True. Part of the power of fascism is that it's rooted in myth and it discredits reason. Dry Marxism can't compete. It seems more reasonable to people...
Utopia in miniature is a step toward larger scale change. Focus on the world around you. Engage it with your vision in mind. Allow the bigger world to...
Maybe that's what happens when all hope for redeeming this world is lost. The only way for the world to be made right is to destroy it all and make it...
He was a Marxist, so he was specifically thinking of political engagement. He thought it was a mistake for Marxism to become disengaged like society's...
Bloch would agree, I think. He was addressing a world in which anxiety had turned to fear that was close at hand (post Nazi Germany). Imagination was ...
You could absorb the ideas through your fingers. Two takeaways I saw were: 1. Utopia is not a prize at the end of the journey. It's the journey itself...
Right. And part of that formality is rules for the use of the truth predicate that are artificial. This is why the value of the solution you point out...
The point of the hard problem is to call attention to the fact that the subjective aspect of consciousness needs an explanation. It may be that it's a...
I think it's mainly philosophical types who are drawn to them, some to slay them like dragons and some to peep through them like they're doors to some...
It's in the SEP article. Since you weren't aware of Aristotle's stance on knowledge and regress, I thought you might appreciate the accompanying expla...
The LNC is the reason we're interested in paradoxes. If you do away with it, we'll just accept contradictions as normal. Could I be alive and dead at ...
But the average person wants to be told what to eat and wear, how to trim their useless lawns and how to make up for their sins. They want norms. They...
The act of creation goes on until it reaches a stopping point. Sometimes that stopping point is arbitrary. We could go on, but we don't. Sometimes we'...
I occasionally come across people who are still devoted to Trump. Many of them are otherwise intelligent people. I haven't asked any of them for an ex...
If you're talking about the LNC, only one interpretation of it says contradictions are false statements. Another interpretation is that it's impossibl...
It's not intuitive to me that P & ~P is necessarily a false statement. I think it would be better to say it's a meaningless statement. Could it be tha...
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