When i read stuff like Hägglund’s This Life, Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, Peterson’s 12 rules, Spinoza’s ethics (as well as Hayes Get out of your mind ...
Scrolling through this thread briefly, friday nightish. Suppose it spins down to new ways attack the present, as opposed to the ways of mindfulness(to...
Thing is, Sein und Zeit was one of the first ”difficult” books I read after coming in contact with philosophy 12 years ago (wish it was 35 years) and ...
Well, my comment wasn’t exactly top class...but when people tell me to read original works, well my time is limited. I read a blog post by a academica...
Cannot see the quote mark, so I don’t know if its all Persson or partly you. But anyhow, reading this nice text reminds me of reading the dialogues of...
59% lefties... one would suppose that few were left or right, a person identifying oneself as a philosopher ought to see the world as a more complex p...
And all the scientists in say medicine and physics are good guys? Einstein asked Roosevelt to make nuclear bombs. He was quite a bad husband too. Pret...
A lot of uninteresting petty details to answer the innate question in the thread start : Do people that make the effort to inhabitate a philosophy for...
Good question. What I am pretty sure about, leaning on Rawls, Nozick and Marx, that there are some kind of feeling for justice in our DNA. Probably ha...
I assume that the toomuch people never envisioned a 9-5 job, rather making plans on "what they want to do with their lives". The toolittle people, wel...
BLM, BLM-supporters, Environment activists, Senate Invaders Same shite kind of people. Persons that due to too much or too little money in their famil...
As a matter of fact, I am an Engineer and do from time to time work as a manager. I am also a family father. I do take a lot of decisions that is NOT ...
One might say that "our culture" does do pretty well. Consumer products are all over the place, Megacities all over the world look like little (or rat...
Not being a philosopher but an engineer of education, and a manager by employment as well as a family father, I am in the position of making decisions...
In the TS Humanism is given an explanation. Thats pretty bold IMHO. What humanism is, is up for the grabs even more than misantropy. Some fluffy benel...
I'm not saying that nothing happened. Of course it did. But in a slow, structure'sconservative kind of manner. A slow, steady move left until the 60s....
Thats depends on how you define ”conservative”. In a version of conservatism I highly adept to, probably called Structure Conservatism in English, the...
its so weird to hear the woman, it could be me speaking upto a point slightly more than halfway through the video where she suddenly starts talking ab...
Aint old yet, I suppose, at 58. My dad is, at 83. But apart from his having some medical conditions we seem to have some stuff in common, that referri...
Rape victims reportedly seem to regard the act of being killed as the worst consequence of being attacked. I think the OP seem to lack an ability to p...
He¨s not throwing them aside as BS. What he says is that capitalism can be controlled, with institutions in a nation, limiting the possibilities for t...
We have here in Scandinavia something called “summer program” in the most prominent radio channel, people still listens to the radio here. As podcasts...
Where does imagination and creativity fit in with analytical philosophy? I find it so boring to read that I really do not know it , other from a popul...
Wittgenstein was probably the least polite philosopher you’ll ever encountered but he was bloody well not wrong. As no philosopher who has survived th...
Ok, A lot of like BLM talk here last pages. Explain to a fellow on other side of the big waters, what has been the story for the african american(I ab...
No paradox here. The complexity and unpredictacility of the human brain is enough for conversations or games with oneself. Chess is boring though. Wri...
Read Les Mots (in english), partly because I am thrilled with the guy, and partly because Sartre and Beauvoir was in the forefront for the academical ...
About right. The dicussions nere has been as intense as everywhere. But generally out chief epidemiologist said from the beginning No lockdown. And th...
Interestingly, wearing a mask and locking down stuff has been a right wing thing in my country. Approx the same death rate as in US and Brazil. The so...
In the first paragraph above you state that you taught them that was adequate for their needs. The knowledge of what was adequate, can you say that th...
People having bothered with stuff like this have probably contributed to the enlightenment, the scientific process and stuff and thereby granted me a ...
My 25c to help with a lot of these questions, that we also have in Scandinavia with only sligthly different battle trenches: For people with at least ...
Off you go to USA before Hitler takes you, then you can start giving a damn again. Wouldn't go as far as saying "privilege of power". More, just make ...
Because the situation is somewhat different in Sweden from Norway. Bigger problems, larger numbers of refugees, more crime, more racism. A racism that...
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