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In: Should anything be read except Plato before reading some of Descartes, Leibniz and Hume?  — view comment
Spinoza.
January 20, 2021 at 00:27
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
"This American Carnage right here, right now." ~DJTR45H (from 2017 inauguration to 2021 insurrection) "Is it Great Again yet? Is it?!" :rofl: (So true...
January 19, 2021 at 19:37
In: What Is The Great Lesson Of The 20th Century?  — view comment
"The Big Lie" works (re: mass hysterias, ethno-nationalism, conspiracy cults, advertising-driven mass consumerism, etc). (emphasis is mine) (emphasis ...
January 19, 2021 at 12:23
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:rofl:
January 19, 2021 at 11:21
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Addendum ... On January 19, 2021, the last full day of TR45H's MAGA-junta, c400,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 infection (or related-illnesses)...
January 19, 2021 at 10:59
In: History of Humanity: recommendations  — view comment
Here be details (& controversies): A History of Civilizations, Fernand Braudel Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond Plagues and Peoples, William McNe...
January 19, 2021 at 02:13
In: In which order should these philosophers be read?  — view comment
(instead of CPR) A. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (esp. from § 57 onward), Immanuel Kant B. The World As Will And Representation (esp. "Append...
January 18, 2021 at 21:20
In: Which books/writers should I read to go through Western philosophy?  — view comment
This link might be useful.
January 18, 2021 at 15:30
In: Which books should I read and in which order to learn and understand (existential) philosophy more?  — view comment
Less solipsistic – subjectivist – descriptions of 'existence': Critical Existentialism, Nicola Abbagnano The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir R...
January 18, 2021 at 14:25
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
January 17, 2021 at 01:57
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/77t2V9-UyHg "Winter Kills" (4:05) Upstairs at Eric's, 1982 Yaz * https://youtu.be/o1b0cZqECVs "For No One" (2:32) It's Like This, 200...
January 16, 2021 at 12:35
In: Another poll on the forum's political biases  — view comment
Usually. :halo:
January 14, 2021 at 23:35
In: New Philosopher  — view comment
Welcome to TPF. Describe what being a "modern plato" (metaphysically) consists in, or (more specifically – ontologically, axiologically and/or epistem...
January 14, 2021 at 23:32
In: Is philosophy good for us?  — view comment
Ars philosophica is poison (i.e. "too much") only for those who are (as you quoted) dogmatic.
January 14, 2021 at 06:05
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
The first time for love, second time for the money-shot :sweat: Thanks again, Speaker Pelosi. :clap: :mask: Eff ewe, magaMORON-1 (your fascist enabler...
January 13, 2021 at 21:56
In: Is philosophy good for us?  — view comment
While philosophy can be learned academically, philosophizing, as I understand it, can only be self-taught (i.e. mastered) in practice ... like e.g. mu...
January 13, 2021 at 13:15
In: Is philosophy good for us?  — view comment
Again, Brett, you've misread me. I wrote ... which "suggests" the unwise remain unwise even if "introduced to philosophy". I neither claimed nor impli...
January 13, 2021 at 04:34
In: Is philosophy good for us?  — view comment
:mask: Well, ...
January 12, 2021 at 22:55
In: Is philosophy good for us?  — view comment
Philosophy is good for those who recognize that they are congenitally unwise; for them, striving to mitigate, if not minimize, their unwisdom becomes ...
January 12, 2021 at 14:07
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
january 2021 readings • Searching For Whitopia, Rich Benjamin • The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange, K?jin K...
January 11, 2021 at 04:39
In: Rating American Presidents  — view comment
:mask: :point: 'INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION'. The only question left: Can DJT do any worse in the last 11 days of his term? Of course he can. :eyes: ed...
January 09, 2021 at 07:47
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
“We want this government to work more than they want it to fail.” ~Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA), January 6, 2021 :victory: :mask:
January 08, 2021 at 13:19
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/K9YIq0oNiSM "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" live (6:18) performed by Al Green, 1972 written by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb, 1970 * ht...
January 08, 2021 at 12:33
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
January 07, 2021 at 18:02
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/471426 (November 13, 2020) update: 1/5/21 US Senate runoff (GA): • Warnock (D) beats Loeffler (R) • ...
