Athena

Education for technology is not education for wisdom. A liberal education serves wisdom much better. Since we replaced liberal education with educatio...

My understanding of the rest of the world's interest in what happens in the US is based on news from other countries that I did not have in the 60's. ...

I agree with the fact that expectations of what technology can not do us were unrealistic. On the other hand, I also know before the second world war ...

I don't what planet you are talking about but I do know you over-exaggerated what I said, to make your argument. That distorts what I said. Nothing I ...

I thought other social animals were mentioned but my memory isn't that good and drops details. "a lion's "morality" doesn't have a cognitive basis and...

I would say Christianity and education for technology cancel out any benefit of the enlightenment because there is not much consciousness of the reaso...

I agree and disagree with you. Let us check to be sure we are using the same sources of information. My information comes from books and documentaries...

I rarely pay attention to a thread that is more than 6 pages and I am not going to look for old threads before I begin one, but I can go to another fo...

I like your post. Chardin- evolution is asleep in rocks and minerals, waking in plants and animals, to know self in man.

Philosophy means a love of knowledge. It has been specialized and given its own special terms that I do not understand. I am not a philosopher as many...

I think you are being very nice to Christians by not mentioning the superstition. Zoroastrianism was a Perian religion before Christianity and it imag...

Hum, I would say the op is a little heavy-hearted. The animal kingdom is full of tricksters who deceive each other and steal from each other and may e...

I googled to see if anyone made a connection between our subconscious and our gut feeling and I found the following link. It is in agreement with "Emo...

On second thought, my question is not a good match for this thread so I deleted it and will put it another thread.

Yes, we can rash, irresponsible, and dangerous. I think that someone most of us know, who is sitting a high place, is a perfect example of that. Men o...

Given our greater knowledge of cause and effect, I am confident our moral judgment has improved and will continue to improve. I think Cicero was corre...

Really, it is a ludicrous idea? I think we have a few agreements about what is good. Most of humanity until recently agreed family order and responsib...

What part did your body play, with respect to the judgements regarding what to cognize before exemplifying it in the writing of your comment? Your bra...

Information on how the brain works includes knowledge of our bodies and hormones and the part our bodies play in our judgment. A failure of the Enligh...

Very nicely said. The OP classifies us as animals and goes on to explain oxytocin. At the moment I don't think a lot of oxytocin is being produced. I ...

If I understand you correctly information about how our brains work is not appreciated here. Is that correct? You all are going to discuss Natural and...

What is that? A hedonic sensation? Looks like an added on judgment call that maybe should not be there? Our sensations are the same as other animals. ...

That is the difference between slow thinking and fast thinking. My notions of our morality are based on science and the study of both animals and huma...

Yes, I believe the God of Abraham religions are the chief cause of some of our most serious problems because Judaism, Christianity, and Islam mean liv...

I am afraid I did not make myself clear about why we can not trust what we believe is true. I was talking about how our brains work, not what people b...

That would be nice. And yes there is a conspiracy to keep us ignorant, pitted against each other, and easy to manipulate with anger and fear. Educatio...

The best tactic to stop hate is to return education to the conceptual method and back to the humanities that are essential to being civilized. We seri...

Oh yeah, it would make a huge difference! Unfortunately, especially in the US, Christianity has had a lot of control of education and has aggressively...

We operate in a state of illusion or delusion most of the time. Thinking demands huge amounts of energy and to conserve energy for most of our waking ...

That is not the whole truth. As all other animals, our mental capacity is limited and it is the limits of our mental capacity that makes our morality ...

I have studied the history of education since ancient times and I disagree with you. Historically there have been many different purposes for educatio...

What is contradictory? You doubt that public education was used to mobilize us for WWI and WWII? You doubt that was essential to congress approving th...

I will be back in a few minutes, but I just unloaded and then read your statement and I want to correct you. Liberal education is for free men. Educat...

Assuming is not a good thing. How about our trouble with Iran begins during the Eisenhower administration because he used the CIA to create a rebellio...

. Why not enter earlier is easy to understand! Number one, in the US government, does not tell the people what to do. The people tell government what ...

Are you a parent? How old are your children? Most of us understand conditioning our children to be good children and that is about all we know about p...

Please share your source of that information so it can be discussed. There was a lot of defending of colonies but that was far from being prepared to ...

The problems around the world are challenging and I am not sure what part in them the US should play? But we can know this is not the first time a dem...

Ah did you get when we entered the first and second world wars, we most certainly did defend our democracy in the classroom and we stopped doing this ...

I certainly didn't mean to put you on the defensive but I have the curiosity and sense of wonder of a child. I don't think I want to be judgmental abo...

Excuse me, I have taken responsibility for raising consciousness ever since I realize what happened and why. That has been about 40 years. Exactly wha...

I think the problem is a failure to understand the Military-Industrial Complex. I would not be making my arguments if the first day I walked into a se...

I remember, no matter if I was dealing with a store, a medical facility or a bureaucracy, my information was private, and I was treated as though the ...

Oh my goodness my mother would sit up in her gravy and applaud you if she could. I absolutely love what you said. May I quote an old text? "A democrac...

It might be better to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions. However, I will use your post to open the subject of college education today, not...

It looks like that is being discussed in other threads, but how does it apply here? I am very open to explanations.

That is interesting. Where can a person get more information about this?

It is my understanding some states in the US are more highly identified with military prestige than others. They are more inclined to believing the US...

I am not surprised. My concerns are known as conspiracy theory and the belief that Eisenhower's warning should be ignored, and the lack of interest in...

Could you please provide more information? What was that research about? A major branch of research is public opinion and how to influence it. When I ...