That's so true. If you're starting an aquarium you have to let the bacteria and algae bloom. The populations will collapse on their own into a living ...
Chapter 1: The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. N...
Cool. This isn't really an anti-western outlook, though. It's Neoplatonic, and so built into the foundation of Christianity. Is this insight any less ...
I also got a 'ding' from Mitchell's translation, but my first exposure, beyond the random verse, was Ursula Le Guin's. I always come back to that tran...
A mountain is a product of analysis. It's a gear from the cuckoo clock. In most cases where the word "race" is used, whatever humanity that happens to...
An example of the potential ugliness of reverse prejudice is found in Othello. All it took was a few white lies and a stolen handkerchief to make Othe...
Thank you everybody. It doesn't seem like the same world, knowing he's not in it. We're trying to make sure the community around his wife is strong. S...
Yes. Ignorance is just the darkness prior to living through an experience that sheds light. People who diligently behave tolerantly because that's wha...
I don't condemn Yrace for its intolerance. I'm not intolerant of it. Y is suffering. Suffering generates violence. That violence is evil, but its sour...
The idea of being intolerant of people who are intolerant of people who are intolerant of.... is interesting to me. There's a story in there (or a pai...
Intolerance works as a survival tactic on the cultural level, not so much among individuals. It's the way it works out in the individual psyche that s...
My point was that you're missing something if you think a person has to be evil in order to be racist. "He's a good person! He can't be racist!" << ye...
Not certainty, just recognition of a relationship between the self and the proposition. It's a wild goose chase no matter what your ontological commit...
It's mostly a matter of how we decide to the use the word knowledge. A knowledge externalist would deny that one needs access to any justification. It...
Then I'm sure you know more about what transpired than I do. One thing that should be made clear: T-Clark explicitly claimed racist sentiment. The who...
We concluded that T-Clark lives in the whitest place in America. Taken at face value, T-Clark's statement actually did sound racist. Turns out it was ...
I think that statement would have to come from a transcendent position. It's true our songs are for us. I'm reading about Heidegger these days. I see ...
Right. This is what's been on my mind, though: this professor is a product of his culture, or rather, he's an integral part of his culture. Through hi...
No. From another thread I felt like I was owed an "Oh yes, I was wrong about the red herring thing. You were right." I didn't want to derail though. A...
An interesting upshot is that philosophers don't always go for the direct frontal attack. Doing that can be a little sophomoric because we all stand o...
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