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I'm with you there, but neoliberal liberal/centrism still has a sizable gap from the Extreme Right politics of the Republican Party, it's just that th...

Oh yes for sure. I've had frustrations with both while it seems to me even much more severe for Trump supporters. Clinton supporters do a lot of menta...

I think your portrayal of the people who use term "fake news" is quite accurate. They have this total disregard for any claims that don't fit their id...

Also since you listed Gandhi, you should know he's a controversial figure on the Left. I recommend Norman Finkelstein's book on him from an appreciato...

Emma Goldman & Simone Weil, but they're not modern.

Oh that what you consider unlikely is exactly what Smith intended to do. What often confuses people is to put ourselves in the shoes of Smith who live...

Yeah anarchism isn't well known at all in mainstream political discourse, partly given that socialism and its history is barely if at all understood b...

I recommend Understanding Power instead as a first read. You can probably find copies somewhere online the net and it comes with extensive footnotes t...

No I'm afraid you're not familiar with his work then....he's from the anarchist tradition from the Left. Then there's the self-described anarchist tra...

Chomsky is an anarcho-capitalist? That's like calling Ayn Rand a socialist; unless you misspoke, I'm not sure you are familiar with Chomsky's work. I'...

The best book on Smith that I know of is "Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism" by Patricia Werhane but you'll probably have to find a copy...

"The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history(….) Real historical understanding is not ach...

Maybe the discussion should start off with the fact that there is no such thing as the "free market"? And I'm not even talking about the Left critique...

It's more complicated for North Korea, for instance they "solely" developed Nuclear Weapons for deterrence. They actually agreed with the Clinton Admi...

I agree, and this is close to what I meant, although I don't think you necessarily have to subscribe to consequentialism to believe this. At least fro...

"But professing good intentions and acting with good intentions are two very different things" Why is it different? Intentions have to do with the res...

The problem with good intentions is that even the worst monsters profess good intentions, so it doesn't really tell anything about the person and the ...

I know what you mean, one would rather imagine the thinker they admire to have also been of good character. I just got used to the fact that there are...

Just from what I heard from other rumors, not the most pleasant person in terms of social interaction for many people, and some searching shows his po...

I don't know, I always found his philosophy mediocre. The last time I heard from him, it was from an interview, and what he said throughout was not im...

Well the buzzfeed article had the lawsuit documentation on there. But there are some more links: http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/03/23/berkeley-renow...

"With respect to these questions in particular, among the lessons I've learned are precisely that both politics and democracy and incredibly misunders...

You know, I heard that many years ago and found it interesting but now I don't know if that statement makes any sense. Sure, one may argue that in soc...

I was talking in generalized terms but the way the social sciences sometimes works is you can do anything with the data to make it appear to fit your ...

Pinker is probably correct that since the Enlightenment, at the very least internal domestic violence has gone down, though I don't really think for a...

Some of the comments on Dennett’s use of “illusion” are covered in a review in The New Statesman. For example, these excerpts: “In this new book, conf...

Yeah that's similar to what I guessed but...I wish there was more. It's kind of a really~ loose symbolism.

I second StreetLight's recommendation of Works of Love, but I would recommend the introductory essay to Gordon Marino's "The Quotable Kierkegaard" bef...

How about these? Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction - Susan Wolf Love: A History - Simon May Love's Virtues - Mike Martin

I joined the North Jersey DSA organization and attended meetings in others, and doing work in organizing.

Sure, but I'm not sure if we can really separate "how the examination of hearing serves a basis for a new metaphysics" without it being based first on...

I would say that I do agree with you that much of how we characterize the nature of what we hear is on the differences of the vibrations, and thus the...

This is interesting, but I find something off about analyzing the metaphysics of hearing as an act of perception based on the properties of sound wave...

Usually when I do have slightly vivid dreams I can remember, they sap out of my memory real fast after a short number of minutes I'm awake.

I always found the middle Wittgenstein insightful. His TypeScript really goes deep into what he was thinking in between the Tractatus and PI and what ...

I think what confuses a lot of people is that they think that Wittgenstein's idea that problems of language use underly all philosophical problems und...

Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? - Ian Hacking Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters - Jonathan Ladd

Perhaps there haven't been the coinciding historical stars on the female side because societies have been literally repressing what's expected of them...

Hi welcome to PF, changing your paradigm of thinking when you're stuck in a cult takes a lot of honesty and courage so there's a lot of potential ahea...

The role of advertisement is less to persuade consumers about so-and-so but bring consumer awareness to gain some degree of marketshare. To get some h...

I remember you saying that you liked Zizek before, but his political opinions are given wide public attention and they're often really ill-thought out...

The approval/disapproval ratings was nice sport when you agreed with someone on one side of the debate, so I understand why you miss it. It also feels...

A lot of the same people and some new ones I think.

I can't find any proper biographies or works on the historical Laozi.....

Hey Ying, wuliheron, I was wondering how much importance you think one needs in reading Zhuangzi in order to understand Tao Te Ching?

I found this book, "Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent" by Albert Martinez intriguing..... I'm still working it out and it c...

Three articles that I found that are helpful in understanding what Trump may lead to if anyone is interested: https://www.currentaffairs.org/ http://j...

I suppose the concern of religions when approaching this question is if it's denoting a certain "metaphysical meaningfulness" as if there is some spec...

The best way to understand is to study the "middle Wittgenstein" to show the connections between the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations projec...

I found this helpful: https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/17/falling-into-the-isis-trap/ ____ Falling into the ISIS Trap: Special Report: The Islamic S...