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This makes sense to me as how I am caught up in process and processes where the 'identify' I experience appears. I have no idea how to compare that wi...

Arguments based upon authority are the weakest kind.

I did not mean to represent your argument as a matter of intent. You have yet (to my knowledge) to represent the Ukrainians as choosing to fight for t...

Your point is well taken that the influence factor from the U.S. and Russia is not equivalent in terms of coercion and punitive consequences. I read S...

Seen (heard) them twice before. They keep circling into their own groove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6m6lmkJG68

I miss fooloso4. He truly kicked my ass.

If what Leibniz and Descartes presented are apologies of sorts, are you seeking for something else?

I take an incremental approach. Breathe for a bit. Swimming is also good.

So, what sort of verification would compel you to take these charges seriously?

Happy New Year, TPF people. May we all have a sudden turn of good luck.

How is my comment an example of the strawman argument? You charged that the Ukrainians have to accept one set of conditions or another. You say that n...

Which particular statement of Lough's are you referring to? Or are you only responding to my description of it as a point of interest? Many of them ha...

Never read him. Or her. On a more serious note, didn't Leibniz present the possible as the restraint applied to perfection? Sort of along the lines of...

I just realized that I had not provided a link to the first article. I edited to fix. Here it is again: https://newrepublic.com/article/165603/carlson...

Did you read the articles?

I see you refer to the oft repeated John Mearsheimer argument. It has been championed by many commenters on this thread. For me, the most cogent chall...

I look forward to whatever you deem is worth your while.

Why make it a matter of my capacity? That is pure troll.

I did not mean to hijack the thread. I just thought that Aristotle was not well represented as a strict Draconian.

I merely pointed out that both sides are making "not-so-subtle historical parallels" after you characterized that such language proved a statement was...

Where the matter of the application of law concerns this statement: the following from Nichomachean Ethics should be considered:

Is not the matter to attend to is whether these events are happening or not? The Russians are employing the language of "not-so-subtle historical para...

Which text from Aristotle supports this view?

What you have not provided support for is your statement:

I agree that the emergence of classical Greek thinking was a conscious recognition of nature where beings are understood to have come into being accor...

Whatever verification you ask for from the Ukrainians should be required of the Russians whose account you refer to as factual. Your rhetorical questi...

The Ukrainians' accounts do not count as any kind of evidence for you. What sort of verification of their experience would be meaningful for you? Whil...

It is difficult for me to respond to many of your ideas because my experience with these various texts has been more along the line of trying to see a...

Proof is going to be difficult to establish from Russian documentation and witnesses until after the war. There are many reports of Ukrainian parents ...

Correct: As reported by many sources, Russia’s abductions of Ukrainian children are a genocidal crime. Perhaps you can provide a source that proves th...

I see your rings of power and raise you the Borg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtEaR1JU-ps

Lavrov delivers a bid for peace:

If for no other reason, Plotinus is interesting because he would have been the first to object to Augustine co-opting him as the 'best Platonist'. Plo...

Silversun Pickups has changed their approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJD1gF4YncY Much different than the concerts I went to.

That formulation leaves out a critical component. Is one being deceived by design, or can one proceed in the confidence that it would be stupid to foo...

And Viktor Bout busts out of prison to run to that end of the field. Neil Young put it best: "A different story for every set of eyes."

I think a lot of that can be credited to the destruction of texts from the closing of the Hellenistic time where we can see many sources are referred ...

Yes, the Iron Curtain kept events and narratives out of view. It also put a lot of traumas in suspended animation. Dealing with complicity and resista...

Solipsism founders on the existence of the image as image. Narcissus falls in love with his image and does not see the pool. Nor does he see himself a...

Yes, ultranationalists are much alike in their way of identifying themselves through who they wish to expel or worse. Eastern European nations have th...

It is useful to me as well. If I understand your work life correctly, then the matter relates to what you do as well. I am just curious, not trying to...

But not relevant to your practice?

That is the best textual reference. I still like my translations that refer to a 'manual'. How to set up a tent. What to do when the fire conks out. E...

Some of the tension between different views of the 'real' in Nietzsche's work involve views of natural law. While noting that what has transpired is a...

Pardon me for butting into the conversation but I think the quality relates to the modern idea that one is a slave if one agrees to be one. Epictetus ...

I would like to talk about On the Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche.

quote="boethius;765395"]Ah, I see, you're just virtue signalling that you've found the extreme-right association after 420 pages. You put words in my ...

You keep making rebuttals to arguments I am not making.

But you said: You put words into my mouth.

How would you guess that from my life of work? What is your life of work?