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That's what I first thought -- and not just talking about pi, but knowing what we're talking about in saying pi. What else could "grasping" consist in...

I think dude in Quora is expressing a point that makes enough sense, but I wouldn't put it in the terms of "everything is ironic" on a philosophy boar...

I've been hesitant to reply because I think 's response is better than I can muster. But the OP isn't around and it's been three days and I'm still th...

My view of the situation is an honest appraisal based upon what we are doing, what we know, and what we are able to do. What we are doing is hoping th...

No. It wouldn't matter either way; we're clever enough to see a problem, but stupid enough to want to keep it. No. The issue of climate change is a po...

Which governments are using force to get people into EV's? It seems to me when you say "Don't move too quickly" I can't think of a single government t...

Is this pretty much what your position is that you're advocating for? Like, in linking CO2 to prosperity, and in talking about the dangers of EV's and...

Ahhh OK. That makes sense. Thanks.

True. I like Nietzsche a lot. So I'm responding in that capacity -- as the man said “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending ...

A good question for your thread here: But not in this thread, is all I mean.

I'm certain that Nietzsche is not relevant to the topic -- he was not a misogynist in your terms -- but he is very much a masculine philosopher. His p...

Alas, I've held hands with my SO as they did their business. We were open like that.

There we agree. I wondered if it was because he was a noble that these were his prejudices -- but reading the wikipedia page on his life it looks like...

Yeah -- quite the tragedy it looks like too. Last I heard it was asphyxiation from a gas leak, explaining why it was him and his wife and one dog.

*shakes fist at the algorithm, in solidarity*

:) I'm very happy to see someone "get it" -- it took a long time for me too. I dove into Kant after Hume because I was like "There is no way this is t...

heh, yup! :D By the time I got around to the book it had already gone through its pop culture phase, the movie was old, and I had seen it and was inte...

That's how I understand taste, too. That is, even if there are moral truths, it seems most human beings -- if they operate according to any kind of re...

I don't think it would work quite as effectively as the story says -- I'd imagine some analogues to current pharmacological methods -- it's not like t...

I think when we look at the 21st chapter of Clockwork Orange it demonstrates that even if we remove the power to "be good" through what amounts to ver...

In imagining such an implant it would seem to me that we'd be able to do much more than create an empathy implant -- we could also create implants whi...

And now, some entertainment: Aristotle hit the bottle and then he did some blow. but he never wrote it down, so you would never know

:up: Cool. I'll let it sit there for now.

Isn't that part of the tension in the OP? I'm thinking of the teleological suspension of the ethical here... And yet it may be true.

This is a very well written contemplation. I loved reading it. I believe I'm sympathetic to its conclusions -- in philosopher terms it makes me think ...

The task for the skeptic is to avoid misology while coming clearly against every knowledge claim the philosophers make they make many claims, and so t...

@"Mikie" Restart the thread with that title in the lounge? i.e. "Agree-to-Disagree deniers" -- seems pretty clear who is invited

Must it? Or could it be a place for people who disagree with you to talk amongst themselves? Post away, of course, but no one need reply.

Alas, spending the suffering of future lives for our present pleasure is the morality we oossians have decided to bathe in.

And @"Amity" @"Wayfarer" I've appended these guides to the original post. Are they sufficient for you Christoffer?

I'll take up the role. Thanks @"fdrake"!

We don't care -- it's more important that the writer wants to write it because that'll be the motivation for finishing it and also looking it over a b...

Oh I was thinking about the relationship between science and history and religion, and the place of scientism -- I can see how there's something relat...

Hegel's a trip. :D But I suspect he's basically a rationalist crank, at bottom. A very good one with great points, but as you ascertained I am a skept...

Because we like to has satisfactory stories that make sense to us. It's a just-so story which goes alongside the divine just-so story. Why do we find ...

Do they treat it as the same as the Bible? We can use another book because the point I'm making is it's not really the text but the reader. I thought ...

I'm not sure about that. What if the reason people adopt a text has more to do with who controls the grain? Seems common that religions spread with co...

Awe of us imagining what it was like then, of relating to a person thousands of years distant from you through writing and getting a sense for an enti...

Right! I agree with this perspective. That's part of the awe. But you know that's not all that's in there. There's more to it than the Psalms. There a...

If only I had a very good distinction, then I'd have started there. Tolkien I'd be inclined to call "just literature" -- a story for fun. The differen...

Right! It's literature, not just literature.

Nope, not at all. Truth by definition? No, I think it means it's what I care about, but no one else need to -- and many don't. Absolutely nothing. It'...

With respect to the naturalistic fallacy -- "We have to get along" ought not be read as making a claim on moral truth. We certainly can, and will, go ...

Only that it indicates to me that the point of the story isn't literal. That is, to treat the text like its spelling out philosophical truths about Go...

Even if he was a man his function in the story is to be a font of wisdom, right? So like the philosopher he's part-man, part-divine. Which part of the...

heh, prophets. If so then the gods I see are a little bit pathetic ;)

Sure. But I want to avoid speaking for the Muslim, or any other religious perspective. I've attended Islamic service and that's where my knowledge of ...

From my perspective it's because performing miracles is a trope of the literature -- the Buddha also performed miracles in various stories. What it do...

I know that generally speaking Jesus is considered to be a prophet like Muhammed was a prophet -- so I'm inclined to read "We gave Jesus son of Mary t...

https://youtu.be/JAZe0A2aLUU?si=QL9u91-jq8o4ItZ5 @"Count Timothy von Icarus"'s account looks to me to be a correspondence theory. The dog thinks, I th...