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Eh, I'm sort of a notorious "sectarian", and, so, you'll have to rally everyone else against me, but, I will concede the point that being of such an i...

I refused to read Heidegger for years because of his affiliation with the Nazi Party, but eventually decided to give Sartre enough credit to go ahead ...

I agree with most of this thread, it seems, in that the statement is just resultant of academic pretense. It's just a means to jot down a lot of multi...

I disagree entirely. Morality has always been considered as according to social conventions. In the West, aside from, perhaps, a few libertarian socia...

We'll I'm glad that we agree upon that point. I do, however, think that the challenge to the concept of authority is well grounded. What has there bee...

I think that Donald Trump is a Central Intelligence Agency godsend, and, therefore, a bane of our existence, but I am not voting, in part, because of ...

That's probably a better optimistic worldview to have than to suspect that only anti-authoritarian messiahs can usher in the new age, and I don't enti...

Well, I mean, if I didn't think that then I wouldn't cite them as having ideas or ideals that should be substantiated. What I more particularly mean, ...

Even Thomas Hobbes posited that, as soon as a State become legitimated through a formal constitution or whatever, it dissolves into a multitude. He su...

Nah, people are, if you will, by nature good, and the problem is just with common sense. I spent a lot of time thinking about the album, The Hangman's...

I posit that "natural rights" exist by that they will necessarily be damned in every given context. The freedom from coercion is, for instance, a "nat...

I'm really taking off this time. Goodbye, The Philosophy Forum!

Thanks for reading this everyone. You have convinced me to post this on my blog, I think. I'll be leaving for a couple of months, and, so, I'll see yo...

Idk. Everything was probably alright however it was beforehand, anyways. I'm gonna take off now. Feel free to carry on with this discussion in my abse...

In your metaphor, you gave over the cliff to see the sea or something. All of experience requires a certain amount of danger. You've gotta test it all...

Well, that is the case, but I am saying that you are Ethically correct in violating another person's autonomy in preventing them from committing suici...

I'm also staving off having to call myself a "Post-Nihilist" which, given the choice between the two, I think that I would choose Neo-Existentialism e...

That statement was made under the assumptions that people would have a more favorable interpretation of Nominalism than I can reasonably expect and th...

I'm realistically just staving off having to call myself a "Neo-Existentialist" whenever someone asks what philosophy I adhere to.

I suppose that if you fail and suicide was illegal that it could be punishable which I don't think should happen. A right is like some inviolable thin...

I agree with Sartre's assertion that we "condemned to be free". I also like his description of Being being de trop. I kind of think that I came down t...

I guess I'm not sure that a person can really consent to suicide. You obviously can't know the full breadth of the endeavor.

That was realistically all that I came back to explain. Sorry to just bring this up and then bounce, but I am going to do just that. I'll catch ya lat...

You took that quote out of context. "You probably shouldn't ." Suicide is an interesting exception to the respect that a person ought to have for anot...

Eugenics was a ramble. I'm suggesting that invoking a fundamental right implies that, in exceptional cases, you should not try to stop a person from c...

Like, what I mean is that suggesting that a person has a fundamental right to suicide seems to imply that it is something that is said person's choice...

My point is that, while surely suicide shouldn't be punishable by law, suggesting that people have a fundamental right to it seems to advance that, in...

Whether or not you have a legal right to just doesn't matter. You can always kill yourself either way. What is the fundamental right if not that you a...

Also, concerning my particular opinions in regards to human nature. I really do think that people have a natural will to live. Suicide must occur duri...

Also, does anyone know what the Death Positive Movement stance on this is? I thought that that sounded pretty cool, but worry that it might be a bit o...

I see what you're saying. In that sense, I suppose that I do use Olivier's Hamlet as the litmus. As someone who has seen over 10 different version of ...

That Weaver claims that he is responsible for all of modern decadence and the dissolution of the West only makes me more intrigued. This article is qu...

I'm also taking off in a bit, and am sorry to just leave the disscussion, but will encourage that it continues. I have to focus my efforts upon my act...

I'm calling into question the nature of being "quintessential", and, so, have no rubric as I assume that it is the case the Philosophy assumes that ab...

I will read, but will be leaving for a time and, so, don't quit know what I will have to say in the way of a response. Thanks for sharing!

To be "seminal" is to embody the upshot of some entity's ish. Like, on some level, what The Byrds were was the only band who could produce Folk Rock c...

We speak of things as if there was an ideal when we know that it is only defined by our subjective interpretation. What Philosophical rules could ther...

"Seminal" and "quintessential" do differ. Younger Than Yesterday is the quintessential Byrds album, but, Mr. Tamourine Man is their seminal album. The...

Deleuze and Guatarri sort of let me down on this. I can understand Foucault's argument, but I just don't know what else could possibly be happening. T...

The metric system has always somewhat perplexed me. What actually is a gram? How can the mass be quantified independently of its relation to other mas...

Thanks, Baden.

I know Billy Bragg. I've always really liked his rendition of "The World Turned Upside Down". That story is pretty great. Thanks for sharing. Maybe I'...

I'll actually be leaving here as of apparently tomorrow so as to not spend too much time here while I'm at school. I have sort of an addictive compuls...

I've been tertiarily involved with the Anarchist movement since Occupy in 2011. I can't really say that I've been terribly active, though. I have shop...

I liked what you have to say about the Left. I agree with the general sentiment of what you are saying, but don't know that I would identify the probl...

I've gotten INFP and ENFP when I've taken the personality test before. I can be kind of awkward as well as the life of the party. When I was still mil...

You do eventually learn how to articulate your ideas, though. The gobbledygook is just the begining stages of what later become good ideas.

I feel like denigration is indicative of that a person can not cope with an incapacity to enact an ethic. We seem to lack any form of Ethical agency. ...

It seems like, to effectively call something "quintessential" you would imply that nothing better of the same nature could follow it. Is "quintessenti...

Quintessential is defined by google dictionary as meaning "representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class". What makes somethi...