I am 99% sure I posted a comment in "Why I Left Academic Philosophy" a few hours ago on Friday the 13th, and it appears not to be there. I rewrote the...
The author of the article demonstrated two things to me: First, there is nothing at stake in much of the graduate work being done in the Humanities. "...
Yes, of course. We are not perfectible. We will always be not-quite-smart-enough primates with primitive emotions which will ever derail our best effo...
I think you are quite right that the rate of new groundbreaking technological developments is slowing down. The major developments of technical develo...
There are things I don't get either. My thread on social capital, which I thought was a productive topic, has been waylaid by several posters who, for...
Marx stuffed a lot into the Manifesto. One of the points he covered was "the reproduction of labor". The folks who run and have run societies, be they...
This information was linked in the OP, but let me point it out Where did the information and terminology for the Social Capitol Project come from? The...
True enough, manufacturing has become extraordinarily complex. But that isn't "alienation" exactly. Edited, Marx said, If a man builds his own house, ...
I am thoroughly baffled that something I consider at least benign, but actually very desirable, social capital, to have elicited such negative respons...
The New York Times and other newspapers have on a number of occasions published maps of the US which display state-by-state or county-by-county charac...
Unenlightened bends over backward till his ears are between his ankles. I don't know about England or Australia, but in the US large cities have paid ...
The existence of social services counts as a contribution to the healthful community ecology of communities. (Do you like "healthful community ecology...
It is astonishing that you find an effort to assess "the degree to which people in a community contribute to one another's wellbeing" as a plot to fur...
Hey, to the best of my knowledge, Akanthinos, you weren't singled out by the CIA as either a particularly tragic or unusually fine specimen of social ...
& It is evident that you live in a county with solid social capital. You may have chosen to live there (as opposed to being raised there, but you were...
It's using a monetary term to describe a non-monetary phenomenon. Just because somebody says "put your money where your mouth is" doesn't mean that he...
Exactly. And the opposite is true too--neighborhoods of ticky-tacky dreck with too much traffic, dirt, and dilapidation, where decay is slithering in ...
I would, of course, say what I said and you would, of course, say what you said, and we'll keep saying it most likely, because we are both ideologues....
We live in a time of "peak ideology" -- at least as far as the frequency of "ideology" in print. https://78.media.tumblr.com/688b1d397e5cd1713e7484abf...
I don't know WHY we have consciousness, and I don't know HOW either. Probably nobody else does either, at this point. My guess is that consciousness h...
The good stuff of social capital comes from individuals in the form of their parenting, community activity, support of schools, all that. Their good c...
The George Washington Bridge -- under construction, I think... Margaret, again. https://www.printcollection.com/files/1/0117/3662/products/george-wash...
Here is one of the most horrifying pictures, Margaret Bourke-White: Her sitting out on this Chrysler Bldg. gargoyle...ready to be blown off and plumme...
https://78.media.tumblr.com/d4698dd5f5f082f03d2047d17d51b674/tumblr_p709oojSLd1s4quuao1_1280.png Fort Peck Dam, picture taken by Margaret Bourke-White...
True. Thought does trigger feelings. Thinking of a lover who is dead can cause an array of feelings, some pleasant, some not at all pleasant. Feelings...
Bill Clinton said, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is." referencing his affair with Monica Lewinsky, an intern who made it big. So,...
The person making the judgement decides on the basis of their set of standards. This is true whether we are talking about personhood or persons with s...
In this sentence "realize" is an action / transitive verb: "I realized I hate coconut." "I hate coconut" is the insight created by realized, and is th...
If you didn't want to realize clichéd collocations before your very eyes you could have proffered a prediction or submitted a supposition. Who needs t...
I'm not sure you were properly welcomed to The Philosophy Forum. Welcome. I am glad you are here. True, quantum physics doesn't sit well with the naiv...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4CI3Slriqk I would have used Billy Holiday's version of Body and Soul, but David Sederis ruined Billy Holiday with hi...
By the way, the "believing is seeing" principle isn't limited to other-worldly things. When my partner drove downtown he could never find a parking pl...
Not differentiating the reality of the physical world (which is external, perceived by the senses) with the reality inside our heads (which include im...
Yes. And so does god, the devil, hell, heaven, angels, and all other heavenly unworldly or otherworldly things. On the other hand, the physical world ...
Unlike the reaction of moderators here when they encounter the word "race" (grand mal seizures and severe blistering--like shingles) I experience only...
Soul is going to stay ill-defined because it is a vague mythical concept. As I said to Ahmed above, "Spirit" is another one of those vague words peopl...
As a member of the National Council of English Majors, I'll first critique your writing, because NCEM's enjoy torturing people that way. Many native s...
Of course, politicians already have come up with these ideas, and put them into effect. In fact, it's been done several times on a very large scale. T...
And just because we think some traits are better than other traits like having two legs to walk on rather than none; or having properly functioning ey...
RP: What is the "crack whore conundrum"? When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Guns tend to make everything look like a target. The wo...
Would you prefer to be In the first group or the second, and why? I would prefer to be more talented, fit, attractive, intelligent, and motivated, tha...
Do genetics disease specialists add the "eu" to their field (eugenics) when they give reproduction advice to individuals who are carriers of heritable...
I'm familiar with the fear of the unknown, but the "ironic fear of the unknown" is less familiar. Open the door and walk right in, preferably during b...
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