Let's just agree to disagree. To each his own. I'm afraid you're mistaken. Please visit the relevant websites. You've quoted me out of context. So, so...
First, evil is simply a cause of suffering. Hence, natural evil and moral evil. Let's go on to discuss moral evil because there's an interesting parad...
@"tim wood" I won't object to that. Different strokes for different folks. Who knows, there must be a psychologist out there, either a forum member or...
Alive -> Dying -> Dead Socrates didn't die when he was alive. Check. Socrates didn't die when he was died. Check. Socrates died when he was dying. Che...
I like the question very much, merci beaucoup! Depression & individualism, if thought to be causally related, is an oxymoron. Individualism, as I unde...
First & marriage. :chin: First: Important ordinal number for any person. Anxiety, dread, uncertainty, excitement, optimism Marriage: It used to mean s...
@"schopenhauer1" As I've already mentioned this to you before, you're like md and most others do completely ignoring the dynamic (video) quality of re...
Look who's talking. I'm done here Khaled. Frankly speaking, I'm glad that you don't buy into my arguments. You're a diehard utilitarian and that's far...
@"Yohan" @"Isaac" @"tim wood" Here's my personal take on psychology for your consideration. Psychology is the study of mind and behavior according to ...
I'm not saying the Oedipus myth explains the Oedipus complex. I'm saying it is the Oedipus complex and thus serves as the explanation for so-called ps...
It appears we're merely talking past each other. I'm sorry but I don't have the energy nor the patience to keep repeating what is at heart a very simp...
I deeply appreciate your kind gesture to "...let it go..." but Freud's theory is, as I've now repeated for the umpteenth time, based off of Oedipus an...
You have accused me but you haven't made your case yet. In other words, they're equally good or we could drop the quantification ("equally") and simpl...
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have a new (role) model, the humble rat (Rattus rattus) who until Dec 2011 were treated as vermin, to be exterminated e...
Good point Khaled. I appreciate you bringing this up. We're now in the domain of Jeremy Bentham's felicific calculus. Let's examine the utilitarian tr...
Well if I understood anything at all about postmodernism then this joke should be a apt. One day in a village somewhere the local judge invited a frie...
The murderer at the door gedanken experiment wouldn't make sense if you don't know where your friend is. A lie is lie only if you know the truth and a...
I feel like I'm stuck in a time loop. Oh well, let's go over this once more. It won't hurt to do so I suppose. Once omnipotence is assumed, nothing is...
There are some things one is better off without. Anyway I'll take that as a compliment. Regarding boredom, if every situation eventually becomes a cho...
First of all, my sincerest apologies. I got the wrong end of the stick. The choices offered by Voltaire are: 1. Do something (endure some amount of su...
One of the choices discussed is "...simply sit there and do nothing." This is not ennui. The other choice is clearly not something any person in faer ...
A scientific theory needs to be falsifiable. If any of the branches of knowledge you mention contain such theories, they are scientific. If not, these...
You don't know what a paradox is then. Nevertheless, I like your analogy, comparing humans to cancer cells, but you left it half-finished. Cancer kill...
A scientific theory shouldn't be/can't be compatible with both the truth of a prediction and the falsehood of that prediction i.e. it should be falsif...
:rofl: Honestly, honesty ain't the best policy! Take that Pembroke scholars! Truth be told, my criticism is particular in being directed against Freud...
Truth be told, the idea that one finds best describes one's own ideas is a hint as to what one's own ideas are. Freud was under the impression that th...
Point! The issue seems to be about how the world is and how that usually works against you. You want something and then you realize the deck is stacke...
This seems related :point: Embodiment Is Burdensome. The concept that comes closest to what you're saying is: Necessary Evil. The conversation now slo...
I do feel the aspiration to make psychology a science was/is in good faith, authentic in every sense of the word. However, sometimes reality doesn't m...
Interesting! I like to look at it backwards (like my nephew K). The Hemlock deserved Socrates. It's (the Hemlock's) ancestors "worked so hard" - entre...
That's part of the process. It does and that's why I don't believe you, Try harder. Reread what I said and it should become clearer. For your benefit,...
That's exactly why we don't know what to do - moral ambiguity. Two options are provided and both seem equally bad and good. Protagoras paradox makes i...
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