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In philosophy, what distinguishes, or differentiates, a "higher truth" from a truth? I'm quite familiar with P. Hadot but please put it in your own wo...

@"Janus" @"Fooloso4" I applaud your dogged patience. :clap:

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Your late friend was so right (as history shows), and I agree with you too. How can there be any lasting peace for dispossessors-occupiers-oppressors ...

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... relinquished our divergent perspectives and interests. "We all" are always already entangled in at least as many or more win-lose / lose-lose than...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/16/judge-imposes-gag-order-on-donald-trump-in-d-c-trial-00121743 Who's your daddy now, bitch?! :lol:

Thank's for posting Harari's observations.

I guess one of you MAGA morons will have to murder a judge, prosecutor or prosecution witness in order to convince some court to revoke Seditionist-Tr...

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"The vast majority" of the house is not yet on fire. Where there's smoke, the house is on fire.

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Your assertion seems unwarranted to me.

This is entailed by "nothingness is impossible" (i.e. there cannot be not-something), no?

:up: :up: Well, to begin with, I didn't understand your "explanation" (maybe because it doesn't directly address the objections I'd raised here ). Als...

"I have no idea" because what you describe, Bret, does not make any sense to me. Post-singularity ubiquitous smart nanotech seems more likely to trans...

Iran has used Hamas to set the trap and Israel must take the bait in Gaza. The US-NATO hegemon will eventually extract Israel from the trap of razing ...

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A truth-maker is a referent to which a truth-claim (i.e. truth-bearer) statement refers that makes the statement true; it's not the "agent" asserting ...

and then ... Yes, including free from the post-1967, settler-apartheid strategems of the State of Israel. Evict settlers from ALL of the international...

:up: Lucid daydream/s of a (not-dystopian) post-singularity, posthuman f u t u r e is my "ideal place". My damn novel (series), however, just hasn't g...

Eliminate Hamas :fire: Remove Likud. Evict All Settlers. Free Palestine :flower:

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I've never heard of Islandia so thanks for that. I guess I liked Huxley's Island when I read it as a high school freshman. A few years later I read Ur...

My "ideal place" is (still) the late anarchist and novelist Iain M. Banks' galaxy-spanning civilization The Culture developed and explored through nin...

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An interesting interview with former Israel PM Ehud Olmert from 11Oct23 ... https://youtu.be/Uar3I_LUSyM?si=6cJkuza9dm-gd6p7

What is 'zionism without justice' but ...?

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No justice, no peace. When the oppressor Goliath has been (by any means necessary) bled enough by the knives & slings of their oppressed David, (maybe...

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Those assertions do not account for the objections raised (again) herein https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/845168 addendum to https://...

:cool: :up: Ah, the good old Dialectic strikes again!

@"Vera Mont" @"Pantagruel" By "history" I mean only recorded history, which is the operational framework of modern civilization/s, no? Left to our own...

Once you have (or someone else has) explicitly addressed the questions I've raised to you, ma'am, then I'll gladly discuss "democracy" (what that has ...

My question above still stands, Athena, to which I add: so what was the pre-"1958" "purpose of education" vis-à-vis state-sanctioned racial terrorism ...

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"We" are bald, semi-delusional (akratic!), gossipy primates gifted / gimped with large Stone Age brains which are insufficiently adapted to solving ac...

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Even though this thread's been tossed into The Lounge, I prefer compelling arguments to "personal tastes".

:100: So why doesn't Israel just kill off all the Palestinians and end this interminable cycle of atrocities? Maybe the Jews don't (or haven't yet) fo...

My notion of "ASI" is neither providential nor petty-punitive like "the god of theism" so your comparison doesn't make sense. Apparently, it's just un...

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Well, for starters, "low human bioforms" are more like fossils to "ASI" than insects are to h. sapiens. We "do not choose to ignore such low bioforns"...

:up: :up: :up: Universals / generalities are abstracted from concrete particulars. "The world" for me (dream)? for us (culture)? for all (nature)? :ch...

IMO, less vaguely: "The tendency to global disorder" is accelerated by emergent, local order (i.e. dissipative structures) in the universe.

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As Epicurus teaches, the gods which are perfect and blissful beings are very far away from – indifferent to – 'imperfect beings' like us and even the ...