I still maintain that position. But I did say that it is justified based on custom (and NOT that it is unjustified pure and simple). If we take a larg...
This question is relatively trivial to the more pressing questions we have regarding our well-being - this issue is relatively minor. I would say it d...
Yes but not in the temporal sense of before. I can also say that the infinite is bigger than the finite. Bigger is a finite term. Does that mean that ...
According to you, the body is also eternal. Spinoza clearly shows that only parts of the mind are eternal, and not the body. It's again you who are de...
I'm not saying logic is prior to anything. The infinite however is logically prior to the finite. That's what I've said, which is different. Well what...
I said the infinite is logically prior. The infinite isn't logic btw - logic is merely a tool of the understanding. You cannot take away God under the...
Good to know haha! It is impossible that this is Spinoza's meaning for the following reason. If it was his meaning, then he would not state "the mind ...
Where do I say this. Please quote instead of assuming some notions that I have never stated nor agreed with. I don't understand why you like to imagin...
The idyllic utopia from which we fell is the atemporal and eternal. The world is fallen only when we compare it to the world sub specie aeternitatis -...
Evil is self or other destructive behavior. It has to do with short-term pleasure because to have short term pleasure (in this context) means to sacri...
Indeed, but I wasn't referring to being judgemental in that way in my post. By that definition, being judgemental would be to react something like "Ah...
Yes, I think it is good you have rationally abandoned the view (even though, it is understandable that some emotional intuition leftovers exist). I lo...
Is being judgemental necessarily wrong? Where did you get this from? I think being judgemental is good if your judgement is correct, and bad if your j...
Always trying to take the moral high ground no? Well let's see if you do have the high moral ground. Is women having no respect for their bodies and f...
Hah! I just noticed that I am the only conservative around here :P Hanover calls himself conservative, but I look at his gay marriage, abortion and dr...
Which simply is the problem, because instead of seeking and/or preparing themselves for long term relationships (which even according to your account ...
A characteristic of young nations, companies and empires is that their people are enterprising. They are keen on finding solutions, and are willingly ...
This is quite ahistorical. It was not "significant". I don't understand why you claim this is my position. It isn't. Sorry, but the English of your se...
Economics itself is driven by the motivation of a peoples. A highly motivated group of people will be interested to work, grow and develop. A highly u...
Yes history repeats itself, indeed. A much more diminished presence, except in periods of social unrest and instability. Yes, with Aristotle, I think ...
Allow me to post this summary at the end of the article I posted before: It's not only resources Willow. It's that people no longer want to work - the...
Yes, because the divine is more human than human themselves are. As St. Augustine states, God is closer to me than I am to myself. That, by definition...
Yes it does name a change in people's behavior. It may not name the cause of the change, but it names and identifies a behavior which is bad, not the ...
I don't think people are inherently worthless, they just make themselves worthless by forgetting who they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vnLHa...
Yep, that's one of the major reasons why I consider homosexuality to be a minor sin only. In fact, I'd argue that young men should be gay in the sense...
Do you think these people are happy Wosret? Is this the good life to you? Are these people really more knowledeable about their nature? https://www.yo...
Right. Now that you let off a little heat, hopefully we can return to a civilised discussion. Well you yourself answered the first question. It matter...
Right. And you are knowledgeable about your own nature :S. Why should I believe that? Again, you may dismiss the ignorant masses. But you cannot dismi...
And btw Wosret, the one who is ignoring historians is not me. It's you. You ignore far more historians than I do, because you only listen to the last ...
What does this have to do with historical data, in the form of primary and secondary sources regarding the periods in question? Again, revisionist his...
Data varies, but it's a very large difference between the number of conservatives accepted in academia, and the number of liberals. Conservatives end ...
No doubt not that recently, if by recent you mean in the last 30 years. Don't forget that progressives have highjacked the intellectual elite of the W...
I will address this for others interested, so don't feel like you've got to respond. It is true that pleasure is a subjective sensation, but pleasure ...
Writing an ironic post, and then pretending that it wasn't meant to be ironic will not save you Arkady. I have addressed what your post meant. You moc...
This is a philosophy, not a political forum. I can care less about winning you over, all I care about is the merit of the arguments. I have presented ...
Something that harms yourself is immoral, BC. Just like there is a moral imperative not to harm other people, there is also a moral imperative not to ...
As if property rights were a big thing in the old days. It was mostly families who controlled property, typically the elders anyways. People were not ...
I think if (1) women did not go to war, (2) war could break out at any moment, you too would make sure your society doesn't allow women in politics. I...
If married people do this, it is also wrong. When love comes first, and sex comes second, merely as a shadow, that is when it is not an experience of ...
Perhaps, but that may be going too far as well. The main point is that I agree with the need for freedom of choice to exist in moral matters, because ...
Only liberal in the sense that I think people should have moral freedom to make their choices. Conservative in the sense that those choices can be cri...
It does because it uses them as means to a (selfish) end. That is using them as an object, because only objects are used as means to ends rather than ...
Original sin is not a doctrine of Christianity? To have no idols is not a doctrine of Christianity? To have no other gods before God the Father is not...
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