What if we break growth down into its constituents? To me, growth boils down to value. If a product is more valuable (better than the competition in t...
You have a point. For instance when we watch a tragic movie we feel sad. There doesn't seem to be a requirement of factuality/truth for emotions. A li...
A Buddhist perspective... Reincarnating as a human is considered a Golden Opportunity - undistracted by the pleasures of Heaven and the pain of Hell -...
I guess it's a work in progress. I wonder how things will turn out though. Will it be reason that'll decide which ethical system will ''win'' or will ...
NOTHING is nonexistence. Nonexistence can't be experienced. A concept, on the other hand, can be experienced - thought of, manipulated, etc. So, NOTHI...
I thought so too. It seems we're both wrong. 1) Philosophy is about being grounded in truth - that's the claim. 2) The truth is elusive and many issue...
You're right. The faculty of reflection is highly developed in us. This leads to a conflict, between us and reality. We can project meaning, vague as ...
Yes, I understand. I'm being negative. Philosophy has, to say the least, revealed important features of morality...consequentialism, deontology, virtu...
(Y) I completely forgot about the elements in the audience who acted to protect Marina. These people counterbalance those who chose to ''harm'' Marina...
I, more or less, agree with what you say. Marina was playing the audience...challenging them, prodding them, provoking them. That said, I believe ther...
I've been thinking about this too. There are many reasons to be moral, to be good. We don't like being hurt, mentally or physically. That could be a b...
What is the problem here? Circularity, not the logical kind, is part of nature...the planets revolve around the sun, biochemistry is full of chemical ...
Hope is expectation. Expectations can be realistic or not. If the latter, it leads to a downward spiral...into pain, suffering and despair. If it is t...
Hmmm...I'll chew on that for a while. Is this a case for Foucaultian criticism? Language, words like ''productivity'', for instance, influencing us - ...
That's true. There seems to be no general principles that can guide action. Those that have been proposed are deficient in some respect, making them i...
Two main points: 1. I like that song 2. Is an unusual song Point 1 and its reason (people love it) form an explanation because there's no issue re the...
I guess we'll have to first of all confirm that there are real contradictions. I think this is another topic but I think every scale of reality functi...
I agree this is true in everyday life. What about in philosophy - on serious issues. Most disagreements in serious philosophy can be triangulated to b...
Possibly... The one thing that strikes me the most is that when people are free to choose between a feather and a gun, their preference is for the lat...
The balance - the middle path. Life, reduced to basics, is a balancing act between extremes, don't you think? Also, it depends a lot on perspective. Z...
Why do you think this is the case? Why is knowledge/truth so elusive (I know that I know nothing)? Some truths are clear, almost obvious, e.g. the col...
Something like that. All I can say is that morality is a glue for social cohesion. I want there to be more to morality - something greater, more majes...
I think that answers a lot of my questions. Life isn't so easy to study. Life is multi-faceted and each side comes in many shades of meaning. Sometime...
What I find strange is that rationality is elevated to the highest position in the philosophical enterprise and all that it has shown is there is no r...
This comment may apply to a forum like this one...imperfect as we are. However, disagreement exists at all levels - from casual exchanges to the most ...
In which area do they err? The initial premises or in their logic? You see, the error must be in one of the two. Logic is fine. So the initial premise...
The eye and light - reason and divine inspiration. I like that. But one could ask for the rational basis for divine morality. Socrates' divine command...
Where does the fault lie? A very simple example of an obvious contradiction is Theism-Atheism. Both are philosophical claims and both are, purportedly...
The world of thoughts, distinct from the physical world we touch, see, hear and feel. Pegasus exists in the mind, the mental world; it is a mental obj...
It's my impression that rational examination of issues lead to simplification - we pare away the irrelevant, the incidental, the superfluous, etc. and...
But there was also the feather. Why didn't people choose it over the gun? The feather and the gun are equally suggestive - the former associates with ...
What is practical isn't good e.g. it's practical to kill all old people since they're, well, useless (this isn't my view). Theoretically, good hasn't ...
So, you're saying the artist was suggesting the audience to be ''sensational''. Isn't it strange that people would ''sexually assault'' under a creati...
My two-cents: Testimonial statements need to satisfy the following criteria: 1. The person must be reliable i.e. s/he must be honest. 2. The testimony...
Good point. Life, taken as a whole, is exactly that. Yet, people have a tendency to make this dichotomy. Optimists fail to see the shadows, pessimists...
I was clear (at least I tried to be) that a thought, one of which is a pegasus, is not nonexistence. A pegasus is an idea and exists in the mental wor...
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