I think throughout your post you equate spirit with God. I think that is incorrect. God, (or religion) as far as I know in Hegel, is thought in the fo...
Thanks Banno, that is really nice to read :) and like Ciceronianus, I will mention that I also really appreciate yours. I have been gone a bit these d...
Way too late this answer... but, well, the point of the story is, there is no 'more'. Everyone claims to look for more. They weave their discourse aro...
Yeah, but what is the point? There is indeed flexibility, which creates a tension with legal certainty. That is why a ' perfect' justice system is at ...
Yes, but there is always some kind of arbitrariness in group classification. Many 17 year olds are very capable of casting votes, many 19 year olds ar...
Difficult questions and hard to answer without assuming some sort of apriori definition of justice. Justice would, in some sort of Kantian vein be the...
Well, I am not 180 but I can take a stab at it. One of the critiques of Hegel is that he totalizes. For Hegel things move. He considers the 'movement ...
Yes, maybe. Triads in the sense that a waltz moves in triads, the last step is never final, but part of the same movement. (Hegel talks of the movemen...
Can we not approach the subject of the value of philosophy in a different way than done usually in the forum? Usually the question asked is what philo...
Mine are: jails Merry go rounds My hand writing at the age of six nipples That person at the party who always behaves as if you have been best of frie...
Gassendi1 his name was. He was a prick but I learned a lot from him. He really added argumentative quality to the forum as well as knowledge of hard n...
Thank you @"180 Proof" for your kind words and @"tim wood" as well. My mindset at the time of writing was indeed wonder about how love suddenly enchan...
I do enjoy this story very much. It reminds me a lot of the Atom Egoyan movie Exotica. It also has a bit of a David Lynch like feel with the merging o...
It looks like a lot of fun. I hope for you a Ceilidh is where you were for New Year's Eve! I love dancing, The problem is I am a talentless hack with ...
Gosh, we can form an accurate picture of a person through his words! For me personally, I like all interpretations of my story. Even if they were not ...
Yes it puzzled me as well. I always seem to guess wrong. I pinpointed @"Benkei" for about Face and it is @"180 Proof". I thought Penelope was 180 Proo...
And it was also great. I think it is a good decision to not make it overtly sexual. It would diminish the strength of the last line. I find that hard ...
Nahhh, I think I have an answer to that dilemma so I would not bring it forward. Se betrays her lover, he starts feeling guilty about it... Well done ...
Nietzsche's eternal recurrence of the same. Philosophy is a cyclical affair that is in the end self contained. That is, it questions questioning, it t...
Pizza... Pizzicato.... pricked it means... as if by an insect. That brought back memories of a dance and musical style I saw being played in the south...
One realizes ones autonomy within a framework that allows you to realize it. Parents that constantly belittle a child and raise it to become an insecu...
Says you... there are a lot more theories about how society functions besides the social contract. Actually, it is rather unlikely that a police force...
Because tou say so, nice. You are confusing principle with practice. No one is purely autonomous. However, treating people as means to an end as Kant ...
Sure, but there is always a bigger problem to address. Possibly. But why then write about anything? I think we are in a unique position to recapture l...
The point of the cogito is that that is a contradictory position. If you state that something, whatever it is, exists, than the substance making that ...
No, then hard choices need to be made. I have no qualms with that. However, for some that time comes quicker than for others. It is odd that the Nethe...
It is a political choice how much emergency capacity you entertain. The Netherlands had to send ICU patients to Germany because we did not have enough...
Yes indeed and those are political choices. Assisted suicide or euthanasia laws may play into that hand, because if we do not have to keep people aliv...
My post was actually more directed at Andrew than you, because I feel we are mostly in agreement... I would not advocate criminalizing euthanasia. How...
Medicine was used metaphorically. I know you are opposing it and I know your concerns and some of them are good. I just question the coherence of your...
Ohh no, no, a white lie does not. The story does convey some sort of message, even though you did not put it there. An author is a mere vehicle though...
I do not really understand your argument Andrew. You are an antinatalist, so you must feel the chances of spending life suffering is bigger than the c...
Your argument that life is not nice rests on the reasoning that life is so nice we have come to take it for granted. Ok. However initially you told me...
I agree with Jamal. I however wonder what was lovable about this professor. There are beloved professors wielding guns and driving SUV's and foul mout...
I like the thought experiment, it is good. Sure you are the God of love and sex, but you would not be seen, unnoticed. You are forever behind the scen...
Agreed. Also, the lupine receptionist in a moonlit grade conveys a very strong sexual overtone. You immediately know Penelope will be a beast in bed. ...
It is good actually. I misread it the first time around and missed it was actually the car that was the main character and not his driver. That is bec...
Not true. Most of life is pretty civil actually. When I go to my baker and buy bread he does not hand it to me with a "I hope you choke on it arrogant...
Why? Once it was extreme going against the widely held belief in God or witches... Once it was considered extreme to think that homosexuality should n...
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