitism"), ther...

I'm beginning to think that consulting the Communist Manifesto would be the default procedure around here ...

If it was just one of you I might understand. But you're ganging up on people like a pack of dogs, which in my opinion only proves my point. But never...

I see. You haven't seen the book, haven't read it, don't have a clue, but still talking and accusing people. Sounds about right, doesn't it? "Loony Le...

Don't tell me what to do. I'm not taking orders from Stalinists and far-left Fascists. You can't come up with any reasoned arguments that's why you're...

Imagination fueled by paranoia, that's how.

Yeah, just like yourself. Have you come out of your closet yet or do you still spy "Nazis" under the bed?

Correct. I thinks it translates "means of knowledge".

From what I've seen Abhinavagupta who developed the philosophical system of Kashmiri Shaivism seems to have borrowed something similar from Buddhists ...

I am under no legal obligation to know who an author from New Zealand is. If a book is in a regular bookstore, it's on political psychology and has en...

I haven't seen any "Nazi" views in the book and I wasn't discussing the book. So, I don't see what your point is. It was YOU who brought up Nazism not...

And I'm glad you aren't a communist terrorist although these days one can never know.

Well, I didn't know that and you can't really blame it on me, can you? Anyway, conspiracy theories aside, what in the book are you objecting to? Or ar...

I think part of the problem is that people tend to invest a lot of emotional energy into things they often don't really know or understand. By definit...

Not only that, but I'm not even discussing the book, I just said I was reading it. Maybe you need some reading glasses or something?

I fail to see your logic. Just because you're a Marxist that doesn't make the rest of us "Nazis", "Odinists" and "anti-semites" The book has nothing o...

Not only Greek but also Green. We all seem to share the same color. How did you arrange that?

BLM leader Patrice Cullors has openly endorsed the policies of Socialist leaders like Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong and has described herse...

No, are you?

Perhaps older siblings tend to be more resistant to change. This would tend to support what I was saying. In any case, the book I'm reading has absolu...

Are you saying that the Right wants to change the law but the Left is opposed to that change? In other words, change is OK when the Left wants it and ...

Being "more open to change" is one thing. Insisting on change at all costs and no matter what is quite another thing. Not only that, but those who ins...

BTW if you look at the Black Lives Matter movement as an example, although it may represent a good cause, it seems that it is increasingly being used ...

The way I see it, women should have a right to abortion e.g. when the pregnancy is the result of a crime, such as rape, or when the woman's life is in...

3 at the very least. But I do find the Buddhist theory of impermanence or momentariness quite interesting. Maybe @baker can tell us more.

Hang on a second. Aren't you confusing @Alexandros with @Apollodorus there? I can't speak for others, but the point I was making was that the Left ten...

I agree. The world is indeed changing very fast and the boundaries of free speech appear to be getting narrower by the day - or by the minute in some ...

Correct. Greek philosophy was the most developed and respected philosophical system at the time and had been for centuries. Everybody was influenced b...

Well, the book has absolutely nothing about Odin or anything of the kind, from what I can see at least. And no, I'm not into "Odinism", are you?

You're definitely right about free speech, it's fast becoming a rare commodity - as well-argued by Piers Morgan in his book "Wake Up". The minute you ...

Apparently, the Fabian Society, which was the main driving force behind the political left in England, believed that "socialism is a business proposit...

But the same applies to the opposite camp, does it not? Marxists have changed little since Marx and there are many strands of "leftism".

First of all, many thanks to everyone for your interesting contributions. I was just thinking that in the old days people used to fight over water, fo...

"Questionable" to whom? At the beginning of the Christian era, Alexander’s City, Alexandria, had become the Western world’s chief centre of learning, ...

Am I right in assuming that you've read the book then? I'm not sure the "poster boy for Thatcherism" analogy is quite as simple as that. If we look at...

That's a very good point actually. It reminds me of the article "Marx, Revolution and the Legacy of Utopian Socialism: A Critical Outline" on wordpres...

I don't disagree with any of that. However, the point the book seems to be making is that both the Left and the Right tend to describe each other in p...

I do agree that political slogans are not psychology but they may point to deeper psychological factors. After all, everything we do is rooted in our ...

I don't know about Aquinas but Christian philosophy certainly borrowed much from Greek philosophy. Some - like Athena, above - seem to think that know...

Well, from a cursory observation, I think that views tend to crystallize in two opposite categories: one oriented towards "change" ("left") and the ot...

I disagree with the equation "monarchy = total state control". Constitutional monarchies are no different from liberal democratic states. In fact, mos...

Well, that seems to be part of the problem. There are many different definitions or views of socialism. Some claim that "socialism is not Marxism", ho...

Some people seem to have an unwillingness or inability to see similarities between Platonism and Indian monistic philosophy. For example, while noting...

"Unlimited slave labor"? Even in Rome slaves were a minority. Plus they had to be fed, etc.

To my knowledge the Roman military was funded by the imperial government through revenue from taxes, etc. Either way, the army was kept for the public...

And no, social security isn't socialism. There was public road building, public health care, a standing army paid by the state, etc. even in Ancient G...