All hail the eternal psychological triangle. Two horses and a charioteer - Plato. Id, superego and ego - Freud. Child, parent, adult - Berne. Identity...
It's really quite simple. One's identity is formed from the relationships one has, and obviously, the earliest relationships set the tone. Growing up ...
Hume is unique among philosophers in being more understandable himself than through any of his commentators. Just read Hume. Not that there's any shor...
My intention is to build a house, my motive is to house someone. Or it might be just that i enjoy mixing cement, and the whole housing thing is an exc...
You're floundering. Actions are actions, and are motivated by selfishness or compassion. The cause of the action is the motive, and the motive is an i...
And the action can have the motive of creating a new person that does not yet exist, for one's own sake or for theirs. It is an imaginary person, but ...
I think I can. And the law agrees that I can make a trust fund to benefit my unborn grandchildren. And I can plant a tree whose shade I will never sit...
Well I was bound to pick out that bit, wasn't I? There's a lot of brain-talk, scientific experimental hard-talk, directed at that way of thinking itse...
Wait a sec: when a dude's been being studied by scholars for a thousand years or two, he might be wrong, but he's obviously not obviously wrong, right...
Amen to that, bro. So then one is left with an irreducible moral and aesthetic component to psychology, I think, in answering any question of the 'pro...
It's certainly not direct; I didn't mean to suggest it. If anything, the cycle is negative, such that for example, Freud has an insight into the psych...
This is an annoying feature, that is a defeater of psychology as a science, in my opinion. A psychological theory, including its roots as explicated i...
In space, no one can hear you philosophise. Because there is no medium of transmission. I can't really say that I disagree, so much as I object. I wou...
I don't think that's quite what I think. Because the data that is conveyed from me to you and back is exactly the data that is conveyed from computer ...
When a cat feels threatened it will stand sideways, raise its hackles arch its back, and try to look big and fierce. Intentional or not, one can argue...
As a cat watches expectantly, but wordlessly by a mouse hole? I don't know why you want to call it communication, though. One relates to the world suc...
Hmm. It seems factually largely correct, but if anyone is studying at this level to advance their career, to become rich or famous, to influence the w...
There's no law that prevents leaders from doing crazy despicable things against their own interest, but still motive is a sufficiently good pointer to...
It's always nice to see a bit of African philosophy creeping into the forums. "It takes a village to raise a child." If I may make so bold, it still t...
It's a frustrating habit of philosophers to question the question, and problematise the terms of debate. But this is not mere political correctness. I...
My understanding of the term is that a volunteer fire service counts as social capital, whereas a paid fire service does not. This seems like an arbit...
"Social capital". It sounds like trying to understand human relations in terms of money. Expect confusion. Instead, try it the other way about; how do...
Here's something that some people may not have seen that someone has thought, and I discovered. You might like, or you might not, but I think it's wor...
If one is alive, one is fit for life. Some people are not fit for life; they are dead. Personally, I try to to be completely useless, and that way I d...
But that presumes he knows what he's doing. If he doesn't know what he's doing, his not wanting something doesn't mean he won't do it. "I was just try...
We still have the yellow elephant that Santa gave our daughter when she was in hospital at 18 months with pneumonia. I've told him about Archie, and h...
Steiner is not much regarded in academic philosophy - a bit too weird. Wiki has a longish article on the book, bur Stanford studiously ignores him, an...
Ambiguous - not sure what it means. Ambivalent - don't care what it means. Ambidextrous - opp of ambisinister. See also evenhanded and oddhanded. Ambi...
Is it not that we are captains and at the mercy of fate? That there are storms is at least no reason to relinquish the steering entirely. Some captain...
Well I'm still educating myself about British collaboration, and the holocaust seems to have given urgency to a Zionist movement that was already in p...
You're quite right. But it was a colony, and it was within a generation that the shit hit the fan, so it still looks like a botched withdrawal to me. ...
Well that completes the set of failed Imperial partitions then. One could almost make an aphorism of it. "You can't unmake an omelette even if one of ...
The mentality of British Imperialism was an abomination. And the legacy in India, Myanmar, Africa, Ireland, and elsewhere is a series of lasting fuck-...
Yes, I am very selective. I am interested in conflicts that impinge on me. Whatever I posted about the Congo on one side or another, I doubt i would b...
Yes the horrible results of stone throwing were shown on the propaganda, and it needs dealing with, but by police and civil courts, because kids throw...
And I disagree with this. One can accept Israel's right to the land, and condemn its actions against people who helplessly and fruitlessly resist with...
I don't justify; I have been an explorer of ways to live, to an extent, and what suits a young man in a warm climate is less suitable when bringing up...
'Natural homelands' 'we want to save our cultures', ' these people are having children like rabbits'. Listen out for these sentiments and epithets - t...
But what else is there? I cannot do the gritty math, and I am myself reduced to ideological aphorisms; to eat local when possible to use public transp...
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