I was playing with the idea of whether there are things that have no effect in re free will. Is it possible that all the things that the universe thro...
I don't know to what extent this matters but I believe a fundamental moral principle is ought implies can which I take it means if one can't act in a ...
It seems that I don't have the right to post pictures in this forum. :lol: The idea of rights seems to originate from admixing the heart and the brain...
Why? Why hasn't the existence/nonexistence of free will been proven? This is a question I've asked many times and no one till date has fielded a satis...
Yes, as I mentioned in my discussion with Pantagruel, the stoic's aim is to be in harmony with nature; in other words, to obey its laws and that inclu...
Indeed, nevertheless a very palpable difference in a person before and after tasting the stoic pie. What gives? A reduction in the potency of causes p...
Mainstream christianity seems to treat Judas as a traitor, that's for sure. I don't see how anyone could defend Judas with all the evidence stacked ag...
In my humble opinion, where philosophy, inclusive of any other logically rigorous field, and programming overlap in a very significant way is language...
What bothers me is that the stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium is known to have said "follow where reason leads" and, assuming he did what he advised ot...
:up: On a side note, I've always been doubtful about the popular image most folks have of so-called "sages" - hermits most often, living an austere li...
How do you explain the "stoic calm", an allegedly possible state, even in the eye of a storm, in the midst of causally potent chaos? There are express...
The general opinion on what a mind is seems to be that which thinks and thinking is at all times about something. Granted that thinking under most cir...
If a reputable philosopher like Dennett is a zombie then I'm afraid some of us must be zombies with severe head trauma - dead zombies as paradoxical a...
I thought people already passed that waypoint; after all the difficulty seems to be not the definition of "purpose" but actually that it (purpose) is ...
The existence of the state is owed to the mistrust we have of each other - no one can be depended upon with 100% certainty and, need I mention, this i...
Kant, if my reasoning is anywhere sound enough, would disapprove of humans having a purpose, a purpose understood as a means to an end, especially if ...
You're on the money regarding history being riddled with struggles between the state and the individual but what you seem to be missing is the fact th...
To answer your question directly, we do. That said, what I would like to draw your attention to is the way you've made a distinction between the state...
It is surprising that we have an antonym for "purpose" viz. "purposeless" - and yet we are baffled by our own lack of purpose. Surely, that we have th...
Well, you seem to be of the opinion that depression is a sickness, an illness that we need to cure. Yet, when you spoke of schizophrenia you seem to c...
I agree that there are occasions when individual interests come in conflict with the state interests. However these are simply times when the notion o...
I'm just wondering about the implications of the OP's title: Depression is a luxury of the time. I sense in it a decidedly negative evaluation of peop...
Ideal citizens - the infected especially - would choose to remain under lockdown. The state assumes that to be the case and acts accordingly. Too, the...
To my knowledge, an attack on a person - his character, associations, beliefs, attitudes, etc. - is not an ad hominem if and only if these attributes ...
I don't see how COVID-19 has changed anything with regard to the relationship betwixt the individual and the state. None of the measures put in place ...
The two excerpts above from your post don't square with each other. On one hand you claim individual perceptual testimonies are evidentially sound and...
Every individual knows or has an idea of what an individual should be like - we all have an image of, let's call it, the ideal citizen. The state prom...
Well, we are discussing the difference between hallucinations and reality. For a perception to be "real", the object of perception must be outside the...
I'm not completely sure about this but I do get the feeling that every religion has a low opinion of other religions; quite a natural state of affairs...
How is it that while one individual's testimony has zero credibility, a group of people, composed of individuals as it were, enjoy a special status as...
I remember seeing a young boy, I think fourish, dressed in dirty rags, barefoot, matted hair, his faced covered in grime, dried snot around his nose, ...
To be honest, I hope, for our sake, there are good people out there if only to compensate for all the morally-challenged members of the human family. ...
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