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The deep seeded misogyny was ever-present during those days, unfortunately, considering the strong ties to provincialism and dogma vis-a-vis moral phi...

I can win this debate in three words: Agu. Grow up.

Yeah, alright. On what topic?

The problem is not isolating oneself physically or socially, but it is about becoming aware of and accepting the isolation that forms from becoming se...

Well, it happens. No need to be too hard on yourself.

Ok. :groan:

Your body is regulated by the brain as much as your sensual impressions are formed through experience and maintained by the health of both the physica...

Someone asked me once, "Have you forgiven your father?" I responded with, "Of course. Forgiveness is not about my father overcoming his mistakes but a...

Actually, you know you are right here. I am going to touch on this when I get home in about half an hour.

There is this 'white Australia' culture that I have been attempting to sociologically penetrate and dissect, although my personal ethnography has not ...

This is a contemporary outlook on Rousseau and it is interesting the "creative" here is the mode of being Fromm discusses, namely that by being creati...

:meh:

Animals may display behaviours that one could assume to be moral, but they do not posses the same cognitive capacity to transcend to a level of autono...

Rachel Kuo rocks! I am writing a report about the horrible sexual slavery that lure young women with false incentives only to be trafficked into the s...

Perhaps the reason why I have not explained this contrast is because I do not believe animals have moral agency. Instinctual behaviour for evolutionar...

Que?

This distinctness is really the cognitive capacity to rationalise and reason with common sense, but central to this prospect is the autonomy that will...

All of this is discussed by Kant; moral psychology and epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics and it is true that I favour psychology because without t...

His moral theory is the best starting point and the concept of autonomy and the transcendental argument vis-a-vis reason or practical reason, but I wo...

This private heart is an attempt to advocate individuality over the primacy of institutions and so the authenticity is the belief or recognition of th...

I think her honesty is experience validated only through experience, which I guess is the nature of wisdom and in a way it is easing you into acceptin...

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He is having problems with his kidneys and despite him drinking excessively, it is not looking too good. When I went overseas for a while, he refused ...

Not unusual.

This conformity is intelligently marketed as compelling by the simple fact that people believe that they are 'individual' despite blindly moving in ma...

I love little furry things. Plush is the key to happiness. My dog is not well, by the way. I adopted him when he was quite old, so I am pretty sad rig...

I believe that propaganda appeals to subjective pleasures that may encompass our imagination but can effect us because we can contrast the symbols wit...

That is why I said it is not bound by nature; nature is deterministic. You just repeated exactly what I said. There is no other way around. https://rd...

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This is the most controversial aspect to Kant' thesis because the noumenal self is not subject to deterministic laws and therefore not bound by time, ...

I can be really good with music, especially if I love the song, but without I start serenading awkwardly. I actually think it would improve that way (...

I tried to squish him once, but it didn't work. https://media.giphy.com/media/4w1BiyhDeBAXe/giphy.gif

Guilt by association.

I have a number of mousetraps set so I can stop that long-tailed chinchilla.

As in literally, like eating bad guacamole? Or several bars of Fibre One while in Hawaii and losing two kilos the next day?

No no no no NO no No nO NOOOOOO! That is my favourite emoticon, please do not destroy it by using it over and over again. Or this one. :roll:

I have heard of it but never really got involved, but I will and will get back to you.

Because that is the 'I' - noumenal feature of the soul - or the real that interacts with schema and creates the phenomenal.

I was talking about commercial surrogacy and international adoption. I forgot to respond to this before I hit publish. In Australia, there are strict ...

Holy mother of socks, that is one hell of a thesis you got going there. I gave up trying to communicate to essayists sometime ago, try to condense you...

This is a good point, but I am speaking about ownership where there is an absence of relatedness and where the orientation to people is without feelin...

How is subjective (being the unconscious) phenomenal?

I too am working so I will quickly say that contemporary society invented the profitability of the production of goods and the attainment of assets bo...

Our awareness to exercise moral law that is authentically willed and therefore real is based on our understanding of ourselves as one that establishes...

I am not attributing to consumer driven capitalists, like "I have this object" but the fundamental orientation of our self with the external world and...

As above. Far out, Agu, do you have to do this in every single thread?

I didn't pull it out, you did and you are the one misunderstanding it.

I can't accept this. Exactly. Ask not what the rose can do for you, ask what you can do for the rose. The value here is still projected, but we value ...

Exactly, but in this instance think of Foucault and his concept of discourse: "What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact ...

Productive self-experience. The framework that determines our value through others is paradoxically narcissistic, despite a reliance on others, becaus...