Philosophy is much more than "an academic discipline" and areas of rigorous study like set theory, musical composition and molecular biology have "uni...
Well, I claim that 'theism is not true' and so demonstrably by implication that takes care of "God" as far as I'm concerned. I'm much more Spinozist (...
"National polls" are not predictive since US presidential elections are not "national elections". Also, polling only becomes somewhat meaningful, or p...
Based on his own party's primary elections since January, the former president is being rejected by 1 in 5 hardcore voting Republicans several months ...
I appreciate the reply, Arne, but I do not read these three philosophers this way. 'How one exists creates one's essence' is the gist of my understand...
Yes, however, contra communism, ludditism, primitivism ... (A) economic democracy (supplimented by local time-banking networks). (B) more speculativel...
As a freethinker IMO, courage for warranted doubt (and error-correction) seems the indispensible virtue "necessary for thought" (with adaptive judgmen...
I've always thought existence – how one actively exists – creates (one's) essence – becomes who one is. They (usually) reject the notion of "our essen...
As of today 21 March 24, Criminal Defendent / Insurrectionist / Russian Asset / Fraudster / Rapist / Defamer / Grifter / electoral Loser-1 is also a $...
The more apt name for R. Nozick's thought-experiment is "Hyper-Dopamine Machine" and all any human trapped inside this 'neural-menagerie' would be "tr...
This sounds like 'human-level AGI' connected to the internet. This sounds totalitarian. :up: :up: I've had cold sweats from intermitten suspicions – r...
To begin with, 'living' consists in finding out for oneself 'what it means to freely live one's life'. "Slaves" merely survive (i.e. function); as a r...
https://youtu.be/N_LwJCxR7F4?si=MXJOEkT73Kt4DyBb "Dance to the Music" (3:00) A-side single, 1967 writer Sly Stone performers Sly and the Family Stone ...
– I think would render "virtue and The Good" moot for the person trapped inside. The thought-experiment seems more analogous to a fentanyl-induced, pe...
Explain what "unification of meaning" means and what you mean by "philosophy" that needs a "unified language" now in order to do what it has done for ...
What does "unified language" mean? Also, describe the function(s), or purpose(s), of "philosophy" as you see it in order to more clearly contextualize...
This is the crux of our disagreement. I understand 'randomness' to mean uncaused, acausal, without cause; you are denying this, claiming the opposite ...
Yeah, Putin's Bitch f*cked around and is finding out! :lol: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html F*cking p...
I don't see how what you've written here is related to what I've written previously in response to Philosophim. I can't grok what you're saying, ucarr...
"Nothing / O" = beginning-less =/= first (anything). As for "the universe", QG describes it as (in my words) a random inflationary quantum fluctuation...
Spinoza thinks least of death in the context of contemplating life. Thus: memento mori, memento vivere. Nothing in the quote cited recommends that a f...
And thus, as I've pointed out already , it's not a "first cause" but is the only cause (e.g.) à la Wheeler's one electron postulate. Not quite. For me...
Paradoxically, this 'cultural-value relativity' is ancient (i.e. pre-modern, pre-"Enlightenment", pre-capitalist) yet also universalist: cosmopolitani...
and also that "our universe" itself – a fact – is contingent What of "them"? Whether or not "they" are (or consist in) non-contingencies, such "potent...
Well if so, name at least one non-contingent, or impossible to change or be changed (i.e. necessary), fact. :chin: With all due respect, Philo, I thin...
It seems your emphasis is on psychosociological conditions, or impacts, of "conformity and rebellion" rather than on their philosophical (e.g. moral, ...
Sorry, but I don't understand your reply to my post. Maybe that's because I wasn't clear enough answering your questions. I don't see your "dichotomy"...
Insofar as "the system" determines my "status within that system" (i.e. caste) that's detrimental to me and my community, the answer is I opppse both....
Spinoza's Ethics is a bit shorter and IMO much more than "therapy". An even shorter, Platonist work The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch ranks high...
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