From a scientific point of view, consumption is actually a drain on the economy, not a blessing. Those people are consuming goods and more resources n...
I think people who can work should be given the opportunity to work in what they'd want to work in. If someone is not capable to work, then I think th...
I'm not quite sure I follow. An impression is like redness. A thing (or substance) is like whatever has redness as a property. So redness by itself is...
Reinvestment doesn't include hiring. When we speak of investment, that never refers to hiring people. Hiring people is not an investment. Investment l...
I agree with this. Yep, I actually fully agree with this too. The thing is, command economies are not much different from capitalism in the day-to-day...
Well, Buddhism, after Christianity, is the religion I've studied the most, by far. The fact that you're giving me a citation from wikipedia means noth...
And yet, Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." It seems to me that the k...
Why do you think faith can establish existence by itself? Faith may help you discover the existence of something, but it cannot establish it. For exam...
No, that's not what the Catholic understands by actual and literal. If you go from looking at a girl and not being horny to looking at a girl and bein...
Actually yes, for your child to clean his room when he is told to "clean your room" he must have faith that those words correspond to the actions that...
Now I'm not saying I actually agree with this Kantian position, but you (or BC or anyone else in this thread) have yet to provide any refutation of it...
You should be careful here when talking about "things" we encounter. Kant fully buys into Hume's model that there are no "things" we encounter as such...
Okay, I see. Glad you agree. No, Buddha isn't important. What is important is salvation. That's why Bodhidharma says "if you meet the Buddha, kill the...
"Seeing" the dings in siches makes no sense, since all seeing takes place in space. There very likely isn't any space out there per a Kantian viewpoin...
Profit is technically never paid in wages - that is incoherent. Profit is defined by the equation of Revenue - Costs for one fiscal year. If I hire pe...
That Kantian point is that the world is our representation - we construct it. So basically our mind takes the sense impressions that are of an unknown...
Hmm I'm not sure about this. The things-in-themselves are precisely what is impossible for us to experience or know for that matter. Agreed. But we on...
Hmm, I see where you're coming from. However, I don't think we could even have, in principle, the scenario you're suggesting above. I mean that sort o...
Okay, but as far as I see, this just moves the explanation back a few steps. It's not directly the pencil that causes the writing, but through the mea...
I think the same about you. If we were discussing Alexander the Great and his conquests (including details about the tactics he used in specific battl...
It is supposed to be inconsistent, it is a miracle. If it wasn't inconsistent, how could it possibly be a miracle? Well right, if you were used to it,...
Sure, but that's just the nature of the world, we have finite resources. For me, the ethical implication is that if you had the good fortune to be bor...
I honestly don't see anything patently absurd. What would be sufficient then? Right, it's based on historical documents. I grant that Alexander went t...
Well BC or any communist pretty much will never grant you this. In a certain sense, they are right. I make no qualms about the fact that we all live o...
That's wrong. I want to be wealthy, but that's not because I want the stuff money can buy (I'm quite ascetic by nature, and have very low spending on ...
Not comparable. First of all, in those cases there exists testimony in both directions. And most importantly, the testimony in that case was very ofte...
Sure, I don't see that it's a problem. Again, work is good. I'm not putting a gun to their head to work. So I'm not forcing them to do anything. I can...
Why is it relevant if I agree or disagree? I personally find the statement unenlightening and boring to be honest, so I don't really have an impressio...
Boring. Simply because there are distinctions between forcing someone and not forcing someone. If I don't put a gun to their head, or take a whip and ...
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