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Philosophia, perhaps, can be the muse of artists and scientists, historians and, to a lesser degree, politicians; this is how she plays with millennia...
March 29, 2021 at 21:24
Given the heinous, morally repugnant, savage nature of nazism (fascism in general), there's no defensible "neutral" stance: either one is anti-nazi or...
March 29, 2021 at 21:07
:fire: (I'll drink to that!) "Blood is the rose of mysterious union" :broken: "Beware lest a statue slay you!" ~Freddy Zarathustra
March 29, 2021 at 20:02
"Dance on fire as it intends Music is your only friend Until the end ..."
March 29, 2021 at 20:01
You must be "very sheltered" too. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/10/18/in-his-own-words/ :eyes:
March 29, 2021 at 19:20
:clap: :up: Yeah, a(nother) boon for solipsistic banality. As Olivier5 points out: "The Dasein is Hitler-compatible." :shade: :100: Re: der Wille zur ...
March 29, 2021 at 17:30
I'm a huge fan and have read everything (popularized, not technical) by Rovelli. Pre-ordered. Thanks for the link! :up:
March 29, 2021 at 16:12
:up: • The Ethical Slut (3rd Edition), D. Easton & J. Hardy • Marx: A Philosophy of Human Reality, Michel Henry • From Communism to Capitalism: Theory...
March 29, 2021 at 15:46
So your ethical project is abolitionism (or something (transhumanist) like it)? :confused:
March 29, 2021 at 04:39
Reread what I wrote https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/516035 :meh:
March 29, 2021 at 03:38
You said your goal (or life's goal) is to be "safe" and that you pursue this by "pretending" to care. "Being amoral" does not "dampen emotions", it ju...
March 29, 2021 at 00:57
Your goal; you tell me.
March 29, 2021 at 00:35
Apparently, being unconscious ("safe") is your goal.
March 29, 2021 at 00:20
What can you "understand" about misery without responding to the misery of others? Certainly not that misery is solicitude, that misery solicits help,...
March 29, 2021 at 00:14
To whom? In what way? No. You're "good" when you (try to) do good often enough for the conduct to become habitual. Likewise, "pretending not to care" ...
March 29, 2021 at 00:04
If each moment is a (separate) temporal cross-sectional slice of "the universe" (in effect, like multiple universes of arbitrary, discrete, intervals)...
March 28, 2021 at 23:54
Caveat: We are what we pretend. Your "peace" is a narcotic, or cowardice ...
March 28, 2021 at 23:45
This is social psychopathy (i.e. remorseless indifference to the pain or misery of others, which you also feel, even when you are the cause) like e.g....
March 28, 2021 at 23:38
Life is anything else but "being safe". Only the dead (& forgotten) are safe.
March 28, 2021 at 23:22
My life-long aspiration :point: gnóthi seautón ... panta rhei ... pan metron ariston ... tetrapharmakos —> aponia, ataraxia (& eudaimonia) ... apathei...
March 28, 2021 at 23:12
Waste of grey matter. Go plant yourself (preferably, I suppose, somewhere with a nice view).
March 28, 2021 at 22:58
The only way to "live in peace" is to get lobotomized and then maintained with a continuous 24/7 morphine drip. I guess "the evil" in that is it's a s...
March 28, 2021 at 22:50
You mean we're not all jacked-in to The Matrix already? :scream: (Btw, I've yet to experience VR with the improvisational fidelity and depth of feelin...
March 28, 2021 at 22:27
Well, I think philosophy's more modest (and, at best, more coherent) than that, just questioning the value of 'questions for which we haven't yet foun...
March 28, 2021 at 22:22
(some of this ...) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/515987
March 28, 2021 at 22:13
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OB4JDJiet5M :love: "Tell Me Something Good" (4:30) Rags to Rufus, 1974 written by Stevie Wonder (& Chaka Khan) performed...
March 28, 2021 at 21:38
Re: overpopulation
March 28, 2021 at 15:13
:yikes: https://youtu.be/N3zwKgz8hsI
March 28, 2021 at 14:50
We've already collapsed, friend; like a beheaded corpse, 'global civilization' is only still twitching ... Read e.g. Jared Diamond, Bill McGribbin, Al...
March 28, 2021 at 14:42
"Long time" compared to what? Population growth and resource depletion (e.g. drinkable water, arable topsoil, old-growth rainforests, etc) are not lin...
March 28, 2021 at 14:21
I quoted you and replied to that with my own take on "the supreme finite fact" (not mentioning "truths" of any kind, just facts).
March 28, 2021 at 13:57
I think, rather, it's the understanding – adaptive (by process of eliminating 'maladaptive') uses – of knowledges (e.g. sciences, history, arts, care ...
March 28, 2021 at 13:39
The solution to overpopulation is overpopulation: it is a catastropically self-correcting problem in the medium-to-long run (re: anthropocenic environ...
March 28, 2021 at 13:37
Coming from a trumpy, card carrying member of the Dunning-Kruger Gang ... :rofl:
March 28, 2021 at 13:21
:point: Necessarily, 'necessary facts' are impossible; therefore, only contingent facts are possible.
March 28, 2021 at 13:14
WTF are you babbling about?
March 28, 2021 at 12:57
Strawman. I never claimed or implied "that it is impossible for X to exist". I asked how do you "know that it is possible for X to exist" without know...
March 28, 2021 at 02:07
Poet, novelist, novella-ist, short story writer, screenwriter, gourmand/travel writer, memoirist, deceased. I met him in the mid-90s through a mutual ...
March 27, 2021 at 21:46
Success? "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." ~Cormac McCarthy :death: :flower:
March 27, 2021 at 21:13
Does the future need a philosophy?
March 27, 2021 at 21:03
Dunno. Maybe it's possible to save ourselves from idiots-breeding-idiots just by removing "Warning!" "Hazardous!" & "For External Use Only!" labels an...
March 27, 2021 at 21:01
"I forgot where I heard that poems are designed to waken sleeping gods" ~Jim Harrison
March 27, 2021 at 20:51
Would a motley crowd like this – made up of bloviating bricoleurs manifestly dedicated to (dialectically) thinking against themselves – give a rat's a...
March 27, 2021 at 20:49
Fair to say you're thoughtfully misanthropic & cynical? :up: As the late John Lewis would say 'Socrates had it coming because he stirred-up some "good...
March 27, 2021 at 20:38
The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy As Practice, ed. Keith Ansell Pearson
March 27, 2021 at 18:17
:up:
March 27, 2021 at 18:11
It depends on whether one is referring to oneself or someone else. To say of oneself that one is a philosopher is just vain & pretentious (NB: on a go...
March 27, 2021 at 17:30
Huh? :roll:
March 27, 2021 at 16:21