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We live in the bit of experience life offers to us. The notion that you have information is suspect as such. Who made you the wizard of worlds not ava...

Why should anybody be interested in what you think? So far, you have only offered rhetorical responses.

Your resolution is very hardy. My resolution is to read the writers before Socrates (in the Greek tradition) more carefully. And get this old frame to...

The opportunity to get data about the early universe is seriously important.

Got it. Good to know. Go ahead and explain everything. The world is your oyster.

Go Webb Telescope! What a delicate instrument, where so many parts can fail, being sent to such a precarious place. If it works, it will change what w...

I respect Gerson, especially as someone who wrestled with the texts of Plotinus. But I am not convinced that Aristotle is arguing for the neat divisio...

But none of those claims regarding voting fraud could be proven in the light of day. The power to expose such crimes was in the hands of those most in...

I think Gerson misses an important circumstance that Aristotle observes in De Anima. For whatever reason it might be possible, we come into the presen...

But the situation in this case is not just one side tarring another side. The proponents for overturning the election did that openly in the name of o...

Measles. Rubella. Polio. Tetanus. Diphtheria. Smallpox. Influenza. Your idea of the utility of exposure flies against the face of previous experience.

I love the old books. I am better versed in them than more recent ones. I own the biases of my preferences. I don't agree that the old writers all acc...

Your account is interesting, and I have had my own experiences struggling against decisions made by those who make them. I figure all the sides in the...

Then I must not have grasped the nuance of this seemingly unqualified statement:

I see Lewis' point The rest of my comment was given to show that generations of reactions to such declarations has also become what is 'Christian.' Th...

Why would my observation be based on what people have been charged with as a matter of law? A group of people tried to hang on to power after having b...

Why ask me? The intentions of the proceedings at the time are pronounced clearly by those interested in the results.

I accept that the models created through science end up getting involved with other kinds of narratives beyond what they claim to claim as science per...

The riot was incited to keep him in power after that date. I am not sure what you are trying to say here.

They were not done to change who was in power.

Your proposition asserts that all points of views are arbitrary by default. Then you ask if anyone could come to a different conclusion after acceptin...

Are you suggesting you have no way to figure it out by yourself?

That leads me to wonder at what point a metaphor is different than other predicates. From a certain point of view, there is always a Two; The one bein...

The war won't happen. Previous wars broke out because there were competing forms of production. The only forms of production in the U.S. are dominated...

It is true that people have used the arguments of justification to support terrible acts. Christianity became a dominant idea through violence, both p...

I greatly appreciate the differences between how people endure loss. But the loss is its own thing, a life, of a kind. Refusing to admit defeat to som...

You have not yet entered any of the discussions you have started. In this one, you assume the only purpose of 'freedom of speech' is to avoid conflict...

If one states the terms being compared, is that not more like an allegory? Plato's allegory of the cave places our experience of knowing and ignorance...

Great transitions in that song. James Dewar is still the missing limb for me.

Robin Trower is pretty good. I love this concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkkscG08So&t=2382s

Le Rochefoucauld described education as a second self-love. For many years, I thought his observation was mostly a precautionary tale against taking o...

I understand the idea that we have problems without bringing them upon ourselves. One could say that the examination finds us, not the other way aroun...

I figure the notion is not bound to various explanations of what might be true but asserts that a particular experience reveals the truth. The problem...

In supposing the Evil Deceiver, Descartes is presenting a counter to the logic of Anselm where we can only conceive of what we are given the ability t...

I don't know what an 'equality movement' is. I do know what principles of equality regarding access to opportunity, equal application of the law, and ...

Hobbes does not base the need for the 'concentration of power' upon the evident virtue of a ruler but upon the fear of violence and a desire for peace...

That is precisely not true in regard to seeing the realm of a single universal realm as above any organized by men.

Hobbes does not call for the 'sovereign' to direct all the affairs of the citizens, to wit: As a general note on reading Hobbes, it should be observed...

In Plato's Phaedo, the act is wrong because it puts asunder what the divine has brought together. The proposed exceptions to the prohibition are prese...

In the Leviathan, Hobbes argues for monarchy being the best system because it forces the different agencies of government to be answerable to a single...

That makes life sound like some kind of trust fund; Some balance between resources explains outcomes. But actual optimism is not confidence in a retur...

I am not sure what the 'we', presented by you amounts to. If you are referring to the laws set up to arbitrate disputes between various claims of righ...

Your mention of Ancient Greek struck me how lucky we are to have a number of different genres to compare with others over measures of similar and diff...

One difference between N and those Stoics is that N dd not appeal to a cosmic Good as a point of departure.

One of the elements to be observed is that one can prepare for the test(s) by help from people who have studied the exams. I have taken SATs, ACTs, an...

That expression is at odds with Nietzsche saying life keeps happening despite the entropy. The cups keep getting filled over. We have no idea why. And...

If evil is the creative element you describe, it doesn't need anything from anybody. it is either observed with acuity or misunderstood. Celebration a...

The interest in 'identity theory' (google it, I didn't know about it until it was pointed out to me) is that the duality that anchors our epistemology...

There is no doubt I am viewing the matter through my own peculiar view of the world. I meant no offense. The comment was put forward as an alternative...

That is an interesting question. He was clear that if someone wanted to do better, then do better. That is as honest a response I can imagine.