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One could read Socrates hanging back from the party to commune with his thoughts at the beginning of the Symposium as a bout of "divine madness." He i...

This why the lawsuits against Fox for amplifying lies are important. The lies would be curses uttered in a parking lot without that power.

I was reluctant to address your observation about my writing; The idea that it might be better than it appears is encouraging. Is the deficiency a pen...

I take your point that Trump wanted his regime delivered to him like a take out meal but I doubt that such an attempt would have been bloodless. We wi...

This is interesting when looking at how Plato is working with Diotima's account. In the dialogue of Symposium, Socrates is supposed to give his explan...

In the mythological explanation provided by Diotima in Plato's Symposium, Eros is the child of very different parents: What is innate is the condition...

Houston, Texas, USA

Rahner's idea is congenial to various expressions of Neoplatonism prevalent during the formation of 'Christianity'. But it is sharply at odds with the...

You keep using the world to imagine the scenario that it does not exist. What is a 'logical legitimate perception? The Humean presumption that we have...

Back when the Davidson essay was first discussed here, one can read it without paying. Does anybody know of an alternative to JSTOR?

Which passages are you referring to?

Your question does not answer mine. Is reason an activity that exists while nothing else does? Is that activity something that can be known without re...

The proof you are asking for presumes there is a priority to "reason" that Hume does not accept: So, this question of proof could be asked of your pro...

Hume is saying that reason does not do that acceptance in the sense of a series of formal statements or a priori set of conditions. The belief in the ...

Hume would say that you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope when demanding a warrant for accepting the existence of the world: From thi...

I agree that the smorgasbord of incompatible themes provides a means of plausible deniability. I am proposing that it also reflects the motley crew ga...

State judges are not removed by the executive branch: Federal judges are removed thusly:

The creature with a lion's body and the head of a man invokes the Sphinx, an ancient fusing of man and the ultimate predator. Yeats ties the yearning ...

The difference between public and private declarations of agendas can be seen in figures like Senator Joe McCarthy, who propelled investigations into ...

Okay, it sounds like you have no problems with the speech. Seeing as how you believe the election was stolen, do you agree with Trumps stated agenda? ...

The same could be said about your rhetoric. You got it from the same well your fellows drink from. What have you decided for yourself? And do you have...

I take your point of there being a problem of judgement involved. I see stupidity more as an activity that flows from within and without. Castigation ...

That reminds me of Flaubert saying: As a philosophic remark, it puts the inquiry into stupidity in a difficult situation. Drowning in a ubiquity, if y...

These remarks dovetail with the interview's argument that legal means to correct the elections have been overpowered by a nefarious power. An extra-le...

Just play the video longer than where Trump says: "It could certainly happen in reverse" in response to the question from Acevedo. The quote you provi...

I included a link to the entire interview. The section I pointed out gives the context for the ensuing remarks.

Now who is taking the comments out of context? The question was whether he would do what was done to him. He continues to describe what he claims happ...

At the 12:16 mark, Acevedo asks if Trump would do what he says has been done to him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nID5J8dmRL4 At the 15:35 mark, Tr...

The Horowitz Report is actually a more disturbing report on the problems with FISA warrants and information sharing in the various institutions. That ...

The reason the investigation was not conclusive was because of the obstructions put up to it by the involved parties. Mueller explicitly stated this i...

This is an interesting theory of class, where the only participants of "religion" are powerless. That idea needs more development before making it par...

I think it is a helpful perspective but not a last word or the results of a complete system.

That does not account for Hegel who was bold enough to claim what that history was destined to bring about. It also excludes those philosophers who pr...

That is the Aristotelian view. The supposition of eternal agents in De Anima 3 is distinguished from memory that permits the activity of a person who ...

The element of being literate and educated certainly played a part but it should not be ignored that great efforts were made to convert them to Christ...

It was the Christians desperate for alternatives along with excluding a group that could help them as much as anything.

Usury was not permitted to Christians. Jews were outside that legal system.

There it is.

Because they accepted their deals of surrender up to the point they were given places to be in a separate place. Your comparison sucks.

The events showing dereliction of duty are no brainer. The events were televised. My comment regarding federalism was to point at the irony involved i...

That image of operating outside the boundaries can be found in a sibling remark to 195: Both 195 and 251 question what we learn through experience. Bu...

This is beginning to remind me of some very upsetting parts of my upbringing. Impregnate yourself.

What is that higher standard? As I previously observed, your view of history, in this regard, is very selective.

My comments were not meant to be an argument against that thought. I question your interest in pinning that tail on one particular donkey when there a...

That is a good point. It surely is a good description of those "encouraged" through intoxication. The Bushido code of accepting death is an interestin...

You left out the nasty bits where those organizations insisted upon conversion and wiped-out heretical forms deemed inadmissible to their faith. You l...

In continuance of asking the question of solving problems for all times, I wonder if aiming to dissolve problems does not create others. And that gets...

It seems reasonable to ask how far Wittgenstein thinks he has closed the distance between the two groups imagined here: The 'civilized' people are the...

I have looked into Hacker and company, and they have an interesting method. I am reluctant to respond to very particular readings of Wittgenstein pass...

My objections are the same as back then. Any rebuttal on your part is welcome.