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This thread is about the gender pay gap, not Peterson, so, I don't care to digress into that conversation here (or Osho, for whatever reason you decid...

Overwhelmingly, the vast majority of the Universe cannot support life. And where life manages to survive and reproduce, it remains exceedingly fragile...

I guarantee there are many professors at Harvard who vehemently disagree with Peterson. And Ben Shapiro received his JD at Harvard Law, so I'm not sur...

Certainly, Augustino, you are not equating a seemingly arbitrary journalist with a "left-wing intellectual". Just as most left-wing philosophers, or p...

Great post fdrake! It would be great to see some references for these. To expand slightly on your 4th 'factsheet' point, this idea that personality di...

This thread needs more hatred towards the Jews.

I would prefer an upvoting button, as was case in the old Philosophy Forum. Some topics can stretch 5 to 10, over 20 pages, and who has time to read e...

I've been reading Cioran's oeuvre in chronologically published order. Finished Tears and Saints a week ago and I'm nearly done with A Short History of...

I've reformatted the original post into a standard syllogism. 1. Vague terminology. What is "greatest"? 2. False equivocation. Things that "exist" in ...

The Heights of Despair by Cioran (rereading) The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Oh I also read Moby-Dick by Melville last year, and ...

Surely I'm not following you correctly...Nihilism demands that life must have a ready-made meaning? I'm not reading multiple paragraphs from the IEP. ...

I'm not following the point of this as is stands within the larger context of your argument. My point is that despite the title of the thread being (i...

Regardless of your view on life's inherent goodness (which I don't agree with), this forms the very basis of Nihilistic thinking.

Thank you kindly ;)

Quite excellent! Despite being a devout Christian, he was nevertheless highly skeptical of many forms of superstition, best demonstrated in his most f...

Sure, if it's regulated and stabilized, but that seems anathema to what cryptocurrencies supposedly represent. It would be better to adjust my stateme...

Some books I've read in the last few months: Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi (reread) Paradise Lost by Milton SPQR by Mary Beard Ancient Greece by Th...

The value of bitcoin increased...what?...over 33% within a month or two? This is where its use-value as a currency is severely lacking. If the value o...

Nothing is word. A word that can mean a great many things, but within the context of this thread, attempting to hypostatize it's most literal meaning ...

"Nothing" is not a thing. A privation is not a substantive.

Did we ever learn why the new owners of the old forum purchased it only to abandon it?

What pure drivel. Shit like this doesn't deserve 7 pages of discussion.

I read the Pinker/Wieseltier spat with great interest in 2012, and found Wieseltier to be insufferably smug without justification, given the poverty o...

I mentioned wealth inequality in my previous post. This type of inequality is certainly deleterious to democracy, but that by itself does not transfor...

And if they "read about and understood the democracy of Ancient Greece", knowing that it excluded women and kept slaves (among other invariably anti-d...

I'm sorry, but this is silly. No one stating that "Donald Trump is threatening Democracy" is equating American Democracy with the Democracy of Ancient...

A formal fallacy, viz., affirming the consequent.

Statements like these which both homogeneous and idealize a concept stretching back roughly 3,000 years are ludicrous to me. Concepts such as equality...

The only delusion here, I'm afraid, is the idea that there is a genuine historical parallelism between the actors within the Revolutionary War, and mo...

Two thoughts come to mind with these types of arguments. As much as I loathe Donald Trump, and as big of a megalomaniac as he is, the fact of the matt...

Newton was absolutely not a deist, and while Kant did not believe that there were sound arguments that evidenced or proved God, he was a Christian on ...

Ha. The radical arm of the Enlightenment (i.e. Spinzoa, Diderot, Bayle, d'Holbach, et al.) decisively showed the inconsistency and intellectual povert...

Agustino, this is the type of mindbogglingly moronic political philosophy that I'd expect from a freshman high school student who is just started read...

Yeah, Rule of Law is pretty overrated.

Agustino, surely you can't be serious with this rubbish statement.

I'm a big fan of air-conditioning

One big argument from incredulity

Great stuff (as usual), jorndoe (Y)

Can you clarify in a way that is intelligible?

Check out Spinoza's Ethics and Joshua Dienstag's Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

SPQR by Mary Beard The Silmarillion by Tolkien

It would be the duty of theologians and theists to prove God exists. The objective of the non-theistic scientist in this scenario is to show why any s...

It is true that pain and pleasure are incommensurate, with the former being more potent physiologically and psychologically, all things being equal. t...

Shame the old forum wasted away. Doesn't seem like this one retained the spark of the original.

In no order: A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran Ethics by Spinoza Freedom as Development by Amartya Se...

Raised Jewish, been an atheist for about 13 years

If the Holy Spirit is present during intercourse, does that mean all acts of sex are threesomes? Anyway, I've only glanced at the comments in this thr...

I wouldn't include Rick and Morty under the placard of "Horror Philosophy". There are, undoubtedly, similarities, such as the stance that life is mean...

Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic by Aristides Baltas

That's a pretentious way of saying nothing, but whatever floats your boat.