Hell yeah! That was the original reason I joined the forum way back when: I was excited to see an aesthetics section, and was really turned onto theat...
I think flytraps are common among philosophical topics. What you describe here is a pattern I'm familiar with! "Saying too much" is a wonderful insigh...
I think it morphs, really... as @"Jamal" pointed out, these are, through history, political ways of organizing. Or, at least, we'd look at them like t...
IIii..... probably will not anytime soon. :D I did read the Anti-Christ once upon a time... but I've forgotten its contents by this point. And I tried...
Right! So suppose that my life is a lie, and it's a comfortable lie. Might it be possible for a person to say "the point of living is comfort" rather ...
Hell, even if everything we feel happens to be genuine -- in the case of our set definition at this point, God -- why bother living? Everything can be...
And in-between (thinking of Guernica here, one of my favorite paintings) Sounds about right to me. Or, upon accepting the beautiful (or the sublime), ...
Hrm! Well, goes against the kindness I've been treated to. Though, upon reflection, that gets along with the elitist sentiments often expressed in phi...
Oh I definitely think people should be paid, and I respect the work of academics. Something I've often felt about academic publishing, given that it's...
More thoughts: I think this is one of the most interesting questions with respect to the philosophy of religion -- and I think it may get at why relig...
I agree that the books that the New Atheists published were generally uninteresting. Even looking back at Richard Carrier's book: I like the idea of b...
Heh. Being the self-critical sort, I've felt that cringe in spite of basically being a part of the group :D. Kind of, at least. More just a participan...
Ahh, OK. Gotcha. And it looks like that's more where the OP was headed, too, so that makes sense. Interesting that you'd call it a problem. Why is it ...
I suppose that's the point I take issue with, then. Though, if we're just taking that definition as the rule -- then your conclusion does follow. You ...
No? M'kay. Then my mistake. "Propaganda" was introduced by me, mostly because it fit, to my mind, with what you were saying about our emotions being t...
Interesting! I think I'd prefer to reserve the term "ideology" for something which can be "unseen": basically in the manner I was using it before, whe...
Oh, definitely. What a great flick! Though I don't think that I'd say that ideology is inescapable -- he does put on the glasses after all, and is abl...
Yup. Another way to look at emotions and manipulation is that this is how we are connected to an environment. Yes, we are deeply influenced by those a...
Uh... thinking -- on the other side, I'm saying the dry subjects people hate -- logic and such -- not only should but does address itself to everyone....
I'm thinking along the lines of The Forms and the cave. Maybe there's a way of concieving the forms elsewise -- but my thoughts with regards to the my...
:( Accessibility is a big issue for philosophy, I think. And not because of those who practice philosophy -- if anything, anyone who is a professional...
Yup. I have felt the need to ask "Why?", not only to myself, but also to others. Sometimes the world just feels unfair. We feel as if it ought not be,...
Nope! One of the reasons I love philosophy is its open-ended nature. There are rules as you start to think philosophically, but you are also free. Ala...
I ate French Fries, which I'm told come from France, and hence had to be renamed Freedom Fries, to commemorate the freedom to invade Iraq on false pre...
I woke up a little early, and realized I had a copy of the book. I'm glad the forum's collective resources did something! See, we're not just goofing ...
Or, well -- "time to do so" -- sounds annoyed. I don't care if you do chime in. Only noting I won't have all the clever banter I've been putting up :D...
Hrmm... they did say "next week" in the stream. I'm going to be straight and say, I'm catching up. That's a good opportunity. For thems following alon...
I'm really interested that "species-being" came up. I thought that would drop dead. My buddy would always made the joke that he's left of Marx because...
I've yet to do V3, but my understanding is that's where he tackles that very question and concludes that transit is a part of SNLT. (not read your pos...
ooo... nice question. "alienated labor -- alienated capital -- what is it they are alienated from?" I'll admit that alienation is one of the harder co...
Heyyy... question for you @"fdrake" -- question about "workers retain past value" -- that wasn't what I was thinking in the question. But yup, I like ...
Heh. posted my notes to respond, because I lost them last time when trying to respond. But, yup! All that responsibility placed on you making so much ...
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