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The abstraction that comes with the application of a money-name as a measure of value is present here too. Labour is baptised in value and emerges con...

Marx then highlights some themes in the evolution of the money commodity. One part of this is to show that the debasement of currency, rather than sim...

The quantitative easing that occurred as a result of the financial crisis in 2008 almost all ended up in the coffers of the very rich. It didn't influ...

It does, but precisely how Marx thinks this works comes later in Capital. His theory of value is inseparable from the rest of the account IMO, even th...

Self indulgent coincidence: The rational numbers, which serve as the numerical representation of the money commodities like gold, when they must be ab...

The next paragraph is essentially a bit of bookkeeping. This is just saying that if the commodities in an equivalence class in general increase in in ...

Money has always been intimately tied to debt. EG, owing the ruling body taxes in terms of raw goods. I'm going to sidestep this for now.

There are a couple of bits I want to address in in what's come so far. The first is of how use and exchange values intermingle as part of capitalist p...

I'm going to go off on a bit of a digression/rant here. This has a mathematical representation in terms of the cancellation of fractions. If x gold is...

Felicity and infelicity would serve as an interesting topic for epistemology. Instead of analysing how propositions connect to truths through justific...

I'm beginning to think it might be worthwhile to go back and do Chapter 2 afterwards, since that introduces the different forms of value. Anyway: Mone...

Another feature to highlight is that value is a real abstraction, it's tightly coupled with the commodity and 'comes along with it'. This is why you c...

I do actually think that time presents a coherent set of problems, though. The problem of presentism isn't 'Can we say the past and future exist in th...

Presentism and the problem of future contingents: But what if dog didn't do way instain mother? Dog is would be, maybe. But definitely dog wasn't. Wou...

No, I don't think you take such a reductive view of philosophy. What issues do you think are dissolved, or nearly dissolved, by looking at them throug...

There's a debate, now mostly settled as far as I know, in feminist theory. It began as an internal tension in feminism; why was it that feminist activ...

I'd guess most of us have at least a high school education. That would probably give a higher IQ than the average, which includes those who did not co...

Talking about that goes even further away from poor @"Sam26"'s thread topic. Which, I imagine, is supposed to be a series of vaguely Wittgenstein infl...

If we have the addendum that philosophy mostly consists in the creation/discovery and analysis of concepts, then I think we see eye to eye. You think ...

I can think of a few problem sets which don't seem to be fundamentally reliant on the analysis of language to be addressed: Philosophy of time: presen...

Perhaps this kind of thing is suggestive. Sensory and motor homunculi. The Wound Man https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91AXNm1hrwL._SL1...

I was trying to highlight that the 'liberal elite' trope you find in political discourse has two functions. First it can be used to automatically gain...

No, they're a lot different. EG: there's no way to see how 'cuck' is used as anything but an attempt to undermine the autonomy of women or to mark the...

I think adversarial joy and shame have a coimplication. Joy is an extreme state of comfort and satisfaction with a state of affairs, a person loses th...

I share this lamentation. It's a damn shame that any attempt at objective analysis of social issues can be deemed propaganda from the liberal elite an...

There are sensible ways to hold non-left opinions, just as there are sensible non-left opinions. Not all conservatives are racist, not all conservativ...

In my experience talking with people on this right, they really don't like having their rallying memes highlighted. It strikes me as very strange that...

Y'know, I used to spend a lot of time on social media. The unfortunate thing about quitting social media is that it destroyed most of my friendships i...

I think similarly to this. This is why I added the vitriol at the end of my OP, and why I wanted to make a post highlighting the inauspicious origins ...

@"Coldlight" There is an idea, a noble and generous idea, that how good a political idea is should always be negotiated in the court of reason. As an ...

Let me Google this for you. Cuck. In which cuck is used in much the way I describe. Interestingly there are a lot of women profiles posting in accorda...

Yes. We are the chattering classes after all. Of course it's understandable to be anxious about the effects of mass immigration on your community. Eve...

Rather than that cathartic rant, better response from me, would have been to highlight that the SJW meme, as a talking point, provides a criteria of e...

I don't think it makes sense to consider nations as hosts of specified ideological constructs any more. The contours of our shared social reality are ...

I'm mostly responding to this: Indicating that social justice warriors in the aggregate are ridiculous is a stance on civil rights, gender equality, p...

I wasn't trying to imply that you were a bad person or anything like that. I just think that discussing whether 'social justice has gone to far' is a ...

I think we had much the same goal, it's very much 'on the offensive' to try and manipulate the Overton window. The real 'alt-right' has always done th...

I absolutely agree with this, though I have a caveat. We could pretty easily have an exchange like this, lamenting the right's irrationalities and ant...

To the extent that there is a popular right, the popular right doesn't actually realise that it is the right. It thinks it is the liberal left. The so...

One 'is' is the is of predication, stating a property or relation of an entity. Like 'the morning star is a star', one 'is' is the is of identity, sta...

Please try to make your posts easier to read. The less of a wall of text it is the better. Also hello.

We lost a lot of members who were actively engaged in philosophy. I don't think that's all the forum's fault, it seems just as likely to me that they ...

You could look at the news from Amnesty International if you'd like to see a lot of examples of why a globally enforced right to food and shelter woul...

thephilosophyforum.com is the upper middle brow version of Youtube comments, mostly. It reflects cultural and philosophical issues more than it genera...

Friend pointed me towards this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2M9DvWcshk&bpctr=1534109510 Band: Neckbeard Deathcamp Album: White Nationalism is for...

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The call of any sinner is to be understood as typical, as if their perversions and failings are the failings of all. What is natural is sexual pleasur...

Sexual jealousy is a perversion. It has nothing to do with the nature of sex, it has to do with the selfishness and short sightedness of the individua...

I repeat. Sex for pleasure is a divine gift, and those who share it freely and share in it are expressing a freedom bestowed by the divine. By its ver...

Focussing on the minutia to belay the point. Stop it. Sex for pleasure is a divine gift, and those who share it freely and share in it are expressing ...