Brett

Very possible I would think. Capitalism is very adaptive.

I don’t think you’re able to talk about this in a reasoned way. So let’s leave it.

Rephrase that. Once you understand what desire is you are at the beginning of losing your desire for things.

Khaled is right; wanting to reduce your desires is a desire.

Well a teacher would allow that there are scientists who do not agree, and would show that there is disagreement, so that they understand the truth pr...

So then, a future without critical thinking if we are to survive; no time for “ such shit.” So we survive as what?

I don’t think your comments about Buddhism are entirely accurate. In Buddhism life is suffering, that’s what life is. It’s the emphasis we put on thin...

Just a thought here; If children are taught in school about climate change on the basis that it’s real, without question, and they must be educated th...

Yes, just who the hell are we, what are we? Maybe not as smart as we think, maybe this is all we are. Truth comes first. Like “My names Jim, I’m an al...

Correct. First of all I don’t believe that anyone here could offer a solution anyway. Opinions maybe, but we know they’re not the same, though there a...

This OP was not meant to address climate change as a discussion about it being real or not, or as a clear-headed discussion. It was to ask others to a...

Of course the truth is useful. But the truth being sought here seems to be eternally elusive, as if it’s not so much a search for truth as some sort o...

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It's no secret that Peterson portrays males in some sort of decline with respect to their engendered archetypes of the past not self realizing.[/quote...

I watched that to see your evidence of decline. None. Why waste my time.

I just don’t think he’s portraying males in some sort of decline. But if you can give me some evidence I don’t mind considering it.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.

It’s quite clear who he thinks it is. I may not think so, but he’s quite clear about who it is.

Maybe not decline so much as under assault.

Yes, you’re right. But the feminist ethics Wallows refers to, “the feminine voice places more emphasis on protecting interpersonal relationships and t...

I don’t see him in that light at all. Can you give me more?

No. I was really referring back to Wallows OP on his mix of philosophy and psychology.

Having said that it occurs to me that though both sexes may have similar or equal capabilities, it doesn’t then follow that they apply them the same w...

I’m still trying to figure out what this has to do with the future of philosophy.

I thought I just did that.

No, nor do I. But it’s a problem dealing with people who still insist it’s true. I’m not referring to Gilligan, but to people who insist that one sex ...

But it makes comments about the error on the following posts confusing.

Well I don’t like to actually edit an OP. My correction is still clear at the bottom. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too...

“According to Gilligan, there are two kinds of moral voices: that of the masculine and the feminine. The masculine voice is "logical and individualist...

“The characteristics that denote what constitutes a female”, who’s defining these characteristics and are they saying the characteristics are imposed ...

So’ virtual ethics’ applied to females; can you clarify?

By ‘applied’ do you mean what’s expected of them, or who they are?

A revival. What ethics do you mean? Do you mean something that has drifted or got lost along the way?

I think there’s maybe two groups of people on this forum; those who want to “do” philosophy and those who use it to reflect on the world.

Is there really anything to talk about at all then? Why even be here?

Okay.

Maybe. But the quest for the truth suggests that we are not content with things, that there is something better, truer out there, or in here. Is it po...

Sorry to answer with another question, but why do we want the truth, what do we want from it, what are we expecting?

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” I agree.

Just say you don’t want to do it. I won’t mind.

Yes it’s a book. But I don’t understand a statement like yours on a philosophy forum. It doesn’t make sense. I put the link up to demonstrate that phi...

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/climate-change-and-philosophy-9780826440655/

That’s an interesting comment. Philosophy has been done in the most dire of circumstances; the Russian gulags, prisoner of war camps and concentration...

Yes, my apologies. You’re correct.

My position from a Darwinian/Gaian/social point of view, probably fatalistic. Through that I address point 6 and 9. 6) We don’t act on Climate Change ...

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I think he’s says it in absolute confidence that they never will.

I’ve always had a good feeling forZen Buddhism and always found it very elusive. But my feeling is that they do believe there is an objective reality ...

That’s an interesting point. States today can chose there own way to combat climate change. But how does a state prepare for living with climate chang...

I’m not suggesting we should do this. What I see is a totalitarian form of government because people will be required to do what is good for the state...