Merkwurdichliebe

What about the sacrifice of one life to save millions of other lives? That seems like a death that is extremely helpful to millions (assuming they are...

In US, when a pregnant woman is murdered the defendant is usually charged with two counts. Seems like this is an implicit admission of the sovereignty...

The problem is that abortion and vasectomy are elective procedures. There is no legal means of forcing a vasectomy, just like there is no legal means ...

That is because reason cannot seem to abide its silent magnanimity, it is constantly nagging faith to go further and be rational.

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The moment you recognize the sound as originating from an external source, the immediacy is lost. (Edit). Simply recognizing the experience as sound d...

I would call it immediacy. But we mostly relate to the other in the realm of recognition and recollection (mediation).

Very simple answer to this. Wisdom is the greatest of the four platonic virtues. It assumes the realization of the three other virtues. Soto have wisd...

Comprehending God is like staring at the sun. In one instance you become catatonic, in the other you go blind. That is why God is the eternal mystery,...

Fish bicycle. That is a great concept! How would it operate?

It is an existential crutch because existence is heavy. A good portion of it is irrational, so we have irrational faith as a way to cope with it. More...

The notion that God explains anything cosmological or ethical is a failure on the part of religious culture. God is not an object of knowledge, but is...

I can't get past this Does this suggest that any given case can be a world unto itself? Or that there are numerous/infinite worlds? (Edit: the term "i...

@"Banno" Why does "on certainty" receive little to no mention? I found it fascinating?

Really, that's intriguing. I've heard of him on TPF before, but never investigated. I just read a few things about him, very interesting!

I imagine there were people like me back in the 19th century who thought: if art does not depict Christian themes, it was inferior.

Lol. That was closer to the third century up to about the 18th.

I'm an artist too. Yes, 19th cent art is amazing. Mainly, I like all art that has its foundations in the classical school. The only two art sites I vi...

its just marxism. You could do it if you had the patience, but I don't blame you

You are so proper. Come on... live on the edge...Do it!

Very good. Of, course we are debating about progress in philosophy, and I'm assuming a position opposite from your's, but I don't necessarily disagree...

Sometime in the ealy 20th century, the art world fell victim to slave morality.

Popart and dadaism are two that come to mind.

I can agree that those are significant contributions of philosophical thought to science. But they did little to move philosophy forward like the Dion...

Thank you :blush: Nietzsche's dionysian is the last great philosophical contribution. More recently, the human genome project was pretty significant. ...

I doubt many users on TPF are reading the same material as you and I. Lets not jump ahead. You have been avoiding the issue I raised earlier. If your ...

Yes, they are put in separate books for a reason, because they are separate disciplines. Just because a cutting edge scientists is philosophically min...

dialectical-materialism is a recent one

Excuses eh? Can't even name one? Doesn't make for a very strong argument for your position. That is a stretch. Science and philosophy are completely s...

Religion is much more than people's opinion of what god wants. Religious ethics is very different from actual religion. Religion proper is entirely su...

Name five contributions from any of those philosophers that have significantly advanced philosophy. Then we can argue about what constitutes a signifi...

I posted some nonsense in that thread. I think the advantage of those threads, is that it gives us living philosophers occassion to test our understan...

Many rape victims are scared to admit it, so the amount of abortionion requests for rape pregnancies will likely be diminished in contrast to the actu...

It seems more efficient for the universe to recycle souls than to create a new one for every individual. But, of course, that is assuming that the uni...

Any chance to bring back Street? :grin:

@"Noble Dust" already suggested that it is a product of environment and psychological predisposition. I agree. But then again, some of the stuff that ...

I can't say I know of any master artist, no matter how talented, that did not have to acquire skills in perspective and anatomy before their work was ...

Yes, history and tradition. Those are precisely what modernism rebelled against, and I cannot agree that they discovered something superior. We should...

I don't dislike all modernism, such as plein air and impressionism, but these genres draw heavily from classical technique. I also really appreciate g...

You are always wise

As long as you are not a bigoted piece of shit, you can be as critical about art as you want. No reason to feel uneasy. I agree with the Nazi's about ...

:lol: Criteria is the key. It definitely relates to the notion of intention. When a person uses no criterion to establish his artistic intention, we c...

I can agree with that. Environment and predisposition are exactly what comprise talent. I know that in art, the "great masters" all followed certain r...

Those articles are really downplaying the fact that a ten year old was raped, eh? I wonder, did they catch the piece of shit that did it, or have they...

How did a 10 year old get pregnant? That's just creepy and weird

:lol: I like that.

What about the zero in a thousand, like most every contributor on TPF , including you and @"Baden". we should ban all of us :joke:

And who that someone is, is very important, wouldn't you agree? I mean a colorblind person would not be the best judge of impressionism.

I had the idea of a shit. I took a dump and it became actual and sensuous. Is it art?