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The "solution" is simple. Keep restrooms the way they have been because there isn't a problem to begin with. Only the idiotic progressive Obama admini...
May 16, 2016 at 15:04
Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy - Donald Livingston Very powerful book, take a look people!
May 16, 2016 at 14:42
Yes and I think K is better than the Nietzsche tbh, but Nietzsche is quite good, so yes I do recommend TSZ :p . The thing is, Spinoza's philosophy MAS...
May 16, 2016 at 01:34
He is an interesting philosopher, who certainly got a lot right. His writings on virtue are some of the best, and I have committed to memory some of h...
May 16, 2016 at 01:21
Why? What attracts you to him?
May 16, 2016 at 00:05
Historical Philosophers: Hegel (largely in agreement /w Spinoza) Schopenhauer (largely in agreement) Nietzsche (in both agreement and disagreement - s...
May 16, 2016 at 00:02
I agree, and the socialism you talk about isn't necessarily something I disagree with :) I would like to see banks nationalized, etc. Agreed. The Esta...
May 06, 2016 at 16:06
Donald J. Trump is non-establishment as he opposes some of the cultural trends that have dominated the Western world in the last 50 years. He is the o...
May 06, 2016 at 10:18
It's not black bro, ain't nothin big that ain't black...
May 05, 2016 at 01:00
It is of moral value for me to take care of my physical health because I can do it. Someone bed-ridden who can't do anything about it - for them it's ...
May 05, 2016 at 00:25
I agree. In Muhammad Ali's time, everything white was good and everything black was bad. In our time, everything black is good, and everything white i...
May 05, 2016 at 00:15
It's white, so you must bring a microscope with you if you want me to engage in that operation...
May 05, 2016 at 00:13
No - not exactly. In other words what makes someone a more complete human being, which is something that can be determined objectively. What makes one...
May 05, 2016 at 00:11
Nope.
May 04, 2016 at 17:26
What's the use of this abstraction? Even a non-human rational animal of the same kind humans are would be characterised by much more than their freedo...
May 04, 2016 at 17:17
I am in large agreement with your whole post.
May 04, 2016 at 10:52
I am considering human nature, personhood is just part of human nature. Red herring and strawmanning. I never said we have to directly perceive it to ...
May 04, 2016 at 10:51
That's what you may subjectively identify as virtue. Objectively, virtue is that which leads to the flowering of human potential. We may disagree what...
May 03, 2016 at 23:06
Sure just like "sketch" is sketch and "quick drawing" is quick drawing ;) Relative to what? To human nature? I agree. Relative to what you and I think...
May 03, 2016 at 20:46
Yes, how is that a truth?
May 03, 2016 at 20:30
How is it a truth? You haven't outlined that.
May 03, 2016 at 20:14
Why?
May 03, 2016 at 18:06
It's much more than just this.
May 03, 2016 at 18:01
It does not make sense to say something exists without even the possibility of it being perceived. What sense would it have for me to say aliens exist...
May 03, 2016 at 17:59
I just hope you are pulling my leg here :p Incoherent under the system I (and Socrates) present: "Wealth does not bring about virtue , but VIRTUE MAKE...
May 03, 2016 at 17:38
Peace of mind isn't the only good ;)
May 03, 2016 at 09:51
And claiming to have a "new" theory is just uninteresting. Newness has no value in philosophy - it's truth that is of value. You ignore the process of...
May 03, 2016 at 09:48
Lazy. On the other hand I've also fallen quite behind on TPF tasks... I have 1 PM to respond, 1 thread to open, + answer Willow in the PvA thread!
May 02, 2016 at 21:42
Where did I say this? It's less about dressing and more about behaviour. In fact I think women who dress showing a little bit of skin (not outright na...
May 02, 2016 at 21:37
Right wing is at least better than hyper-sexualised and irresponsible progressivism ;) But I do admit the older Left has some important ideas, which s...
May 02, 2016 at 20:30
How quaint that today people are interested in the "new" instead of the "true" in philosophy... :( The dichotomy objective/subjective doesn't truly ho...
May 02, 2016 at 15:54
I would largely agree to this. Socrates in my opinion is superior, as a human being, compared to Plato and Aristotle.
April 30, 2016 at 06:49
I am not convinced of the truth of idealism, but Schopenhauer's logic seems quite good. We come to know of the world through perception. Indeed it is ...
April 30, 2016 at 00:09
Not at all. Awareness of an idea does not mean production of an idea. An idea can and does exist prior to your awareness of it. The idea of a chair is...
April 28, 2016 at 00:56
What Hume's CP misses is that impressions are always-already structured by the mind, and hence there is no deriving of the idea of the chair by seeing...
April 27, 2016 at 13:48
Donald J. Trump with two hands and two feet I would vote. In fact, if it was Kasich/Cruz/Trump vs Hillary/Bernie, I would vote with two hands and two ...
April 26, 2016 at 12:39
Completion is achieved only sub specie aeternitatis, never sub specie durationis, hence one can never be done. There never exists a point in life when...
April 24, 2016 at 14:02
I will open it sometime today most likely. Need a bit more concentrated time than I have at the moment (in the meantime, if you want, you can open it,...
April 24, 2016 at 12:15
Well you have a right to think that and to disbelieve me if you want. When I claim I knew it, I meant to say the following. I have studied and thought...
April 24, 2016 at 12:04
Intimacy and reproduction are the goals of sex in my theory, not necessarily of any other human activity. They are further not the only interests of a...
April 24, 2016 at 10:08
What does this say Willow? :-d Again, I simply don't know what you Willow are reading, because you clearly are not reading what I wrote. The need for ...
April 24, 2016 at 00:41
Yes you can stand by whatever you want, fact of the matter is that you proved nothing, and your post lacks any philosophic or scientific content, quit...
April 23, 2016 at 09:31
Asinus... how is an examination of the role of sex in life (and on man's psychology/well-being) not philosophy? Or do you always cry and point fingers...
April 22, 2016 at 21:16
In: Genius  — view comment
The overwhelming majority of genius will be oppressed by their societies. We live in a world which is continuously threatened by real genius...
April 22, 2016 at 10:27
Not hopelessly. Even Becker leaves the Kierkegaardian alternative of the knight of faith. Yes. In the way Becker understands it yes - I argue, as some...
April 21, 2016 at 22:04
Right let's all go down the rabbit hole... :-O
April 21, 2016 at 21:52
Utter progressive disaster!! I still don't understand what kind of conservative Hanover is :D
April 21, 2016 at 17:44
This is what I call a rhetorical device, which is ultimately intellectually dishonest, but its function happens to be to move the will, not the intell...
April 20, 2016 at 13:05
Indeed. But I don't go to the extreme of promiscuity just because we have been abstinent and repressive in the past. I am not like a pendulum swinging...
April 20, 2016 at 13:00
Like all human beings, they too must be given the freedom required to fulfil their potentials. I always wondered if this is a good thing. I would imag...
April 20, 2016 at 12:57