I think you must be fully aware that the difficulty in amending the Constitution is the very reason people on both sides of the aisle have appreciated...
The concept of rights is arguably Rome's greatest gift to us. The original meaning refers us to the ways of nature. For the Romans, right and health w...
If it's ok for people to shout "idiot", then it must be equally fine for people to ask that the tone be tempered. You want me to notify you the next t...
It's not virtue signaling. StreetlightX has already folded independent threads into this one because they happened to have Trump as the topic. So what...
FreeEmotion is right that name-calling has no place in reasoned discourse wherever one may happen to break out. Call Trump an idiot and you have resig...
In some countries unity is easy. Rule of law comes naturally. These people will mainly see the downside to unity because they aren't afflicted by all ...
You just did a wonderful job of explaining how we currently understand what the 9th and 14th Amendments mean, so obviously they aren't meaningless. If...
We may have rights that aren't specified in the constitution. A lot of states will uphold the right to abortion even if Roe v Wade is overturned. The ...
The road we're going down? If we are in fact on that road, then give me an example. What part of the constitution has become meaningless due to loose ...
A little of both. The US Constitution is our touchstone. Its the oldest constitution in the world because of the flexibility we allow in interpretatio...
I doubt that the cancellation of Roseanne's show was meant as punishment. It was probably just an attempt to protect a brand. She's a Trump supporter....
White supremacists react with foreboding to the prospect of the kinds of changes in physical appearance and culture that inevitably follow racial blen...
I disagree. We simply wouldn't be where, what, and who we are now if racism was as deeply ingrained in us as you and Hanover argue. Hanover has argued...
There was racism in the south. Racism doesn't magically take over state governments for you. White supremacists accomplished that violently in the 189...
Yes. I guess I downplayed white supremacy between 1865 and 1890 because I was focusing more on the dramatic change in black votership and the violent ...
Yes. For the sake of understanding American history we need to be clear on some terms. Archie Bunker is an American TV character who exhibits ignorant...
I'm trying to think about how best to spend your time and mine. I'm not interested in writing a paper about white supremacy in the 1890s. I doubt you'...
Yes. The events you're talking about inspired northern Republicans to come down and secure the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. They were succ...
The Klan was not active in the 1890s when white supremacists violently took over the Southeast. Black votership in the south was 40-70% prior and 3% p...
During the days after Lincoln's election, the south began to secede. The experienced Republicans around Lincoln asked him to give a speech advocating ...
Hanover. Read your own link. It lays out speculations about his reasoning. As I initially said: that's all we have. He wasn't a writer. It was his dec...
He struggled vigorously to achieve black citizenship. He used war power to start the process in the south since northerners initially rejected the ide...
I just didn't know you wanted to continue on so far off topic. What? The British gave aid to the Confederacy. They were fully aware that the point of ...
The prevailing view in the US toward the end of the Civil War was that a multi-racial society would tear itself apart. In line with that view, Lincoln...
Staring at the thread title, it occurred to me that "curo" is related to "care" as much as it is to "cure." I think the folks who wrote that meant to ...
Nazi preoccupation with purity of race evolved out of German frustration with their inability to create a cohesive nation-state like France or Britain...
Then you could just say: "This is what I was inspired to think about when I read Heidegger." Exactly. It's the reason a Stoic would say we can use log...
Heidegger didn't say anything about death in that essay. Stoicism is a tributary to Christianity by way of Plotinus. The Stoic deity was called the Lo...
Thought you might be interested: "This development has taken hold as philosophers trained in the analytical tradition of thought have turned to Heideg...
There is a spectrum of interpretations. Put Haugeland in the mix and it's a wide spectrum. Name a contemporary Cartesian. Most of us lean toward ontol...
that's an interesting interpretation. Since H consciously walks on past the sign that says "End of Logic, Only Phenomenology Ahead" he leaves us in th...
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