Agustino

Modern law - and liberalism itself - are highly deluded about the nature of the world. Someone kills my wife, and the police, for whatever reason (say...

That's exactly why he ate it for breakfast...

Symbolically yes, but literarily no.

>:O >:O >:O Yes, Genghis Khan himself used to have it for breakfast! (Y)

Rather sir, it is vengeance that has evolved from the natural concept of justice.

Why? I'm genuinely curious about this, because you are a student of religion yourself, and I myself have never studied Islam. So what makes you say th...

A straw dawg? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_dog

Yes we do know that something must be eternal, otherwise we're stuck with an infinite regress. Whether you're a materialist, and this something is the...

Haha I see you've been reading your Huxley (Y) :D Not exactly, because you don't know the soul as object-for-a-subject (hence the Higgs Boson is an im...

Ehmm no, as far as I remember no questions involved sex per se. Maybe there were a few regarding abortion, can't even remember.

That's not so certain. Heaven gives and Heaven takes away. Us humans are like straw dogs - the best we can do is the best we can do, but even that may...

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That's because liberals only have one virtue - an all-extending compassion and benevolence. They know nothing, and I really mean nothing else. They ca...

And why do you suppose I'd donate to the torries or even that I like the torries? :s I don't think anyone in british politics represents my view. Chec...

Donate 10% to the Church? (Y) (Joking) >:O - although I do donate 10% to the Church or to noble causes :P

What good will not being afraid do to you if it means that you shall perish? I am afraid - therefore I survive. You are not afraid - therefore you per...

This is not understanding RealPolitik. If you don't dominate the world, someone else will, and it may not be good for you at all. If that happens, eve...

I edited my post and added more information for you to delight in :D

You don't understand the meaning of power as Spinoza talks about it. To be free is to have power. Furthermore power is a communal activity, since your...

I didn't say Trump is a Christian socialist did I? I said Trump is better than Bernie as a choice out of the possibilities that were there. At least h...

Yes, hence Christian socialism :D - I win!

>:O

But this is the case. For example both you and I (I suppose) are socialists. But we differ on morality, even though we agree on economics.

You would have my fixation on it as well if you knew how beautiful it can be ;) But going back to the point, I agree that the economics and the morali...

To make America - as a country - strong, both economically and militarily. Notice that nowhere is there something about the people there. As I said, t...

You are right, I'll go play my flute :D

I won 800 pounds on a bet in the UK (using 10 pounds) so it's good :-* It was with the Lads from Ladbrokes >:O

@"Banno" - I've specified here that a pragmatist CAN have an ideology, in which case his ideology would determine what gets done after he wins.

No I didn't say that. I said Trump has an ideology but is pragmatic. Sanders has an ideology as well, but isn't pragmatic.

No, because that thinking is inevitable. If you don't think that way, your opponent will, and he'll eat you alive.

Not to mention that my views on marriage, family, etc. aren't even those of the past. For example, I don't think that two people need to be married by...

In politics you have to be machiavellian, otherwise you don't survive, and even if you do, you'll never win big.

:-}

The problem isn't that the establishment is machiavellian - indeed the establishment must be machiavellian otherwise it cannot be the establishment. T...

We are conditioned by our nature to strive for power (which is the same as freedom). I buy into Spinoza's conatus. So I don't choose to strive for it ...

What it does next has nothing to do with pragmatism - it depends on what its ideology is. What it rules out is an ideology which cannot be implemented...

Well you may be right and it may have one, but its ideology is certainly not aimed at producing or leading to any kind of particular politics - rather...

The question? :s You mean "to be or not to be"? :B Ahh right - this question >:O : I've outlined an answer before you even asked the question I though...

Actually, I think realpolitik is an attitude where pragmatism TRUMPs ideology :D Now I don't mean that one doesn't have an ideology - but rather that ...

Actually boss, I think I can. Maybe you lack in empathy, that would explain an inability to perceive others' meanings.

I, like Schopenhauer, can play the flute! :D >:O

:s So you cannot perceive the meaning of others? Really? If you see someone crying you cannot perceive the meaning of the act for them, even if it mea...

Why do you think so? The ideology is also relevant - some ideologies are just impossible to enact successfully. I have no problem with his fight again...

:s No they aren't better - they're just more powerful (ie more free) >:O Dialectic* I don't desire to fashion the present in the manner of the past......

Philosophical activity though is different from philosophy. I said philosophy butchers reality - I outlined a different possibility for philosophical ...

What would the bottom most one be sitting on? :-O

"Won't the difference be one of battle cry?" >:O Wittgenstein was just pure genius! 8-)

Philosophy is the highest universal language - but universality is, paradoxically, not Reality - for what would Reality be without the particular? And...

We call music authentic when it crystallises (ie objectifies) the creative activity of the soul - its creative struggle. All music is dead by this def...

:-} I actually found TimeLine's post quite decent. Authenticity is a way of creating music creatively - to be interested in authentic music is to be i...