Do you know what kind of people's skills someone working in construction needs? Construction projects are so complicated, you have to deal with varyin...
Animals may not have codified laws - in written format - but they do seem to follow a moral code in the way they organise themselves. I'm not sure. Th...
Oh give me a break lol. Trump is very adequate at being emotionally aware. He does those things on purpose. Someone with no emotional awareness isn't ...
No this is false. The evolution of consciousness can be seen in history - but it has no necessary connection with the material evolution of man - the ...
You're degrading the point. Hegel was making a point about consciousness and its evolution - not about material history. For example, democracy which ...
I would say that the law is conducive but not sufficient for love. If you remain stuck with the law - if you become a legalist - and assume that the l...
Not "something" remains - all of it does. Imagine two circles which don't meet. Now you draw a bigger circle around them. Now there is a connection be...
For Marx - geist is part of matter - that's his aufheben, which isn't an overturning, but a subsuming. Geist - spirit - is subsumed merely as part of ...
Sure, but Cicero was a firm defender of Rome's traditions, including of its form of government. He was also firmly grounded (even though many think of...
Both are needed. The law is needed for love to become possible. Only under the law is it possible to reach up to love. That's why all religions - even...
Depends - aufheben - which is the term you're referring to by "overturning" doesn't translate very well in English. The dialectic process through whic...
Yes, live and let live, so long as letting live doesn't get in the way of you living. Certainly for the priest who is forced to officiate a gay weddin...
Propaganda. As if the relations of man to man could be transformed. As if human nature could be overcome. As if free will never existed, and people co...
They do work if we clarify what they mean. The problem is that these words are used chaotically from place to place. So we have to use specific defini...
Because the terms are not clarified. So I proposed to clarify the terms for the sake of discussion. If we use right vs left purely to discuss one's po...
Left and right has, at least in my mind, to do only with economic positions. That's how I tend to use it, as it simplifies things and makes them easie...
Well yes but this has to do with economic policies - certainly not social conservatism - and Roger Scruton was named by jamalrob as a "social conserva...
This isn't exactly true. Social conservative values in Europe (especially Western Europe) are quite a rarity in politics. Sure, you may see issues suc...
Thanks for sharing. For the record, I don't disagree with Burke's conservatism - with his values. I just disagree with the way he reaches them - with ...
This is false. If I love myself, then I wish to be set straight when I go wrong. And therefore I wish to be punished - to get what I deserve - for hav...
Well yeah - if I do something wrong, then I do want myself to suffer. So when my neighbour does something wrong, I do love him as I love myself :) - n...
So your argument is that because suffering doesn't give a gain to those who have lost, it is henceforth not necessary? I disagree - precisely because ...
Well okay, then I will drop the short-form and just say "trust those who are at least somewhat anti-abortion, pro-family, pro life-long monogamous mar...
Ehmm so their friends etc. are "the world"? Look, saying that the person deserves to suffer isn't the same as saying that the world deserves to suffer...
That's because liberalism has changed its meaning. Edmund Burke for example called himself a liberal. So did G.K. Chesterton. Now in today's world, th...
How is it missing the point? I'm saying social conservatives should be trusted. This means that these values - namely policies which are generally ant...
Well of course they are meant to suffer if they do wrong - this stems precisely from the definition of justice. As I have defined justice, and as Plat...
Well if you bothered to look into it (just check for example the one link I attached previously), you'd see that conservatives and liberals do have di...
Of course there is such a thing as social liberalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism). Yes these folks certainly did have social cons...
Okay, so what in your view is the difference between liberals and social conservatives? Clearly it seems that we agree that both can desire to change ...
No I'm just curious which thinkers liberals get their views of social conservatism from, just for me to compare with the thinkers a social conservativ...
Can you justify this please? Who said this? It's only been said that if someone does something wrong they have to pay for it - the fair share of payme...
Well we have justice precisely so that punishment isn't up to the harmed one to decide - because again the punishment needs to be fair. Vengeance woul...
Okay, I understand your point. This seems to be already after he became rich and powerful. I doubt he got in that position this way. As I said, once p...
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