Moliere

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-paris-attack-foreigner-fighting-isis-says-everyone-has-a-stake/

I would say they are unique to their time and place, rather than being states. I agree that human beings are always organized into some form of rulers...

Woah, cool! $$\int_{a}^{b} x^2 dx$$

It's an interesting question, for sure. I don't know. Fascism is fascinating to myself -- it seems to cut across the left/right spectrum. It's scary a...

I agree that religion is tied with fascism, though I wouldn't say that fascism is the offspring of right wing Catholic political thought. The partiall...

While this isn't a debate of fascism in favor or against, I've long appreciated Robert Paxton's take on fascism: http://academico.direito-rio.fgv.br/c...

But if there are other ways to organize the pooling of resources and cooperative effort then "the state" is not some foregone conclusion. It's not lik...

I agree with this. I don't mean my interests in the sense that Moliere wants cake and so the state shall supply Moliere with cake. I mean collective i...

:D That's probably the best way of putting it. Though the following makes a difference to my mind so maybe I don't disagree after all. I may just be b...

ISIS is bad. But I'll make the same point here as I made with Iraq back in the day when these things were discussed -- so is North Korea. Yet we don't...

I meant that these conflicts relate back to British imperialism, which drew the state boundaries in the first place. All the same I'd like to know -- ...

Yeahrp. A lot of this conflict, though it would be oversimplifying to say that there's a direct causal connection, can be traced back to colonialism a...

I agree with that. But I don't see how bombing leads to that. It seems to me that this is more of the same -- and that the people who suffer most due ...

Oh, I remember. Afghanistan, arguably, also had nothing to do with 9/11 considering how the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are organized. But how would an assau...

I think of the state as an entity which is more than the sum of its parts. There are other ways to organize large-scale society than through a state. ...

Hrmm, I wouldn't say that this is the case. I have no problem standing by my commitments. But the whole affair is so reminiscent of 9/11 -- it's not l...

I have read all the links posted here, and I have tried to be fair in reading them. Once again I feel that calls to either go on the offensive or no a...

I voted 1, but I agree with 3 as well. I suppose I wanted to say "Option 3, if no, then option 1" -- in general I like "likes" in formats like this be...

I suppose I look at it as a fledgling democracy where all the things you listed are true, to some degree, about it. I don't know if I'd say that each ...

Well, those were all the events I was thinking of. And I think you make fair points. Though I tend to think of the revolutionary war as a war of conqu...

Not to be too trite, because I find the topic interesting unto itself -- but it seems that we are in agreement, then. Yes? I wouldn't disagree with wh...

Yay. And though hollowed be their holy names, the founders were responsible for a fair amount of conquest. Though I suppose you might say they are cle...

That, I think, is the interesting question. As the laws are now it's no surprise that irresponsible persons obtained firearms. I think licensing requi...

My argument is more or less that the function of victory is not a single variable function where the input of said function is the technological abili...

Hrmm, I dunno. I really couldn't say what it would take to secure such-and-such amount of land or a country at this point. I plead ignorance on that. ...

I think war is more political than that. We had committed considerable resources and held quite a bit of land, in the military sense. Vietnam was anot...

I would draw these distinctions: knowledge and rationality, truth and rationality, certainty and rationality. I center on rationality because of your ...

Haha. "Kant" is 13 clicks away. :D Squirrels appear to have something truly profound to say.

"computer" is a mere 9 clicks away.

I'd say that's too simplistic. The reasons why are complicated. Regardless, though, these and other similar occupations should be sufficient to show t...

I don't think that this argument holds up too well against the facts. Though the U.S. might have a very advanced military, it is losing the battle in ...

I tried to aim for a middle-of-the-road. I generally am not interested in gun control, but I certainly don't think that gun-culture, or the particular...

To judge by how many assholes live around here in spite of open carry. . . ;) No, I don't think so. I also don't particularly like the implication of ...

What would "sponsoring" entail? Money? Time? Both?

I don't think so, though I found myself agreeing with most of the points in Farber's essay. One of the counter-points Farber didn't seem to respond to...

That's what I took him to be saying in the preface. And I could see there being no relation between the analytic/synthetic method and knowledge. It wa...

Was China's 12th 5-year plan publicized so much as the 13th 5-year plan seems to be? I continue to see all sorts of news sources talking about the new...

At this point it would just be speculation on my part. I'm not exactly sure. Though it seems to make sense from his examples and with his philosophy i...

Already it's been a pleasure to revisit Kant. Thanks for the opportunity @"Sapientia" , and the suggestion to do this reading-group style @"jamalrob" ...

I want to revisit this work in light of your thread. As a general thrust, however: I have only just begun to disagree with Kant, and I'm still uncerta...

It would almost seem, then, that it's appropriate to say the Epicurean's practiced both the medical and academic meta-philosophies -- though I think i...

Heh. I don't know how it is in Delaware, but I know that where I'm at this is just part of the game. The police do public relations stunts like that i...

Cool. Though, with Epicurus, I think that one fair and consistent reading is that he is using another criteria to accept his criterion of truth -- ple...

I second that "feel", though with different activities. I often prefer to write by hand because the way I think is different when I write by hand. I p...

Hrm! I was entirely unaware that there were two paths in the garden. Thank you for sharing. Is there a source I could track down that talks more about...

On the money side of things -- we spend a considerable amount on police. In our city -- and I'm lead to believe that this isn't an anomaly, though I h...

With respect to cognition, I think Kant's philosophy gets a good grasp on a theory of cognition. Whenever concepts are placed within space-time to mak...

I don't think that's correct, no. The determination of truth differs from the criteria of truth. Determination of truth deals with method -- epistemol...

Hatching plans for a follow up? Or have you already crossed that road without me knowing why?

One thing to note in all this, though, is that the paper doesn't propose any theory of consciousness. Consciousness is a different topic from the pape...