Well I take a rather dialectical view that being is indeed becoming, but not identical with it. For there to be any becoming there must be a being tha...
You repeat yourself and you keep repeating the same mistake. Why would being a passive recipient undermine Descartes argument that he is thinking? Whe...
The example actually proves the point you like to disprove. By your lights, somehow when we discovered that vision and seeing consists of light waves ...
Streetlight is correct. Descartes merely identifies himself as 'thinking being', in ancient language, the being which' essence consists of thinking. H...
The works of Aquinas are immense and great. I do think Metaphysician uncovered is right, it makes no sense to just go and read Aquinas, I would say fa...
Agreed Banno :). In any case for legal and political philosophy they are indispensible. They are a metaphoric realisation of the power of law, or as w...
Why would we need a creator at all? How would a creator know what he wants to create if there is nothing there towards which he (just assuming) can di...
No, of necessity, in any case according to your own framework. Let's say they are created. Creation presupposes a process from something to something ...
The OP seems to fall for the ambiguity of the term law. Human laws, the laws that govern our conduct, are created. Natural laws just are. Morover the ...
I do not know if I have much to offer. Kant was against masturbation because he thought it constituted using your body as a means to an end. I am incl...
Logic cannot determine what is good philosophy or not, because logic is formal. It has no material concepts and philosophy typically does. It can neve...
Ohhh you are a it is a Chines complot kind of guy... It is all an attempt at population control. I should have suspected that all along... Well, I hav...
That one is funny. Guys lets stop pointing fingers please, lets all point them to China. Let's castigate the Spanish for the Spanish flu and the Mexic...
Well, NOS4A2 no one likes fake news, I think all here will agree to that. What we will not agree about is what news outlets produce this fake news and...
That said of course, I do not understand why the EU is not coordinating its measures better. I disapprove of silly unilateral action without consultin...
Cutting international air travel is not in itself a bad idea of course. It isolates countries which makes national measure more effective. Whether thi...
Last time I checked a judge should get the better of his emotions and display detached rationality. It is a job interview afterall. Whether or not Kav...
I do not know how to attach a document, so here comes the story: Eden by Night When you miss the night bus along the E5 motorway, you have to wait for...
I have published stories on Benkei's site and some others, (hi by the way Benk!) but I do not think they can be found anymore. For anyone interested I...
"It is because (this sort of?) sex is inherently violating, objectifying, manipulating. Consider: it is usually the man who asks for consent of the wo...
An award is given for something, an achievement. In achieving something, always somewhere down the line there is a luck factor involved, if only the a...
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