L'éléphant

I wish you a speedy recovery from your crisis. Be well.

The main purpose of any punishment is desert.

The disillusionment syndrome is commonplace among users of technology. There is no middle efficiency. It's either no modern tech or mature tech to ach...

There is room for improvement in the justice system and it is constantly being evaluated, reviewed, analyzed. But to say that capital punishment shoul...

This quote is being taken out of context. Hamlet is in conflict with himself/ his thoughts. It is a wishful thinking because deep down he is morally p...

As you were.

No! Punish only up to the extent of the law. Anything beyond that is vindictiveness. Vindictiveness and wisdom cannot co-exist in you simultaneously.

Good exegesis! Cultivation is part of education. Cursory learning, as we often see in schools, could only scratch the surface. The depth of learning b...

Nice scoring! I would totally use something like that. Our bowel takes a beating all the time from all kinds of crap we ingest. FD&C Yellow No. 5, for...

Count me in. That's why I'm here in this thread.

This answer is neither here nor there. Fools by definition are people who act unwisely and get unwise results. Here's a copy-pasted thought on wisdom:...

Sourness is a thief of relaxed conversation, Hanover. I don't mind being corrected. If you want to talk about grammar, that is fine too. In fact, I re...

I disagree with the above passage. Sainthood comes to mind when I read that passage. If you surrender yourself to the way of the universe, you become ...

I don't care how many upvotes that post gets. I still don't understand what's the objection.

Ah, you are forgetting one principle -- this is parallel to what you're saying "how do you know there's an error in a process?" You know there's an er...

I don't share your sentiment. One who does not work hard on learning at all is uneducated and could not be wise.

Well said. This is what I have in mind.

No, I'm seeing education as not just schooling and formal instruction. "Uneducated" to me means no formal schooling and/or no instruction from the wis...

Ah, but the analogy doesn't work. We can't take ourselves out of consciousness or perception and know the difference. Our vantage point is a given. We...

Good for her. Yes, in a way teen years are a form of 'insanity'. The overriding principles are recalcitrance and insubordination.

The list above have their ingredients in the wrong order. Sugar is always first, second are the fruits.

I don't agree that we even experience this brokenness just because we cannot go beyond our perception and explore the consciousness not as an object. ...

No. That said, there are many ways to educate ourselves. I don't mean academically. Reading, listening to other reputable people, and watching the act...

I should say that this is not a good understanding of perception. Also, your conclusion doesn't follow. Just because you might have perceived erroneou...

No. But you have to admit that as an adult absorbing all kinds of learning from your environment, that the childhood teachings we learned have been mo...

Good. You tried to assert what you truly were, a gay man. But in doing so, you were aware that your values were not necessarily at odds.

Then I don't know how to answer your puzzle.

But "bored" is not the only perception you might have with Mary. Did you perceive her as standing in front of you, or looking out the window, or talki...

Not a fan of the topic of Narcissus. To me what he had was a disease of the mind, not the lack humility, if this is the diagnosis. Symbolically, when ...

There's an erroneous understanding that the influence of parents and teachers last forever. There is actually a point in the life of children when the...

Though your explanation of the rules of this puzzle. The islanders can know the number (sans himself) the number of blue, brown, and green eyes. Isn't...

The claim "esse est percipi", to perceive is defined and explained clearly in many of the philosophers' passages. Berkeley's is no different -- to per...

https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/resized/files/69/7lrs7ti450wnnb4q.jpg I felt neither sombre nor lonely winter. The moment I saw it...

If I were one of the islanders, I would just use the probability because my need to get out of the island is more important. So if I risked guessing t...

I think this needs further explanation. There's a difference between saying "there is no material world for Berkeley" and "matter cannot be, because w...

Here's my list of limitations of this puzzle: 1. The guru spoke "I can see someone who has blue eyes" when speaking in front of the islanders. The cro...

Thanks for the summary of the unfolding of the enlightenment period. Berkeley was part of the enlightenment movement, Descartes was prior to the enlig...

Noise without intention and a look back to build up what's ahead is just...noise.

I like the OP a lot. I responded to another thread a while ago regarding language before coming to this thread. As a proponent of human agency and int...

No interpretation. It's not a language. Language, and what you wrote about is an appearance of a 'language', has logical steps and intentional word/so...

I've abandoned the word 'complex' a long time ago because I could not make any of my argument stick just by attaching this word. Similarly, I have avo...

Of course!

Except that there's a possibility that one islander is a red-eye. So that islander can count that there are 201 islanders total, assuming no one has l...

There's no causation in any principle of idealism.

Lord Jesus! You can say that again! It has a swagger of a pizza! I will imagine that I have half of it. Thank you!

Then I would say that's not causation at all. Offensive gestures do not result in causation, but in deliberation in which a moral agent can think thro...

Well, I was dead. You can't get any better excuse than that! Another member in your spirit that's still here and good to see you, O.

A lot of that was rather misuse of his true field of study -- philosophy. But he had well-rounded disciplines.

I'm back. Sorta. Thanks for the mention. Good to see you here.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That's why a deliberation like this below is necessary.