You Europeans (counting the Brits as Europeans as much as they hate that) are responsible for just about everything bad that happened in the US. Every...
Stealing a ring is not the same as finding a ring. But while were on the subject of theft, somebody should write a book on the ethics of theft, becaus...
If we don't like universal relativism ("whatever any culture or any person believes to be right is right") then we have to find a way to locate a mora...
Religions may or may not have authority and power. If they have authority, it is because the authority is recognized by the people, then commands are ...
Freedom from, liberty to. Could be. Or, "Tyranny is government without representation" as in "No taxation without representation". When a person votes...
digital text communication has been problematic ever since e-mail came along, and continues. The thing that is different about e-mail, text messages, ...
Can we be clearer? "What" about sociology is "bunk"? Is it not a science? A sociologist could state a falsifiable hypothesis: "Rental agents discrimin...
Of course. You might be right; maybe black holes will turn out to be the lairs of dragons guarding their gold, but probably not. Not every theory has ...
All the knowledge that "is" has always been ours, hasn't it? Who else possessed knowledge? Even when we thought that the world was made of fire, water...
Ethics would be simple indeed if we we able to mechanically follow ethical rules. We are not able. On the one hand we have ethical rules which are rea...
Of course - competition and collaboration are productive when people behave fairly. If they don't, then nothing will help. People have to be honest fo...
Science, for example, has been the beneficiary of simultaneous competition between research groups and cooperation within those groups. There is a dif...
From the POV of the believer, this is entirely consistent and valid. When one falls away from belief, there is nothing quite like faith to take its pl...
Obviously it isn't so easy to win the battle of survival of the fittest. The competition, after all, is as capable of coming round to kill their compe...
Ayn Rand came up last night on the Philosophy Now radio program I hear late on Sunday night ("The radio show that questions everything -- except your ...
I think you will find that quite a few "rhetoric" classes are offered, but they no longer appear under the heading of "rhetoric". Too too old fashione...
So, how far should one go with Jesus' instruction in Matthew? Is it a "stumbling block" or sound and moral advice? Some countries which have good repu...
I once tried to keep a purse (wallet, keys, phone, etc.) I found on campus. It had $110 bucks in it. I wanted to keep the money, but I felt too guilty...
ALERT ALERT major memory error So... the Moratorium Committee organized the biggest Washington, D.C. demonstration for November 15, 1969 -- that's the...
If anything makes social justice advocacy and action "meaningless" it is the belief that "the establishment" can be easily toppled, like Joshua marchi...
No one ever went broke under-estimating the average rationality of human beings. It is well documented, true enough, and it isn't accidental. Black pe...
Discourse started getting more difficult, let's see... was it after the Hitler-Stalin Pact when the Communist Party USA identified the sin of "prematu...
I dislike a lot of what I hear from over-the-air media, on-line media, blogs, etc. I've never read a 4chan page, and I haven't come out for confederat...
Good job as Devil's Advocate. BTW, the Devil's Advocate is a real role in sainthood proceedings in the Catholic Church. I didn't say that Christianity...
What to make of it? 1) Given the low level of participation in Christian religious life the UK, it is hardly surprising that giving among Christians w...
Probably because Catholic Charities is not funded by, or for the most part performed by individual Catholics. Large religious service organizations li...
Same thing, essentially. The prophet comes to deliver the truth: "This is what God wants; woe unto you if you don't do it." A philosophical justificat...
Why compare religion and philosophy at all? Is it sensible to compare religion and politics or religion and economics? Religion is based on prophecy, ...
One thing about intelligence and evolution... Life appeared early in earth's history, and evolution was at work for billions of years BEFORE the Cambr...
2018, it isn't your fault that Adorno writes this way. I can't figure out HOW this sentence could be meaningful. Is a truth-teller merely a juggler of...
I've seen demonstrations of smaller objects like carnations being dipped in liquid N, and then being shattered. Impressive. Unfortunately, liquid nitr...
There are barge brokers who can sell you a used barge. Like this: https://78.media.tumblr.com/d1970a839649bc8414064b9a6e157e0c/tumblr_pe06yfLqgH1s4quu...
I like the image of dying on top of one's very own funeral pyre, composed of cardboard, household furniture, waste wood, sawdust, branches from diseas...
There's no reason to suppose that an authentic person will also be pleasant company: honest, considerate, thoughtful, etc. The internal consistency an...
John Deere makes a device for spreading the heavy wet product our Georgia Peach produces: https://www.deere.com/assets/images/region-4/products/fronti...
What people must have used in the millennia before the scientific method was developed was practical problem solving. For instance, hunter-gatherers h...
A person is the physical being who passes through time and during that passage maintains enough continuity to maintain self-recognition and be recogni...
By themselves, things like eye contact, uninvited first name use, informality (as opposed to rigid formality), style of clothing, volume and content o...
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