Bartricks

No, Khaled, to 'deserve' something does not mean 'right to give it to you'. Exactly what desert involves is a matter of debate. But no one thinks it m...

Even your insults don't make sense.

I wouldn't if they were doing philosophy. Why do you think I would? Were they arguing for the truth of certain propositions? Then they were doing phil...

And I didn't deny it. Straw man. Philosophy is the practice of using reason to find the truth. Music isn't. Making it isn't. Listening to it isn't. No...

Aesthetics is part of philosophy. But it doesn't involve making music or painting pictures but rather using reason to try and discern if there is anyt...

I think you are confused. To 'know' something one's belief does not just have to be true, but also acquired in the right manner - that is, a manner ap...

Your definition of philosophy seems equivalent to mine insofar as you accept that it is about seeking the truth about a matter. But you have said 'usi...

So again, just to be clear - some people who are not using reason to find out what's true (so just making shit up and pronouncing it) are nevertheless...

Your own words please, not wikepedia entries.

What are you on about? Literally what did any of that mean? Don't use reason because we are social animals? Er, what?

I am none the wiser. I don't have a clue what you mean by eastern philosophy. And I think you don't either

They can. But they're not doing plumbing by so doing, are they!! Blimey. Me: plumbing isn't baking. You: why can't a plumber bake a cake? Are you sayi...

So what is eastern philosophy? I think it is b.s. There are eastern philosophers, of course. But they don't actually qualify as doing eastern philosop...

You do know that what he said is what I said, yes? (No, obviously).

Address the OP. And use your own words and not quotes from ghastly posturing nobodies.

Focus. First - if you deserve something, it doesn't follow that it is permissible to give it to you. Rapists deserve to be taped. Wrong to rape them t...

wooof.woof. woooooof.

Why not plumbers? They're philosophers too surely? And bakers. And candlestick makers. Hell, everyone is a philosopher. Here's some philosophy for the...

And I still don't have the faintest idea what Eastern, or Chinese, or African philosophy is. All I know from you is that Augustine - an undisputed gia...

It's not a narrow definition. It's what the word means. It usefully distinguishes one activity - using reason to find out what's true - from others. W...

Question begging

Are you 6? Pathetic. Argue something or go away, stalker.

I did. Stop trying to be me. You don't have the substance or wit. That one was focused on you. See?

You said what Chicago blues denotes and then said 'it can't mean that'. So, you know, great example! Here's another equally inept one: what's Chicago ...

Have you read Lao Tzu? Give me one of his arguments. Both Socrates and Plato made arguments. Do I have an unduly narrow concept of bakery if I don't c...

This is our exchange: Me: mountaineering is the practice of trying to climb mountains. Eastern mountaineering is either mountaineering in the east or,...

They don't- some think like me. Why not just reflect on the op and see if you agree rather than appealing to authority

no true proposition is also false. The conclusion of this argument is true if the premises are: 1. P 2. Q 3. Therefore p and q. And so on. But you mis...

That's not a quote from me. That's you. Philosophy is the practice of using reason to find out what's true. It can be used and abused. But that's the ...

Poor old St Augustine. He is one of the giants of philosophy whose influence has been gargantuan. And he was African. Yet according to the self appoin...

No it doesn't lead to that conclusion as I explained elsewhere. You didn't understand that argument, that's all. I feel sorry for you about that as it...

I do. I have philosophical contributions to make and I am full of humor. Thus I post.

No, I obviously do not agree with that. What do you mean by Western philosophy? Do you mean 'using reason to find out what's true'? That is, do you ju...

Curiouser and curiouser. So once more, what's Western philosophy, then? I have said what I think it is: it's just philosophy and the word western is r...

What do you mean? There are differentafeas of philosophy - normative ethics, metaethics epistemology, aesthetics and so on. And lots of different posi...

If they're not making an argument, then they're not philosophers. Easy. And no, musicians and poets and artists are not, qua those activities, philoso...

I've read the rest of your post. And yes, you are confused. I have defined my terms and if you dislike my definitions that's your problem not mine. Yo...

You would agree with me, then, that it is rather silly to talk of western philosophy as if it is something. We should just talk of 'philosophy' and pa...

I still haven't heard an answer to my question - there's a prominent proponent of moral particularism who is Chinese. I am familiar with his work. Doe...

Isaac, go away. You have nothing philosophical to contribute and you seem humourless.

So you admit you did not read the op? Christ, are there any people here who actually think, have enough basic respect to read an op before shooting th...

oh, did you argue something? I didn't detect an argument. Just b.s.

Er, what? OP. Read the OP.

B.S. Pure and simple.

What on earth are you on about? If a view is true, is it also false? Yes or no? Does it change if you go to China or India?

Two views about the same subject matter must contradict each other otherwise they are not different views at all, but the same view differently expres...

I recently read an article on moral particularism written by a philosopher who happens to be Chinese. Does that qualify as Eastern philosophy?

Focus. This thread is about the compatibility of God and antinatalism and whether God's existence would positively imply antinatalism. My view that Go...

Odd reply. I did not suggest that only in the west is reason employed or that what distinguishes western philosophy is its use of reason. The opposite...

And I am not talking about whether they are true. I am talking about their compatibility! Can't quote as on mobile. But second paragraph: Dunning and ...