It's an allegorical or metaphorical re-enactment - not a literal one. Metaphorical it illustrates the primacy of Being over non-Being. Of course liter...
No, S. did not think boredom was a motivating force. He thought the existence of boredom is proof that existence in this world is worthless. He identi...
Yep - this would, according to me, need to be part and parcel of the education we offer children in our schools. But it would imply introducing the id...
Yes you did want to, that's why you gave me Schopenhauer's system no? You directed me towards it, I didn't just randomly choose it, did I? Then please...
I disagree. Sub specie aeternitatis there is no evil - only good. The fall into time (the fall from Paradise) is the beginning of evil. What's your ar...
Are you for real? I assert it constitutes justice? No. I argued it constitutes justice. Justice is giving to each what they deserve (read Plato's Repu...
Actually BC, what is known in the medical field as iatrogenesis is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. We have replaced the pri...
LOL! Yes - you certainly chose the perfect example :p ... (by the way, you should've chosen Hegel, I know far far less Hegel than Schopenhauer, who I'...
Maybe in terms of cancer treatment they may be effective, that I do not know. But what I do know is that their waiting queues are huge, many of their ...
Surprisingly, this is also what I want to say to you :) No, I'm implying my proposed solution does justice. My alternative is to do justice, and to sh...
No - many of these are in large agreement with each other by the way. And even if they can put forward many theories, it doesn't mean they are all cor...
Prove it. What shall you use? Reason? Or will you use un-reason? If you use reason, then we're playing the same game. So prove it to me. Prove it to m...
Ok, agreed. I don't think so. Yes, say this to the government of the US regarding Guantanamo. We don't. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss what ...
Depends how you define help. If you define help as making them feel as secure as they felt before the crime, then NO, they are not helped by it, full ...
Reasonable is what follows once the nature or being or essence of something is understood. The properties of circles follow once the essence of a circ...
:s You have become quite obsessed by worthlessness - you have started to see worthlessness everywhere. It's not there, but you always read it in! Talk...
I think S. states this to show, primarily, that it is UNREASONABLE not to pursue virtue - anyone who is reasonable must pursue it. I think furthermore...
Yes we can - striving implies that we have no reached perfection but nevertheless we aim for it. Do you think we can't aim for perfection, and hence c...
I will respond to this soon :) Spinoza is an ethicist - for him, the whole of philosophy is done for ethics - that is why even his magnum opus is call...
Very good - this is a phenomenology of the experience I am critiquing, which is the modern experience of love. Human consciousness has not always expe...
Yes but would you disagree that your limitless 'black hole' is a threat to society that society must eliminate by assuming control over it? I think th...
Why does it seem irrational to you? I suppose that their aim was to take over Germany, so of course they infiltrated through all its institutions and ...
Indeed, but as you yourself state, such people can only commit atrocious acts when blessed with the legitimacy of the mob or state. This at least make...
Correct. Yes and for the most part I never claimed otherwise. Hence the purpose of it is to preserve the sacredness of the Justice system and of socie...
Okay perhaps I went a bit over the top on the adultery, my apologies (although there is a reason why this is a different thread, and I have not advoca...
Okay but the destroyed lives, etc. are the result of his irresponsibility, it's not like he wanted to destroy them for the sake of destroying them - t...
I've added Gilles Deleuze as a historical philosopher who responds to Spinoza in particular @"Pneumenon", and recommended the works ! :) Don't know ho...
"Hume saw the establishment of property as the founding act of civil society, and as we have seen, he explicitly compares this act to religious ritual...
Your misunderstanding Sapientia is that the harshest punishment you can give is limited. Life in prison. That's it. But the atrocities of the crimes t...
A proposed mechanism is the justification. As serial killers have very high pain tolerance, they do not suffer as much as everyone else from the "usua...
Yes, these are internal problems to religion and they must be fought against. And I think it's religious people first and foremost, not atheists, who ...
Okay, thanks for your input @"Ciceronianus the White"! It has expanded my knowledge of legal matters from the perspective of a lawyer. Well compensato...
I agree in all cases except the cases I have described in this thread. An eye for an eye - the punishment must be adequate for the offence. When someo...
I don't think any religions are wrong. I think atheism is wrong, I think forms of theism and polytheism, etc. are attempts to relate to the divine, so...
That is why many of the victims feel scared and afraid of the world, and all that society gives them is counselling, which really doesn't help them pr...
Why do you think it is bad to want to punish such heinous crimes? Don't you find it outrageous that such things can happen? And don't you think that t...
I disagree that this is necessarily the case. Torture should be kept for those cases which are crystal clear only. Impossible given the descriptions I...
In fact, @"darthbarracuda", why would you, or anyone else, feel remorse and guilt for killing such a criminal? Do you think he somehow doesn't deserve...
Again - if they admit to the crime, and laugh at the justice, and mock the family... how can we possibly be wrong? In some cases - in other cases, not...
I do find that satisfactory, at least they won't mock the family, and humiliate them even more, and mock the entirety of the justice system as well - ...
If somebody mocks your family by raping and brutally murdering someone from your family after having subjected them to the worst kinds of suffering im...
And by the way - I doubt that MA was referring to this kind of inhumanity. This is almost beyond inhuman. It's inhuman to slaughter undefended childre...
I'm unsure what exactly you are asking by this, but I will tentatively answer no. Yes but we must do this in order to uphold our social standards and ...
If they feign it, they will still get the normal punishment not the torture. The torture still fulfills its role, even if they feign remorse to escape...
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