Nor do I believe there is enough evidence for us to assume there isn't a supernatural entity of which we would call God. Methodological naturalism req...
I'm not entirely sure. Presumably they find value and fulfillment in writing about pessimism. Probably it's a mix of catharsis, distraction, and genui...
...And True Detective was effectively based on philosophical literature, like Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Ray Brassier's N...
Right, exactly. Fascism only works (well?) when there's conflict and strife. The fascist state runs on fumes and always has to expand and consume to m...
If I remember correctly, this is one of the points that Levinas, one of Heidegger's contemporaries, differs from Heidegger. For Levinas, Ethics is fir...
You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were already preoccupying the Greeks are s...
The Gender Knot by Allan G. Johnson. Really good read. http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis3504digitaldesignsections12/files/2015/01/Gender-Knot-Sample...
I agree, the fact that people get therapy and take medication for these sorts of psychological issues seems to me to be evidence of their underlying p...
The OP had less to do with free will per se although I appreciate your input anyway. The point I was trying to get across was that we can't "get aroun...
I think it is an over-simplification to assume those who don't wear seat-belts, or those who make evolutionary-disadvantageous mistakes, are "stupid"....
Yes, time-consciousness is a key, if not fundamental, aspect of existentialist and pessimistic philosophies. The reason these animals are "exuberant" ...
How reliable are my experiences, and if I have reason to doubt the veracity of my closest experiences (like the sense of free will) do I have even mor...
Even if it were impossible to be different, why should this change the ultimate worthiness of such a universe? Just because it's the best-possible-uni...
Why not? I can imagine a world in which that particular rabbit wasn't hit by a car last night. I can imagine a world in which that fish wasn't sucked ...
From my own experience, people who have superstitious beliefs often call them "traditional", "sacred" or "faith" to cushion the beliefs from rational ...
Reading from a book on ethics, chapter covering moral realism, I found a quote that I think is quite relevant: "On the one hand, we have the idea of a...
Meant by whom? The universe? Again, why should we care what the universe thinks? Why should we care what it ultimately has planned? So I'm not playing...
"The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end." "No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful b...
Why do you assume morality must be like science? What if trying to limit morality to the constraints of the world is not satisfying for our deepest mo...
I mean, it just kind of puts things into perspective when you said you don't care what I believe. It means you aren't concerned with teaching anyone. ...
Thought I'd share a quote from a book on ancient philosophy that I'm reading currently: "There is truth in each of these accounts, but neither is whol...
How many times do I have to tell you, I don't consider your type of metaphysics to be sufficient or adequate for ethical discourse. You say things lik...
It doesn't collapse at all. Your holism is unnecessary at best, and gets in the way most of the time. If we already both agree that individualism is i...
My stance here is that reductionism inevitably gives us stronger reasons for action than holism, as holism inevitably comes into conflict with individ...
Isn't this, though, an ontological claim about ontological arguments? Right, so like I said in the OP, we just have to question the premises. These so...
Like aletheist said, philosophical arguments for/against the existence of God are almost always insufficient to prove God (does not) exist. They're mo...
I would absolutely love to start a new discussion over this at some point, but I agree and disagree with you both at the same time. If subjective, fir...
Eliminative materialists are denying that consciousness exists, in the same way chemists deny phlogiston or astronomers deny the planet Vulcan. Part o...
Reading a book on the science of consciousness right now by Antti Revonsuo, and this bit stood out (from the chapter covering the philosophical mind-b...
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