January 06, 2021 at 21:23
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
america winter. damn. :mask: sundown, Wash. DC., 5:02 PM EST :point: begins KKKlown-show version of 'Night of the Long Knives' redux ...
January 06, 2021 at 21:18
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
No. It was proposed by Democrats' way back in April (House) & May (Senate) 2020. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/492950-house-democrats-propose-200...
January 06, 2021 at 19:09
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Yeah. :victory: :mask: (Waiting for Ossoff to be declared the winner so ... I can sleep. 4:52 AM EST - Atlanta, GA)
January 06, 2021 at 09:53
In: What happens to consciousness when we die?  — view comment
Addendum: Furthermore (speculatively): 'consciousness' self-modeling brain-activity's phenomenal aspect/s (i.e. how minding feels). More ...
January 05, 2021 at 10:13
In: The perfect question  — view comment
You have the last word. No use going on talking past each other like this.
January 04, 2021 at 07:05
In: A Probabilistic Answer To The Fundamental Question Of Metaphysics  — view comment
Yeah but everything is also not something.
January 03, 2021 at 09:10
In: The perfect question  — view comment
"Hateful" being synonymous with harmful (as I reflect), the latter was neither stated nor implied to be an effect of the former. And as my first post ...
January 03, 2021 at 08:45
In: Creation-Stories  — view comment
:fire: :clap:
January 03, 2021 at 04:19
In: I couldn't find any counter arguments against the cosmological argument?  — view comment
... is patently false. See Causa sui, etc ... follow links for further contexts. edit: Furthermore (below @"fishfry" reminds me) The present is t=0; t...
January 03, 2021 at 04:16
In: A Probabilistic Answer To The Fundamental Question Of Metaphysics  — view comment
Not-nothing.
January 02, 2021 at 08:12
In: The perfect question  — view comment
:fire:
January 02, 2021 at 01:05
In: What happens to consciousness when we die?  — view comment
"Life after death?" Too good to be true, that's reason enough to believe it ain't. Beware of wishful / magical / conspiracy thinking ... :death: :flow...
January 02, 2021 at 00:57
In: Inner Space: Finding Reality?  — view comment
:up:
January 01, 2021 at 17:16
In: What happens to consciousness when we die?  — view comment
While this 'prospect' appeals to me (à la What Dreams May Come – 1998 film, not the book), "experience after death" and "stuck in time" make no sense,...
January 01, 2021 at 16:25
In: Inner Space: Finding Reality?  — view comment
Well, where else would we find it — we are real, existing within reality, no? immanent and embodied, right? 'closer to you than your own jugular' ... ...
January 01, 2021 at 16:00
In: Is purchasing factory farmed animal products ethical?  — view comment
It's becoming less ethical to do so ...
January 01, 2021 at 15:44
In: A Probabilistic Answer To The Fundamental Question Of Metaphysics  — view comment
You misread me. I did not state or imply "Why is there everything ...?"
January 01, 2021 at 15:19
In: A Probabilistic Answer To The Fundamental Question Of Metaphysics  — view comment
Equipossible =/= equiprobable. E.g. there are countless ways for 'something' to be and yet only one way for 'everything' to never have been (i.e. not ...
January 01, 2021 at 15:00
In: What happens to consciousness when we die?  — view comment
Sure ... :point: :roll:
January 01, 2021 at 14:18
In: There is only one mathematical object  — view comment
:100: Sub specie aeternitatis: natura naturans. (Spinoza)
January 01, 2021 at 13:51
In: The perfect question  — view comment
To the point(s) made in your previous post.
January 01, 2021 at 13:39
In: The perfect question  — view comment
No. If you follow the link provided, it's suggested that 'intellectual & moral habits' are complementary like a parallax. The question "Is morality ob...
January 01, 2021 at 09:17
In: New Year's Resolution  — view comment
?Happy 2021? Oh yeah, same here. :sweat:
January 01, 2021 at 06:26
In: The perfect question  — view comment
Intellectual habit (i.e. reasoning). To wit: By deriving my philosophical question from the 'ancient maxim' above, and then non-fallaciously, coherent...
January 01, 2021 at 06:22
In: The perfect question  — view comment
I can't make sense of this.
January 01, 2021 at 05:20
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