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The nuclear gun is not in our mouth. Just because I can go and jump out the window beside me does not mean that I must live my life with reference to ...
August 12, 2018 at 02:08
Actually, philosophy does focus on threats like this. Carl Jung said "Psyche is the great danger... What if the fellows in Moscow get a little antsy? ...
August 12, 2018 at 02:05
If logic is a method to knowledge, then logic is subject to what knowledge is subject to, namely an interrogation. What is logic? A system by which fa...
August 12, 2018 at 01:56
If logic is not about reality... Then it is? Imagination?
August 12, 2018 at 01:44
The problem here is the binary. Many transgender people say that they are non binary. However, the binary has implications. If a person says that they...
August 12, 2018 at 00:56
Precisely, by virtue of the understanding of the difference between synthetic and analytic propositions.
August 12, 2018 at 00:50
Research corporations in the early 1900s in America, specifically 'scrip' or 'company scrip.' A wealthy class can and does oppress lower classes, not ...
August 12, 2018 at 00:44
And yes, I am aware. I personally choose Heidegger's explication of Aletheia to understand truth.
August 12, 2018 at 00:36
How you use language will not dictate how you think. How you think will dictate how you use language.
August 12, 2018 at 00:34
mmm And what is knowledge of something other than the 'truth' of that something? If I say, I see the sky. The sky is blue. The sky contains birds. The...
August 12, 2018 at 00:30
But what is knowledge? Can knowledge give truth?
August 11, 2018 at 22:55
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. William Blake
August 11, 2018 at 22:54
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But none of that would have anything to do with morality, only that which is conducive to successful copulations. Often what is considered 'wrong' is ...
August 11, 2018 at 22:48
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If I feel it is right to steal food for my family when they have no food, does this make the act right?
August 11, 2018 at 20:44
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I understand what you mean. "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings; always darker, emptier and simpler." Nietzsche. We think based upon what we fee...
August 11, 2018 at 20:40
Yes, and it supposes that there is indeed an ideal 'good' person... Which is the purpose for creating a Jesus... To have a reference by which people c...
August 11, 2018 at 20:17
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I disagree. This is supposing too much. People do not act in accordance with right or wrong. People simply act. People find value in what is commonly ...
August 11, 2018 at 20:14
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Does there need to be a 'truly right' or 'truly wrong'? What would this even imply? Would it mean any more than outlawing something? To say something ...
August 11, 2018 at 20:12
Christianity is myth, just like every other religion that claims a divine inspiration to truth, and to 'how people should live.' The only rational cha...
August 11, 2018 at 20:04
Christendom has indeed fallen in an educated, humane and ethical society. And for good reason... Fortunately theocracy does not impact every society. ...
August 11, 2018 at 20:00
As you do not have any example as to substantiate the assertion that Nietzsche's statements are 'false,' I will provide an easily accessible example w...
August 11, 2018 at 19:57
Objectivity and subjectivity rests in the Cartesian problem. But what is more significant than Descartes division between a subject that is an object,...
August 11, 2018 at 17:30
In existentialism you have a solution beyond idealism and realism, and it rests in the notion that consciousness is always consciousness of something,...
August 11, 2018 at 17:28
Heidegger's philosophy has nothing to do with Fascism. His thoughts could change anyone's ideas about existence.
August 11, 2018 at 17:22
Christianity as antiquity.-- When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a jew, cru...
August 11, 2018 at 17:09
Being & Time is very interesting. I enjoy his idea of anxiety, as well as Sartre's, in the midst of a fight for authenticity...
August 11, 2018 at 07:47
In an existential affirmation of freedom, the freedom of Dasein is as such, alongside the fact of the existentiele Dasein-with.
August 11, 2018 at 07:43
What is thought? And what is it that thinks?
August 11, 2018 at 07:41