While I respect the overall sentiment of your post, I disagree in war never being an act of self-defense. One could address the issue via individuals ...
Required? The "Fog of War" syndrome is working overtime here. Mistaking an innocent for an aggressor is one thing in war, but one being required to ki...
Very much appreciate the Nietzsche quotes. Its been a very long time since I read him with zeal, and I've forgotten much of the details, but reading t...
It’s often been said that “love is nothin’ more than chemicals in the brain”. But then, what of anything cognitive—percepts, convictions, thoughts, di...
Maybe "cosmic evolution" would have been a more appropriate term to use? The concept itself is that every "thing" within the universe/cosmos evolves v...
Your answer does not answer the question. But why even discuss with someone who's "weaselly" to begin with. I've been more than forthright all along. ...
In relation to what I said, most definitely not. I'm in agreement with here. Most all cosmologies speculate on what the "final form" of being might be...
I asked for clarification in what of the Holocaust and of historical antisemitism justified the Nakba (as per Wikipedia, aka, “the violent displacemen...
My guest got delayed for the time being. So I’ll go back on my word and make reply now. To suppose, why not? But this would lead into supposing some f...
Currently short on time, but yes, in many ways very much agree with your post. I mentioned the spatotemporality of a rock as objective on grounds that...
:up: This is use of the term "objective" in the same relative sense we use terms like "good" or "perfect" or "selfless"; relative to that which is les...
I don't yet understand how the Holocaust and the history of antisemitism justify the Nakba. To make myself better understood, it so far seems to be af...
:grin: :up: Hm. I rather think that explanatory power is the principle issue, and that this is the "tangible result" that most are interested in. For ...
Why so? For instance, what other interests do you find occurring in Western Civilization post Enlightenment which justify what Palestinians term the N...
Hm. From what I know, “Christ” or, more accurately, “Khristos” is the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew word for Messiah, ”????????”, both havin...
It seems I might have been too terse in my reply. Certainly: science is thoroughly founded upon philosophy and in no way the other way around. By “sci...
Same can be said of psyches … if by “universe” one here intends the physical universe. Here’s a premise: good = preferable. Good/preferable to whom or...
This is a bit like preaching to the choir, here. :smile: I’ll only add that any new metaphysical postulations (e.g. as to the nature of causality) wil...
Apropos an underlying current that's been in many of the more recent posts I've read regarding the Israel / Palestinian conflict on this tread: First ...
I for one find the issue of free will important - it facilitates a non-causally-deterministic ontology, for instance. And as to everyone being selfish...
One can find variations. For example, if one’s belief is that lightning is caused by Zeus because that’s what everybody else says, or because so it wa...
Yes, two different usages of the term, but I for whatever reason feel that I've not been quite understood. So I'll write a bit more. I’m assuming you ...
I think I understand you better now. Don't we already have such fields, though, including those of sociology, anthropology, and cognitive sciences? I ...
I’m very curious: you say you don’t experience visual remembrances. I take it that, then, for example, you cannot recall what a childhood pet dog (in ...
I’ve heard people maintain that rape is an ingrained aspect of human nature. Their argument basically boils down to “the proof is in the pudding: rape...
:grin: Yes, now that you bring it up, quite true. Somehow was taking this for granted before as the way things ought to be. Especially on a philosophy...
Space, time, and matter no longer make any mathematical sense within a black hole's singularity, are often enough said to "break down" at such junctur...
That made me laugh a bit, in a good way. Sure, but then it sure sounds like were addressing dysfunctional democracies here: states that are democratic...
I'll give this a shot. Information that goes past a black hole's threshold toward the singularity within the black hole cannot be experienced - at lea...
A touchy topic for a number of reasons. Besides, I've conversed with more than one police officer who was anything but a racist. Of course, if the cul...
:up: Yet, as per my intended point in my previous post, the logical and scientific is itself fully grounded in pre-established metaphysical concepts a...
If magic is aprioristically understood as nonsensical, then metaphysics—such as the study of causality - has nothing to do with magic: for metaphysics...
As was previously pointed out more indirectly, we want to progress toward that end which we value—such that when we approach it, we deem this progress...
Oh … just stop it. :smile: Thanks though. :pray: Interesting. I’m in fact surprised by the relatively low percentage of race on race killings among bl...
Nice of you to so say. My pov: In life, shit happens; don’t know of anyone who can affirm otherwise. Myself, I’m not well enough versed in political s...
BTW, I previously thought this self-evident, but now feel compelled to make the point explicit. Talking about races, acknowledging their social realit...
You may have forgotten the "anti-" part, as in "anti-racist"? In which case, in the world I live in, this is patently false. If absolutely nothing els...
Yes. True. In not wanting to do another OP meriting thing, if it was, I'll just say that it depends on the intents of the humor (unconscious if not co...
If I may: In a nutshell, there are basically two competing political wants among humans: A) the want for a society that exhibits “liberty (of all), eq...
Ha! Yes. Well said. The greater the freedoms for all within a populace, the greater the constraints that all within the populace must live by in order...
Regarding tolerance, I’ve always found this to be a philosophical landmine: Tolerance of intolerance results in intolerance. Ergo, those who favor tol...
Got it. Thanks for the clarification. :pray: To second you're later affirmation, to me it’s not so much the verbal abstractions which words conjure bu...
Not to be rude, but I’m not yet clear on what you intended to convey through your post. Are you, for example, suggesting that I’ve reduced these philo...
… adheres to the notions of Moksha/Nirvana (in the sense of parinirvana, or nirvana without remainder). The issue that I find is, according to such do...
No, it's quite fine (although I'll have to take a break shortly). As my initial post on this thread intended to explain, this within a system wherein ...
I'm not sure that I do or not. I would argue that the shape of objective things is unchanging despite the different faculties of experience which pert...
Here is the general outline of a position I hold which to me presents an intermediary view: On one hand, the rock cannot hold a shape in the complete,...
Hell, for that matter, it can be hard to get into the minds of people who are our contemporaries, never mind those who lived before. :razz: As many of...
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