Outside of giving them better education, nothing. The international community has various ways: diplomacy, economic sanctions, military assistance and...
Where did you pull this number from? Freedom, in this case, is determined by the degree to which journalists are free to speak their minds and report ...
Interesting insights, but the Russian press is still objectively less free than the Western press. Yes, human rights and international law violating t...
I mean to say that I think he actually has certain principles he holds to, principles I disagree with, but principles all the same. Trump and Hillary ...
Wow. I saw this quoted in a later comment and had to wipe my eyes a few times. First, the world would have been a better place if Gore had won? The wh...
We don't actually, which is why I'm not voting. I greatly regret voting for Obama four years ago, but that was before I drifted more to the right. Giv...
That doesn't make any sense. Being can used generically, like the word thing or object. The scholastics, for example, do this. So do Kant and Schopenh...
Eagleton? Eww. He's always reminded me of a modern day left's GK Chesterton. A peevish and pretentious literary hit man who is way too transparent in ...
Meh. It simply means that the postmodernist has no recourse to disagree with me or say that I'm wrong if I reject postmodernism, for my dismissal of i...
I want to note that I didn't say that Scruton's arguments were foolish but that for conservatives to defend fox hunting is foolish. Though if I recall...
First things first, who deleted my previous comments? I thought they were quite inoffensive and rather witty myself. Whatever the merits of the latter...
You may have noticed that I haven't posted much on the forum lately and that all of my recent posts are rather short in length. If by your question yo...
Oh, I see now. You're currently in the bowls of Derrida, judging by the other thread, and feel more than a little twinged that I've expressed antipath...
Conveniently, there can be no agreed upon definition of postmodernism, because that would be to essentialize it, according to postmodernists. There ar...
The multiplicity of narratives does not in the least endanger the oneness of truth. Postmodernists make me want to gargle battery acid whilst burning ...
That's my main problem with him. Other than this aberration, I think Scruton is an eminently sensible thinker. And a wonderful writer. Fox hunting, an...
I agree with Wayfarer that your view sounds similar to what in Europe would be exemplified by Christian Democratic parties. I've always lamented the l...
I didn't prove it, but look at any analytic philosophy department and you'll find profs and classes devoted to Witty. And he's obviously still read by...
I'm speaking mostly about intangibles here. And it's not just philosophy professors, either. Many professors are quite simply very strange, awkward hu...
In my experience, many professional philosophers, that most farcical of oxymorons, are gargantuan egotists. Be prepared to not have your emails read, ...
*sigh* Your crutch is the word "seems" here. Find out what is before you make a decision about what seems. Otherwise you will have made a rash, ill-in...
It's a two way street, I'm afraid. Many Muslims consider the West an enemy, irrespective of whether the West treats them badly, and so refuse to respe...
Why would you assume that I meant every individual Iranian? That is the least charitable and the most nonsensical interpretation you could have assume...
You said "something," implying that you are disappointed in something other than her being a Muslim. I admit the conjunction "or" is ambiguous, though...
So you are disappointed in her. Interesting. Are you disappointed because she doesn't conform to how you think Muslims ought to think and behave? That...
Why? "Not discriminating carefully" would be to lump all or most Muslims into the the groups I mentioned, which I have repudiated and did not do. That...
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