Swanty

@"tim wood" Ok,let me elucidate this way. You say you find Hegel impenetrable. How have you come to this conclusion? I'm not criticising Kant or Hegel...

@"Bob Ross" You see bob, it's easy to tell you don't have much insight into Muslim countries or Muslim migrants. Most Muslim countries have secular ty...

@"bert1" Ah,that's a really good point with regard to chatGPT. My answer to that is, as I mentioned before, as well as clear it must have some power a...

@"bert1" I like a lot of Humes writings but he gets a little weird and dogmatic at times. Philosophers definitely vary in style Do you think there is ...

@"ssu" I feel we are just restating our views on this, and we do agree on some matters. To pivot a little, I would say you are underestimating the pow...

@"bert1" I remember reading one of bishop Berkleys Q&A type platonic style dialogues and that was very clear. But he was using "uncertainty" and "spec...

@"I like sushi" Only the brave my sensitive friend!

@"javi2541997" I have followed TPF as a non member for years, so yours is pretty patronising, and shows lack of comprehension/insight. People pay lip ...

@"I like sushi" Your just repeating your posts. Communication is timeless. Subjectivity is Truth. (Well,for some!) To quote Kieerkegard. Your posts ar...

@"I like sushi" Just read this thread,and the supposed superiority of western "values". Western values include war,economic oppression,imperialism and...

@"ssu" It's not just western powers,but it's dominated by western finance and military force. The US has military bases all round the world. And to be...

@"ssu" I do agree,we shouldn't absolve non western nations for instigating conflicts or minimise their role in economic thuggery. Chomsky et al are ju...

@"javi2541997" Philosophy does confront religion,but can also back it up. There are religious philosophers. I'm very critical of many thelogians,becau...

@"T clark" I've seen plenty of secular bigotry and xenephobia here.

@"I like sushi" Are you serious?? In terms of writing style schop and Nietzsche both write similarly aphoristically and with a lot of polemic. As for ...

@"Janus". A typo,thats also a fabulous truthful pun,so kept in. I'm English born,Indian,Pakistani,Zimbabwean,Iranian heritage.

@"fdrake". For sure it's a great topic. Might start a new thread tommorows.

I mean this is the reality,liberals are soo quick to stereotype and label any dissent as phobic of their pet theories. And thus a crime and thus shut ...

@"ssu" I'm not American. I do agree with you in saying that we shouldn't ignore domestic policies of colonised countries,or use western imperialism as...

@"Gnomon" PS___ I did try to read Foucault years ago. But his run-on sentences, some a hundred words long, left me wondering "what . . . . ?". Exactly...

@"Banno" Yes the great "liberal " weapon when confronted withTruth,run and censor!

@"Tom Storm" Baroque prose is not itself ground for supposing that a writer does not have great ideas. Kant and Hegel are both great for drawing atten...

@"Banno" Another anti religious liberal displays his exenophobia and anxiety to stereotype when under pressure.

@"Wayfarer" Your just backtracking,obfuscatingand taking no responsibility for your mistakes and ignorance. It's obvious you know very little about Mu...

@"Tom Storm" Hume,schop and bishop Berkley I found as very clear writers. ( Ditto Orwell!) I do get that some might not get much from Nietzsche becaus...

@"Wayfarer" Wow! So now you interpret my reaction as violent! This is exactly the kind of racist islamaphobic stereotype I was talking about. Man,the ...

@"Banno" I haven't seen a trusted media link. But let's say it's true. How is that representative of Muslims at large? Or migrants? Xenophobia much.

@"Wayfarer" Well,I'm trying to be charitable,and I find it discriminatory,especially from a thinking bloke like yourself. And just to clarify,what do ...

@"Wayfarer" And I keep saying no more tension than that between western conservatives and liberals. So why use one example to highlight this mythical ...

@"Wayfarer" I edited my previous post,so have a Luke. Most migrants are economic type migrants,who regard their Islam as a personal religion, separate...

@"Wayfarer" Why are you asking me for enlightenment when you already presumptously claimed to know about Islam and what migrants face? ]There can be a...

@"Leontiskos" I hear you,but one has to read the room. Although I do understand just going out all guns blazing! It's a sign of the late times that na...

@"Leontiskis". I studied some orthodox Christian doctrines. And as compared to catholic or more mainstream Christianity,I was quite impressed with the...

@"T clark" Lao Tszu is poetry and mythmaking. Aristotle is very analytical and abstract. But he has his moments. Plato utilised poetry,myth making,sto...

@"Leontiskos". I think the inflammatory style can sometimes be distasteful. But if he means extreme identity politics and the exportation of LGBTQ,the...

@"Leontiskos". What is "georgefloydism"? Many thanks.

I believe in free speech,so Bobby is free to explain and give his opinions. They are very instructive to me. The one civilisation I was referring to t...

And just to clarify. I don't mean long winded philosophers can't have great ideas. I mean Husserl has truly great ideas,but writes like a doofus.

@"Gnomon". And this is the point I want to explore. Is there a relation between writing style and worldview/Apologetics? To elucidate,,,,,politicians ...

@"ssu". I said as much earlier in the thread. These "ideas" are really deliberate propaganda against non Europeans and especially Muslims. There is no...

@"Gnomon" Actually,I really like that analysis. I prefer the poetic,religious mythical/metaphorical type of reasoning. Even the anecdotal! But still c...

@"T clark" Im glad to hear you value clarity and brevity,and aspire to it. Thank you for the welcome! You musta read my mind,I'm still tryna figure ou...

@"T clark" Yes,I like the joke! I hear and agree with you,a writer can be clear but lack truth and depth. But the guys I'm talking about had good idea...

@"Outlander". I like it! But are my posts not enough???! What do you think of novelists as philosophers and good writers? Eg Poe, Dostoevsky,shakespea...

@"Outlander". You misunderstand me a little. Both Nietzsche and Schopenhauer write stories,use entertainment/comedy and especially saliently,use real ...

@"NOS4A2" As a fellow anarchist I concur with this. It is only Authoritarians,control freaks and the ignorant who want to culturally hegomonise and us...

@"Wayfarer" As an English born Muslim I always find the ignorance and disinformation regarding Islam and Muslims atonishing,especially amongst otherwi...