I understand that position. But how does that relate to observations about race? How could anybody say anything about race if you don't believe your o...
Descartes was saying the opposite of your point of view. Why would any agent bother making us stupid on purpose? We are pretty stupid out of the box. ...
I was referring to the examples of racism that you provided. They all are expressed from the point of view of why the "white" thing should be criticiz...
u So, I am being asked to object to an objection to using certain language while also doubting the reality of what I perceive? If the latter is the ca...
In taking on the Church as he did as a requirement of individual conscience, he mapped out the mind space of future expressions. The rejection of the ...
A lot of things are scripted. And you have to decide if you will try to meet those requirements or do something else. A lot of the non-scripted narrat...
Spinoza's argument that God is not "free" to change stuff as the whim might occur to him is presented as a projection of a human process on to the Cre...
Spinoza's rejection of the idea of free will as an agency in the stream of events is at odds with his clear message that we can make things better by ...
DNA and RNA mechanics underlay all species differentiation. The need to develop an idea like ecology is necessary to the discovery of that process. We...
Nihilism is not a policy to pursue or not. It would be absurd to encourage the absence of meaning as a social end. So, what it is it doing there? In m...
I thought Camus was trying to re-frame the questions concerning belief. The assertion that his view is a solution of some kind does not fit with the e...
After reading a lot of Jung, the work from the early days, working with very troubled people, strikes me as the kernel of his approach. The people des...
I am of two minds on that matter. Any system replaces not trying to have one. That spirit is alive in the language of all sorts of diverse philosophie...
That is a good way to approach the matter if for no other reason than to decide for oneself if one's thinking is an expression of a yet to be articula...
One way to look at it is that your experience (or mine) is the closest anybody will get to whatever is happening. Each individual is incommensurate to...
Because what that sentence might mean has been interpreted in so many ways from different premises and modes of talking about ourselves, it is best to...
My friends who are gone now frame the discussion with their absence. I don't have anything clever to say. The "just for fun" introduction makes me wan...
I don't understand the Randian thing as a philosophy. The scene in Fountainhead about how charity is a depletion of personal power, especially for a w...
One of the elements Kierkegaard introduced in his Works of Love is the idea that what is taken as examples of the highest discrimination of pagan Love...
The situation is pretty overwhelming. In this matter, the universal view, as disheartening as it may be, is not as dark as the closure with friends an...
Symptoms are spoken in the language of disease. Disease registers Health as a credible possibility. So this is the actual concept to investigate. The ...
Racism is systemic in the U.S. The emphasis upon the inequality built into various policies Is important as history and means to preserve influence ov...
Do you have something to add to your expression of strong disapproval? My statement was not a thesis as much as an explanation of interest. What do yo...
[reply="Hot Potato;419279" I look at my objections as a call to do better, to myself as much as it may involve other people. It is much easier to call...
It will be best if you make your arguments in that regard as you see them. I am a cantankerous old guy on the verge of being banned for losing his tem...
That is a bullshit response. You are the one who has put the the whole Christian tradition into question. It was interesting until you abandoned your ...
The Christianity I understand is not very soft. It calls for a lot from a person. Pretty much everything one has to give. There are many points of vie...
I did not mean my remarks about self righteousness to be a charge against you as a person. You see no good coming from a certain tradition. I recogniz...
Arguing about previous arguments always has the problem of not being about a claim upon the present. But some of those previous arguments tried to add...
Given? Is not anything of that sort taken? Taken by people who accept other claims to authority than given by a State? Christianity argued there was s...
In so far as Marx proclaimed he was a "materialist", he did so to emphasize that what many take to be a state of nature is actually a social arrangeme...
The modesty asked for by religious communities is bound up with attitudes about sexual display. In some communities, it is about promoting the idea of...
We all have to find our own way out. Or not. We all throw the dice. But I object to your thesis that depression is a choice in that simple fashion. At...
What is problematic in your observations is the suggestion that every description of a condition is a surrender of personal responsibility. The people...
That amounts to arguing there is such a mutual exclusivity as I described. Regardless of the question of what is happening to people, there is the pro...
Are you suggesting there is mutual exclusivity between encouraging people to help themselves and accepting that not all conditions can be addressed as...
Your experience is not similar to the people I have seen being overcome by depression. You advise developing a thicker upper lip. The assumption that ...
When you write for yourself, you try to satisfy a demand that there is something that is hidden and you can bring into view. Most of everything else a...
What makes philosophers interesting is that they are writing for themselves. Once you start writing for other people, you become boring. As it has bee...
You say: "Ontology is about things, epistemology is about a process; "objects" and "methods" is another pair of terms I sometimes use for this axis." ...
If I understand the proposition correctly, the reason why one might object to any part of it is already a part of the argument. Why proceed in this wa...
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