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Gus Lamarch

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Let's say that having "compassion" for those who have less than you is much easier when you are in a better situation than said miserable.
August 31, 2020 at 21:29
Your argument fails where you claim that "egoism is the denial of what is good". Good is simply a projection of the egoism itself, as much as evil is ...
August 31, 2020 at 21:26
Your "arguments" are based on personal attacks without any depth on the subject and the discussion in question. I have not seen - until now - any answ...
August 31, 2020 at 21:20
Even without Hitler's presence on the geopolitical scene of the early 20th century, humanity would still enter into clashes like WWI and its continuat...
August 31, 2020 at 21:11
I don't get the point of coming, throwing information with no context behind it, just hoping that the receiver understands your thinking ... Want to d...
August 31, 2020 at 04:50
How so?
August 31, 2020 at 04:39
This makes a lot of sense if applied to the abrahamic religions - because the three of them believe in the same god, only with different interpretatio...
August 31, 2020 at 03:13
It's "really" interesting the arguments presented here. Thank you for your deep contribution to the discussion.
August 31, 2020 at 03:00
The "virtues" of the crowd are only considered "virtues" because they are a part of the crowd. At the level of the individual, these same virtues beco...
August 31, 2020 at 02:57
Empathy, love and compassion are just unconscious methods of proclaiming your egoism towards others. Negative-egoists, by denying their nature, practi...
August 31, 2020 at 02:47
The problem is that you are trying to contextualize my concept of "unique" as a philosophical principle. - Where is the ego in the Universe? What can ...
August 31, 2020 at 02:39
Egotism, in fact, is a negative thing- in both contexts, individual and collective - but what the overwhelming majority of people have forgotten is th...
August 31, 2020 at 02:28
I'm sorry, but I didn't quite got the point of your question. Could you expatiate more about why the concepts of extrovert and introvert would fit int...
August 28, 2020 at 03:50
I can give you an example of that: You are poor, or even miserable; empathy, humbleness, and other of these "virtues" would not help you out of this s...
August 28, 2020 at 03:47
Of course, if the individual thinks and accepts as true for himself, the fact that sacrificing himself for a nation, or for a greater number of people...
August 28, 2020 at 02:46
True, I just answered what at the time seemed to be the most conducive to the questioning whether my thoughts are an autobiography - which are not, ho...
August 28, 2020 at 01:45
The person in question that would sacrifice itself could have been "rightful" on his motives to do it - as being certain that he was doing something t...
August 28, 2020 at 01:39
The only thing required in truth - and we all know it - is power...
August 27, 2020 at 23:51
Then we have a misunderstanding here. I never said that I was an expert at psychological science and neither did I say that this was about science at ...
August 27, 2020 at 23:05
Yes, you could say that the balance is needed. But the balance only exists and is created by our egoistic wills. In my view, it is not a distorted poi...
August 27, 2020 at 22:34
Yes I agree. The development of the feeling of love for a being other than yours, the egoism- here, referring it only to the love for another person -...
August 27, 2020 at 22:19
Gods commonly associated with pantheons - like the Greek, or the Norse, for example - are not infinitely - or "all-powerful" as you put it - powerful....
August 27, 2020 at 20:39
You are ignoring the fact that I have already stated that all this dynamic that creates the organism of society is based on the human nature of wantin...
August 27, 2020 at 20:32
Yes. Love is too, an act of egoism. I can be a different person with each passing second, however, the death of my cells and the creation of new ones ...
August 27, 2020 at 19:33
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He had over 2k posts in less than a year; it is not surprising that they were of low quality.
August 27, 2020 at 18:50
So we disagree. Great!
August 27, 2020 at 18:47
Loving is the act of using - and being used - as an object by another selfish individual other than yours; the unique existence cries out for the expe...
August 27, 2020 at 18:46
The point is that you cannot be the cat, or the tree, or the street, but only yourself. I can't feel what you're feeling, as you can't feel what I'm f...
August 27, 2020 at 16:51
I'm not saying this, but ok.
August 27, 2020 at 16:49
Egoism is the nature of humanity. You'd not have come here to say this, if it wasn't fulfiling you individually.
August 27, 2020 at 16:48
"Egotism" is not the same as "egoism". "Egotism" is bad, "egoism" is the nature of the human being.. Sociability is a creation of the human ego itself...
August 27, 2020 at 16:14
I, again affirm: - There is no way in reality that you could feel, perceive, live, etc ... as someone else, just compare your experiences and accept -...
August 27, 2020 at 16:13
The video says it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6w7k33Wus&t=371s
August 27, 2020 at 04:56
I still cannot see how would you perceive the universe in another shoes. You could compare your experiences, feelings, etc... with other people, but t...
August 27, 2020 at 04:44
Truer words have never been said
August 27, 2020 at 04:41
Its a blessing that we can't reach this other paralel universes. People would abandon these for that and so forth. If another "you" existed, existence...
August 27, 2020 at 04:10
The trend is peace, prosperity, plentyness, bloom. Humanity at is original and most beastly state is war, fear, famine, etc... Just take a look at his...
August 27, 2020 at 04:02
Just the fact that no other individual can feel and witness what another individual feels and witnesses. What we have are just theories, but there is ...
August 27, 2020 at 03:57
Attacking a person you don't even know is your way of presenting your arguments to me? Well, welcome!
August 27, 2020 at 03:52
How so? If the argument you'll use is that what is good and evil is decided not by the individual but from the group that said person lives in, this i...
August 27, 2020 at 03:50
And what philosophy, deep down, is nothing more than a mere internal projection to others? The cynicism and lack of respect here is really impressive....
August 27, 2020 at 01:22
It seems to me that you haven't been able to read my entire answer. Have a nice day / good night
August 27, 2020 at 01:04
The physical world and the human ego - mind, individual, use the synonym that you prefer - could normaly exist without one another, the point is that ...
August 27, 2020 at 00:16
It isn't surprising that throughout history, jainists are only diminishing in number through conversion to Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, and even Budd...
August 26, 2020 at 23:23
1º Yes, on human history, the "global" language was always the language of the dominant power, and everyone used it not because it was easy or some gr...
August 26, 2020 at 23:02
Why politics and ideology don't go well with philosophy? - Maybe is because we nearly destroyed the world when unifying ideologies and politics with p...
August 26, 2020 at 21:49
Can a "purpose" exist without consciousness? Unconsciousness can give you more purposes than being conscious could ever give you.
August 24, 2020 at 03:20
"Evil" is just a characterization of someone's use of his on ego, just as "good" is too...
August 24, 2020 at 02:57
In my opinion, the view of the "eternal return" of Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most plausable scenarios of an "afterlife" that could - we don't ...
August 13, 2020 at 22:53
Should you not fight to demonstrate your point of view? Oh, If you do that without being very "politicaly correct" they ban you... Yeah, real.
June 04, 2020 at 20:08