ProtagoranSocratist

I think you are getting at something that typically bothers me about religions in general: if this is indeed a supposition for buddhists, then it is n...

No, you're elaborating on what you said, but i didn't ask you or anyone to perform this task. I wasn't satisfied with your comment implying that i'm o...

What a rediculous statement, i have to stop here: how can one possibly commit "an unselfish act"? I think you attempt to answer this, but ill have to ...

My objections to objectivity aren't that it's an "view from nowhere", as you have said about it, but a realization that everything in philosophy is a ...

All ideologies are intent on gaining political power unless they just exist in their "armchair activism" form, in other words, they are just a collect...

ah: if that's what you're going for, you might want to read about this particular school of philosophy... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Megarian-sc...

I still think this is an excellent list of guidelines, and you shouldn't change this original draft as it's very well written, and doesn't appear to h...

If i may butt in... This is what i tried to explain earlier in the thread: rights themselves are vague and delusional, it's a means of saying "i am en...

if i am ever to write philosophy, with my real name on the cover, that's exactly what i would like to do, even though it might never happen just becau...

Hahahaha...changing the framing like that would passing an accounting class utterly impossible...i wouldn't discount the wisdom of a class like that s...

well that can be arranged ;) Especially when everyone has billions of talking points and facts at their fingertips...

i personally see absolutely no evidence of this "progress" though: through progressive ideology, people cite things like the end of slavery in the way...

You see, this is ultimately what bothers me about trans-genderism from a surgical and medical perspective. There have been a lot of medical advancemen...

Like gender, mental illness is also a social construction; for example, as someone who previously went to therapists and thought of myself as mentally...

In the context of fame of either the individual or the ideas they were promoting, the thing I'm analyzing is what unites the timeless philosophers, fo...

this is really the only thing that matters in all of this, making the connections needed so that other people "carry your torch" so to speak. In some ...

the OP in general, which is a study invitation on Parmenides and Zeno. I'll comment on it if i think there's anything worth saying. It lines up with m...

you've illustrated how labor intensive studying ancient philosophy can be: i just wanted to add that one part of this could be studying the poem parme...

But you're not really engaging with main thing i'm wondering. You're bringing up status and philosophy as a carreer as having influence over the writi...

lmfao, i was referring to a chuang tzu passage in my first comment in this thread, only to discover you literally just posted the while story i was re...

Oh i'm not hispanic, I'm from the U.S. and am a white person, but i have learned to speak spanish fairly well from traveling and personal study. I als...

not if i'm also just trying to learn about the subject matter myself; i never meant to imply that writing something for others is an emergency, even t...

that's an interesting way to look at what he was calling for, because it usually gets simplified into "self-overcoming", which re-inforces the self-he...

I think what philosophim is getting at is the inherently academic structure to your approach (these are the thinkers, they have directed the history o...

But this is not a particular forum section, verdad? It's only limited to those threads? I sympathize with the rule that we've gotta speak english here...

and now I think you can grasp my frustrations with the nature of internet knowledge... I'm familiar with Max Stirner himself, and in a shallow sense, ...

He was a contemporary of Marx, and Marx considered him to be an enemy, for lack of better terms. He criticized Stirner's points of view in "The German...

Let's try something else: I personally don't need to put "words in anyone's mouth" as I can just pull up exactly what they said as a quote on here. I ...

I'm assuming you're probably not into Max Stirner if you prefer Marx? He was also a Hegelian philosopher, yet in the end he expressed more interest in...

yes i think that can be a big, which is ultimately why I reject reddit as a source of philosophy information. It seemed to me that a lot of folks on t...

"putting words in someone's mouth" is radically different interpreting someone's text. Have a nice life, this is getting really pedantic.

their "utopias" were criticisms of utopian (huxley, in brave new world) and authoritarian (orwell, in 1984) governments. Neither one was described as ...

I can't remember exactly what was said or who, but a Taoist descendant of Lao Tzu name Chuang Tzu commented on the value of worthlessness. The example...

There's lots of interesting criticism to chew on in the OP: however, i think the conversion of the natural world into quantities began long before gal...

there is a cyclical current to debate, even though there are indeed some things that science has clearly proven to be false or invalid.

I updated myself on the thread beginnings and the behavior of that user so that i can form some opinions on where they're coming from: -Moliere has er...

There are great works out there in which an academic interpreter was speaking for someone else, yet, for it to be memorable, it has to do more than th...

thanks for being specific, ill check it out.

That's an excellent approach, and i commend your clear and sectioned response. Writing is not easy. I wrote a book of poetry years ago, but it took me...

that's fine, i was well aware that i was making the issues raised more complex than people often make them. Luckily in my case, there are days like th...

I don't think you're giving your 100% correct ideas about this the credibility they deserve: legality absolutely is a negotiation at every level. When...

"education", to me at least, is besides the point, because education and learning are radically different things. Education can't really exist without...

Yes, indeed the issue here is that "not normal" does not mean pathological, but unfortunately, emotive and hostile reactions to abnormality...even whe...

i can't really imagine that a parent, who probably wishes other people saw them as a "good parent", can really see the difference though. I'm trying t...

You're making completely hypocritical arguments though: you condemn me for not reading every single thing you posted in the thread (lazily calling tha...

Wilhelm Reich might argue that people perform this particular punishment as part of their "character armor" instead of it being selfless education. In...

Yes, that's very possible, but there's still a lot of unknown, which makes this all more interesting.

Kind of funny how anyone using this message board would imply they are really doing some serious work while "the trolls" are not... Just to let you kn...

And there are ancient records of anal sex practices... As far as transgendered people existing in those cultures, maybe it simply wasn't recorded or e...

yeah, 2% is roughly the same percentage of people who identify as transgender, even though the two conditions are very different. We're talking very s...