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At some point in the past, all these things have been normal, so it would be absurd for anyone to complain here, of all places, about those things. Bu...

Question: do you see this as a power struggle ? As in, is it ‘enough said’ and the only thing left to do is to take a side and ‘be the force’ that cou...

When it comes down to it, I couldn't care less if someone individually throws around the word 'racist' carelessly. I find it more disturbing is when t...

Everything about the right-wing resurgence seems to me some way or another of shouting, "if you're going to do it, so shall we!" And in this sense the...

You make it sound as if this were obvious. By 'moral & immoral' are you really talking about 'right & wrong'? Or maybe you consider these to be synony...

I would agree, but why do you specifically focus on gender? Are you trying to associate the foundational necessity of this hyper-reality with some kin...

Nobody uses the term 'woke' without implying some type of derogatory meaning, it is a term that shines light on a kind of excess pride inherent in thi...

I can commiserate, but I think life is richer when we can identify a difference between the intuition and the imagination. It is easy for image to sta...

It sounds like what you're asking about is a conception of the self as a part of a larger whole. That is oneself 'in relation to.' If I recall my expe...

I think we can even extend this question, from knowing about these secrets to thought itself. Take the following dilemma: Imagine you were taking part...

What issue? Am I making you uncomfortable? Your post reads like a rebuttal, but actually you are conveying my point better than I could have done myse...

To clarify, I was referring to a sublation point of causality. It no longer makes sense to discuss human nature and motivations. Instead it is better ...

If it's how we handle that conflict that matters, then you must agree that the two have something to do with one another. Otherwise, how could it matt...

Where is the connection with human nature? It would be more convincing to say that it has to do with being. Nobody would disagree that it take means o...

Being a Canadian, it was hard to understand just what happened there. From outside, it seemed like Harris was intelligent and competent enough. But th...

The image is the concern of the scientific understanding and is characterized by a certain distance from formal logic. This is not the same logic as t...

*True* spoken language is an extremely important part of our intellectual life and our subsistence. I think the context of this fact is why most philo...

It is a valid question, the concept of property is fundamental to any form of state organization. However, we must distinguish between ownership witho...

The question is one I've been thinking about too... for me I ask 'what is the difference between a 'power' and a 'mind'?' Does it really make sense to...

So correct me if I'm wrong, you seem to be implying that the labourer sees his or her abstract job as a reflection of their abstract self. This is per...

Seems like closeted do-gooding to me. Why do you care about natalist solutions? Why not be a part of the problem instead? One must come to terms with ...

I think where you have gone with this is interesting. It sounds like you are drawing a parallel between a collective shift towards a debt-based econom...

Pessimism and AN (I would think AN would be enough). It seems we have two options: lose or pretend, and you're saying I'm not pessimistic enough for c...

If you choose to take a physics approach as above, does it make any sense to say the opposite, that T1 and S1 are in the same time and space metric as...

Make the analogy of the free market system. Companies make products like staplers. The reason the company made the stapler was because it was cost-eff...

Is your question a philosophical one, or a matter of how one should act right now in reference to some dynamic of the moment i.e. a question of power?...

Seems like the real question is: 'Should we obey a law that is not enforced?' There is no option to not obey a law that is enforced. I would argue tha...

No worries, there is no rude in TPF; Only banned, apparently.

That was actually a typo, which has now been fixed. Thanks for catching that. When you go to find a trajectory, you still rely on Newtonian mechanics....

Interestingly, the etymology of 'identity' according to Oxford is Ultimately from Latin idem (neuter) "the same". The question seems to be casting a d...

Interesting about the terracotta photography. You should share the photos. The online format is infinite availability, so you can always locate what y...

It may sound mystical, but printed books have a fate component that I enjoy. It was that book you found in the bargain bin with the cover that looked ...

This being said, the word-symbol in book form has a quality of being a part of a greater unity that is just not present in the Internet. Words on the ...

There are many mixed messages in this post, but in part your question concerns the obsolescence of books as a medium; and yes, they do seem to be beco...

It seems to me that the language used to allow greater equality among sectors of society at a certain point ironically became simultaneously both a pr...

I feel like this hotline makes ends meet solely off of TPF members.

So what’s the point of having morals at all, or just so discussing them philosophically? What are they accomplishing without a collective realization?

We should draw some distinction within this whole that we are calling 'morality' that is known intuitively in the world as multiple separate things. F...

Who is using the summarizing faculty of what these values are, and why can’t they determine the values to suit whatever whim or grounds they wish to j...

What would you say if knowing that you would choose to like orange juice, you instead chose to like apple juice. Does experience dictate that my choic...

This has clearly been sitting in your vinyl collection for some decades just to prove this point.

Your friend says they ate at one or two bad sushi restaurants, so they hate sushi. They won't eat it, and turn down every offer. You can even show the...

The question is exclusively about capitalism, and whether or not capitalism can be rationally organized, right? I think what makes capitalism so inter...

Philosophy, like other fields is bogged down by egoism. There are too many who idealize their devices and powers, and ignore the past with it's geneal...

Firstly, welcome to the forum. Secondly, I agree. Especially the point that idol worship seems to carry along with it a type of ego-repression. The wo...

But it’s an idea, so its non-existence is purely consequential of the fact that you don’t believe in it; it’s not like the belief just survives in soc...

On one hand you’re calling innocence a trait of a person in isolation from their outer world, and on the other you claim it is beyond them because of ...

No, but why is satisfying your desires such a worthy business? More importantly, how does one know when their desires have been satiated in order to c...

I would normally distinguish between thinking of yourself as a person in their own right and being or becoming a person in its own right. You seem to ...

We should distinguish the ability see 'see outside' a set of potential experiences as per @"BC" (NO! I will not eat that food, etc.) and 'seeing insid...