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It would follow suit, given a praise of any kind of philosophy, that someone would defy science--science is the death of reason. Something more powerf...

Nowhere did I say that metaphysics provides knowledge, and you can't pretend that any of the things I've listed did not come from empirical research a...

How about skyscrapers, bridges, medicine, space travel, psychotherapy, economics, popular music, transcendental meditation, professional sports, agric...

To call something groundless, you have to first take the ground from beneath it, Do your worst. You haven't said anything yet.

Actually, you are wrong, the final outcome of empiricism is some possible understanding of things, as I just said earlier. Everything that has been de...

Elaborate on what you just said, it sounds a bit like when people laugh loudly in the back of a movie theatre while punching themselves in the face.

Metaphysics tries to understand the physical by applying the idiotic to it. The final outcome of empiricism is some possible understanding of things, ...

This.

Every atheist is an individual. Stop acting like there's an atheist manifesto.

So what you're saying is that Kant was living in a fantasy? Oh, and that you are as well?

We don't know that the earth will take care of itself. Evidence seems to point to the contrary. The solar system will inevitably fizzle out, and the o...

I don't think anyone who's genuinely looking for an answer ends where they thought they would.

Which book? I'm currently reading The Gay Science, and it's dense and addresses complex issues in an absence of one- or two-liner aphorisms. I get wha...

Why never has a reasonable answer.

The ordinary man doesn't know what he knows either, just accepts his fate by letting it go for the sake of a common good, and the philosopher, an expe...

Because God. There is no excuse apart from origin, and our self-awareness compels us to attempt to explore it.

Humanity has been in existential crisis for maybe 4,000-15,000 years of recorded history, and we don't understand much more than we did when we began ...

Experts extract complication from simplicity.

That is a direct contradiction.

The map doesn't exist either. And I think the problem is simpler than confusion, it's a willingness to jump headlong and blind into complacency, the s...

If only it was so simple as looking at the track record of religion and weighing pro against con. But if we were doing it correctly = Utopia because G...

Education is weaponizing oversensitivity.

I disagree with Sam Harris on many topics, but on free will, he used an illustration involving a mass shooting in which the shooter was afflicted by a...

Everyone is subject to the same natural laws. Some would argue that no matter how much willpower might be lost, the initial choice to consume such an ...

How can hard work or difficulty be associated with morality?

Good one, good argument, you got me. Touché. Thank you for bringing to my attention that ancient Greeks did not live in caves because I had meant it l...

I dismiss these cave men on the grounds of thousands of years of human history and on the grounds of rudimentary statistics and probability, on the gr...

I'm not dismissing them from such a narrow view as you suggest. Let's get out of the way that to claim that someone who has been given something is in...

Have you read the ancient Greeks? They admit to this openly in their writings, it's not my interpretation or my "agenda". They literally spell it out....

Ironically in "free" or "developed" nations today, it's those who cry "more freedom" who inspire the most extensive social and cultural damage, who sp...

Slavery and servitude were part of life for thousands of years, since the dawn of civilization, and dying to escape it was certainly unappealing to mo...

You don't need to read Plato to learn about philosophy, or to be a veteran, whatever is meant by that. And no, there's no deeper meaning, these ancien...

Sometimes things are excluded as a matter of efficiency. How much would science have failed humanity if it had spent its entire history chasing unicor...

It isn't that way by design, it's that way by ignorance of its design. When conducted properly, it should be objective, or as close to objectivity as ...

To isolate Nietzsche's work to a few aphorisms is impatient and short sighted. If only reading was so easy as finishing one sentence before throwing t...

He doesn't attack without quarter though, he continually points to redeeming qualities in traditional values amid his seething rants but then proposes...

In response to the title of the thread, I haven't bothered much with some of the other names you've listed as "post-modernist" thinkers, but with Niet...

I would be flabbergasted if I ever witnessed someone demonstrating even a rudimentary understanding of Nietzsche. I've actually seen many people attem...

I guess you've never done acid.

I already posited a model with no first cause, but all you heard was the inside of your own head. The question can't presently be answered. You haven'...

There are no valid arguments or counter arguments concerning something that is presently impossible to determine. There is evidence, or there is a lac...

I intentionally left an inconclusive ending to my comment to illustrate the going-around-in-circles of the god argument.

Every "Proof" someone provides of the existence of god, whether it's accompanied by a description or definition or none, begins with the assumption th...

You haven't sufficiently demonstrated any of the things you're stating as if they're incontrovertible facts.

There have been numerous speculations, theories and observations concerning "big bang" events. The big bang is not believed to have been an isolated i...

How can you discuss the attributes of something that is impossible for any natural thing to interact with, something supernatural? Shouldn't you first...

You can't prove creation, and in no way in any of your commentary have you pointed to anything but its absence. You can move goal posts around to suit...

My point is that someone explained to you that all phenomena are natural, and if there's ever a phenomenon that is supernatural, the natural world can...

The one I highlighted, if you click on the link of your name, it'll take you to it.

It's strange that you would attempt to counter a valid argument by validating it. If someone points to a house and says "that's a house", would you th...