If the use of the words "I" and "have" were banned from this particular topic we might "have" some hope of at least aspiring towards the truth of the ...
Again, you joy in this self love. You are indeed willfully determined not to think and see in the sacred order. Have you not heard of old Philosophy? ...
I think what Judge Judy states of teenagers... "Don't try to tell me anything about teenagers, I have two of them. Let me tell you something about tee...
It is an interesting question. However it contains the presumption that we humans 'know' a lot about how the Universe works. I don't think this is rea...
Time: an ontological distinction between past present and future. That is a wonderfully succinct definition of a rather illusive concept. Thank you fo...
Dearest Sancho If perhaps you had the courage to see that all the giants are merely windmills, you too might squire for a thinking man. I may tilt at ...
: My mind revolts, yet my heart (that putrid stinking thing) grows fonder of you with every post I read. You think that men have some dignity in thoug...
"You're are not Eugene Ionesco: therefor, you haven't the right. You're a ninth octopus testicle." I love it! At last. Ignatius J. Reilly has produced...
Whilst I agree with the general assertion here I think it is technically incorrect, in respect of violence. Consumption particularly by white westerne...
Agreed, The likelihood of the wild card is dependent (but not entirely so) upon the 'ability' of the trainer and the passions of the horse. Given that...
Agreed. Instinctual imperatives for the most part are sub-conscious. However they can be brought to the level of consciousness through endogenous-insi...
This is most interesting as the discourse is venturing into or becoming that which is the subject of the discourse itself. Fixed immovable beliefs tha...
This assertion indeed sounds quite emotional. Computers are entirely logical and yet devoid of emotion, they make lots of decisions every day, upon wh...
Again I agree. But the human computer (if used correctly) is far superior in many respects to the mechanical or potential quantum mechanical computer....
I agree. But the question remains: what is the compunction for one to remain "wrapped up" in an idea despite evident logic that offers a fundamental c...
Good and evil do not 'disappear' in the direction of natural instinct. Instinct ultimately compels us toward happiness. It is not the instinct that is...
This I think is pretty much impossible (there are rare exceptions) for one major reason. Individual opinion or world-view is rarely affected by anothe...
Suffering might well be described as a 'negative' emotion. In this sense it is absolutely essential to functional existence. The problem with sufferin...
To explain the concept of suffering to others, all you need to do is to hurt them. Inflicting hurt upon others is a quintessentially human attribute. ...
[reply="TheMadFool;196150" But for the rule breakers there would be no rules, and but for the rules there would be no game. The philosopher is the Ant...
you are indeed right, I do not 'have' A philosophy. If indeed I exist beyond this notion of a self by which I am presently beguiled, it would be more ...
Irrationality is as essential to rationality, as night is essential to day. All rationality begins its life as irrational. Theory, genius, iconoclasm,...
If you are to offer the proposal that, there is some thing that does in fact exist outside of thought, this entirely impossible 'thing' must present i...
You can have opinions and feelings about the form of reality. But in the approach to truth science has always had a more definitive insight than simpl...
Reality, both mine and yours (assuming that you exist) is entirely dependent upon thought. There is no alternative every thing and non thing is a mani...
Schopenhauer and others have already proven the absence of 'free will' The problem is that philosophy and individuals remain afraid to take ownership ...
Absolutely not offended, but more interested in your Philosophy? I think philosophy can be a bigger laugh, as ultimately we are trying to figure out i...
I am equally unsure, but it does seem that Schopenhauer's 'will' is synonymous with instinct. If this be so then much philosophy is predicated upon an...
Lib tard? What does it matter ...left wing or right wing.. This is a philosophy forum. Truth is the shared objective. Do you find comfort in hiding be...
Posty I can only assume that the reference to 'genius' originates from a kind heart that is perhaps like my own, all to infrequently warmed by glimmer...
Moral Realism can only work in the presence of a moral authority, one that can decide between apparently intellectually valid moral proposals. In this...
By virtue of the fact that we must engage with reality solely through the medium of thought. THERE IS NO OTHER MEANS. "just thought?" THOUGHT is every...
Complete bollox. Adult Human beings are without question the ugliest and most immoral 'things' on this planet. They represent the single greatest thre...
Yes the earth was the center of the solar system until people believed otherwise. What would you have believed back then? Many of the beliefs we hold ...
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