That is, I think, because you didn't understand what I am saying, and are instead reading me through the prism of other things you have read/heard. Le...
Wow we agree again :-O ... what is happening with this world? I do agree with the thrust of your point. Given her first initial post in this thread, i...
This is a non-sequitur. Sex is a biological and psychological capacity of man (to call it normal - what do you even mean by that?). Being forcefully s...
No they won't have a DIFFERENT experience, the experience will just be expanded. I couldn't have felt with my girlfriend when I was 17 the depth of in...
Those meanings I listed later are illusory and unreal. They SEEM to be meaningful, in truth they are not. They just show vileness of character, and eg...
Sex has no other meaning but intimacy or reproduction. A subjective feeling of pleasure in itself is never meaningful, unless it is associated with an...
Why do I disagree with the state or institutions doing this? Because institutions can never do something from the heart. That's why this is something ...
I am aware of this. This is also apparently a better way to achieve stronger orgasms than actual sex, however, one of the main purposes of sex (intima...
I don't disagree with any of this, I merely disagree with the state providing this. If it was a loved one, etc. then I wouldn't mind it. If by sexual ...
Yes, I would grant that sex can be another good of man. In my assessment, the highest good is the good in virtue of which everything else is good. The...
I think people are attracted more to the intimacy that can result from it than to the mere physical pleasure. The only reason sex seems like a necessi...
I don't think sex is a necessity that should be facilitated by the state. Having said that, I would encourage the state to facilitate one on one commi...
Fair enough. I agree. Again, fair enough. Me too, I take it as man being responsible for the so called punishment, not God. My OP was about the meanin...
Of course you are not obliged to shut up. It's just irrational not to, at least from an impartial, philosophic point of view, to claim that something ...
As Spinoza would gladly tell you about this, there is no opinion more absurd than this. Read his penultimate (I think it is) proposition. Just because...
Either I am deluded, or you are deluded, yes I agree :D . So far though, I am the only one who has put forward any sort of arguments to justify their ...
We don't start out by reasoning, reasoning is a faculty we gradually build up, which helps pull us out of our initial ignorance. Custom and traditions...
If he didn't take a position of radical skepticism in epistemological matters, then he COULD NOT have set forth the limitations on reason when it come...
Not at all. Hume's radical skepticism has to do with his conceptions of reason and the passions, and the power (or lack of it in this case) that reaso...
By custom and experience. Not by reason. Yes, all that I claim(ed) is that inductive reasoning cannot be rationally justified. Rather it is justified ...
I did say in that thread, in the beginning of it (http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/213/on-wittgensteins-quietism-and-the-possibility-of-philos...
I never claimed they could have timeless freedom with such a meaning as you use it here. I simply held that "before the fall" (if we can even talk of ...
I agree with a large part of your post. However, I would say, with the Stoics, that the one thing we do have control over is our own character, and ou...
First of all, this whole paragraph could have been avoided if you had read this: We're talking of a hypothetical scenario there, which has nothing to ...
Also, I may add this question: where does this leave morality then? Can the enlightened person do anything? Is anything they do moral? (I would certai...
Tentatively speaking, yes, although it is an indirect requirement, in-so-far as freedom necessitates action to manifest itself and action necessitates...
This is symptomatic of this world's oppression of wisdom. You end up thinking this way because the world, at every step, attempts to pull you down, an...
What is the difference between forgetting yourself and being unconscious for example? Clearly, when you are, for example, dead drunk, you are unconsci...
I don't think so. I would say it is precisely the individualised self which is fulfilled when being compassionate, in-so-far as this individualised se...
A rock is not, by most account, a living being. A tree has no self-consciousness, and hence, of course, there is no self-identification. To be human m...
I agree with those too haha :P A certain fellow-feeling and compassion draws me to it though. Yes but I have qualms with the desirability of abolishin...
Maybe but I think it's what most forms of Christianity profess. I have a few qualms with this essentially Buddhist/Humean idea. The Orthodox Christian...
Yep, I thought you were going to vote Plato. Also, I think you are closer in personal mission to Plato's goal, than to Aristotle's. Plato is good for ...
Exactly... that's why the mission becomes, just as Kierkegaard put it, to sneak Christianity back into Christendom ... or to sneak virtue back into th...
Ok I see what you're referring to. English isn't my first language, so that's why I didn't understand clearly. Well peer pressure always played a role...
Hah! Why, because only sophists sell virtue/wisdom for money? Maybe I'm not selling it for money, but I still need to sell it... People don't want to ...
As far as I know, at least in Orthodox Christianity, the fall of man is the fall of creation as well. Remember that in the Garden of Eden, there was n...
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