Agustino

Really Michael, this Phariseeism of yours is amazing. What kind of BS is this literalist interpretation of the law? By this interpretation most people...

Yes, you can. So what? That's the letter of the law, but when you apply the law you have to take into account the spirit of the law as well. If the la...

Why are you replying to me? :s

No. But they didn't make a donation.

Why? Maybe they just hated Clinton, without wanting to control Trump?

Yes, but why is it illegal? Because we all know that there is no such thing as a "no strings attached" donation.

No the why is ABSOLUTELY not irrelevant. The why is the reason the law exists in the first place.

Why?

Sure, but the law always needs to be interpreted in application. The spirit of the law isn't to prevent any kind of discussion with foreign nationals,...

Nor by the way is the information used for deception.

Yes, but the other thing of value is something that can be used to blackmail or request favors from the candidate. Nobody would consider information t...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collusion I doubt it. The law seems to be focused on financial contributions which could make the candidate...

You think so? I think one can do evil without awareness, but would that cease to be evil just because they don't perceive it as evil? What if someone ...

>:O >:O >:O I don't know what planet you're living on man, but if I was Trump, and ANYONE - even Kim Jong Un - called me saying they have compromising...

Don't eat crap! >:O It's difficult to stipulate "how" I do it, especially now, as I actually don't have to "try" to resist any urges, as I just don't ...

Oh another reason why I experience lack of joy may also be because I always view myself as the underdog, who is always contrarian and has to prove him...

This would be a very misleading statement. I said I sometimes experience lack of joy, but I wouldn't give up discipline and hard work for other things...

Why? Hmmm... now is as important as then. I don't see why you prioritise now over everything else.

>:O >:O Funnily enough this is very very Platonic :P This is more controversial. BUT! "Progression" is only a temporal matter belonging to this world,...

I don't think Plato makes this kind of ontological separation :P But rather he distinguishes there are different parts of oneself, which includes the ...

No, why do you think I am? In the Republic Plato is quite clear that flourishing requires harmony between all of the souls elements, and this can only...

We don't know much about Socrates except through Plato, so to me Plato and Socrates are one.

Without self-awareness one doesn't even have the chance of stopping oneself from committing evil. Self-awareness is presupposed in becoming good. I th...

Sure. Nietzsche wasn't infallible either :P But this distinction seems to me to be absolutely vital. When we're looking for the Truth, are we looking ...

The one who deceives only the other person is more self-aware than the other one. Is being unaware of something the same as being innocent? :P

Is the one who has deceived not only the other person but also themselves not infinitely worse off than the one who has merely deceived the other? ;)

Which dialogues of Plato have you read?

But that's a very facile & superficial reading of Plato...

There are quite a few actually, but support for me is not very vocal let's say. It's good that you added the "I'd imagine" bit :P But I do think it do...

What does the statement "life is will to power" mean, and how do we know it's true? Why do you think it's true? What reasons do you have to believe it...

I think it's mostly about the culture that surrounds you. As I said, for me, nobody believed the state propaganda, but they pretended they do. And eve...

To me, it sounds like ssu was saying it's okay to lie, so long as we pretend we're after the truth ;) ;) ;)

Ah absolutely they did. I come from a communist country so I know they did. But here, the difference was that everyone knew but pretended they didn't ...

Look people are crying about post-truth, but tell me something. When two lovers say to each other "I will love you forever" and then they break up aft...

>:) Say one thing and do another, isn't that what we expect of one another? >:O

But yes, this has been my point as well. Trump unmasks all the hypocrites. All those who cry about Trump being post-truth, and destroying truth, etc. ...

Sure. Neither is it the trait that most people who have ever stepped foot on Earth have lived by.

As if Plato didn't say pleasure isn't the highest good thousands of years before Nietzsche :P

Why is life will to power? Can you offer an example of what you mean? Sure, but I made no mention of threats of punishment there, did I? So then Swede...

footnotes to Plato? >:)

Maybe you do have something to contribute to society, but you'll never know it unless you try it with your whole being. Contributing something to soci...

Indeed he did. I agree. But he was still someone who misunderstood the highest spiritual realities. Sure, I agree, I never said otherwise. I've alread...

Okay, but is there ONLY will to power behind every philosophy & theology?

Woah woah what happened Willow, did you finally reactivate yourself? >:O I noticed that you have been quite absent since I returned. You could extract...

Here's the issue with priests. It depends on the age in which one lives. Our age suffers from sexual promiscuity, and therefore leaning towards condem...

Why not? It's an amazing theodicy - justification of Creation as good, despite evil. "There is light and beauty up there that no shadow can touch" -Sa...

The doctrine of participation in Being has been quite essential to the Thomist tradition. And it shows through art as well, for example in Tolkien's L...

If I think about my life, I think I'm too hard and too disciplined. I'm doing very well in many areas of life at the moment because of all the discipl...

>:O The interesting question is why are they called pleasures in the first place? Clearly I presume you don't want to experience them because you'd fi...

This guy seems to have only one word in his vocabulary that he likes to use over and over again :P