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What is the difference? If your post is correct, is it not true? It's as if a guilty man becomes innocent if he changes his name. ( and likewise good ...

First Philosophy: Lectures 1923/24 and Related Texts from the Manuscripts (1920-1925). Translated by Sebastian Luft and Thane M. Naberhaus. Springer, ...

Et voila.

Did you read the article? It exposes the myth; it didn't happen. Of course some people with money lost out, but mainly, the little people lost their h...

“If you treat making children as a for-profit business, suddenly the legal attributes of for-profit business starts to leak into child building.” — Ar...

Shit. You really don't have an argument do you?

Oh but it does. Read The Grapes of Wrath

I hope you are right, but your post in general sounds like wishful thinking and fantasy national virtue. I very much fear there will be a blood bath, ...

No it isn't. Why would you think that? Violence to promote injustice is not equivalent to violence to end injustice. That's ridiculous.

So many questions. Why not pick North Korea? People in Hong Kong protest as best they can, and I am not going to second guess their tactics, any more ...

Let me put it this way: if the law is that black people are slaves, or that black people are not allowed to use the same facilities as others, or that...

Well there are many questions there, and I do not want to argue them all to a conclusion; I don't know enough about the particulars. I am satisfied if...

Well let me take it somewhere else, where it might seem less strange. Like Vichy France. There is a National government of sorts, that is collaboratin...

https://www.facebook.com/pamela.thompson.5030 My wife isn't a 6'5" man, and I am a white man not a white woman; but otherwise our experiences are rema...

I wonder why I am so hard to understand. Can you perhaps let me know what two different things I am talking about and whether or not one of them is th...

Like being short-sighted - I'd rather not be; I try to compensate; I don't demand miracles. I'm bothered when I trust someone because they 'look hones...

There is no first. Philosophy is reflexive, always secondary, always a questioning of whatever was first. Philosophy is always of something that it is...

I'd better declare a lack of interest here; I am vegetarian. Having said that, I see nothing wrong with eating dead animals; if humans don't eat them ...

Happy birthday to ex member George Orwell, probably banned for this piece. https://lithub.com/celebrate-george-orwells-birthday-by-reading-his-scathin...

Stanford is the philosophers' bible for expert coverage of most topics. But what amateurs and newbies need is something a bit more manageable, that wi...

You just made this up didn't you? I always pretend the shit I make up is real - life is more fun if you take it seriously.

I am so far from being post-modern as to not even to have attained mere modernity. Ancient and decrepit is where I'm at. Still, definitions are of ver...

Just to support this, here is some history of private institutions from my own neck of the woods. No doubt other places have their own history. Part o...

Yes. private property is not a natural phenomenon, it is an institution that is a major, indeed frequently dominant part of the state. As is amply dem...

I don't need your help, but the condescension is amusing.

Hit em where it hurts, not where you get annihilated. Kind of like you don't punch your opponent's gun, but their face, even though the bullets come f...

So you have no principle beyond might is right. Congratulations, you have achieved low-life status.

Start responding yourself. When is violence justified?

It's completely obvious, so no effort is required. It's even spelled out in my challenge to you that you have not accepted. The law is enforced unjust...

I done seen it a while back and forgot it again. But it's kind of obvious isn't it? Well obviously it isn't at all obvious, 61 pages un-obvious. And t...

That's extremely cool, and I have absolutely no objection to being called a leftist. However, the matter having been brought up, it would be interesti...

I'll just point out that to the extent that it is a practice or a habit, it is not present but a repetition of the past. Having said that, I think it ...

Talking of animal farm statistics, is that you comparing new cases in one place with deaths in another?

A medal for honesty is on its way you. Black people are despairingly familiar with the click of the door lock as they pass by a car, and the attentive...

It's an excellent principle to write for the reader more than the interlocutor. I wonder what is the longest thread anyone would be bothered to read a...

No. the real real problem is the unfair and unequal treatment of people and the violation of their most basic human rights. People talking on PF is no...

That's not remotely what I am saying. What I am suggesting is that there is a disparity between the condemnation of violence in defence of the human r...

It isn't secondary at all. If it was secondary, they wouldn't bother. The problem is social and psychological, and both aspects are equally important....

False dichotomy, I'd say. Why is there a consistent failure to do anything? Because there is a very strong commitment to the notion that there is noth...

Well it's crap I know, but actually this is the real issue, because it's not a problem of minorities, only for them. So how are we going to convince w...

Right, yes. I think the lesson is that almost all one can say of human nature is that it is to be almost unlimitedly plastic, and formed by culture. A...

I was watching this last night and it illuminates somewhat the difficulty that some possibly white people have with this kind of discussion. I'm not s...

Not sure what you mean by this; some of us have penises and some of us have vaginas, a few of us have something a bit ambiguous - is that brute existe...

And there was me trying to be a gun toting right wing libertarian!

I condone violence. Stand your ground, wimps! Someone violating your human rights? See the bastards to their graves pronto.

I wonder what fun Jung would have had with the distinction between masculine v feminine, and butch v fem. I ought to mention that "Jung's analytical p...

I quite like that there is variation in quality. It's educational. Discussion is much the best way to learn philosophy, because it makes one use the c...

As long as one wants to be happy, one is unhappy. Rather as one can want a bath anywhere except in the bath.

Not just a matter of education... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s&t=1s&fbclid=IwAR0rgyMautgDZ2mzYlqBr5JRq78wGLFRiv1XCHZjlITDsDVG1-14aiGyVa...

I put it in harsh terms, for emphasis. But traditionally surgeons do not operate on members of their own family precisely because they cannot be expec...