Being able to identify key terms is certainly helpful, but there is more to language than words. Understanding the grammar is essential to understandi...
It is not a matter of disproving the existence of or role of an external intelligence, it is a matter of whether such is necessary to explain what hap...
I can only speak for myself. It is not as if philosophy has done this for me while I passively enjoy the benefits. None of us can say how we would be ...
What has not changed is the realization that evolution is not directed by some external intelligence. That is why it was a revolution in human underst...
They may accept some features of evolution such as common morphology or common ancestors but guided evolution is not Darwinian evolution. I assume no ...
You make a lot of assumptions about what I have and have not read. There is plenty of information available on self-organizing biological systems, and...
That may be what you pretend to do on this forum. You are going to have to search for yourself. Self-organizing systems would not be self-organizing i...
There is an extensive literature on self-organizing systems. The fact that you disagree does not mean that researchers who have spent their lives on t...
It has nothing to do with what you think is rational for single cell organisms to do. It has to do with what has successfully survived and reproduced ...
Getting back to your initial questions. There has been a resurgence of interest in Aristotle. Many turned to him because of dissatisfaction with moder...
See Pierre Hadot's "Philosophy as a Way of Life". Rather than what we might find in the self-help section of a bookstore it is what Socrates called th...
Once again, I am saying that the standard contemporary reading of Aristotle is at odds with the approach that I have pointed to. Quoting Wikipedia ign...
You miss the point. Aristotle did not know if time was infinite or not. But my view is not the mainstream view today, so I will leave it to you to dec...
It was not simply a question of the gods of myth but of the supernatural. There are problems and contradictions inherent in Aristotle's discussion sur...
One way in which Aristotle describes the subject matter of the Metaphysics is theology. Think of it as analogous to Plato banishing the poets from the...
This has been noted throughout the ages. Modern readers might see this as a defect but it was previously seen as intentional. Contemporary scholars wh...
Something like that. I think it is a bit more complicated. For a text that begins this way the Tao te Ching has a lot to say! The fact that there is e...
Phenomena and a phenomenological description are not the same. A description of the shadows is a description of the phenomena on the wall. Plato point...
I did not respond because I had made the same point in other posts. The question is whether news sources deliberately and knowingly manufactured false...
Do you mean Fukuyama's end of history? While there are many who hold to some notion of progress, they do not buy into the notion of the culmination of...
I agree to a point but I would not say that it is just this. Trump after all is in a position of power and capable of doing a great deal of harm. With...
They, meaning every news outlet that reported on what what the White House claimed, were not complicit in the manufacturing of lies, but yes, when, fo...
It was not my example of Chris Matthews, it was my example of Scooter Libby leaking classified information. Matthew reported the story. Libby was conv...
I wonder what this will look like from the perspective of time and distance - an aberration that was limited and corrected or something that had more ...
Not everything is said and what is is written in such a way that the reader must read between the lines, connect the dots, note and reconcile contradi...
What is the connection you see between altruism and phronesis? You might find interesting Mozi's argument for impartial caring or impartial concern. T...
Not to veer too far off topic, but tuition began to rise when educational administration become a profession.Whereas once it was an extension of the j...
My point was not to explain the phenomenon but to identify the key element that distinguishes fake news from information that may simply be wrong or f...
There is a distinction between "fake news" and false information. The intent of fake news is to deceive. Without that intent it is simple false inform...
I think you are right. I had not read the paragraph carefully enough and had skipped your exchange with MU for reasons I won't go into. I think the wa...
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Although I quoted you I was not offering a direct answer your question: Rather I was trying to consider how the studen...
Strauss is definitely not a casual read. He does not waste words. I think you would find Laurence Lampert's "How Philosophy Became Socratic" more acce...
That it is not the end of the matter? If so, what would be the point of his even bringing it up? That by changing the way we look at a problem it can ...
Based on your description it sounds something like that. One point is that there is an art of reading corresponding to the art of writing. In other wo...
Perhaps with this student it is, but I don't think Wittgenstein intends for this to be the end of the matter. I take the larger point to be that by ch...
I don't know what you are disagreeing with. I though of one way the student might be looking at it. You suggested another. I think the example you gav...
From an earlier post: But that is not the same as saying that EM deliberations are a priori. Yes, this is primarily what I had in mind when I said: As...
Apparently you do not know how google works via algorithms based on what is on your computer. I googled it and the first entry was Wikipedia followed ...
Let's turn this around. Has he copied a series of numbers? What is that series? How does one have to look at it in order to continue? Skip the first n...
Care and what may appeal to me are not the same. Without care one would have no regard either for herself or others. Any claims about what one ought t...
The term originated in response to false information via social media with links to websites that propagated false information, much of which benefite...
Are you claiming that Judith Miller was guilty of deliberate fabrications? What evidence do you have of this? She reported what she was told by her so...
In the Phaedrus Socrates explains why he never wrote: Plato's writing must be read in light of this problem. In other words, it must conceal itself fr...
The cumulative combination of imperfect images of a Form will not eliminate the imperfections of those images. The shadows on the cave wall are shadow...
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