The implication here, from your own words, is even more clearly that personal ambition is a necessary quality of a natural leader. It is one of those ...
I have made no assumption of the kind. I merely notice that this is how he is often talked about by colleagues, and that it is often said in an almost...
Well that seems just plain idiotic given that he is the leader elected with the largest mandate of any British political party ever. What the fuck doe...
I don't like referendums, and i don't respect them or regard them as democratic. Typically , a referendum is constructed for political purposes and so...
I have no clue what the hell philosophy is supposed to be these days. You can't get an adequate definition without someone calling bullshit. If this c...
Thanks. It's all stolen from Krishnamurti and rephrased. Psychologically, he says, the trick is 'learning without accumulation'; always learning in th...
Well stick to Descartes if you don't like W. One talks of 'experience of' - an oasis, say - precisely to bracket off the possibility of illusion. The ...
Where is where-ness is not a better question than what is what-ness, or when is when-ness. I could point to a place in your experience where your expe...
So much selves, so little consciousness. This is getting a bit off topic perhaps, but I would say that most of the time I am performing, conforming to...
I hope I am understanding you here? I would say that the voice that one speaks in is a construction of thought; of identification; an earthy, forceful...
Not just all other things, but 'the very "you"' itself as well. In which voice one objectifies subjectivity, making consciousness an intimate thing. (...
Indeed! At least to the extent that one is doing the accounts. I rather think that one is better off attacking the question than trying to answer it. ...
I'm with Descartes on this one; that one can be deceived about anything and everything, except that there is a subject of deception. That said, I woul...
Apathy, ennui, hurt, and aggression are indeed the inevitable end of every thread. You deny the premise you are invited to assume, and then provide an...
Perhaps one might ostensively define a philosophical zombie as something like one of those self-driving cars. It sees, it thinks, it decides, but it d...
End of discussion. I wonder why you even posted the thread? But other folks find the story debatable and by no means ended by your pontification. http...
Ah, the hard science of toilets; I missed that bit of biology 101. If you define gender as identical with genetic sex, having no regard for dispositio...
Augustino has been torturing me, and I have been obliged to agree that there is a cup although there is no cup. ( Don't tell him I said that last bit ...
War is not an inconvenience to capital. The EU is a capitalist club, but so is the labour party, by and large, and so is the Bullingdon club. It is la...
I'll be voting 'in' on the basis that the hated bureaucrats need strengthening against the hated capitalists, multinationals being larger than nations...
Everyone knows there are only 3 types of personality; idiots, arseholes, and idlers. Clearly, you are an idler. They tend to dominate in discussion fo...
I don't. I would say they are part of a powerful system of thought that has the potential to increase freedom as compared to other animals. Compare it...
I don't want to speculate how God could have created things differently or has done in a wider universe that we might call heaven/hell. In this world,...
It depends how you are understanding 'conscious' of course. Some folk take conscious and self-conscious to be identical. But the way I understand it i...
There is no problem with such a conception. Indeed it happens to most people to forget themselves from time to time. Self is a habit of thought. Well ...
A rock or a tree manages to exist without self-identification. I'm not sure if you are claiming this as tautological, a defining characteristic, in wh...
Yeah, thats a bit too literal for my wishy washy blood. I see the fall as primarily a psychological theory. Thus lions and lambs coexist in the garden...
Christian doctrine is not univocal, but the way I heard it God looked at his creation and saw that it was good. I assume he was aware of thermodynamic...
As has been indicated above, the justification for justice is just that it is just. If that is not enough for you, you might have recourse to theories...
It matters not to my point whether it is more broad or more legal of a contrivance; To claim it is already to claim the validity of the self same soci...
If they form an orderly queue, they can be accommodated; otherwise they will have to go to Cantor's night shelter which has infinite rooms each of inf...
I used to work in Hilbert's hotel as a night porter, and this sort of thing happened all the time. To move an infinite number of guests took an hour; ...
Ownership came into being with agriculture, because you have to invest work for future reward. So you need ownership for culture. It is always open to...
Here it is right at the start; there is no 'your money' or your anything except by way of the social contract. We agree not to break down the fence ro...
@"Pneumenon" A hungry law court might want you not to pay your taxes. To put it more abstractly, the notion of coercion presumes social relations. The...
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