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I don’t understand. I thought ‘feminist ethics’ was an investigation into psychology and society not an economic model. I’m not focusing at all on who...

It’s interesting that you see what I’ve put across in terms of financial profit and hiring. I was talking about this in terms of basic human developme...

Something along the lines of what I’ve brought up previously. The ‘emotional’ desires and how these are used to sell us what we don’t need dressed in ...

It bothers me because I see the ‘ideal’ as being more or less a situation where both men and women are ‘advancing’ alongside each other rather than so...

@"Wallows" Are you very familiar with de Botton’s ideas? If so what do you think of his thoughts on economics and human ‘needs’ and ‘meaning’?

I mean there are fewer and fewer ‘passage of rites’ in modern western societies - other than religious remnants. These generally used to coincide with...

A thought to consider is today people are growing up attached to their past - photos, videos and multi media allow us to have a more accurate window i...

Sometimes it’s better to keep commonsense to yourself ;) You’re correct. Some people prefer to see denial when facts are laid at their feet. The first...

I do think it is interesting to see how women are expressing themselves in society in various areas. I think the most noted point for me is in the art...

I think we’d call that statistically ‘impossible’ rather than ‘extremely unlikely’. The definition is where it’s not worth a mention. Where that line ...

The quote was in a given context. I simply meant that the ‘meaning’ is present in any utterance - nonsensical items are recognised as ‘nonsensical’. T...

I’ve no idea what you’re thinking. The ‘block chain’ idea sounds vaguely interesting though, just wish you’d started there. This thread probably had l...

Now you sound in favour of anarchist ideology? Were you purposefully setting up a poor argumentative position to allow yourself to flip the argument o...

I think your use of terms is a little muddled. There is no such thing as ‘non-mental phenomenon’. I leave it to someone else because I don’t think I s...

Give that you’ve edited the first two posts I’d say I‘ve done you favour. I’ll leave you to it.

For starters gravity isn’t a force. The rest is an area of mysticism. I believe buddhism isn’t really concerned with material/physical items?

The reverse argument works just as well. Again, what is your point? Is it that you believe everyone thinks everything is black and white or that you j...

So you prefer to have others tell you what is and isn’t ‘moral’. The reverse problem is, well, a problem too. What is your point?

You’re against an imaginary world or exploring the limits of anarchism? I don’t really understand what your post is about but it seems to hold to a ri...

There are many different layers and flavours of what ‘anarchy’ means. You seem to be presenting a combination of nihilism and anarchism? Straight from...

I agree with fresco concerning the ‘word salad’. Often it is easy to take this as an insult, but please don’t. Just condense it down a little, leave i...

Thanks. It’s much appreciated. In terms of politics I was just referring to its historical use for this or that cause in this or that country. The mai...

I was more interested in the ‘how’ of these items in terms of how they function. Basically more of an essay rather than bullet-point responses. Feels ...

I tried to deal with that here with the proposition that this condition is changing due to what I guess we can call ‘status value’ being subsumed by ‘...

You answered yourself. You’ll have to tell me why it matters about this or that being unique. Either way you don’t seem to have gotten the point that ...

Can you at least see my issue here? The conflict of terms? If a ‘use value’ becomes a ‘Value’ (commodity) then the ‘use value’ is covered up. So is he...

What for?

I have my own little Venn diagram that is much more applicable than yours I believe - but it isn’t a category of subjects. The ‘poles’ are order an di...

“Truths” are necessarily dependent upon limits. We don’t know a ‘truth’ that has no bounds. My view of ‘knowledge’ is pretty much in line with what yo...

I think you’ll find philosophers are more interested in ‘questions’ than answers. When enough answer arise measurements begin and then you’ve got a sc...

How does this happen? Again, I’m still having an issue with the depth of answers here. Could you possibly go further about how this ability to convinc...

What I wanted was the meaning of ‘useless’ explained. I was pretty explicit about the issue I had. If you cannot think of anything then I’ll just have...

1) I never said ‘power’ as far as I recall? I said something along the lines of being limited, having limited control in all aspects of life, yet our ...

Of course, because everything had ‘use value’ so why bother stating this? Unless Marx says otherwise somewhere that there is some ‘object’ that had no...

That’s not what I meant. Prior to all written law there was still some concept of ‘ownership’. I’m asking about the initial circumstances for ownershi...

Sorry, the title got me! If it wasn’t ‘problematic’ they’d be no such thing as morality. Seriously though, ‘morality’ to me is about me. It is a deepl...

But what is a ‘useless’ thing? What had no ‘use value’? Nothing. So why not say ‘unused value’? jamalrob’s take doesn’t work here because Marx has alr...

Now I’ve looked further it’s partly down to a poor translation. One that does stick out is the term ‘useless’ where I can only assume that it should r...

Prior to the existence of written law. That is why I mentioned ‘origin of inequality’ - a long running anthropological question.

If you look at the OP the question is far more delicate than this. Do you ‘own’ your body? Is it okay for me to ‘claim’ your body? Are your actions yo...

Anyway, I’m curious what people think about the origins of inequality in terms of ‘property’ and ‘property rights’? How did this arise? Has ‘ownership...

Exactly what does that mean? Single word ‘answers’ are not even slightly convincing. How do you know Maw means the same thing as you? Does ‘power’ alw...

An obvious yet an important point. The emotional weight attached to items (due to love, hate and/or habituation) plays strongly into our sense of ‘own...

This is an idea cut from another - not sure who said it exactly but the principle is simple enough. What we have the most control over we are in posse...

What does ‘power’ mean then?

I’ve been reading this more closely and comparing translations. I think this is wrong - in the opening at least - as he appears to be talking about ob...

Also, as I read another contradiction pops up. It is hard to see these contradictions as they’re obscured by the obtuse and ill-demarcated definitions...

After reading a little more I now see how some people espousing severe leftist ideologies have cherry-picked certain sections of Marx to justify claim...

Interesting question. I’ll state the obvious so apologies if someone else has touched on this already. Any institution that lasts has a set of rules/l...

What is banal to one person is insightful to another. A ‘banal’ comment I know :) The category of ‘ethics’/‘morality’ is something very much part of ‘...