Interesting. Seems like a successful and worthwhile renovation, even if it has covered over and softened the edges. Worse, far worse, atrocities have ...
We don't seem to be doing all that well as philosophers when it comes to left, right, conservative, liberal, democratic, authoritarian, and so on. Cru...
Hitler wasn't much of a socialist. True, early on he took over a little German political group which maybe had some socialist-type intentions, but tha...
"Does Technology have the Capability of Solving All of our Problems?" I understand the attraction of finding a solution to all our problems. Gee, woul...
Chew on this: This is what Maslow thought a self-actualized person would be (self-actualization would be located at the top of the pyramid): Truth: ho...
According to Wikipedia, Maslow didn't create the pyramid - or any other graphic representation of needs. An illustrator at a textbook publishing compa...
Just so we're all talking about the same thing, here is the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Is it really "universal"? Yes, by de...
I don't have a problem with Maslow's hierarchy of needs as long as one remembers that it is rather simple. It isn't exhaustive, it isn't sequential (f...
Apparently Habitat worked out pretty well. I've always liked it. It's still novel. I don't see the style being used in cold climates -- too much expos...
Speaking of Alzheimers... Maybe it is the beginning of Alzheimer's disease for me, but certain headlines have been bothering me lately. For example, t...
Indeed, but in the meantime, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Glad Yule, joyeux Noël, carpe diem, sic transit gloria mundi, auld lang syne, etc. BTW, ...
OH, hey, good topic. Been looking for one. But... Isn't it the reeking personal psychology (all that stuff between one's ears, between the cradle and ...
I The 'progressive movement' does seem to have lost its balls somewhere along the line. Probably a result of straddling the fence so much. A lot of pr...
I have long claimed that philosophic types place too much emphasis on reasoning and insufficient emphasis on emotionwhen discussing behavior (which wo...
People do vary, and theories depend on what people the theorist had experience with. If Freud hadn't grown up when and where he did, and provided ther...
A political campaign might (or might not) be an appropriate place to totally delegitimize the opposition, and brand them as 'freakish'. Memes are good...
All of this is very tough to deal with, whether one lives 1500 miles away or lives in the same house. Regarding the CAT scan and a stroke... If he had...
John Steinbeck's term for Weltschmerz was "welshrats". For whatever that's worth. Thanks for clarifying your situation. So, in your model of personali...
Fascism doesn't have a long history (it was hatched in 1919 in Italy) and it is decidedly anti-intellectual. Consequently, there is no development of ...
Pleasure is a good thing, but pleasure can get better. Simple pleasures -- sex, food, soaking in warm water, is probably not going to get better. It's...
I probably sounded a bit like that, judgmental. Sometimes it might be true -- but one would need to know the person to have any idea about that. I had...
this. is. the. way. it. is. going. to. be. for. the. rest. of. your. life is too full of certitude. I don't know what the rest of the evening has in s...
Are you old enough to suffer from Weltschmerz? Isn't there some sort of minimum age that one has to be before one can have that problem? I mean, 15 ye...
Speaking of evil, Landru, people have been excoriating evil (sin, blaspheme, bad behavior, picking one's nose in public, etc.) for a very long time --...
Pandering, indeed. To pander: gratify or indulge an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire) ... a pimp. a person...
And I am not trying to deny or rationalize the rate of murder per 100,000, which as you correctly note is the highest (by far) in the OECD countries. ...
I will not address suicide or terrorism here and now. So, private, 1 x 1 murders... It is NOT the case that "really American society thinks that murde...
It is, of course, one thing for me to decide when I no longer wish to continue living. Deciding for somebody else is... problematic. Your father is 1)...
Thanks. The article provides a good taxonomy of what is fascist and what is right-wing populist. Trump is the latter and not the former. We all use te...
No, I don't thing everything will "collapse to a Mad Max future" either. My expected scenario is that we will clumsily devolve into a dystopian future...
The Paris agreement was structured so that it is not a "treaty" per se, and doesn't need Senate approval. What the Senate can do (along with the House...
Assuming that what I'm going to do isn't influenced by what I think I should do. Which it is, for everyone but sociopaths. — Marchesk Hmmmm, not a rea...
The universe is not programmed and must operate as it does. Unless, of course, you believe in a "Primum Causum" -- First Cause -- like God. But for th...
There isn't very much that is necessary about the world the way it is. Astrophysicists say that "had the initial conditions of the newly emerged unive...
Certain grubs, the larval form of some insects, are reported to taste like a shrimp omelet. Are larvae sentient? They are definitely animal. What abou...
from the linked article "Texas is among eight states with provisions allowing concealed weapons on public postsecondary campuses, along with Colorado,...
If suffering is inherent in all compounded beings, you can't devise a plan to eliminate suffering. Perhaps you could take an approach which is based o...
You're probably expecting too much from analytical thinking, logic, proof, and all that, and underestimating the grounding that can be had from thinki...
A poem about love by William Blake Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heave...
What do you mean by the phrase, "hand waving"? I wish there was such epi data, but alas... A good book relevant to the topic is Ghettoside: A True Sto...
It is essential to get down to a "granular" level when talking about American guns & gun violence. The 320 million Americans living in this 3.8 millio...
Psychology covers a lot of ground. It includes studies of eye movement (which might slop over into the terrain of neurology and ophthalmology), intell...
Landru will defend himself, naturally. Of course it isn't a black and white issue. There are all shades of gray from gun metal black to the faintest g...
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