With all your head banging and otherwise nonsense songs devoid of sentimentality, here's what I'm listening to, about someone I thought I knew: "Littl...
I stand by my uncontroversial claim that philosophers are entirely unprepared to deal with assisting with the psychological problems of others. For th...
"She's hot" could also mean that your cat is looking for a mouse should that be what you say when your cat is looking for a mouse. That is to say that...
Why we should be motivated to live another day is a psychological problem, not a philosophical one. No one has ever been persuaded or argued into happ...
No, you've just offered an impossible definition of objective, which implies a view from nowhere, where there is no viewpoint of the observer. Unless ...
The whole enterprise of categorization of emotions as this that or the other is problematic because there are just far too many exceptions. As in the ...
I wish to retain my anonymity, so I won't post a photo of myself, but a picture of me would be an example of a non-douchy philosopher. So you know, I'...
I wasn't suggesting that a personal attack on French POMOs was appropriate or suggesting it wasn't properly deleted. I was only suggesting that a cons...
I didn't read any part of the thread in question, but I wonder why ridiculing French intellectuals is off limits but ridiculing adolescent Americans i...
Rigor yes. One doesn't get the feeling that Morrison spent long hours getting his lyrics just right as you get with Dylan. Your comments about the sub...
I'm just stating a basic truth about politics, which is that it is a pragmatic tool for advancing one's interests as opposed to it being an academic e...
Morrison's poetry wasn't very good. It tended toward drug induced rambling, although he was able to create interesting but disjointed imagery. That wa...
Trump's disqualification is based upon temperament and not his misogyny. Clinton's is based upon her general disregard for the truth and the American ...
The biggest disgrace regarding the Nobels was with the peace prize going to Obama the moment he took office and prior to his doing anything. Obama the...
He admitted to having said it (saying it was just words), but hasn't acknowledged doing the fine things he suggested. I will say that his comments pal...
The slippery slope is in assuming that because we believe racism, sexism, and homophobia wrong that we cannot discriminate against anything ever. Why ...
I found a variety of lovely castles in Edinburgh for sale. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Edinburgh/houses.html/svr/3107;jsessionid=968B...
That may be the case in the UK, but it's certainly not the case where I live. In fact, when the housing bubble burst, many homes remained unsold. Supp...
Populations have been stable though in Europe, so I don't know if that's a major part of the problem. I can say that housing costs dropped dramaticall...
So, at $450 a day average, you're pulling in over $110,000 per year roofing houses. That is an amazing achievement, and something to be proud of. If s...
You do make a valid point here, which is that your resolving your problem won't resolve the overall problem. I will say, though, that a major part of ...
It seems the problem is the government, having severely limited the construction of new homes, thus making demand high and supply low and thereby crea...
From a business perspective, neither Paul nor Porat ever made any sense, so I never thought of it as a business at all. To work decades for a $20,000 ...
Alright, I sleep on my right shoulder, you on your left shoulder, and Banno face down on top of us with his face wedged in with all three of our noses...
What I'd propose is that we all plan to meet up one day at a central location, somewhere that might have the largest international airport in the worl...
The greater the isolation, the more variation from the general population. Atlanta accents are usually not terribly different from what you hear on tv...
I'm in favor of this, but I think we should dictate that the American standard accent be used for all communications so as to not be required to endur...
That never happened to me. Do recall any specific triggering event that caused the onset of your forgetfulness like being struck by a rock or inhaling...
You find it horrifying not because you've decided it's horrifying, but you find it horrifying because you're compelled to find it horrifying, just lik...
You've presented an argument as to what is required for happiness, which is adherence to virtue, which you then define as including adherence to vario...
Again, this is dogma. Obviously if you proclaim virtue the highest of all goods, then those who have the most of it will be the best. The rest of what...
Your dogmatic premise is what makes much of what you say useless to anyone who doesn't happen to believe as you do. You condemn adultery, pornography,...
Amen my brother. But then you say: I would argue that the apparent malice associated with the deed would increase the sinner's ostracism, but even a c...
The issue then isn't whether there should be property rights generally, but what limitations should be placed on property ownership where others could...
I know there are all sorts of brands of libertarianism, but the one that seems to cause the greatest objection is the one I referenced and the one I a...
The freedom referenced by libertarians is rooted in the right to property ownership. It deals with the right of two people to generally contract to do...
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