I see no progress in any of these areas through the course of human history. I see only the reality that many societies have grown wealthy and can aff...
Smokers Alcoholics Drug users Chronics Criminals Depressives Sucidal All or most embrace sickness and death before health. I'm drinking a Jameson as I...
Because beyond the self, reality becomes objective only when people agree 'en-masse'. If you see an elephant and no one else can see it, the objective...
If this were true there would be no need to discuss moral issues. the 'implicit assumptions' would be uniform, and they are not and will never be, qui...
Not so: notions of happiness and health are not universals. All might pursue the concept but the concepts are entirely subjective. One needs real fact...
Moral realism is of course entirely justified, however it is impossible because too many people are too stupid to accept that which is moral and that ...
I'm familiar with moral realism. However it falters when it encounters the devil of subjective interpretation of 'moral facts' Standard 'western' judi...
Is it simply the truth of your humanity that you seek to hide behind this prosaic language. Speak or write in plain English. I fear you have nothing t...
From the foregoing one can assume the over-iterated fact that there is no precise standard to apply in the exercise of parenthood. And there is no pre...
Well stated Brian. Voltaire would be proud. "if you wish to converse with me: define your terms " What is 'will' in the context of having 'free will'....
Holy shit- what is all this mumbo-jumbo? "This is an error. Judging what is by the standard of the law of thought, called consistency, or non-contradi...
In respect of free will, we are ultimately asking from whence thought comes. Schopenhauer writes: "Now if we ask whether the will itself is free, we a...
Freedom is the doing of something that does not HAVE to be done. The fact that we continue to ask questions that have effectively been answered, sugge...
What a beautiful and enlightened post. Even though you were alone at the 'official protest point' (an oxymoron of epic proportion) The Gods of philoso...
The question contains some presupposition that is difficult to both escape and still provide an answer. 'Can' If anyone solipsist or otherwise can do ...
The will, in its capacity as the initiator of motivation MUST come before the "I" . therefore it is incorrect to speak of an "I want" there is a 'want...
The not-so Mad fool, used the interesting analogy of a mirror containing an infinite array of reflections in dispute of the possibility of a material ...
That is my name.. but obviously not the totality of my identity which encompasses the totality of my thought. Not necessarily, as I might be 'lying to...
Anselm's argument that God's existence is essentially more God-like than his non-existence, does not seem the counter the argument that a God who can ...
These words are not "me" speaking. This is a vague concept that is useful in daily dialogue, like Newtonian physics is useful in the context of drivin...
It depends upon whether I am considering the analogous material mirror itself, or that which it contains (my thoughts). But in essence yes I believe i...
Indeed: one physical mirror containing infinite images of itself, each very slightly different from the next (in space and time) . One of my 'selfs' i...
Thanks for the clarity. It may well have originated from Lewis, but the most erudite gentleman of contemporary Philosophy (Durant) applies the term wi...
Mad The assumption of a self the "you" here is problematic. Which form of thought or the infinite array of meta-thoughts are you referring to as 'a' p...
I don't think that's entirely true Posty. I can be a bit monstrous in my own opinions here on this forum at times and you do seem to enjoy breaking a ...
Posty I suspect that you know your monster(s) very well. Certainly you are wise to keep them at a distance, but you have to confront them now and agai...
no probs noble and thank you for your kindness it (kindness) is both precious and rare. I am not easily offended, often offense can be quite informati...
Good psychoanalysis will provide the reasoning for the dream itself. However the process dreaming is the practical experience of freedom in that it is...
How do you know that you are not simply experiencing disciplined meditation during the process of lucid dreams? You don't need a yum yum tree and a sh...
Being "aware" that one is dreaming is interesting in the sense that it is an example of meta-thought, thought upon thought. One might ask, within the ...
If indeed the West ever was to become civilised, it would necessarily be a disaster because the event would be too little and to late. I see no eviden...
An American friend of mine once said, 'opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one. 200 years ago relatively few people were educated, and there w...
Whys is it that God cannot change the laws of logic? He/she/it must have changed the laws of logic in order for the Universe to come into being. Furth...
The answer to the 'meaning or purpose of life is complex in that the purpose or meaning appears different for different people. Whether they get it wr...
Darth I love your post! Seriously... even if it is a bit narcissistic? You are correctly asserting that human 'truth' or Philosophical truth. Is not t...
I think that is a fair analysis Frank. One hopes that the multi-racial society will survive and ultimately consequence the demise of borders AND the r...
streetlight I doubt if you are really interested in dialogue. However thats fine by me, I Love engaging in discussion even when it affords the sole be...
This type of input into the discussion is most informative. It reminds one of the the selfish anger of the herd that proved most potent in the 1940's....
It is (one would hope) commonly understood that Nietzsche was obviously not a proponent of statehood. There is little in his writings that describe th...
Here are a few choice lines from Mein Kampf. One hopes that one does not have to remind others that there is neither a promotion nor an apology for Na...
Sounds familiar. A similar type of dialogue was once equally disinterested in philosophy. It just put all the 'trash' into piles or ovens and burned i...
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