Protagoras

@"Banno" Debate moderators should not be the regular moderators,but should be someone both debaters accept. But the main crux is the debaters themselv...

Excellent @"Joshs" More philosophers need to really understand and engage what you have written above and your next quote here; "But fundamentally, th...

Yep. Same as the Democrats.

For some people yes. Still a poor debate. @"MikeListeral"

@"Wayfarer" @"Apollodorus" Yes,socrates use of mantras shows how a lot of the worlds spiritual and mystical traditions use similiar techniques to obta...

@"Banno" Yes,that was the entertainment,not the debate! Demonstrably wrong? Have you lost your marbles?

@"Banno" Well there weren't much entertainment. More like 180 was too gun shy to engage. The writing style is poor and unconvincing. Look at the comme...

Debaters should write clearly without unnecessary jargon or weird formatting. There should be no recourse to quoting other philosophers or making your...

There is a lot of truth in that extract. But,Hindu,abrahamic and in fact all cultures around the world including African cultures work on similiar lin...

@"Apollodorus" My take is different. I don't doubt that a person can use platos work to increase discipline and spirituality in a positive way. But th...

What's great about having a scientist a neuroscientist here is you get to see the full bigotry and unedited dogma of these guys that are doing all thi...

@"Apollodorus" Without a doubt bankers,industrialists,military men and politicians from elite families use platos and others ideas to bolster their co...

@"Isaac" Feelings are subjectivity you fool. If your in pain should you ignore it? You ignorant bigot.

@"Isaac" Nope. You can never prove feelings are matter. My feelings say they are not matter.

@"Isaac" Nope. Coffee tables have a similarity,they are both made from matter. Feelings are not.

@"Isaac" Nonsense. Materialists are saying feelings are Matter.

To think there is not a difference between a coffee table and your feelings is nonsense.

This is truth! @"frank"

@"Apollodorus" Yep. I agree with all that! All movements and religions need to appeal to elite classes and the masses,so plato catered for both. And I...

@"Apollodorus" To clarify,he wanted a certain type of theocracy. A philosopher king pharaonic type of ruling elite. The Greek system he inhabited was ...

@"Ross Campbell" But meaning is also a source of pleasure or joy,is it not?

@"Apollodorus" No doubt plato is not a sceptic or an atheist. Neither is socrates. Socrates knew the "good" and about life after death,he clearly knew...

@"Apollodorus" Yep. I agree with your view of socrates. On plato I agree with what you have stated,but,and it's a big but,platos main aim was politica...

@"Apollodorus" OK. With regard to Strauss,one must realise he was a very tricky political academic. Strauss made some valid points about plato writing...

@"Apollodorus" I'm not sure if your addressing me or fooloso4. Are you agreeing with the post I made Or?

@"Angelo" I think If philosophy is used as a therapy then it can help Improve relations between people. If its used as an ideology that may make thing...

@"Kinglord1090" By the way you running off through logic or emotion?! Or both...

@"Kinglord1090" There's no impasse. You never even got off the ground. There was no discussion. You rolled in with a dogma and preached it,then got sl...

@"Kinglord1090" Nope. They have trouble with processing emotions,not that they don't have any. Have your worked in clinical settings? Because you migh...

@"Kinglord1090" Read the article. The emotions are still experienced,but not processed as well as normal. It's impossible to not have emotions.

@"Kinglord1090" Correctomundo! Look at the emotions on kinglord!! Now,it's a misnomer that people with alexithymia don't have emotions. So your whole ...

@"Kinglord1090" No. Try again. By the way,you calling me beautiful is the first thing you have got right this thread.

@"Kinglord1090" You framed the question with a ludicrous impossible assumption. Can you guess what the assumption was?

@"Kinglord1090" My username is the name of the greatest Greek philosopher you ignorant dumbass. Wiki is your friend!

@"Kinglord1090" By the way,interesting choice of username. Delusions of grandeur!

@"Kinglord1090" And I literally said you are framing the question in an attempt to justify your argument. Read my post bruuuuuuuuih! I don't need to t...

@"Kinglord1090" Your list of rules and regulations just shows you are contriving and rigging your argument and any trying to stop dissent or counter v...

A lot of folk wisdom and psychology is excellent. There are some rare people who use worldviews as an expression of their values rather than therapy. ...

@"TheMadFool" I think religions are therapy to a vast amount of people. Your example of buddhism is pretty much on the mark. That said philosophy scie...

@"Trey" Well your answers reveal a lot about you.

Do you see the antimonies (bullshit) of pure reason now! This thread is better than anything kants critique of pure reason could ever muster. And thos...

@"Kinglord1090" You are a great advert against the school system. Because your reasoning is awful. I ain't scared of no covid,or drugs.

Isn't laughter an emotion? And joy? And pride? And happiness? And love?

@"Kinglord1090" Oh,I know your human. Very human. I don't share your false choices. I love being human,I love my emotions. What are you going to do wi...

This is some serious level of utopian bullshit. I haven't laughed this much at a thread ever i think. So these are your folks who prize "logic" and sc...

@"Joshs" Maybe the man is tired and overemotional. That's a logical sign he should relax and maybe adjust his views. See,emotions are logical!

@"Kinglord1090" It's wonderful to be human with desires,beliefs hope's,dreams,ambitions,emotions and Family and social relations. You think you can el...

Eliminate experience for world peace!? So who the hell experiences this world peace? @"Kinglord1090"

@"Kinglord1090" Are you getting emotional now!!!! This whole thread is a self own. Ludicrous. Your false choice between emotions and "world peace" is ...

@"Kinglord1090" And what inspired maths and logic? Clue,inspired. Inspiration is intuition an emotion a desire. All logic is from motives. And motives...