This (post) is here. Well thanks for pointing that out un, I hadn't noticed. :roll: It seems a fucking weird thing to say, to me. The circumstance tha...
Well because it is the foundational fantasy of democracy and I am an inveterate optimist. But I understand you are an elitist, so you don't have to pl...
Play with this fantasy: "the people" is extremely smart. So smart that they are able to punish the democrats for their failure to be brave and radical...
No it isn't. I just told you my theory is based on what appears to be the case, that I can choose freely, not at all on what I wish. And whatever the ...
I've never tried it. If you have, perhaps you can tell me, but your question is rhetorical, so of course you cannot, you merely show that you assume t...
And yet words do have a aura that is the ghost of all the uses in all the games of the ancestors. This supernatural meaning is employed by poets and a...
Yes. I think this what the op is getting at. I suppose one could psychologise at this point as to why such a negation is so important. A terror of res...
That is the extra claim you make, that I do not. And you keep making it and not justifying it. I'm unsurprised, because I have never heard any justifi...
Then don't make the argument. It's certainly not one that I make. One can fairly reliably tell the difference between a homosexual and a heterosexual....
No. And you haven't provided any substantive argument for why it would be so. But I have the advantage that people make choices, and I don't need to e...
You are just going round and round, declaring without argument that everything must be like this because it must be. And you don't notice that it isn'...
Thing is, what this demonstrates is that there is no essential difference between mental illness and social stigma. And when I say 'essential' I mean ...
And then you'd need to hypothesise a cause/reason why one reason was causal and the other was not. I call that cause my choice; my choice determines w...
No. I can pick my own numbers for my ticket. Well yes, that's a bit tautological. But perhaps reasons are not the kind of thing that causes anything. ...
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe my lottery numbers are influenced by something or other, maybe not. I think it is a matter of faith that they 'must be'. Oh, I...
Well I can imagine never having had ice cream before, and having no idea what favourite would be. So I choose on a whim. Still my choice, still free, ...
Let's try to charitably understand this. I choose chocolate ice cream freely because I am only influenced by my liking for chocolate ice cream. If you...
I like to be naive about this. If I am not imprisoned, then I am free to come and go at will. I may be confined to bed by illness, or I may be confine...
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Some of them turned into owls. Some of us live in flowers already. That 'we' fascinates me, as tho...
Or, perhaps more familiar, to make bad schooling ( and maybe home) conditions more tolerable. I refer to what used to be known informally as cabin fev...
Ooh, me sir, please sir, I have delusions of grandeur, sir. Why would anyone talk at all if it had no impact? I'm not certain, but I hope at least, th...
Not entirely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environment_policy And what a sick joke that turns out to be. The sovereignty of a par...
So he's a right wing conservative nationalist who refers to refugees and migrants as an invading tribe, a Jewish capitalist (but no others) as having ...
Really? Someone takes the trouble to write a long, detailed post teasing out some of the controversies and philosophical issues, and this is the best ...
It's the stiffness of the upper lip old chap. Either that or it would have to be determined by our agreeing it. And whereof we cannot agree the meanin...
Whenever you find a dispute about what determines the meaning of an amber light, and once you have clarified whether it is flashing or steady, on the ...
Rumours of Scruton's de-platforming have been greatly exaggerated. He's been all over the media, especially the BBC radio and television for years and...
I told you so. I was right not to start a thread, and it has been demonstrated that Scrotum's horrible rhetoric provides comfort and encouragement to ...
Just to clarify; the man has been sacked as an unpaid adviser to the government. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/10/roger-scruton-calls-f...
I don't. I think it is a good thing for philosophy professors to express unpopular ideas, and defend them with reasoned argument to the extent that th...
I don't have to make that decision, and have no recommendation to make. I am criticising his writing. I wouldn't recommend him as a moderator, if that...
No. What I am complaining about is that he is down-playing (as in completely ignoring) it, while up-playing the atrocities of Muslim extremists, in a ...
No, certainly not. It's more akin to holocaust denial than holocaust promotion. . Islamophobia is invented as an explanation of the negative views peo...
There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that I am liberated from what I saw as the necessity for restraint under fire imposed by being a site l...
Oh it's quite possible, but perhaps lay out the particular factors that lead you there rather than casually cast aspersions like a mere philosopher. A...
Well the dehumanising rhetoric passes for normal these days I suppose, especially applied to the press. But unfortunately, you don't get to be a media...
Every single thing? Including that? I wonder if I can comfort you at all. Firstly, the impression you give here is very far from unintelligent or shal...
Well it could, up to a point. But generally, I don't expect people who are 'somewhat suspicious' to burn mosques, attack people for wearing particular...
Defend your claim against the list of incidents reported by wiki, or admit it is untenable. When we can agree about that much, then we can talk about ...
Well I'm not arguing at all, certainly not against anything. If we agree, and express ourselves differently, then the flexibility of language is demon...
If it ain't shared, it ain't meaning. If I say 'apple' but mean android, I've made a mistake. If you mistake my intention , then your mistake is cause...
What is it about philosophers and Fascism? https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/10/roger-scruton-calls-for-dismissal-islamophobiad-soros-remar...
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