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My dear, I would have no notion of Germany's history of education if I had not read about it. When I speak of education it is not my imagination telli...

Please, provide examples of compelling evidence. I am having a hard time understanding your meaning. I believe Christians do seek and find evidence th...

I really really like that explanation. Our tribe can be great warriors, maybe even head hunters, or it can be very congenial with strangers and peacef...

I want to weigh in on the notion of rights. As I reason this, we are equal under the law, but that does not mean we are the same. Individual differenc...

I believe that is correct and they have good cause for that. It is not possible to have liberty without education for good moral judgment. In the US w...

I love your post. As all animals of a species tend to behave the same, so do all humans because they are social creatures dependent on each other. The...

Do you mean you wonder why I say the US adopted the German model of education for technology for industrial and military purposes? No one is forced to...

No, technological correctness is not about being human. We are suffering from an increasingly dehumanizing bureaucratic structure over our lives. We a...

Yes, the question could be what makes a human human. People talk about, it is nature and it is nurture. When I googled for more information I found th...

4.9k ?ZzzoneiroCosmDanke. I also want to know Athena's take on what "technological correctness" means. And other explanations come up in a google sear...

I think how we prepare our children for life is about much more than being on a planet. If we destroy this planet and take good care of it, matters a ...

:gasp: You did not mention the most important characteristics. What about imagination, ability to conceptualize, ability to make moral judgments, feel...

No, a computer is far from the human capacity for thinking. Sometimes spell check is helpful and sometimes it is very irritating. I find our reliance ...

I don't think "definition" is the correct word for this discussion. I ask questions to get people to think about what they think. Or sometimes, I ask ...

To know universal truth is pretty sacred to me and I have a strong preference for the secular path to knowledge and truth. Or we can ignore science an...

The Greeks asked impossible-to-answer questions and then set out to answer them. That is how the progress of humanity that led to the modern world beg...

Some of the arguing in this thread is outside my interest, but I like your distinction of what is the essence of being human and what is accidental, s...

As always, your thinking is compatible with mine, which is always so surprising to me because we are so different! Why does so much of our thinking ap...

I do not think any other animals can have a notion of spirits. You all have made this thread everything I hoped it would be and more. :heart:

Having a good notion of what a human is, and how they come to be as they are, is essential to education and the society it manifests. The language of ...

Let's see if I can tackle these ones together. Right up there with DNA is identifying the shape of the skull and the hand and footprints. I am thrille...

Wow, I like that list, and today different thoughts come up. Especially this one leaps out at me. "intellectual progress should be emphasized over mat...

1. The focus on technology should make way for citizenship and reflection. It is a good thing this is a philosophy thread because people here may unde...

:grin: Can we have something like a supreme court that decides what knowledge and education is good for democracy and what is not? When Bill Clinton w...

Many people have said what you said and assume returning to education for democracy and good moral judgment means returning to the past. I do not know...

What do you mean by "Directly contradicts"? I would not say that civilians chose anything except to win the second world war and then to defend agains...

The 1958 National Defense Education Act happened before the 60's and 70's. That act ended the transmission of the culture, that Eisenhower called our ...

I do see Marx and Prussian as complimentary. The military takes care of their own. There was a shift from the military being rather limited, and certa...

I am quoting from Wikipedia to ask a question. The full name of the party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (English: National Social...

Did you jump to a conclusion about me without asking questions? I think most of us have the bad habit of jumping to conclusions without asking questio...

Thanks to @Banno for one of the most important defenses of those caught up in Naxi Germany, that I have ever seen. https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-hann...

I strongly recommend you be respectful and stop using your too soon drawn conclusions as the base of your arguments. God, you really pissed me off. Yo...

I had time to read an explanation of Hana Arendt's essay. I love it! I think we saw it when people stormed the Capital Building in the US. I think thi...

The question of the thread is What to do with the evil, undeniably with us? SpaceDweller said. "if you favor lifetime prison instead of death, that's ...

I spent this morning in a mandatory meeting and we were told why the organization is having so many problems and why our superiors can do nothing abou...

What else would qualify a person for a death sentence because keeping them alive is a waste of resources? How about paralyzed people or severely menta...

According to Hana Arendt, Is evil something like the wind? Does it have a cause? Can it affect life on earth? Do our actions or thoughts attract it or...

I am a rather busy person. Can briefly say why Hana Arendt's essay is about?

I was hoping to change my post before anyone responded to it. I should not have made a "you" statement. @SSU is the only person I have come across in ...

What is a better way to communicate the ideas?

What are using to form your opinion?

To make a choice people must be informed and they are not informed. People are totally clueless about the bureaucratic changes that have been made and...

Oh I think I love you! (click on Athena to see the thread) that draw our attention to the problems with this bureaucracy. I believe everyone understan...

Well your information is different from mine and it is a nice sunny day and I don't think I care as much today as I do on other days. However, all tha...

Good point and an exciting notion. I read in a very old book that the ancient Eyptians believed in the trinity of the soul. One part of the trinity di...

Wow, nothing is simple. :grin: You make me think when humans transitioned from small nomadic tribes to cities they manifested a shared consciousness f...

What does turning to technology mean to you? How would that improve our moral judgment?

Wow, thank you for being so supportive. I work and I have every little energy so I have not done all those things yet, but I am working on them. I dev...

Wow, if that were the case there would be no life that depends on good parenting. That would eliminate all mammals. The book "Science of Good and Evil...

Your post is exactly what I need at this moment. Some of us remember a different experience of our democracy in the US. We remember believing a good c...