unenlightened

Once upon a time there was a boy called Robert. He was named after the character in Struwelpeter because he could fly. But he never did. the end.

It matters to me.

I never make love to my dinner.

I don't believe you.

I have no reason to believe you. and nothing more to say.

This is a reductio. If you post on a philosophy forum, you value truth. Indeed to participate in communication at all is to value truth. To value logi...

Wot me worry? If there are no values, there is no value to truth, and never mind the bollocks of object and subject.

Neti neti!

Indeed it doesn't. Neither does it make it even truth-apt. The decision is not between true and false here, but between forms of life. The red pill an...

Society is just. Therefore: -- One deserves one's privilege. One is lucky to get by. The poor are always undeserving. OR ... Deserts in practice are a...

I'm not, but let's drop it.

You think UK politicians are short on empty rhetoric? Like 'get brexit done.'? Our prime minister's declared policy is to have his cake and eat it. Do...

You're only allowed to expose the war crimes of losers. :death:

A double negation is an affirmation, but what I say three times is true. This is the tyranny of mathematical thinking and it didn'tought to be that wa...

I forgot the main man - Ivan Illich.

Yes. that's what I said that you quoted. But actually, in practice kids love to learn almost anything just for fun, so all a teacher needs to do is be...

I've left some links and you can google the names if you are interested. One is always constrained by The law of the land, so I'm not sure what or who...

In the UK, there is Education Otherwise, a network of home schoolers. A.S. Neill is probably the classic case you want. J. Krishnamurti was also invol...

And even Newton admitted to standing on the shoulders of giants. It seems appropriate to mention Wittgenstein's private language argument, which is no...

Not a full moon then, I assume.

There. that wasn't so hard was it?

Indeed. Nobody will blame you, just until you learn that they are not 18 and you are not allowed to sell them alcohol. You will claim to know that the...

Except in the case where the calculator is broken, or has been tampered with or ... In such cases, your justification dissolves. I am saying that just...

Yes. It is justified by something that turns out to be false, so it it turns out not to be justified. this is how we proceed is it not? Then it turns ...

Justification is not an on off thing, one can have more or less of it. The storyteller has more justification than the farmer because the storyteller ...

You never need a gun. If it is a question of kill or be killed, choose 'be killed'. But the difference is that a banana doesn't look right, and you ca...

But by your own hypothesis this is not true. unenlightened is enlightened; he just doesn't realise/hasn't realised it. In which case, unenlightenment ...

Kind of like we all - well most of us - have legs, but if you are not fully aware of them, you won't cause much walking to happen.

If there are many ways to be unenlightened, as there seem to be, why do we expect that there is only one way to be enlightened? Are there perhaps some...

I prefer the term "identification" to "attachment". As in "I identify (as half of a couple) with my wife." So I see enlightenment as the 'seeing throu...

I think they are being compassionate to the female philosophers on the site. Perhaps you could be more compassionate to the moderators; it is thanks t...

You know Hong Kong was invaded and occupied by the British during the opium war, right? And held under a forced "lease" for 100 years. The Chinese had...

I've little wish to defend China's record on human rights, and it is clear that the whole culture takes a very different attitude to individuality fro...

He would on my watch. I always used to ban unrepentant sinners.

Other echo chambers are available.

Only Superman has superpowers, but Commieman is everywhere at once. If one is a "freethinker", it should be possible to step out of the mythology of o...

Indeed, but a question was not asked. On the contrary, equality was ruled out absolutely. Thus it was the love of received dogma and prejudice, not th...

Other emotions are available.

If folks will just back off from the universalisms a little, it does seem that philosophy is somewhat macho and combative. The language of 'argument' ...

It does not seem to me that intelligence is all that rare: elephants whales octopi dolphins apes etc. But what we always look for out there is not int...

Hence a thread about music, or a thread about poetry. Most advertising for example is deliberate nonsense because it aims to bypass the logical analys...

There is much difficulty in separating nature and nurture. Here for example is a traditional tune in the melodic minor, normally associated with melan...

Every lady in the land Has twenty digits on each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet And this is true without deceit. (add punctuation to taste)

As I recall, I was quite content in my darkened room until I was expelled from it by a nightmare squeezing that left me beached on a bloody sheet gasp...

I'm not that familiar with Carnap, so first I went here, for a quick crib-sheet. and followed a link to the dude himself - http://www.ditext.com/carna...

Firstly, wrong thread, and secondly, nothing I have said is sceptical of Buddhism or its founder. I am sceptical of much of the Western interpretation...

If you look back, you will see that I was commenting on another's comment making a claim that science had 'discovered' that our senses were unreliable...

Bin there, done that, had the minor heart attack, and felt almost insulted that it was nothing to do with my pearls of devastating wisdom.

Think you may find that religions argue about definitions all the time and have schisms over them on a regular basis. Philosophers are somewhat inclin...