I initially misread the title of your post as an exploration about the gradual disappearance of 'reason', much like the 'twilight of the idols', the G...
Yes I know, but did your position do well in the debate? I think not and there might be a reason for that. I saw your jump to context and identity as ...
Australia is not a person, neither is America. Technically that is not even a country. Not necessarily, it is also a very real conflict about people w...
Not at all out of place. Quite necessary I would think from the point of view of 'just war' theory. On a smaller scale it is a matter that lawyers and...
Passing judgment on situation X is something different then solving situation X. In a philosophy forum the purpose is to discuss the ethical merits of...
No I would not, I can also make some ethical sense of familial duties, but I would not confuse ethics and affection. Let's say there is an ethical deb...
I do not get something here. I know Israeli's who actually served in the Israeli military and they do not defend the Israeli bombing raids. Not that y...
I read contradictory statements about it. Last thing I saw was an inquiry for Volkskrant newspaper. Support for Israel is at an all time low, but at t...
My sociological explanation would go somewhere along this line: there are two mutually reinforcing trends with us since the 1960's. The first is democ...
I am an oldie who floated back here from the days PF and sometimes I am more active than others because my job became more demanding. If I have to com...
Most people buy their land... When you find land belonging to no one, than you may occupy it. What you may not do is occupying someone else's land and...
Even natural law is not totally out of the window these days. Sure the idea of a "heaven of legal concepts in the sky" does not have many adherents, b...
I did not mean to be offensive Ciceronianus and never did I imply that your jurisdiction is not worthy of recognition. I practice in the Netherlands a...
Wel Cic, where do you practice? It is rather odd you do not know the case Riggs v. Palmer when writing on the positivism / anti-positivism debate. But...
How to push morality into laws back door.. Ahhh a philosophy of law question and I totally missed it.... I apologise for not reading through 8 pages o...
Lately I have been immersed much more in the social sciences and in law than in philosophy and you see the same dichotomy over and over again. I keep ...
It is a good question and one that I find difficult to answer, because I have a rather deductive mind. For me, understanding the assumptions (theory) ...
The relationship between man and his or her environment is of course a philosophical question as it is a peculiar manifestation (ethics) of our relati...
Of course it has no basis is historical authority. It is a normative statement the kind of which citizenship classes seem to love so much. It is actua...
My oh My.... I do not know if I understand care conventionally. In Heideggerian terms, I understand care as an 'existential of Dasein' ;) . However I ...
Ohhh I agree with that. I find the parallels between Heideggerian thought, ecological thought (in its small is beautiful variation) and national socia...
Nice posts Josh, thanks for them. I do not get it Banno. Why the idea you need to know someone to appreciate his/her philosophy? Seems a curious examp...
The opposite can also be true, if you have only universals you cannot have freedom. By the way freedom is a universal. I do not think metaphysical the...
Interesting how you toss British empiricism and satanism into the same boat.... lol. But even if it is true, so what and what does it say about the pr...
Sure and I understand that. There is something inherently problematic about the situation though. It means the familial structure is getting more impo...
It is a problem if one is not lucky enough to have families. It is an indication that opportunities to begin a life of your own are dwindling, that me...
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I agree with ou, however I do not know if we 'decide' in a Kantian autonomy kind of way on the criteria of truth. We do that from a bedrock of cultura...
On a non-philosophical (non reflective) level I have scientific answers inform but not determine my ethical and legal positions. So in everyday life i...
That depends on the situation they are asked from and the historical epoch we are in. These presuppositions lay the ground work of our judgment so it ...
I would agree with your view Pfhorrest, but not by proposing the scientific method for normative questions. I think a philosophical method can be appl...
I think, but I might be wrong here, it is in his last chapter of beyond good and evil. I see it as a discipline, a way to look at the world. Acceptanc...
I think there is enough in Nietzsche's writings that suggest he would view fascism as an example of resentment, herd morality and what have you. In Be...
On the contrary. I am rather bright, Not at all, not willing to engage with you does not mean I am crying in a corner. I think your basic idea is mist...
well in order not to derail Trach's thread and to engage with the question at hand the difference between philosophy and science is interesting. There...
What does one have to do with the other? No I am not willing to engage with a condescending person, someone who I also begin to suspect, has little ac...
No, you should get into proper dialogue with someone without being condescending. an argument does not become any better by addressing your interlocut...
Well, I might not be totally up to date with current developments... I do think Hegel is the way to go, because after him the whole idea of a kind of ...
Yeah sure, so? A rather momentous achievement in philosophy. That he happened not to publish another treatise is no reason to dismiss this one. Scienc...
Yes Galileo Galilei has been bullied, but is that because of the prominence of the subjective in church writings? Weren't they simply bickering about ...
What you ask for here is incoherent due to your insistence "it has some truth elements it". Now that can only be ascertained using this "master theory...
I apologize for psychologizing the OP here, but what you are actually seem to be asking is, hey, I like intelligent women, but somehow, they do not se...
There are two levels intermingling in your post and these two levels need to be untangled, one is the ideal, namely the conceptual and the relation be...
Of course and I would not call it decadent, I would also not call a gothic romantic story philosophy, but they do point to something inherently troubl...
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