Here's part of the problem, from the CERN statutes : Article I.1.4 Languages The official languages of the Association shall be English and French. In...
I guess part of the problem is that not everybody readily accepts English as universal language, because of other then scientific reasons, political m...
I use ideology here as I described in the opening post specifically, as a set of ideas to gather support, unify and hold those political groups togeth...
It was not really a serious comment, I was just taking a cheap shot at philosophies I don't like, like say rationalism. Well it's essentially a psycho...
John Dewey, which I think is one of the most underrated philosophers, was a big proponent an educational system that actually sought to educate people...
Perhaps Plato would agree :-)... but I'm not so sure, I think to be a successful politician you need good instincts as to what speaks to people in the...
Well some philosophy seems to ignore reality :-), but yes, that is not exactly my intention. And it's also not my intention to do away with politics a...
Yes I agree. But let me ask you the following question then, do you think it is feasible to get enough people to think about these things in a suffici...
Well it does to some, arguably lesser, extend... because otherwise people would revolt. That's why they did go through all the trouble of justifying t...
Yes, i'm mainly talking about politics in democratic systems. But maybe the same thing could be said about ideologies developed in the name of the pow...
Maybe it has gotten worse over the last couple of decades, yes. But I feel like this is not exactly new, and always to some extend the case, because o...
I was not so much talking about the method each should use, but more about their different purposes and the consequence that has. But yes I guess in g...
Allright, and I don't really care for building or theorizing about socio-economic systems based on any ideologically inspired dogma, which usually wou...
Trade probably, capital I doubt it, since we were mostly nomadic (so there was little use in 'owning' land) and there was no currency. Capitalism mayb...
I don't think anybody, or at least I'm not, is arguing for capitalism as it is. This is just a strawman. The question is whether Marxism is a good alt...
This seems like an untenable position to defend in the face of what we know, because there are enough things that seem difficult, if not impossible to...
I'm not sure I follow, so you are saying that it is possible that all people happen to value the same things, but that that doesn't come from what kin...
I'd agree that it not as simple as saying human are X. But at the same time, even if it is complex, there is still something there. And I think that i...
I did read most of it... I just don't think the idea of static timeless experience makes sense. We may have a subjective experience of time that diffe...
That is the problem with the theory I think, you cannot conceive of experience that is static or timeless, because experience seems to presuppose some...
It need not imply religious faith, it could exist outside religion certainly. But the concept is religious in origin, and there doesn't seem a good re...
Ok yes, but isn't that essentially a religious rationale then, in that you seem to define terms only for the purpose of making sense of what seems lik...
I guess I don't see why something needs to be aware that it is alive, to be considered alive, that's not how we typically use the term I don't think. ...
I understand where you are coming from I think. But there seem to be some issues with it, which you seem to be aware of, because as you say we can be ...
They are good (and bad) at different things than we are. "and with that comes conscious thought" seems like a big assumption that is still in need of ...
I disagree, culture plays a part of course, I never said otherwise, but it seems hard to deny there are some basic tendencies that are hard to unlearn...
It does to some extend, people are motivated to care for things they consider 'theirs'. What they consider theirs is a fluid concept to some extend, i...
I don't get it, why do you post quotes that directly and without qualification attack the idea of private property if not to reject the idea of privat...
Yes, and that is a bad situation too which will end up creating problems. Maybe the conclusion of these two propositions taken together then is that t...
Maybe, but it's also entirely possible that having a biological brain and all that comes with that is vital for consciousness like we know it to arise...
I don't necessarily disagree with any of this, but I think it all misses what is I think is the most important argument for private property, which is...
I think we simply do not yet understand how consciousness can emerge from physical stuff. But the fact that we can't explain it yet, doesn't mean that...
I think there's certainly a lot we don't know about consciousness at this point, but we do know some things. And from the things we do know, it seems ...
Maybe you don't need to have some kind of religious faith to believe that there is something after dead, but you do need to believe that human conscio...
Do we really need to know how we know, to be able to know something? This seems to be an assumption that goes largely unquestioned, and it certainly s...
The problem is that it is both subjective and objective, or maybe better even that this whole objective/subjective divide is not helpful in understand...
It doesn't relate to experience directly, logic pertains to what we say about what we experience, to language. Language enables us to abstract from wh...
I don't want to be overly dismissive of the project, but I think you are on the wrong track in several ways. Logic is not the measure of truth, logic ...
I meant our biology in the widest sense, including what general kind of psychology that comes with that. For instance the whole covid-crisis is an int...
No I don't take anyone's personal point of view, or even a cultures morals as the end of the story. Arguments can be made, for instance by appealing t...
The answer is still the same, their judgements is wrong from my point of view. I have my moral views as I've been raised in a particular moral traditi...
It's wrong in my judgement, yes, but I'm not the authority on everything that is right and wrong, everywhere. I would acknowledge that my judgement is...
No it can't because the same event is subject to the same set of circumstances, which includes the same particular (moral) conventions that may apply....
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