Tzeentch

The ego is an illusion based on past experiences and future aspirations. It is literally worthless and the cause of much personal grief. If one is int...

If I could add to that; Philosophy should teach one how little we know for certain. Once one gets that insight, one generally becomes a lot more reser...

If you are talking about 'the Perfection of Beauty', according to Plato it can certainly be experienced. If I'm not mistaken Plotinus also goes into g...

As I've understood the One in Plato, the One is not an object of knowledge, and since it is a pure 'one' any distinctions made in it or attributes asc...

If you're interested in delving deeper into Plato (or maybe you already have), I can really recommend this YouTube channel: Pierre Grimes and the Noet...

What does it imply, then?

No, and neither is skin color or sex.

We need to have a conversation about height privilege! And what about beauty privilege? I am ready to receive reparations from all the tall and handso...

By inflicting it upon others? Seems like a questionable idea; to be able to inflict suffering on others according to one's own vague and subjective no...

How would you rate the sin of whatever government is forcing people not to have children?

I don't think the situation in Belarus looks promising at all. A successful coup is unlikely, since both Lukashenko and Putin will do everything to av...

The veil of civilization is thin indeed.

If it is such a universal good, as you say, then how come for such issues there exist also opponents? Are all opponents of such issues simply ignorant...

Pursuing personal growth is something that by and large only affects the individual. You can pursue whatever you believe is good for you. When we proj...

It is somewhat ironic that in my personal search for happiness and wisdom I've had to unlearn pretty much everything 'modern society' had taught me. I...

To a moral relativist, what is the purpose of morality?

The term 'tragic' would perhaps better describe that type of suffering from which no personal growth is possible.

It seems the problem lies with the meat industry then, and not necessarily eating meat.

Could you elaborate?

This would imply that killing an animal painlessly is perfectly acceptable.

This leaves the most important part of my inquiry unanswered:

Science is inconclusive on whether plants feel pain. They certainly react to being killed. But lets assume they cannot feel pain, then this just gets ...

Similarly, one could add that we should not make a distinction between animals and plants. Or mammals and insects, or even bacteria. We have to follow...

Then we have established that neither eating nor killing animals is categorically immoral, therefore let me suggest that the circumstances under which...

Well, that puts us in a rather odd position. Veganism means one does not wish to use animal products at all, but not all animal products require the k...

Perhaps you could elaborate further on what it is about eating meat that you find immoral. Is it specifically eating animals? Is it killing animals? I...

There's something terribly wrong with the way you are letting your personal beliefs and biases determine what is considered 'proper' for this forum an...

Hm. I'm not sure what you are getting at, but maybe you wish to elaborate further. Coming back to your earlier posts, your point seemed to be that it ...

So what about these enlightenment experiences (note, not the same as "being enlightened") that people have had and described? Why would something like...

I don't think that's odd. Let's assume attaining complete enlightenment is indeed quite rare. Let's then say I were to attain it right now. Who'd be t...

Could an enlightenment experience as described by various wisdom traditions not be considered as a form of heaven? And those are available to us while...

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The premise of The Republic can best be summarized by the following passage: “But to come now to the decision between our two kinds of life, if we sep...

"I think we should employ the method of search that we should use if we, with not very keen vision, were bidden to read small letters from a distance,...

"He will gladly take part in and enjoy those which he thinks will make him a better man, but in public and private life he will shun those that may ov...

Well, I don't think I ever mentioned that being case?

Yet, in a democracy, the voters do have power.

Not quite. I regard the burden as shared. Perhaps. Though, I find it difficult to imagine why the bar should be lowered for those who are not in power...

Every person has a responsibility in this regard, for thinking for themselves and being critical of what they are told. This portrayal of voters as vi...

And whose fault is that? Surely this can be attributed to the voters as much as the politicians.

Part of living in a democracy is that your team doesn't always win. If one unpopolar president is all it takes for citizens to go into meltdown then I...

To violently riot in a free, democratic country is beyond pathetic. "An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame o...

By that I understand that participation in this act of correcting is entirely voluntarily and people should never be forced, since there exists no mor...

A moral responsibility by virtue of sharing the same skin color as the perpetrators of racial injustices, historical or otherwise? Perhaps you'd care ...

Let me give you an example. Why do politicians tell lies and make promises they know they cannot keep? Why do politicians focus on throwing mud at the...

If one would like to provide a counterargument for "the problem of evil" I'd ask whoever is defending it to prove either of these things exist. One ma...

It is a mistake to regard government as something external, as so many like to do. A government is shaped more by its people than vice versa, even tho...

I think western society is rapidly running away from enlightenment, despite all of the education being in place to show the way towards it. Isn't our ...

If one believes they weren't born with enough priviledge, perhaps they should have a stern conversation with their parents about it.

Can't say that I do, but a quick glance at Google ("monastery retreat Scandinavia") shows plenty of choice, from Christian to Buddhist to secular.