What exactly are they trying to aim for then if they hold this view of human nature? Human perfectibility? Are you saying, in light of: That conservat...
Bertrand Russell (L) “There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortab...
Nice! John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday forever awesome. But above all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2...
My belief is that only through self-reflection and the attainment of an authentic, moral consciousness are we able to understand how to love. You quot...
Yes. It was pretty clear. He loves her genuinely, that was the point. He defies the "80% biological and 20% environmental" insipidness by following hi...
“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abas...
An ‘unthinking advocate’ are the kinds that are uncompromising apologists defending that moron and the conservatives as a whole by justifying the most...
Probably because I have been entertained by so many irrational dopes as you call them :D and though the predictability of such characters eventually l...
There are a plethora of reasons for the refugee crises, the historical, access to weapons, foreign factious interference and your uneducated generalis...
Why would an external agency be unable to reconcile emergentism with downward causation?Schrödinger equation? Quantum descriptions may contain princip...
"They do say that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork i...
I don't know you. How can I tell whether you decided to pursue objectivism because you met someone that had decided the same thing and you liked this ...
I understand that you initially thought it was spot-on but an Islamic fundamentalist believes it is spot-on to kill in the name of religion so that he...
Social and environmental factors play a significant role more so than receptors vis-a-vis a woman' capacity to undertake philosophical study. I work w...
I think the problem isn't objectivism per se - though I myself am not keen on the subject - but rather your absolutist need to follow the philosophy. ...
I would not have replied but I felt a worried this great subject matter may go wandering alone down the rabbit hole and so I will give my two very bri...
While I am annoyed at the sudden digress from the OP, for what it is worth I think you are both on the wrong side of the extreme. A good marriage is t...
It sounds interesting, though I have always had doubts with ethnographic research in cultural anthropology, mostly because fieldwork can quite easily ...
You would have a field day in Australia. Even I don't understand half the things that are said here. If we were at an Amazonian village, why would the...
Yes, I do have the unfortunate tendency to be compelled to epsilon semi-morons when the person I need is right in front of me. :-# There really is not...
It is great deconstructing why I am compelled to certain music as I never interpreted Dream Brother as you have and perhaps the morality behind the ly...
It appears that TS is refusing to listen to the question, which is about deconstructing the assignment itself, the reasons for the initial decisions a...
The bias of your assumptions on the possible reactions of our Amazonian group is seriously challenging the anthropological position of cultural relati...
Training in what way? Instrumental? Because not everyone can play an instrument and regarding what would happen if we take Mozart to an unmet tribe in...
This aspect of the eternal properties was precisely my initial enquiry, however I disagree that it is merely butchering reality, on the contrary the d...
Alright, gosh, this is the question and TP, I would much prefer an argument than a whole General Melchett "If nothing else works, a total pig-headed u...
I just want to add, if you think about Dream Brother by Buckley, it actually is honest, he is talking to his friend who intended to run away from his ...
The Greater Perfect System and the diatonic scale is interesting, but the metaphysics is lacklustre at best. The existence of natural mathematical law...
Whilst I appreciate your obdurate tone, the conveyance of aesthetic value and the meaning of the referent “authentic” though clearly ambiguous neverth...
Oi, what happened to Homer Simpson, eh? :-O You cunningly modest thang you. If we take out the forcibly and if we create the right atmosphere that wil...
I am not sure about unjustified fictions, but if we take Anderson' view of imagined communities, it is clear that our idea of society or concepts like...
It is good to be back, almost symbolic as I overcome certain things one step at a time. As said by Schopenhauer, "I believe that if a woman succeeds i...
Ah sorry old horse, I haven't been in a forum for a while. What I meant is that your proposition of a truly functioning community fails to consider ti...
If happiness is merely an externalisation or a quantitative multiplicity that represents spatial influences and that quantifies the very fibre of our ...
Ah, would that be so even if your wife prostitutes herself but she is beautiful or your family - in the Kafka 'Metamorphosis' sense - only "love" you ...
It depends on your view as to whether a community is a collection of individuals or whether it is subject to the sum of its own parts, where as you su...
Not sure about the phrasing mortal existence, ‘tis somewhat Highlanderish what with our mortal sins n’all, but nevertheless I tend to view the idea of...
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