It's not a dichotomy. This isn't either-or. I never said it was, and I never said you said it was. The emphasis, however, in everything you've said so...
No, the notion that the way out of this is through individual, isolated actions like composting and recycling, rather than collective/political action...
There's no contradiction: I, as an individual named Mike, am not the same as the 7 billion people on earth. I'm a part of the human species, yes. That...
Because the world is not an individual. Humanity is not an individual. That's a metaphor. If we want to say that humanity is "one," there's plenty of ...
Right, which I think is the case. This is only an analogy, though. When thinking about the collective problems of a society, different concepts need t...
I sympathize with this, and it's certainly true. But I see it as more about where we place the emphasis. Much like the nature/nurture dichotomy, how b...
It's true that information is out there, but unfortunately that doesn't mean much. That's clearly not resulting in a healthier, educated, happier soci...
Production of products comes from major industries, which we use the state to regulate/subsidize/monitor, etc. Radically decreasing consumption isn't ...
Yes, but the entire premise is faulty. There's no reason to believe the economy is "collapse," in fact there most economists think it'll result in muc...
This is excellent. I commend you. It would help in myriad ways. If people get educated about this, and awareness is raised, then it'll hopefully lead ...
Yes, which is a reality — a reality you want to equate with Nostradamus and Revelation. Whether you’re confident or not is irrelevant. Talk to a few e...
Only general comments. I think he nails it, really. His views on Paul, his analysis of priests, his calling Jesus the leader of a “Buddhistic peace mo...
Yeah, or this -ism or that -ism. (Someone's taken philosophy classes.) All well and good, and I like to classify and define and read and interpret dea...
I really can't see how anyone who's actually read Nietzsche can claim he's a "lunatic." I don't think it absurd to say his thinking was revolutionary ...
We shouldn't take it seriously, except when reading Nietzsche or having academic conversations. It's like debating about whether the earth is spherica...
Exactly. Even he would be laughing at you. Not all perspectives are right. Some further values better than others, according to him. By "truth" he mea...
Yeah, perhaps you missed the "similar" part, which is crucial. No one, least of all me, is advocating for a particular religion. How disingenuous. You...
"Humans are notoriously awful at predicting the future." You didn't say anything about apocalypse. True, maybe the world isn't destroyed by climate ch...
No, actually it isn't. If you're talking about the United States, it's fairly large -- but still a minority. Most of them are immobile, and I have no ...
There is 97% + agreement on what the problem is -- from those in the field. That's good enough for me. I'm not interested in the minority who have bee...
We get it right all the time, every day in fact. This is just another stupid talking point used whenever climate change is brought up. You're not fool...
Who mentioned anything about a "single universal perspective"? You're arguing against self-created phantoms. I'll repeat: what's needed is wide-scale ...
I can't see a way we survive unless there's wide-scale awareness and prioritization of this particular problem. That doesn't mean I think it'll happen...
It's "congrats," not "congratz." Also, it's "an ad hominem," not "a ad hominem." Add "learning how to write" on your to-do list before spewing incoher...
Maybe. But again, it's up to all of us. It's not like an asteroid -- this is self-inflicted, and can be stopped. It'll be difficult, but not impossibl...
Well said. This is also what I mean by awakening. A paradigm shift, a revolution -- all similar: a major, far-reaching event that happens relatively q...
Yeah, I don't think it's simply a matter of taking a drug. But they've also been shown to be very beneficial in therapeutic settings -- MDMA, psilocyb...
Neither tells you anything about multiplication. I have no idea what "fundamental knowledge of a answer" means. I really can't make heads or tails of ...
Thank you, I will. I can't say I know who those people are, or what that means. Sorry to hear that, but defeatism guarantees the worst. I would includ...
I think so too. But short of legalizing it all and then putting it in everyone's water, I don't know how long it'd take for enough people to do it, an...
:wink: I know you're joking, but I've actually wondered about the role of drugs. Look at the movements of the 1960s and look at what drugs were being ...
Questions are fundamental answers? Maybe examples would help here, because this simply looks incoherent to me. When we ask "What is justice?" -- this ...
What about: philosophy is a word we give to a kind of thinking distinguished by the questions being asked. Those questions are perennial ones, showing...
:grin: Excellent question, though. I clicked on "discussions" I had created and noticed I failed to respond to you last year, and given it was an inte...
Well many great minds agree with you. It just rings hollow for me. The influence of epistemology/science and the problems therein (how do we know we k...
That's certainly what I'm trying to avoid, yes. If we take Descartes to mean by "If I am consciously aware, then I exist" that we likewise exist even ...
Let me give another brief synopsis of Heidegger, if you don't mind. Bear with me, because it's slightly longer than normal, but it'll give perhaps an ...
I think I mostly agree with that, except for the "don't depend on philosophers anymore" part. Maybe not contemporary philosophers, but certainly philo...
I'm sure Descartes wouldn't go for it, but I nonetheless think it's true. Remember, the "I" that thinks is nothing more than the conscious subject, in...
Advertisement has done untold harm. It's gotten worse with time. Less about information about a product, more about flashiness -- use of sex appeal, "...
The Sickness is the System Richard Wolff Little (paraphrased) excerpt on workplace alternatives I think is worth sharing: “I want to extend democracy ...
I don't know what "at least material" means. Heidegger is saying that our present-at-hand mode of being is very different from our more absorbed copin...
Remember that "ontic" refers to entities, and "ontological" to being. It's not that Heidegger discounts the fact that at times we consider ourselves "...
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