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But philosophically speaking, a lot of philosophers take the I to be a representation of the will, or Will, and to be one and only. And so there is th...
March 26, 2020 at 01:14
Yeah well, look on the bright side, you'll never be alone! :smile: But you could trick it, and as a diversion, could try doing all those things that y...
March 26, 2020 at 01:04
There is this thing called the 'I', as in an I for an I, for long thought to be one and in unity with itself. But then came Nietzsche and said that th...
March 26, 2020 at 00:28
I think that 'western civilization' has its roots on Aristotle, after all aristotelianism has dominated most of the world for some 2k years, and we ar...
March 26, 2020 at 00:14
According to Hegel, it is the other way round: it is space that turns into time: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/324093 It seems tha...
March 25, 2020 at 12:52
Yes of course, philosophy has little to do with statements, true or false, but if one sees it that way, then they are statesmen, and not philosophers....
March 18, 2020 at 12:14
what movie? :chin:
March 17, 2020 at 00:09
Seeing what makes a good philosophy, well this I think is extremely difficult to do by itself, but seeing what makes a good dance, that's a lot easier...
March 16, 2020 at 10:38
Philosophy is like dancing. So asking what makes a good philosophy, is like asking what makes a good dance.
March 16, 2020 at 01:02
Yes, and so we have all these preachers-teachers in philosophy, being upset, that want us to do be just like them, and not to harbour our baby, saying...
March 14, 2020 at 00:24
Certainly, in religions, there are all kind of preachers. What I am saying is that in philosophy also, there are too, only that they are disguised as ...
March 13, 2020 at 21:29
But this idea is a representation of the so-called ascetic ideal, as it has been anayled by Nietzsche et al. Let us do a google search for "ascetic id...
March 13, 2020 at 19:18
As detailed by Socrates in the platonic dialogue "Phaedo", https://www.iep.utm.edu/phaedo/#SH3a So, philosophical life, according to Socrates, consist...
March 13, 2020 at 14:30
We should not see time for the age of the universe as something real, what would that time be anyway? In the theory of relativity, used by cosmologist...
March 12, 2020 at 00:20
Well, if we all die due to this coronavirus pandemic, then I think this question will at last be settled! :cool:
March 11, 2020 at 22:56
I think that Nietzsche's filosophy is nicely expounded in the film "Dark City", one can watch there an ubermensch in action. https://www.imdb.com/titl...
March 11, 2020 at 22:40
Anyway, seeing that you are a Lovecraft fan, I suggest you watch "In the mouth of madness", if you haven't already that is, I think you'll like it. ht...
March 10, 2020 at 01:18
Nietzsche's I meant, but now that I think of it, since N. was writing for all and none, it could equally mean None. :smile:
March 10, 2020 at 00:54
I managed to read the whole of your OP, wasn't easy, I must tell you, you need to improve your english mate, if you want to reach out to people, prese...
March 09, 2020 at 23:44
This is not what I meant, but to answer your question, you cannot create unless you destroy, with accuracy playing second fiddle, one cannot be a grea...
March 08, 2020 at 09:17
What's to say of him, in other parts, he speaks differently of women. Maybe in his works, one can find every possible thought expressed, I doubt he ha...
March 07, 2020 at 13:01
:grin:
March 07, 2020 at 09:42
Dunno why, maybe because there is no bait, or maybe because they are disinterested in this sort of bait, eg some cheese, which is nevertheless mouldy....
March 05, 2020 at 18:20
haha, true, true, I guess you are off the hook then. Yeah, it might mean that as well, either that it was never born - so how can it die??! - or that ...
March 05, 2020 at 10:18
ha, you are very perceptive, although I said indication, not reason. Anyway, a rather good reason for philosophy being dead is the complete lack of mu...
March 05, 2020 at 01:46
Oh, in many ways, I reckon. Take humour for example. Why is there so little on this topic? On the metaphysics of humour I mean, its ontology, where ar...
March 05, 2020 at 01:14
If philosophers spent the same amount of time writing about the philosophy of humour as they did about ethics, then I think we would be much better of...
March 05, 2020 at 00:43
March 04, 2020 at 23:51
One thing to consider in the solution of Fermi's paradox is the so-called Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter The above was Robin...
February 29, 2020 at 09:17
What about flat-earthers?
February 29, 2020 at 09:07
Have a look at the link below, what prof Massimo Pigliucci wrote in his one and only appearance in TPF: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comm...
February 29, 2020 at 08:59
So you are trying to make a science out of it?
February 28, 2020 at 22:48
I may be wrong, but isn't this a phenomenological approach?
February 28, 2020 at 20:41
But the polemic nature of philosophical debates is usually either underrated or even totally ignored, as "philosophers" battle for domination, for the...
February 26, 2020 at 13:22
Everyone seems to dislike nihilism, but also everyone is using it to annihilate what they don't like. It's like the traitor: everyone likes a good tre...
February 25, 2020 at 12:18
Indeed, I found his one and only post. Was there any explanation as to why he quit?
February 25, 2020 at 12:14
So what happened with Massimo? Did he ever show up?
February 25, 2020 at 12:05
Anyways, a good book on entropy is "Understanding Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics" by Georgy Lebon, David Jou and Jose Casas-Vazquez. https://b-ok.cc/b...
February 22, 2020 at 00:43
You're welcome, although what I posted had to do with entropy in its broadest sense, and not as it is used in laboratory experiments.
February 21, 2020 at 20:21
I think you misunderstood me, I wasn't saying that you are a violent person. I was referring to polemics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic It see...
February 19, 2020 at 23:50
"Battling with my ideas" is your inline comments numbered 1-7, which is perfectly allright. But I fail to see how the rest of your comments is "battli...
February 19, 2020 at 22:29
I don't need to do much searching, as I studied physics. And sorry man, I don't have time for guys like you, I used to have, but now it seems that I h...
February 19, 2020 at 13:57
It's just seeing you write all these "against" essays, how many have you written so far, and how many more are there to write? You are like these warm...
February 19, 2020 at 13:07
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Controversies Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-equilibrium_thermodynam...
February 19, 2020 at 12:31
Nihilism is the only hope humanity has for peace.
February 18, 2020 at 14:45
Entropy is a concept that is useful on a microscopic scale, but has trouble applying itself to the macroscopic one. As such, there is no such thing as...
February 17, 2020 at 22:25
But anyway, these are matters for the bureaucrats to sort them out themselves, whether there are any connections or not, I mean. But what of, what abo...
February 17, 2020 at 13:22
Yeah, well, too much bureaucracy and paperwork involved in the process I guess, thus making philosophy a ... bureaucratic enterprise! Ah those beerocr...
January 24, 2020 at 12:48
When Hawking says: ... he makes the error of applying Godel's theorem to physics and the real world. There is no connection, let alone an obvious one....
January 23, 2020 at 13:08
And because of this distinction between the formal/mathematical/non-empirical/logical world and the real world which is nothing like the other, we sho...
January 23, 2020 at 09:05