I think it is probably better to aim for a possible optimum than assume an ideal. Once an 'optimum' is reached the situation can then be reassessed. O...
I would even go so far as to argue if one is against suffering one is against life. Suffering is not 'bad'. I imagine a great number of people here 's...
A lot of people do some basic research and find out that the so-called "top notch" medical care in their own country is massively overpriced, not actu...
It is your thread so you should provide clarity of what you are asking instead of throwing out random questions and having others guess what you are t...
And you start by making an obvious error. All questions are "what?" questions. How does ice melt? = What are the processes/mechanisms that cause ice t...
Well, that is such an obvious difference that I am baffled why you would wish to point it out? If your point is merely that Art is subjective and Scie...
That is an oversimplification I feel. Science does require creativity as much as art. There are not just TWO distinct disciplines. There is a good dea...
I have no idea what point you are trying to make here. Obviously those two things are quite different in a number of ways. An equation is abstract, wh...
No. Science is concerned with science. The humanities are concerned with humans. The give away is in the names? Huh? That sounds more like mysticism. ...
I know. I was the one arguing against what Tarkian said in regards to "craving war". There is something to be said for the possibility of humanity sli...
I agree. Being humans though, when we see something 'evil' we want to correct it as we are visceral creatures and physical force is a habit of animal ...
What you believe does not change reality. I was not talking about a specific year, it was a generalisation. The scale and intensity of conflicts has c...
The truth is we can SEE them more now than before. There is far less war today than 100 years ago. We have been gradually becoming more stable. The wa...
I am all for cynicism, but when it is based on faulty assumptions it can be quite dangerous. Human males do not crave war. If this was the case there ...
I agree with everything here pretty much except the view that there is a "ruling mafia". I do not believe most of what happens in the political sphere...
This is precisely what Popper is looking at. He seems to view this as a remnant of Closed Society carried on in Open Society. Something akin to harkin...
You can find the full text online for free. There are obviously more nuances than in the Wiki entry. He offers some opposition to what you seem to be ...
Have you read Karl Popper's "The Open Society and its Enemies"? I am in the process of reading this currently and it may serve you well to have a brow...
Temporality is 'essentially' what we are. Our memories, although altered with time, remain for the most part intact. Our brains soak up what we experi...
Marx equated happiness with power. That was the mistake. Just another case of bourgeoise dictating their views to the proletariat because they deem th...
It was from a meta-ethical standpoint I said this. That is why I reframed 'Moral' and 'Ethical'. Anyway, I think we mostly understand each other here ...
I think it is hard to articulate - hence the problem of vagueness. It is something some people struggle to fully grasp. Emotivism that is! In common p...
He was wrong about the immediate collapse of capitalism. This is not a controversial point. He has yet to be proven right about where a communist revo...
To be fair to Marx he envisioned a transition from capitalism to communism through socialism NOT a jump from feudalism directly to socialism. Either w...
That is silly. What he said would happen did not happen. Pretending he made this claim yesterday is simply ignoring that fact that capitalism did the ...
He said the middle class would get sucked down into poverty. They didn't. That fact is not up for debate. That is not to say he pointed out valid issu...
If we can believe Plato's account (which I doubt we can fully) then he was threatened under the assumption he would flee Athens. Socrates called their...
Emphatically NO! This is because it is like asking for white to be black OR black to be white. If either were the case neither would exist. The kind o...
"Corrupted" and also amended. Some of his criticisms of capitalism have not aged well but some others have. I think it is clear his main criticism of ...
Allow me to sum up your position then, generally. You deem 'suffering' as 'bad' (or rather "Boo!") knowing it is your subjective emotions talking. How...
Technically there is very little evidence for this. It is simply a subjective assumption we make due to our appreciation of time (or rather entropy). ...
It is kind of funny how they both seem thrilled about the moral implications when judging people as agents yet seem to detach morality from consequenc...
You do this actively or only when questioned about your AN beliefs? I do think it can be quite problematic to argue about moral positions unless you a...
So in light of what I said you are framing yourself as 'moral' not 'ethical' in regards to AN? I say this because of the following: This is directly i...
No they do not. Only if they proclaim AN as an 'ethical' paradigm that must be followed by others. When it comes to believing that it should be follow...
morals as personal position and ethics as suggested action. I am not saying I understood what they said just that it made me think of this. Whether th...
I have mentioned this before. That is not exactly something I would favour but it falls far away from the kind of of extreme I was talking about - an ...
Brain would equate to body. I am sure you know of the most famous case in neuroscience: Phineas Gage. An argument for some kind of self permanence, in...
Personally speaking I think of 'Philosophy' as essentially meaning "ways of thinking about ..." rather than "love of knowledge," which is too question...
In theatrical performances the line between the audience and the performance often disappears in many cultural traditions (see Clifford Geertz for tha...
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