mcdoodle

I quite agree belief and position-sharing is what I read. I'm amazed you would suggest that this being 'plain to see' is 'scientific evidence' for an ...

I wonder if you could point us to the scientific evidence for this 'instinct'.

I think you're maybe unaware of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone's 'The primacy of movement'. She's a dancer who became a philosopher and argues very cogently ...

To value some property (attribute, thing) is not to disvalue all other properties of that type. I value (for example) kindness, my beloved, philosophy...

I'm an atheist for the same reasons as Terrapin. I like some religious people, but doubt they understand atheism well enough to classify sub-divisions...

It is striking that no demands are made. In the previous terrorist wave in the UK, which was by Provisional IRA fanatics, there was at least a known a...

It seems Jesus was the world's first Communist. Report on al-jazeera Elsewhere there has always been a movement of Christian Socialists, though, takin...

But don't the interlocutors have to agree on criteria for what it means for something to obtain?

What we will have in the future are descriptions of states of affairs. These descriptions are going to vary depending on the overall beliefs and feeli...

To me part of the relevance of relativism is to call into question the persistent use of 'we' in talk like this.It is a rhetorical device often used t...

Obviously I share your reaction to Agustino's question, but just to add, although the Soviet Communist party was banned by Yeltsin in 1991, since 1993...

My wife spent a year in Russia in 1992-3. I can assure you, the Soviet Union had fallen. I have lately spent some time in Estonia. It is not really pa...

It'll be a Chinese version of the Marshall Plan. Hey, maybe it's already under way :)

I am struggling to recall the 'bloody arena' in which the Soviet Union fell.

I'm in another part of the relativistic wood from ts. I think that the facticity of Usa's withdrawal from the Paris accord is related to some powerful...

Britain and France were economically shattered, though. But maybe we are just at a turning point.

I think there must be an offense at the heart of it. Maybe it's as (relatively innocuous as) accepting Russian money to bail him out at a vital moment...

I have heard people say this about Russia a lot. How is South Korea, for instance, so economically successful? What is so different about China?

This is an interesting point to reach. R G Collingwood's view of metaphysics (thanks to a poster on the old forum for ever pointing me in that directi...

At our backs stand a lot of generations of people who put in many shifts of hard work and protest so that any old person could vote. The apathetic get...

My own experience certainly bears this out. In my later years I believe I have understood much of 'Being and Time'. But baking remains an arcane myste...

As others have said, moral relativism is different from relativism about knowledge. I don't think we refute such relativism, but instead we make it pa...

I think the difficulty with summarising 'relativism' that way is that it's a strawman. Obviously such a relativism is bollocks. But take the study of ...

I'm an old arty-fart, I quite agree the forum looks ok as it is, and it won't put me out if nothing changes, but I dislike this Facebook-like conformi...

YOu didn't read what I said very carefully. I'm going to vote Green. As I always do. I decided a while ago I was going to vote for what I believed in,...

BC. I'm not a labourite or Corbynite. But believe I see his appeal and dis-appeal. He's quite an old-fashioned socialist, genuinely decent bloke, like...

Well, the German tradition carries on, and those who do and don't descend from Hegel are also fascinated by our attitude towards the future. Heidegger...

Your question sent me to T S Eliot's 'Burnt Norton' rather than a philosopher. The whole poem.

I don't know what's come over me, but on this occasion I agree with Agustino. I liked 180 Proof's quirkiness. The triumph of Facebook over MySpace, fo...

Me too, I missed it. It seems the video is by a man called Murakami. Kirsten Dunst is co-writing and directing a movie of the Bell Jar starring Dakota...

Hey, I feel like I opened a door! :)

I hadn't thought about the inspiration, thanks for taking me back to Lamia. For myself I think the message of the poem is muddled, perhaps because the...

I too felt that when going back to 'The Selfish gene', which I was more of an enthusiast for when I first read it when it came out - I didn't know muc...

The talk about 'mood' I was quoting from elsewhere, in work by Matthew Ratcliffe, doesn't take things lightly. It's about 'deep mood' which he disting...

You are perpetuating a rational/emotional divide that I disagree with. I'm neither a cognitivist on the one hand nor a Humean on the other. Reason and...

Thanks :)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/martha-nussbaum-anger/481464/

I don't understand, part of the point of the approach that depression is a pervasive mood is to enable a person to be empowered in relation to it. Moo...

Martha Nussbaum is a bit of a Stoic about anger. She has a recent book on the subject. There's an interview in The Atlantic with a potted version of h...

There is a body of work by Matthew Ratcliffe, written very recently, about depression as deep mood. He reaches back to Heidegger, and the notion that ...

I was trying to pick up the sense of what rickyk95 was trying to achieve, not particularly express my own view. I agree with Srap that 'You ain't no M...

I accept morality as real in some way. Kant presumed the existence of a God, even though he claimed secular grounds for the moral. Without gods, the r...

Well, I'm about to do proper graduate studies in Philosophy and quite a lot of my friends (I am 68 so they're mostly retired) ask me what am I doing i...

One reason to stay alive: in the hope a new album will ever be issued. He did a one-off single 'Putin' last year.

If there were inaccessible moral truths, what would be the mechanism by which one would know there were such truths?

So...All the people who have committed a certain hideous kind of terrorist act in the last 16 years have a professed belief in Islam. And for some rea...

Me too. I was driving into Manchester tonight - no trains cos of the suicide bomber - and a news story on the radio of a man helping out a lost little...

Actually I rather like the irony when he says he's the other fellow, not Lucifer, as in Randy Newman's 'That's why I love mankind (God's song)': I bur...

I passed through Manchester Victoria Station last night, an hour before a suicide bomber self-detonated there, at the entrance to the Arena, killing a...

Hi Q, I'm sorry you're troubled by these thoughts, I offer you a little fellow-feeling from a fellow-Wittgenstein lover :) I am 68 now and have had su...