I think this thesis is well disproved by the overwhelming influence of UKIP despite their abysmal showing in elections. Rather, it is the folks that a...
What these ones? 1. Very briefly. The formula of mass production and mass consumption as the best source of profit is ending with the development of b...
I was not. I rather like Christianity in the sense of loving your neighbour and the like, in a noncommittal sort of way. Well, not quite. I suspect th...
My conspiracy theory is that they want me to go to war and reduce the population, so hey want me to be horrified about 'them'. And all this horror on ...
Now that is a neat move, considering my own objection to Tiff's question. But your fulminating is what makes it a serious question. And of course I di...
Hmm, I'm not sure about all this. I am horrified by the fact that child marriage is legal and happens in the US. I didn't know that until Benkei put u...
Oh I agree, and there is plenty to criticise going down here in the UK too. But sexual politics is a left-right thing and always has been. I was think...
I'm sorry Tiff, but I find that question offensive. It comes across as a rhetorical denial that it ever happens. but it has happened and it does happe...
Wilful misunderstanding... The great man, the great man, historians his memory Artists his senses, thinkers his brain Labourers his growth Explorers h...
This is just the ontology of possible worlds, isn't it? I think it makes sense to say that I could have had tea instead of coffee for breakfast, witho...
Bin there, done that, got the scars. "I am not the sort of person that walks out when the relationship gets difficult." - is an attractive identity, t...
It's interesting that you put it like that. The 'we' that is a slave to passions is 'reason'. So it looks as though you are identifying as 'the reason...
Let's leave the politics for another thread, eh? But poetics is good, if you can avoid the counterproductive condemnation. There now, they're all gone...
A few somewhat disconnected comments on comments... Even a hardline Humean would not go so far; reason is the slave of passion, but the slave can stil...
Compare: Rabies is a diagnosis... Possession by devils is a diagnosis... It sounds a bit odd. Following the use/mention convention, you would be bette...
Contradictions set limits to what can be meaningfully said; they do not constrain the world. If God doesn't fit into your way of talking, it's your pr...
Could you ask him from me how he feels about his life? Does he feel it is a worthwhile project to be stalking a philosopher so persistently, or does h...
Who cares what's good for you eh? That's a monstrous attitude. No wonder the poor monster has nightmares about you. No wait, are you the monster havin...
1. Think the unthinkable. 2. Make sense of the resulting nonsense. 3. Write a detailed account of exactly why every other philosopher in history got i...
Songs are good. I used to keep our daughter in our shop quite often, and every time a bus went by, I'd sing 'the wheels on the bus go round and round,...
You teach an infant to talk by talking to them and listening to them as if they already understand and already talk. So treat your child as a good cit...
My life is worth everything to me, probably not so much to you. And vice versa I'd imagine. If a fiver would save your life, I might be persuaded, and...
That is completely ridiculous. If everyone was a full time writer, or a woman, or for that matter, a metal worker, the species would die out. But thes...
I can quite see that beliefs and memories can be false, and thus 'inappropriate', but at first glance, how i feel about things is not capable of being...
I'm having difficulty putting these two together. If language is ontology, then speaking differently is an act of creation ex-nihilo - is that right? ...
Old farts are naturally conservative as youth is naturally revolutionary. The youth of today will probably find that the good old days I hanker for ar...
Doing my best to be charitable to what on the face of it seems a nonsense, I interpret this to mean that one's feelings might not be 'appropriate' to ...
So if you are 1. averse to the company of others, be a lighthouse keeper, and if you are 2. hostile to society, be a revolutionary. Smack them briskly...
I'm not sure. Some people are more adaptable than others. Even concentration camps can be sanely survived by a few, perhaps. On the other hand, no one...
Not at all. An anti-social person is ideally suited to being a night-watchman or a lighthouse keeper, or a mountain shepherd. No reason at all to call...
Typically, childhood abuse, physical, sexual, or psychological. More generally, a dependent relationship that is simultaneously intolerable and inesca...
What I conclude is that the whole notion of mental illness is flawed. As you say, anyone can find themselves in an environment they cannot cope with, ...
Interesting slide there, from teacher to follower. That distinction seems fairly clear, although no man is an island, but is influenced by the whole c...
Then it's about you and the island; you're still not self-sufficient. But you have imaginatively killed off your parents, your teachers, the shipwrigh...
I once spent six weeks with a schizophrenic in the full flowering of a manic episode, and without drugs. It is a distressing, baffling, frightening co...
This is a rather important difference. In the case of physical maladies, the self report and other behaviour is explained in terms of bugs, wounds, in...
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