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I think science, like many other things, is a family of separate enterprises that resemble each other without strict transitivity of similarities. The...

Feels like the Red Scare is happening again, except this time it's about conservative reactionary forces instead of radical communist forces. Russia t...

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason by Arthur Schopenhauer.

It don't like the term "realist" because everyone considers themselves to be a realist. Everyone's opinion is the "realistic" opinion or they wouldn't...

Didn't Greek tragedy kinda implode on itself?

Are you saying that people have to be intoxicated for sex to be comfortable?

I agree with your analysis. Nietzsche's view, in my opinion, is that if the philosophers devalues life through reason, then a life affirming philosoph...

Sure, I've already said that I'm not committed to saying that ALL sex is immoral, just that certain kinds (which may entail most) sex is. Sexual relat...

No, I don't think this is true. I mean, there are hateful feminists, no doubt about that. But I don't think most are that hateful. And I don't think p...

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2018/08/04/live-students-block-streets-in-uttara Thugs, protected by state police, are raping schoolgirl...

Fuck the Bangladeshi government.

Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph & Frances Gies. Cool book.

But why do they have a military? It is a prisoner's dilemma, a rat race, a constant fight to one-up each other out of fear and masculine pride. How do...

I know you were not intending to, but I want to interject and say that OCD can be a serious psychological disorder that significantly impacts the qual...

Ignorance might be bliss for a short time but it tends to bite you in the ass later on down the road when you suddenly have serious problems that you ...

I disagree. States are necessary for militaries, we know this from history. The Roman Empire had the most sophisticated armed forces of the ancient wo...

Fascism breeds in certain environments which may not exist in an anarchistic society. This is similar to why is does not make sense to argue that the ...

:lol: I was thinking along the same lines. Those in power can only maintain their power if they successfully dupe their subordinates into fighting eac...

Re-reading Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by the sage of Königsberg.

It isn't ice that is undergoing these phase changes, but water. Ice, water and clouds are all made up of the same thing, H2O. When the ice melts, the ...

In a rudimentary sense, yeah I think perception is less "direct" than it is "inferential", and more specifically, less is more. The brain, through som...

It seems to me that one cannot posit one's existence without formally limiting the existence of others. To say, "I exist", or rather, "I will continue...

I don't think pacifism tout court is admirable. Sometimes it can just be plain fucking stupid. If someone threatened to kill my cat (which I unfortuna...

It seems like every person is a potential murderer. Pull the wrong strings too many times and they're bound to snap eventually. Even the most benevole...

I suspect any pacifist society will eventually erupt in a bloody, violent catharsis, much like an abstinent ascetic will eventually release their loin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

Any particular texts you recommend? I read about Collingwood in A. W. Moore's The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, but haven't read anything primary.

Collingwood?

Agreed. The truth of a metaphysical theory is not its most important feature. It doesn't matter if it's true or false, what matters is what it inspire...

Well said. Nietzsche said the same thing. Carnap portrayed metaphysics as failed art. It certainly does feel anachronistic for someone to call themsel...

I'm weary of discussing the pains of existence. Prayer, meditation and music are more expedient, and less intrusive to others. Nothing is gained by th...

Torturous pain is the acceleration of the structural pain of living. In a sense, the structural pain is almost imperceptible torture. It's a sigh, rat...

Yep, we cannot think the unthinkable. Objectivity is already subjectivity.

Well, regardless, you're still making moral claims here, and extremely passionate ones at that. Nobody ever said a moral evaluation of mankind has to ...

You are correct in that humans are the most murderous and destructive species on the planet. But it is a non-sequitur to assert that because of this, ...

This has a moral seriousness to it. You degrade the moral progress of the West because it comes at a great cost, which is a moral claim. ...or at leas...

What are your thoughts, then, on moral progress? Civil rights advocacy? What we see as morally correct today often was a minority view in the past and...

You waste my time by being a useless troll.

Mods, please.

huh?

This is a non-sequitur. Why must people agree en masse for morality to be objective?

Any philosophical position has its default with an agnosticism. Is morality objective or not? Before anything else, there is the question and the answ...

Classifying moral or aesthetic facts as "subjective" is usually just a prejudice. There's nothing spooky about morality or aesthetics, though (is math...

But yeah, no, staring up at the ceiling for three hours every night trying to fall asleep is no bueno.

A lot of the time, consciousness is simply waiting. Enduring. Since we can't just turn ourselves off. Consciousness is an ever-vigilant insomnia. Ther...

Evil and the God of Love by John Hick.

Haha, I suppose you are right. I have no interest in helping others raise their children, personally. Chalk it up to my personal psychology, moral bel...

Is casual sex immoral? Yes but not because it's casual but because it's sex. :smirk:

Why?

Again, my OP wasn't about whether or not truth itself exist. I'm not that silly to fall for that circularity, although certain versions of skepticism ...