Thorongil

This Pruitt guy is pro-death?

Did you read something recently that caused you to think this? I'd be interested to know how you came to this view. I don't exactly know why, but I wo...

What does this mean? Are you suddenly a Platonist or something?

Apparently it is, seeing as you've responded to it.

When I clicked on the link and read that line, I audibly chuckled at the hyperbole of it. That's all. I'm not sure what you're going on about.

What is?

I can't even make it past the first line of that article without laughing. Why do mainstream media outlets continually paint Brexit/Trump supporters a...

How do you know it's historically accurate?

This may be vaguely relevant.

This sounds like a development in your thought from the last major conversation we had, one I cannot fail to notice is in the direction of what I argu...

Philosophy has never been done in an environment sterilized from all trace of religion. You assume that religion cannot inform our picture of reality....

Once again, I think you're assuming Scholasticism is a monolith when it is not. The word refers to the method of disputation, or dialectical reasoning...

No problem. :)

This book has been on my list for some time and it's a fairly early skeptical critique of Scholastic/Aristotelian philosophy, so you might be interest...

They're well written games with good atmospheres (though 2 is a little boring). I think you'll like them.

Have you played Bioshock before?

Those boring schmucks don't deserve you anyway.

What are you then, John?

The "we" would clearly mean I'm an American.

As we should, despite some of it being wasteful.

A positive influence on what or whom? People predisposed to utopian thinking? You? They certainly aren't to me.

Yep.

Trump is not a liar, or at least he does not give off that impression. To lie is to intentionally deceive, whereas I think Trump genuinely believes th...

This is a non-sequitur. And you fail to define the word "mind." Many animals clearly possess cognition, as we do. But they do not possess reason, as w...

Sounds like a utopian loon, despite his protestations to the contrary.

That was always ever the context in which I made my original point....

Apples to oranges. Sorry, maybe city dwellers are inured to such costs, but that's still a lot of money, to me at least. The point remains, though, th...

What are you smoking, bro. It can cost around a 1000 Euros or more to live there per month.

Where it all is, dammit....

Only to get swept away in a tornado.

I see. It's probably for the best, then. And the "free college" in Germany or thereabouts wouldn't cover the extremely high cost of living. Bernie alw...

I think I catch the drift of your reply, but just to confirm, what have you changed your mind about?

Will PM you.

What do you mean by "a little logic?" I'm talking about a whole semester's worth of the equivalent of calculus. That wasn't happening for me. Not with...

Speak for yourself. My math education was objectively terrible and symbolic logic is pointless for doing 99% of philosophy.

Let me be very frank. Much as one doesn't simply walk into Mordor, one does not simply "become a professional philosopher." First, you will need a BA ...

Oh, his prose is fine, aye. I just remember never agreeing with anything I read from him.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya about the raising of the wrist, but reading him makes me permanently pissed.

Sure you do....

Schopenhauer's argument is empirical, whereas Spinoza's is rationalistic. I am more fully convinced by the former because it corresponds to my own exp...

Hey, don't break my lute, Shyster Bumdart.

Meh. It won't paste any image. Just the link text.

I would post image, but don't know how.

Your scores are: Care 80.6% Fairness 69.4% Loyalty 61.1% Authority 63.9% Purity 66.7% Liberty 75% Your strongest moral foundation is Care. Your morali...

We experience our body in two different ways: externally as an object among other objects, but also internally, and unlike all other objects, as will....

Read the second book of the WWP, lol. I'm too tired to summarize it.

They both say that our essence is will. But how they arrive at that claim is different. Spinoza more or less just declares this to be so. Schopenhauer...

You're using the term "anthropomorphize" very loosely, then. He's not saying that the will is like a human being, he's saying it is a human being, his...

The will is still the thing-in-itself for us, just not the thing-in-itself entirely. And Spinoza may arrive at a similar conclusion, but I think he do...

Exactly!