This is demanded by people who don’t want Trump to win. If you wish to encourage Trump to moderate his tone to pull in people leaning more in the othe...
Okay. Thanks for clarifying. I’d have a think about how best to respond - my initial thought is that the question is faulty as we’re unable to measure...
It is still adored by many. Nothing to do with aesthetics, it’s just a case of symbolic use to express a political/religious idea. It sounds to me lik...
As an analogy Kant means that ‘intuition’ is the canvas (spacial-temporal) and what we sense is the paint. We cannot have knowledge of our means of ha...
What’s so funny? I’m not saying human society hasn’t changed at all over the last 10,000 odd years, just that we’ve been pretty much immersed in a rel...
I don’t see what that has to do with the history of human aesthetics. If you go back 1000 years and asked the same question you’d get a different answ...
You may be the best cook in your town. Maybe everyone heaps praise on you and you beam with pride. Then a new chef moves into town, or you enter an In...
In more simplistic terms are you asking if knowing something is better for you than not knowing? Which would also be similar to asking if all hideous ...
There are badly formed questions. You may as well ask if fire is bad or doctors? If the surface argument you’re presenting is suggesting that we shoul...
Aesthetics has a lot to do with novelty and opposition; as does the comedic. Laughter is also an expression of some novelty, puzzle solving and what i...
Nihilism equates to religious attitudes. Meaning they both belittle the corporeal and reduce Earthly existence to being either ‘illusionary’ or ‘helli...
I have a feeling the OP may have meant something more akin to asking about how important your cosmogonic/cosmological perspective - in the broadest te...
Towards Men or Masculinity? They are associated, but certainly not synonymous - if we’re using the term ‘masculinity’ in its psychological capacity (m...
I should for the sake of clarity that Jung’s ‘Collective Unconscious’ has nothing to do with the sensation of feeling ‘at one with everything’. It’s a...
I asked because whatever it is you’re saying seems to be overlooking something. You’re probably not stating something really obvious to you but not to...
I have. Cannot help though. It’s so important it’s unimportant, it’s so unimportant it’s the most important things there is. Attempts at articulating ...
And to add ... or simply debate the argument as best you can from the position you’re against. Publicly. It helps to understand the kind of shot being...
Like I said, I think it would serve if you highlighted what you mean by ‘good’ and/or terms like ‘right’, ‘evil’ and ‘beneficial’. By the above I coul...
Lack of growth means less literacy, higher child mortality, larger families, and poorer healthcare. Of course places like the US and Europe will be re...
Other people have already said the same thing - with less humour. Maybe you didn’t read their comments previously, no bother. Rather than saying, ‘yea...
I wouldn’t call it chickening out. If there is literally no common point of agreement it’s going to be little more than finger-pointing and unsubstant...
Climate change and environmental issues are serious problems - hopefully that can be agreed upon by all (give or take with varying degrees of severity...
I don’t know, I doubt. Generally parallel to Descartes, ‘I think ...’ as ‘I doubt...’ Not trying to be clever by saying that. If I knew anything in so...
I said TheMadFool should do so. I was looking at the OP regarding that comment. The difference in time is important (distinct line? Nope, just saying ...
Not at all. I said : Thanks for another example of misrepresentation. To be fair you may have some previous beef with me and so you could’ve misread. ...
All humans have empathy and so will, generally speaking, in a crisis support each other - earthquakes, wars (citizens), fires etc.,. Because life is u...
It may help to parcel up some terms for the sake of the discussion? I suggest TheMadFool frames his point more readily by distinguishing the differenc...
This thread is analogous to dousing several pyromaniacs with petrol and then handing them a box of matches! They’re burning hard and bright for all to...
Some curious responses to an essay that is essentially questioning the current state of philosophy in general. I guess honing in on one particular ide...
How about these questions to consider: - If humans are essentially selfish and evil, then how do moral laws come into being? - Denying ‘free-will’ can...
I very much doubt every religious ‘preacher’ asks people to blindly accept religious teachings. Often, but not always, there is some intellectual cont...
To a limited degree I’d say it does - but over all the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. The problem is the means of pressuring the government to p...
Sometimes it is better to ignore some people’s comments when you know they’re dug in and looking to disrupt sensible discourse. I guess we have to kee...
I haven’t attempted to debate. There is no tactic. I was gauging the worth of a discussion with someone whose opening gambit to me was to call me mind...
Note: I never said you equated wealth with income. I’ll ask once more ... Or make your own suggestions? I don’t care what you don’t agree just yet. I’...
Wealth, in term of economics, is not a broad term. We’re primarily discussing economic theory, so I meant value of assets owned. I certainly wasn’t eq...
I don’t really have any questions. You seem to be the one asking right? I just googled the term and ‘individuation’ is apparently a ‘type’ of ‘identit...
Never heard of ‘identity formation’? I do know Jung’s ‘Individuation’ though. Perhaps you could look into that? Jung was pretty ahead of his time and ...
I’m not entirely sure what this means. Anyway, if we’re going to have a discussion it would be nice to build from some common ground. What do we agree...
Possibly ... I wouldn’t be massively surprised, but I’m the kind of person that lives by ‘hope for everything, expect nothing’. If we’re talking ‘mone...
Yes, many people around me. I’ve noticed the change quite quickly where I live (not in what most would call a ‘developed’ country - one that was until...
Just in case that was too obscure an answer, I meant that ‘religious ceremonies’ were originally a very obvious means of passing down knowledge from g...
Dichotomies are useful tools not universal distinctions. I don’t think the ‘west’ is anymore prone to anywhere else - it’s a human characteristic not ...
I’ll repost my reply again then ... I say if you cannot find a constructive argument then say so in whatever you are working on. Hopefully this respon...
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