David Mo

I think you should clarify what you mean by conscience. Is it the same as mind? Your hypothesis of resurrection is quite curious, although not very pl...

First of all, we don't know whether other animals have a conscience or not. We're talking about human consciousness and more especially our own. About...

What is consciousness then? If you introspect into your consciousness you will find experiences and emotions. Nothing more. Remove the experiences and...

There is no one theory about the causes of many, if not all, human behaviors. Motivations, reflexes (conditioned or not) or, more vaguely, the drives ...

Whatever the explanation for the formation of a fascist personality, a large majority of the population in Europe (not only in Germany, nor possibly e...

Humans are violent and compassionate, or cooperative, if you like. There is a predisposition to one thing or another that society reinforces or repres...

Sure. It's popularly known as the carrot and stick policy. If the carrot doesn't work to get the donkey to walk, the stick is used. The problem is tha...

They're two different things. If you say that all x is y (all pain is pleasure) and you are identifying x and y (x=y) you are making a tautology that ...

I forgot this: I really liked the two final verses of Eliot that you include. They make you think. I have a very good friend who is also a great poet,...

Thank you for the undeserved praise. One has moments of inspiration... rather rare. But, in general, we tend to like what matches us. There is nothing...

I would say that the institutions in charge of defending private property through violence are the legal ones, state or private. But personal violence...

It's not a naive question. It is easy to distinguish many violent behaviors at both the act and language levels. The violence of a defender at a footb...

Oh, yeah. It is precisely the art of politics, so little practiced nowadays, that is the search for consensus while it is possible. A world in which t...

No, for god's sake, I wasn't tired of your interpellations. I was overwhelmed by the amount of ideas you put out in a row and I thought and I think I ...

I go there: If we divide a problem between diagnosis and prescription, modern positions owe a lot to Hobbes and Rousseau, even if it is to grumble aga...

It's a question that demands a long answer. I will think about it to see if I can give a condensed answer within my limited knowledge: I know little a...

Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and some philosopher. I don't know if politicians should be considered experts or part of the problem.

But artists don't pretend to know the truth of what they paint. Some do, but that's their problem. As for priests, they're much worse than philosopher...

Not very widespread among the popes of philosophy. Philosophers don't convince others. At most they convince themselves. On the other hand, you'll hav...

The problem with metaphysics is that it remains anchored in the scandal that Kant denounced: no progress, no agreement between metaphysicists. With th...

I'm not going to discuss your theory here. You say yourself it's off-topic. Just one main objection. There's a great consensus on the knowledge of fac...

If general means popular, I agree. If general includes experts, I disagree. The emphasis on personal violence and the neglect of institutional violenc...

I said it encouraged forms of coercion, not that it was that.

I agree.

I find Foucault's last five years confusing, inconclusive and full of holes. I prefer his classical phase even if it was also debatable. But at least ...

It seems that Hume or Kant lived very well with that separation of fact (ideal?). I trust science when I want to know what a galaxy is and I add philo...

But the mere analogy doesn't go very far.

You don't need to be very patient to see the state go berserk. We get images every day. That's why I wrote "not to limit itself to" direct and overt v...

The problem of violence is not the ends (see my previous comment) but the means to the ends. In that sense, simply forcing every teenager to stay lock...

I didn't intend to evaluate the violence. The first step is to define violence. The second step is to identify it. The third is to assess it. I don't ...

Nullify or weaken someone's freedom by acting through physical force, threat, technique, hierarchy, ideology, manipulation of language or abuse of wea...

I like this definition. It hits the spot. In my opinion, when specialists in other fields are engaged in clarifying fundamental concepts that are not ...

Starting here because we'll have to start somewhere. I think we have to distinguish two things: morals and ethics. Morality is a system of rules of wh...

Caramba, what a long comment! Let me to get a time to read it. For the moment I am surprised that it excludes ethics, which is a part of philosophy un...

You have a very limited view of violence. The father who hits his child does not do so to destroy him, but to correct him. And he is violent. In the s...

Actually, a teacher does a lot of things. Wiping wet noses, for example. But his institutional task is mainly to evaluate, classify and exclude. These...

Institutional and structural violence: Overt and covert violence: Violence comes in four basic forms according to two criteria: a first criterion indi...

You're the one who said it: poetry. (Bad poetry in my case. Writing in English costs me sweat and blood.) So, philosophy is not poetry. What's the dif...

Hey, you don't ask too many questions without answering them? I was very conscious of using metaphors. I am not opposed to the use of metaphors, nor t...

Despite my sympathies for Bourdieu, I wonder whether broadening the concept of violence so much does not detract from institutional violence. I do not...

Very sharp words, but the (non)curious thing is that Nietzsche believed that his truth about the truth was the true truth and he defended it so passio...

I don't know if certain doses of rhetoric are necessary. But I think that turning philosophy into rhetoric is dangerous. Even if it's a parody, the ou...

I was referring to Plato's vision of sophistry. (True sophistry was something else.) In Platonic interpretation sophists are individual relativists.Th...

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I think that if we analyse what Socrates was doing in the 5th century BC we will find a straight line with the philosophy of the 21st century: to anal...

That's because you don't know what positivism is. (Make a note of that). If I were a positivist I would say that all possible knowledge comes down to ...

At this point one begins to get dizzy from your continuous changes of position. You did not define philosophy as being "concerned with some aspect of ...

I was afraid of that. You don't know how to answer my questions and that makes you very "busy".

Why not? What means "matter" for you? I think it's good that the meanings of a word evolve, as long as it's not in a confusing way. If we equate "cons...

Please do not confuse consciousness with mind! They are two words with different meanings.