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Yes, there was a discussion of this on this or another thread a few days ago.

Yes, that is true but I that does not describe most who consider themselves on the left. Some on the right/conservatives/Republicans will label them "...

I have not done or read about what those correlations might be, but I would think it worth identifying them before declaring them spurious.

The change was not intentional. I do not think there are hard and fast definitions of these terms. There may be a useful distinction between liberal a...

The problem with that definition is that to a greater or lesser degree the status quo is the result of the work of the left, and so, to that extent op...

Is it possible that there are some personality traits that are statistically more commonly shared by liberals than conservatives and others more commo...

But what about those qualities that they are combinations of? Are they just combinations of qualities too? Although many, perhaps the majority of scho...

I have heard that he lives in mortal fear of spontaneous combustion.

This thread is on Wittgenstein. It is clear that you have not read him carefully enough, or did not understand, or have forgotten what he says about r...

The Buddhist would say that the assumptions are things you must do away with, one must be able to see past there mental constructs. My opinion is that...

On this we disagree. The argument obviously refers to the man but I do not see it as a fallacy. In my opinion the best interpreters do just this sort ...

Mystery solved! Socrates does seem a bit harsh on Protarchus. I don't know the dialogue well enough to say more. I took a brief look at this:https://p...

I am not interested in your petty bickering. Did I give any indication that I am upset by being called a Marxist? It is simply that your insult ("But ...

I forgot what search terms I used, maybe some combination of Plato, Republic, and sea urchins. One thing I found was this: https://books.google.com/bo...

I was just curious. It is not a big deal. Philebus is one of Plato's dialogues. It is published as both a separate book and as part of anthologies.

If you go back to my earlier comments you will see that I already addressed this. For example, the Constitution and amendments. It does not last uncha...

There are different schools of thought on this. For example:

Can you give me an example of something that never undergoes any change? By the way, the larger context of my comment is in reference to Heraclitus an...

I wanted to return to this to say more about ad hominem. I think the passage you have in mind is from Plato's Philebus (21c). The issue in question: I...

If I was a bodhisattva I could help guide you to enlightenment, but not having experienced it I know nothing of it except whatever it is I imagine it ...

Can you give us an example of language without grammar?

One needs to have trust or faith or a belief that enlightenment is possible. But the goal is liberation not knowledge. The hope is that this will come...

Yes.

Not at all. I believe you when you say that you did not know about him. My point is that he is a questionable source. It may not be overt, but I stron...

@"tim wood" It is reasonable also to say that the need to remove an obstacle to make way for a road was a cause. An answer to the question why was cal...

I do not need to see the book to find out who the author is. I am not accusing you of anything. I am simply pointing to what has been said about him.

I have not seen the book in question and could understand someone picking it up and not knowing about the author. I can even understand not finding ou...

I was going to make a joke: its all Greek - names - to me.

From your other thread: And, if there are two basic camps - the camp of "change" or "left" and the camp of "preservation" or "right" - who is right or...

The right to an abortion is established law. The Left is not using abortion as an emotional issue, their concern is with preserving the law. It is the...

Epistemology struggles with issues such as the claim that knowledge is justified true belief. As I understand it, knowledge for the Buddhist comes wit...

Yes, I did and noticed it when responding to Alexandros above. My apologies. The same point can and has be made with regard to the Right.

I just noticed that I mistook some comments by @"Apollodorus" for your own. The center shifts. Gary Trudeau has a TV series called "Alpha House". In o...

This is a very old and very common refrain. That is not to say it is not a problem, but it is not one that is best addressed by claiming the sky is fa...

Are you saying that the Left are conservatives because they too seek to conserve their own orthodoxies? But since conservative orthodoxies can change ...

In my opinion, politics is business by other means. We cannot draw clear lines between them. They are two sides of the same coin. Perhaps this is what...

Such bivalence is far too simplistic. If the Republicans want to make America great again they are advocating for change. If the Democrats want to pro...

Yes, the same can be said, but the question is whether what they say is true. Republicans accuse Democrats of voter fraud but have not been able to pr...

Earlier you said: Are you saying that these things from Ancient Greece and Rome were "pretty socialist"? How is abortion "pretty socialist"? The law r...

Since Trump is now the face of conservatism in the US let's look at what he intends to conserve or preserve. Certainly not traditional conservatism. N...

It seems as though you have not been at this very long.

What does "pretty socialist" mean? Examples? The US came much closer to total state control under Trump than under any Democrat. He had his own unoffi...

Socrates spoke differently to different people. The dialogue form and the identification of the people he is addressing are not just stylistic. With t...

So, is it reasonable because it is the best of all possible worlds or is the best of all possible worlds because it is reasonable? Either way, you hav...

Speculation is fundamental to the search for knowledge. It goes by the name of hypothesis or theory or intuition or inspiration.

Yes, this is the great fear. I don't know if you are in the US but in almost every election Republicans will label their Democratic opponents no matte...

I do not think it sufficient to say that justice is whatever is. In that case opposites would both be just as long as they occur somewhere. Harming yo...

It depends on what use you put them to. Why is reason a ground for the good? Reason can just as easily be used to bad as to good ends. Once you introd...