I'm usually not inclined to quote spiritual slogans but how about: "A willingness to fail well" ? If self esteem is related to competence, is there st...
I'm not familiar with Daniel Pipes, yet it's somewhat noticeable there are lots of people trying to polarize most any debate, it's an effective strate...
I would not expect you to write an essay, in the context of your message you set her up and swiftly dealt with her on the basis of an argument which I...
You claimed her statement on genital mutilation being linked to Islam to be false; you did so based on the origins of this practice and purport Egypt ...
I'll concede that it's not helpful to see Hirshi Ali as an academic scholar, yet you've far from proven that there's no link between Islam and female ...
I said "aside from the what's what concerning Hirshi Ali", you use one example to purport her words aren't to be taken on face value. You can probably...
I was mainly trying to show how a difference / discrepancy between 'is' an 'ought' might show. Basically there are laws for the ought and there's peer...
and to add: "Professorship of socio-political aspects of the welfare state and the exchange economy" , "Professor in gender and equality", "Professor ...
Not even no. If you knew Hirsi personally and read Machteld (which I haven't) I assume you know Dutch. I've linked to the articles you purport to be p...
I'm kinda curious how such a tangent would pan out but perhaps another time. You actually wrote very clearly, it's (again) the implications which foll...
Somewhere I take issue with this view, as humans we have the capacity to empathise with others and we can understand each other to some extent. I find...
I feel he rather advocates for an environment which we can agree on, makes most people thrive. It might be easier to see where there is a lack of such...
Well, following the example you mention I'd guess we'd get some super psychopath or something so yeah, I would call it a road to mental illness. Yet t...
Please don't conflate your conversation with Terrapin fully with my conversation, these threads can branch of to some extent. If anything it could sho...
That's nice to hear from someone who I'd considered a nihilist and expected to "hide" behind moral relativism. (where I 'was' always aware there's onl...
Though he is not advocating an absolutely objective truth, to me he does make a good case why we could accept an "ought" as an "is". The example of ho...
Seeing you wouldn't buy into the idea of objective moral values I was rephrasing things to see if you're against the idea in principle. (Idea being th...
@ Terrapin, I guess for you an 'objective' moral value would have to be an empirical fact outside of human experience? Seeing that is unlikely to happ...
Well it's only in humans we expect people to be able to refrain from automatically acting on their values (where some are still ingrained, like going ...
It might sound like circular reasoning but in my opinion, admitting to this would do more for creating common values then claiming moral high ground b...
Thanks for engaging, I would see "valuing" as the bit where our thought / mental abstractions / future projections get an emotional response. I would ...
I've watched Sam Harris his Ted talk on morality and I would laud it, I'm all for gaining some more objectivity to negate moral relativism. His lectur...
Though psychology and emotion appear to be a bit too vague at times to discuss properly in philosophical discourse, I cannot help but observe their re...
I think they're showing they've reached a level of abstract understanding where the mind is so prominently present that "mere" physical stimuli alone ...
I agree that doing so would appear useless but might have "some" merit, mainly by virtue of there being a consensus about the role of individual value...
No, an inability to reconcile individual goals with societal goals says something about what 'we' are capable of at this point, just because it might ...
What most parents would know and what studies show to be present at the age of about 6, is that we become capable of negating our desires to a degree....
I wouldn't see psychopathy as a mental strength, it would seem easier to single mindedly go after one's own goals if there's a complete disregard for ...
It's an interesting subject, recently a Dutch scholar published a book (thesis) about the role of multiculturalism and it's effects https://www.amazon...
Though I might not fully agree with the term mental illness as used by Agustino, I'm assuming he's talking about something which should not be defined...
Okay then, I guess we can agree that we should be very wary of other countries trying to manufacturer consent and be open minded when anything that cr...
I get that. Just because you are able to do so doesn't mean it's obvious for everyone. I was trying to point at the underlying innate tendencies of hu...
You indeed address the crux of the matter. Metaphysically I assert an embodied view of mind, though non-physical in immediate appearance I do not beli...
This is what I'm implying, whereas 'you' are able to see your environment as something which you can manage (I would say learn to adapt 'to' more prod...
I mentioned "stereotypical", it's not always the case but I've observed this behaviour in real life many times over. I am informed here by George Lako...
I wasn't trying to negate your allegations per se and I feel it's a good thing to be aware people (Russia in this case) are opportunists (using anti- ...
Aside from what's actually going on with this issue, doesn't it assume (to some degree) that western news is somewhat impartial by definition and Russ...
Would that coincide with a stereotypical extravert conservative who classifies success as a personal achievement yet ascribes failure to environmental...
I for one would not like to imply that regular medicine / research should be ignored in any way, stuff like anti-scientism and how some views on alter...
That ties in nicely with how I see things, shame is mainly differing from what most people hold as the norm. (though I would go along in asserting tha...
The disagreement here would lie in that "prospering", to me, requires a certain amount of mutual interaction with the social environment, it's the "na...
What still gives me a small reason to persist is that there's a role to play where insights from the soft sciences come down to regular folk, along wi...
Yes you use this point to negate any pragmatism / physicality while, the other way around, you will only incorporate you yourself actually being an ap...
This would entail the "prospering" Agustino in definition of mental illness,which I wholeheartedly disagree with. I've experienced "seeing apparitions...
There's lot's of philosophic thinking going on ...in elitist specialized social circles... Somewhere the idea that wisdom should have a practical side...
Personally I'm a bit annoyed with the degree of small talk I'm confronted with, small talk in this appears to consist of talking to gain a direct posi...
I have this hunch that hedonistic nihilism basically boils down to people being irked they are not in control of time: "If nobody can assure me that t...
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