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The current state of the GOP is that it perished under the onslaught of Trumpism. It bears no resemblance to the party of Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, or Re...

My point was not to defend tariffs. It was an example of a way to gain compliance without the unreasonable expectation that people will change.

. Trump wants to have a much greater role in Federal Reserve policy and decisions. At a news conference yesterday he said: A "very successful" busines...

If there cannot be global agreement to tax the rich, individual countries can impose taxes through tariffs. It might be argued that this puts the burd...

You can choose not to procreate but there are others who will not make that same choice. Aristophanes was a comic poets making serious social commenta...

I think that incremental change is possible. We already have a global economy. We may not be able to get to the point of global agreement but we can i...

. Concise summary: wealth inequality (wealth or capital versus income) is high and rising, What is to be done: global agreement to tax the rich. Obvio...

This reminds me of Aristophanes The Clouds where after attending Socrates "thinkery" a son argues with his father, who sent him there in order to lear...

I agree but the territory in question is not just geographical. It is a growing threat in the U.S. and Europe. Those who favor authoritarianism want c...

The demagogue appears to be the champion of the people, but with his rise to power reveals what he is, an autocrat. The rhetoric of the book is transp...

Franco and Pinochet are regarded as heroes. The article quotes from the book: Of course if the "unhumans" are not regarded as human they need not be t...

There is an article in the NYT: "JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman" Until recently the book, Unhumans: The Secret Hi...

I would very much like to believe its over, but I don't. I doubt that the continued focus on Trump will sway voters. Outside of the MAGA cult most who...

A medically induced coma. The Esquire article cited above includes factual details of his medically induced coma. Each time they woke him and he becam...

I started a thread on Plato's metaphysics a few years ago in which I discussed this. From that thread:

Considering that the make-up gets darker and darker I think he may be aiming for one of those black jobs. It seems that there is no longer much demand...

Yes, and that is where your analysis fails. I do not think it necessary to demonstrate why a part cannot be adequately understood without regard for t...

An apt distinction.

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The Trumpsters kvetch but its Meshuggeneh. (That is about the limit of my Yiddish) Anyone who is honest and paying attention knows that 1) unless ther...

Now you are catching on! Just as a knife has more than one function, a natural species does as well. There is a difference between something that is i...

This tells us something about him and his campaign. Their bad judgment is one thing. Trump's wild overestimation of his abilities to win people over i...

He has no handlers because he cannot be handled. He cannot even control himself.

Suppose someone invents a knife. As a knife it fulfills its function - to cut. As such you might say it is a good knife. It is so "good', in fact, tha...

You are sidestepping Aristotle! It has become increasingly apparent that for you Aristotle is irrelevant. This thread is not a "rejoinder to Aristotel...

Mistake the part for the whole. You insist that: but claim that nature, which is the source of species, is irrelevant? You are now reading the Metaphy...

Continuing my previous post: Its form is what it is to be what it is. What differentiates it from other things or kinds. Aristotle points out that the...

You said: You take what is for Aristotle the question of the Metaphysics, the question of being, and treat it as an answer. Things do not realize thei...

The fact that you think you understand Aristotle's points is probable evidence that you do not. See Book ll. These are two parts of the same question,...

His choose of Supreme Court nominees was decided by the Federalist Society. His come to Jesus charade was created to get Evangelical backing. His syco...

At a dinner sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in April 2022 Trump said: “This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail ...

Trump is trying to distance himself from Project 2025. From an interview on Fox News: But during the same interview he also said that he has: “never s...

At some point his public speaking style changed from that of a fifth grader struggling to do a report on a book he had not read to that of a third rat...

Based on the description quoted they do not separate from their bodies. In the article cited what occurs is dependent on the brain. I suspect that you...

I too question the distinction and relationship being made between consciousness and reality.

The reason the Court is now so conservative is because McConnell blocked Obama's nominee and Trump, who lost the popular vote, went with the Federalis...

I do know that, and that is why I don't know what you mean. It is not a term with a single agreed upon meaning. It is used with regard to various conc...

Probably not. I have no answers. The best I might be able to do is give them a sense of phronesis, I cannot impart wisdom but perhaps can help them to...

I do not think it is from a shared perspective, but I don't think he was pandering. Socratic philosophy begins with an examination of opinions. Well, ...

Given the connection between books and philosophy in your OP I took the question to be about books that address philosophical issues. Yes. I agree. I ...

I agree that eliminating Trump does not eliminate the problem. I don't know if the factions can remain united without him though.

It will do for him what he in his incompetency was not able to do in his first term. ? These examples show that he does care to be a dictator. Dictato...

There is one thing Trump cares about - Trump. What do you make of Project 2025? Of course he does! He is driven by his ego. He wants unquestioned loya...

I think it very much depends on the reader and which books they choose to read. There is an art to writing and an art to reading. Reading can be a way...

According to Ivanhoe and Van Norden (Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy) the term 'nature', xing, as it is used by thinkers of the classical per...

From the cited article: This is not an OBE. It is something the body experiences as it approaches death. Death is a embodied process not an on/off swi...

I fixed his statement:

Aristotle is not simply writing about humans. He wants to teach them. Would he be able to teach a devil species? I assume such a species would not car...

As well you should be! We should keep in mind that Socrates was sentenced to death for impiety. Much of what Plato has Socrates say in the dialogues r...

To borrow from Homer: Trump clothes himself in shamelessness.