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In: Against Ethics?  — view comment
The 'switch' should reason be dominated by the passions, or should reason itself become a passion dominating all the others derails the train. We do n...
October 25, 2015 at 15:55
In: Against Ethics?  — view comment
Sorry, Heathcliff, Hamlet and the Don are just to far back in memory -- can't pry them out.
October 25, 2015 at 06:28
In: Against Ethics?  — view comment
"...minimized suffering, and maximized joy, a way of life founded and constrained by reason..." Sounds... 'reasonable'. Is the way to minimized suffer...
October 25, 2015 at 06:25
In: Whose History?  — view comment
Languages have histories, and history has history, and it all bears evidence of the users' history. Some people, Henry Ford for instance, think histor...
October 24, 2015 at 15:29
In: Icon for the Site?  — view comment
Maybe the "philosopher with busted arm" icon? Something iconic, at any rate. A phoenix (out of the ashes... no, too specific and temporal...)
October 24, 2015 at 14:51
In: Just for Laughs  — view comment
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October 24, 2015 at 04:56
In: Dialogue on the Christian Religion  — view comment
Have you read Simone Weil? (It's been so long, I remember nothing about her... It seems to me that she chose to ally herself with atheists as a witnes...
October 24, 2015 at 04:26
In: The Wisdom of Harry Lime Redux  — view comment
Lime offers no defense for himself. This year Turing Pharmaceuticals bought a 60 year old but still sometimes critical anti-parasitic drug that previo...
October 24, 2015 at 04:18
In: Dialogue on the Christian Religion  — view comment
So having debated with yourself, where did it leave you all? @"Thorongil" "It is a long way from the grudging admission that God is a cipher for the i...
October 24, 2015 at 01:06
In: What distinguishes real from unreal?  — view comment
How about the difference between "know" and "suspect"? Teacher: "You don't know anything, Yogi" Yogi Berra: "I don't even suspect." Urbain Le Verrier ...
October 24, 2015 at 00:54
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
I thought he had been active for... a year or two, maybe?
October 23, 2015 at 23:56
In: Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken  — view comment
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. (Charles Peguy.) He also noted that "Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
October 23, 2015 at 21:55
In: AFSCME Endorses Clinton  — view comment
I would have been very very surprised if AFSCME had endorsed Bernie Sanders. Perhaps some locals have been a dash of red sauce, but most of them are r...
October 23, 2015 at 21:49
In: Question about costs and donations  — view comment
Perhaps the Panhandler In Chief should have a tin cup as an avatar? /uploads/files/3l/reuqgpq16xlqr1cf.png
October 23, 2015 at 21:15
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
Sometimes one can see a nice historical progression in art, sometimes not. I used to think "Modern Art" was stuff that had been painted since WWII. I ...
October 23, 2015 at 21:04
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant/uploads/resized/files/ym/u5inmh6uekxeps1q.jpg The term, "impressionism" was initially used satirically in a re...
October 23, 2015 at 20:29
In: AI as a partner  — view comment
In the future our refrigerators will, no doubt, be sexed up, and people will be as attached to their AI sex-bots as they are now glued to their smartp...
October 23, 2015 at 17:58
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
To draw a comparison in music: I listen to a lot of baroque music. the Bachs, Buxtehudes, et al. Sometimes at concerts I will doze off, waking up for ...
October 23, 2015 at 17:40
In: What draws people to an online forum anyway?  — view comment
Back in my nights-at-the-gay-bars era I used to consider a good, conversation over beer just about as good as finding a hot trick to go home with. Eve...
October 23, 2015 at 16:40
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