Whenever I think about whether some group of people is better off or not due to a social action I think to myself: would I be willing to be on the rec...
I can wait until I have more if you'd like. I was trying to follow an old rule of mine wherein if I post to one person I'll post to everyone else by t...
No I don't mean this at all. Power is not a dirty word. Power is important. An Anarchist FAQ is a good resource for thinking about hierarchy in the se...
One of the things about using whole empires as an example is it will be terribly vague whom counts as a civilizer and whom counts as the civilized ove...
To say that slaves are essential different from masters due to the kind of creature they are. One could justify saying "this person has a slavish soul...
Yes I'm being anachronistic -- there are some differences that are worth noting: Aristotle didn't use 18th century racial categories, and the practice...
He was! Why target low hanging fruit when the articulation for slavery that Aristotle uses is much the same as later articulations, and has an entire ...
That's why I asked for criteria of some kind. I suspect that your notion of hierarchy, when descriptive, is not the same as what I'm targeting. The id...
I'm scratching my head a bit because I think I've given concrete examples before, like the IWW. Among other sentiments about what I like. What I'm ask...
I think this is a "meat" question for scientists who wonder how it happens or want to know the facts about the human brain -- but it would be the same...
Yeah! I have reasons and all, but that's it -- though it seems, given your previous caveat, that we're thinking similarly while saying different words...
My target is hierarchy. I know that much. I think this is too general; at some point social systems are not abstract and do things according to what's...
It's Aristotle's justification or reasoning about slavery that I think is similar to the later justifications.; though even in slavery there are bette...
Unionism is where I'm most familiar with syndicalism from (not that all unions run that way). I think that systems which reject representation are, on...
Yes, I slipped up. And really any poking or prodding is welcome by me because I'm still thinking through these various questions that are attached. I ...
I think democracy is more of a levy to capitalism than an accelerator: democracy, thus far, has happened to help capitalism, but that's because democr...
Yeah, I agree that those parts don't mean much. Though I include them because they seem to include the latter parts a bit. There's nothing "geometric"...
I believe @"Tarskian" says many things from the heart I disagree with. I asked ahead of time if they'd mind me starting a thread with the quote, and m...
Typing this out from The Logic of Scientific Discovery I'm just flipping through to try and give some footholds in Popper, and liked the title of this...
In the Penguin edition of Capital, v1 introduction (page 12 for the viewers at home): Going back to something to remind myself here -- I've seen Capit...
I hate cars. They cost too much money. They break a lot, which costs more money. And they waste fuel which is a resource we ought use more carefully. ...
I'm conflicted because I could be considered a post-modern leftist but I like all the old dead white men :D (also, while I read the PoMo's, I think I ...
Ah OK; I think we need to say more about science to make it it's own thing different from philosophy, but I think I'd be fine with saying that science...
He claimed his work was scientific. I see Capital as an attempt at a scientific description of wealth generation for the purposes of the workers to be...
I don't think so because justified true belief can be much wider than science. Why do I believe it rained? The ground is wet -- it's not exactly a sci...
More random thoughts on Marx-as-philosopher: His blend of the classical economists was a very philosophical endeavor in that he was digging into their...
He reinterpreted Feuerbach and Hegel into an original eschatology and ontology based around materialism, along with a few ideas of his own (and for hi...
I believe these will adapt in a similar fashion. That is, I don't see them as "complete" at all. One of the reasons I hesitate to pair science with me...
The metaphysical path I see is one which would be just as confusing as a methodological path, given that "nature" -- in description -- has changed wit...
I've been thinking through these aesthetics and ultimately what I've been doing with my threads is if there's just a kinda sorta thing going on that I...
Are appeals to "natural world" any less ambiguous than appeals to "scientific method"? There's a sidetrail to metaphysics I see, but then it could jus...
Also: One of the things I've noticed is how scientists range the gamut in metaphysical beliefs. Yet I trust them to do good science. So I conclude tha...
No definition picks out anything in particular: gavagai could refer to the foot, the meat, the ear, or the weather in which one catches a rabbit. And ...
:/ -- ye olde "pay 40 pounds for an article" lol. If there's a bit in there that you think should be said please share it: I'm still reading along, ju...
It's true -- and perhaps another way to address these issues would be a reclassification of some kind rather than the radical solution I proposed. I d...
Yeh I kind of just get lost in the process of cooking and let things sit so the "check often" type of stuff isn't my thing. (related: I don't mind bre...
On bread machines I'm a no-go: it really is just a fuggin oven. lol. It's the "not checking it" part that I like about the rice cooker. You can leave ...
I agree. The primary reasons to keep knowledge are profit and war: there is some advantage someone wants to keep. This conflicts with the engine of kn...
Though there is also this other side, i think: There's something about a forum post that demands a more collaborative approach than the usual "present...
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