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In: Kant and Modern Physics  — view comment
Someone once told me that an insult only hurts if it's true. In the words of Graham Harman, philosophy has an inferiority complex. A few scientists ha...
June 14, 2020 at 22:41
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
The Anatomy of Fascism was good.
June 10, 2020 at 02:30
In: Can one provide a reason to live?  — view comment
This is a non-sequitur. A life may be worth living at some point, but turn sour later on. Furthermore, a life can be worth living without its end bein...
June 08, 2020 at 01:01
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyGmDUlQJSg
June 06, 2020 at 21:54
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
What We Can Never Know by David Gamez. Thank you for thanking , the title piqued my curiosity. Very interesting read!
June 03, 2020 at 02:19
In: Where do you think consciousness is held?  — view comment
in the balls
May 29, 2020 at 03:07
In: Computer Programming and Philosophy  — view comment
Programming, as well as computer science, have been built around the notion of abstraction, i.e. simplifying complexity by ignoring details. Abstracti...
May 25, 2020 at 19:55
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
May 22, 2020 at 01:00
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
All Things Are Possible aka The Apotheosis of Groundlessness by Lev Shestov.
May 22, 2020 at 00:24
In: The Philosophy Writing Management Triangle  — view comment
whatever you do, just make sure it's translated to french
May 11, 2020 at 07:47
In: Bullshit jobs  — view comment
Thank you for sharing. As someone who has the leisure of working from home during this crisis and also secretly believes their job is mostly bullshit,...
May 02, 2020 at 20:07
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone. RIP John Conway.
May 01, 2020 at 20:25
In: Communism is the perfect form of government  — view comment
Can there be a perfect form of something that ought not to exist? The perfect murder, the perfect addiction...
April 28, 2020 at 01:00
In: Antitheism  — view comment
Correct me if I am mistaken, but these do not seem to be equivalent. Not believing in god is not the same as believing that god does not exist. The la...
April 22, 2020 at 04:05
In: Antitheism  — view comment
I appreciate the link, but I don't see what we gain by making these divisions between claims of knowledge and belief. As I see it, behind all of this ...
April 21, 2020 at 02:53
In: Antitheism  — view comment
I was not responding directly to you, but I can see why it would seem like that since my comment came right after yours. I saw a few comments already ...
April 21, 2020 at 01:55
In: Antitheism  — view comment
Wait, hold up, I thought agnosticism was the absence of belief...? Somehow this keeps getting brought up, like a weed in your yard. How I understood i...
April 21, 2020 at 00:20
In: Opinions on Houellebecq  — view comment
Off the top of my head, Žizek believes that Houellebecq is an "intelligent conservative" who, unlike reactionaries, does not offer a solution but is s...
April 12, 2020 at 01:47
In: If women had been equals  — view comment
This is peripherally related to the discussion, but I like George Carlin a lot, and I want to share two recordings of him talking about women and men ...
April 05, 2020 at 05:16
In: Can people change other people's extremely rooted beliefs?  — view comment
No, change my view.
April 05, 2020 at 02:54
In: If women had been equals  — view comment
Agreed. It would be nice to combine the good parts from both genders, remove the bad and then dispense with the concept of gender.
April 05, 2020 at 02:40
In: If women had been equals  — view comment
:up: What do you mean by "being feminine"? I have read some feminist literature and would like to share my thoughts. I am not a woman myself, but from...
April 05, 2020 at 01:05
In: Cultural Sensitivity vs. Public Health  — view comment
it...it...it's CULTURE!!! https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.squarespace.com%2Fstatic%2F51b078a6e4b0e8d244dd9620%2Ft%...
April 02, 2020 at 02:44
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
Yeah, I can see that. I think for myself I just prefer to work by myself, undisturbed by people. My productivity has skyrocketed, lol
March 30, 2020 at 05:15
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
They should be shutdown regardless.
March 30, 2020 at 05:12
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
What areas of progress do you have in mind here?
March 30, 2020 at 05:02
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
That's about what I was thinking too. Most everyone I know seems to be taking the stay at home order as an annoying inconvenience that they reluctantl...
March 30, 2020 at 05:01
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
Joining the conversation late so perhaps this has already been discussed; where I live there is a statewide quarantine until mid-April since last week...
March 30, 2020 at 04:43
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
I hope nobody wins the nomination, but if it has to be someone, then Sanders
March 30, 2020 at 02:55
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmNiVLDFx2g&t=213s
March 19, 2020 at 01:52
In: How long can Rome survive without circuses?  — view comment
a few riots and a couple deaths will please everyone just fine
March 19, 2020 at 01:50
In: What should religion do for us today?  — view comment
GTFO
February 19, 2020 at 01:14
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Serotonin by Houellebecq :up: one of my favorites
January 27, 2020 at 06:03
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
November 20, 2019 at 00:38
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Approximately a year ago, I collaborated with several people of various nationalities in an effort to document the work of the Argentinian philosopher...
November 19, 2019 at 03:32
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Positive ethics is intra-worldly, i.e. how to live. Negative ethics is prior to the world, i.e. whether or not one should live. Once a person exists, ...
November 19, 2019 at 01:48
In: An Argument Against Realism  — view comment
Are you familiar with the Leibnizian notion of dual explanations, the realm of power (mechanism, e.g. "I see because I have eyes") and the realm of wi...
November 14, 2019 at 05:14
In: What’s your philosophy?  — view comment
This begs the question. Before asking what the meaning of life is, it should first be asked whether there is a meaning to life.
November 11, 2019 at 00:46
In: Good is Unnecessary  — view comment
What if the good is what goes against one's nature? If someone has a proclivity to doing evil things, is it not good that they abstain from doing them...
November 03, 2019 at 08:26
In: Procreation and the Problem of Evil  — view comment
don't have kids, mm'kay
October 21, 2019 at 04:33
In: Moral choice versus involuntary empathy  — view comment
Empathy is a faculty that contributes to someone being moral. A defective or missing faculty of empathy will make it more difficult to be moral.
October 14, 2019 at 03:37
In: How important is (a)theism to your philosophy?  — view comment
I wouldn't do philosophy if I believed in God.
October 14, 2019 at 02:45
In: Hate the red template  — view comment
Old blue template was good. It's jarring on the eyes now.
October 05, 2019 at 06:08
In: Dissatisfaction as the driving force of consciousness  — view comment
dissatisfaction is the essence of everything dude
October 05, 2019 at 06:05
In: On Antinatalism  — view comment
yes
September 01, 2019 at 08:54
In: On Antinatalism  — view comment
I believe it is wrong to make babies. I also believe that the urge to make babies is one of the strongest urges a person can feel. I think some things...
September 01, 2019 at 08:36
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
August 25, 2019 at 21:25
In: Metaphysics - what is it?  — view comment
It's bullshit
August 25, 2019 at 00:31
In: Philosophy of software engineering?  — view comment
I work in the software industry. Software development is a subset of computer science, however in practice it is more like a trade. When entering the ...
August 21, 2019 at 00:19
In: Should A Men's Rights Movement Exist?  — view comment
The thing is, a lot of these problems may very well be eliminated if we were to transition away from patriarchy, which is exactly what feminism strive...
April 17, 2019 at 22:43
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