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Follow your aptitudes.

Realpolitik is the day-to-day of political decision making, as opposed to the ideology and ethics behind it. Given the time he has spent as a senator,...

Yes; I did not deem it necessary to state the obvious.

...as if the US were entitled to premiership.

Hm. Of course I agree that truth has no location. But better to avoid the reification of truth altogether, rather than in just the circumstances of lo...

your observation amounted to "Grayling sucks". Hardly quality critique.

Hm. If the United States enters into a trade war with China, it will lose. It will fade into economic obscurity much as Britain has since the first Wa...

The shouts in here are long enough to make one hoarse.

This would be a reification of truth, rather than of conformity?

Well, it's a liberal meme in that, as I pointed out in the OP, post-truth dialogue is unsustainable, and so post-truth politics must eventually fail. ...

Prefixing objective only serves to bring in confusion. The distinction between objective and subjective truth is either incoherent or amounts to no mo...

That's two distinct approaches to justification, not two distinct uses of truth.

One fool will follow the other.

The post-truth era of Trump is just what Nietzsche predicted

Only if your convictions are indeed correct. But why should we think they are? You are not at all convincing.

Why should I share your conviction that you are right about everything?

Why?

Should I care about your conviction?

OK. "Where does truth exist?" looks like a question about truth. But is it? Try treating it as a question about how we use the words "truth" and "exis...

It might be preferable to think of education as seeking to bring forth the potential found in each individual. Individuals are embedded in a social co...

Grayling, on this topic:

Is it? Why would you think that? Time and space are intimately related, aren't they?

There it is - out there.

This seems to imply that you think there can only be one occurrence of a given concept. But it would seem that the same concept occurs both here and t...

A classic example of the wrong question leading one down the philosophical garden path.

The brain? There is only one?

And yet there it is, on the screen. Odd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqL77G2x61E

Just watching. But I think the USA is fucked.

Indeed; hence "post-truth" dynamics do not lead to Rorty's paradise, but to Trump.

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Another neat summation. My reply to Rorty would be that if all we have is conversation "disembodied" from the world around us, then those with existin...

So do we roll dice?

Yes; hence: Stoic at war.

So your point is... what? That serious philosophy comes from Aristotle and Plato, hence all else is wind? Were Aristotle and Plato the only true Scots...

I'm agnostic on days with a "t". Atheist most other days So it being a Monday, I'll mention G.K. Chesterton.

That tells us more about Plotinus than Epicurus. "Epicurean in peace, Stoic at war".

Cute.

Then again, it is worth noting when history repeats itself.

Hm. Hitler was a Nazi. The emphasis is on the superiority of the imaginary 'Aryan' race. The state is there for the benefit of the race. Fascism, as t...

Interesting stuff, Mollie.

I was referring to the efficiency of the health system. This sort of thing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Health_Expenditure_per...

You think? Even if so, 1/14.

I suspect it would have made little difference. The ethos is such that any form of communal ownership is treated as suspect; evidenced by their utter ...

I'm using the term after Umberto Eco's criteria; easily found on Google.

Was that addressed to me?

Good read, Sophisticat. Source?? Just interested.

A tertiary piece, then. It caught my eye because it predicted the result. Neat summation. How do you think Sanders would have changed the vote? His an...

I maintain that the spin doctor and the bullshitter are distinct, so: Spin doctor - That is the truth, but it means this... Liar - That is the truth, ...