A priori a goal just is a sustained effort to approach an object of desire. What makes something an object of desire?! Certainly not boredom and survi...
How do you know this is the ultimate underlying motivation? By what criteria have you established that? Why do you discount the answers people general...
Again, the problem with this is that it doesn't reflect reality. Beethoven doesn't write the 5th Symphony because in the absence of writing it he woul...
Nope, you're merely asserting this now. That doesn't hold water with me. There's no argumentation at all. Nor have you shown how eros can be reduced t...
That depends what you mean by "inductive reason". Can you give an example of this, or explain it further? Wait. No, this isn't it. The "true falsehood...
You do realise that this is one of those 'first principles' which have to be seen, and cannot be deduced, right? If someone lacks the noetic insight i...
It seems like you fall under this latter category that I was describing. I don't follow this. It hasn't been my experience that 'relief' from sex carr...
Of course, you're omitting and forgetting about eros. Eros draws us out of ourselves. The object of our love acts - at a distance as it were - and dra...
Computers. They changed pretty much every single other field when they came on. That includes medicine, cars, shoemaking, mathematics, military - anyt...
Now to address your remarks on your own terms. Here's how the argument would go. The inner void is constitutive of desire - it is desire. Desire just ...
It's not my conclusion, I was drawing and spelling out a difference that is present in the thinking of modernity as opposed to more Ancient thinking. ...
Dawkins is not alone. Pretty much all the more cultured and intelligent atheists adopt a similar point of view. This is a very good book I read awhile...
Well you've equivocated on "getting rid of" :P "Getting rid of" is the other side of "finishing last". If you finish last, these people get rid of you...
Well no, reading your clarification here makes me think that you rather agree with both of us. On the one hand, you agree with Mariner that order is p...
There's a reason why I said: Now the only question really is whether you agree with @"Mariner" that chaos corresponds to pure, infinite potential, and...
:s ... so music isn't sound? Both music and noise are different kinds of sound. What makes one music and the other noise are order and chaos respectiv...
Yeah, I said minor relative to the social aspect. I disagree. I think we're rather trained by our societies to be that way. For one reason, we're more...
Okay, let's think in terms of music. According to you, chaos corresponds to silence, which metaphorically is pure potential for sound. According to me...
I largely think sexual desire - at least as most people experience it today, is a social construct, largely the result of social expectations people h...
For most people, I'd say they do that because society expects them to. There really isn't much more going through the minds of most. If they don't do ...
Interesting - was this early in his career then before he was a politician? I remember one of his wives to have committed suicide or similar when he w...
This is also doubtful. Yes, relationships - depending on the relationship - can be a source of great ecstasy or great misery as well. I think that goo...
That is easy for you to say, but my family lived through Communism, so I don't have many good things to say about it. If I were an adult during Commun...
The principal difference between distributism and socialism is that socialism is dictatorial and - in my view - tries to force everyone into being a w...
Distributism can and does include worker owned cooperatives, and other manufacturing businesses that can work on a larger scale. The scale isn't the p...
And this is even more true in less developed countries where the corruption is 10 times higher than in the US, and the state is 10 times more likely t...
Well, first of all, I would suggest we get there by getting rid of democracy, which has become, and will continue to be ruled by politicians who are b...
Okay, so what does that have to do with my agreement with him over the existence of moral facts? If he hates Christianity he's wrong about moral facts...
:s Harris is not my ally. I just agree with him that there are moral facts. Most religious people agree as well. I don't see what's the problem with i...
Yes, exactly. The point is that if the capital is not your own - and it is the bank's, etc. etc. - then you don't really get to do what you want with ...
Said Proudhon wrongly. Without property, there can be no theft, because what's there to steal? So quite the contrary, property itself cannot be theft,...
Well what would economic power equate with then? Economic power means the power to decide how capital is allocated and to what uses it is allocated. I...
Actually, you yourself have argued to me that morality is objective before, so I don't see why you're going back on it now. You sent me the Sam Harris...
Okay. What do you think about distributism then? I'm trying to gauge how your position is different from mine. Okay so what if I am a mechanic and I h...
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