Then what are you talking about? I don't want to miss your distinct conception of ideal by tilting half cocked at its shadowy eminence. Initial contri...
I congratulate you on the fine selection of lively and illuminating materials, founding your discussion. He means book 3. Aristotle grounds justice in...
"Again you have quoted incorrectly." Interpreted, if you will. According to the present needs. That's why I said "The leap is to ask, what does it mea...
"This might interest you as well, although I doubt that what it says really shows that his model of education is used much today." Of course I wasn't ...
It's Alfred North Whitehead, of course, it's clear Aristotle was the student of Plato. Slightly less obvious is that Plato was the great synthesizer o...
And yet, in a certain sense, the conception of the whole, seems boundless, or without form. Does it actually bound anything? Each thing belongs to the...
"As to whether this is different from sense perception - emphatically, yes, because it enables the intellect to 'grasp concepts' which are different f...
So you say even when "we", as the one who lives in conscious apperception, become expressionistic as it were, phase out into daydreams, the soma goes ...
Simply look how much longer Plato's academy existed, than the Lyceum. It was not so much after it closed that the modern universities came in. It's mo...
You need a basic primer on what a technical term is. You're boring as hell. Philosophers look at ways of thinking, or experiencing. If you at every mo...
"Wrong, it does not." It does. " classical Latin Acad?m?a gymnasium near Athens where Plato and his successors taught, school of philosophy founded by...
". No one can say Science is good, except as a story or value judgment." You aren't able to raise yourself to the minimum requirements of intelligent ...
Essence means one can distinguish one thing from another, a stone doesn't think, it makes no distinctions, nothing is intelligible to it, but a human ...
What you say is confused (though, the ideas, as well, fuse). There is the practical question of the conditions for reasoning. And there is the questio...
It's not clear who is supposed to answer that question, since the most powerful form of philosophy has become the idea of Science, & Science doesn't t...
Your despicably obstinate idiocies, though beneath the notice of the thinking part of the community, are, yet, reassuringly de haut en bas. However, i...
How would Toute notre dignité consiste donc en la pensée read if it were recast: All our dignity consists in our ability to produce those most useful ...
"It's less than clear to me that a person who seeks or acquires "knowledge for its own sake" is in any sense admirable, let alone more admirable than ...
"How would you call that show? Philotainment?" You mean to say "entertainment" as term of belittlement? There is a retreat from thoughtfulness evident...
"Science" is the name for the currently most popular or publicly powerful form of philosophy. Of the West as such. Stemming from Pythagorean and Plato...
"It seems some people like to sport "philosophy" in the same fashion the emperor strutted around in his new clothes." I agree. However, not always. An...
Why do you want to appeal to public predilection? If we have a mathematician or a physicist here, will you suddenly beg pardon? What motivates this du...
You have a cheep debating tactic. If I may presume, congratulations. However, did you ever trouble to see what the title PhD means? Considering that a...
I apologize, it's entirely my fault. I don't comprehend what you mean by "But to make a job of it - the irony - is like putting square wheels on a bic...
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you assuming that philosophy aims at improvement? This is perhaps historically true. Though, it is not essential to ph...
As a philosophic being, who has been well able to defend yourself, by generating a cheep philosophy. Though, I feel you misuse your essential powers, ...
In case of any mistake: What is written in this post is wholly serious and straightforwardly the case. The issue is of great importance for all life o...
Such as gravity or displacement? Or being or life? True, this is what is most human: To be utterly forsaken amidst being, alone experiencing the world...
"Personally, I think philosophy is for those who are not focused enough for STEM study and research." However, since philosophy is the human being its...
" I think that's a misguided view and so react negatively when philosophy is portrayed as the study of something superior in some profound sense to li...
"What he actually said was "The unexamined life is not worth living". Well that was his opinion anyway, I have never seen any evidence to back it up t...
"In the end all that philosophy really tells us is what we already knew" Not sure how the whole of human life could be described as showing what one a...
"I disagree that the rest is "stamp collecting." So, I think that to characterize it as "stamp collecting" is at best erroneous, and indicates neither...
What if someone were to answer: 'Because he is the most ugly of them all.'? Clearly, the Greeks were lovers of bodily beauty, and so, in part, the dre...
" philosophy doesn't involve inquiry into "what is" " At first blush I disagree, since it presupposes what the human and what philosophy is. But I'm n...
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