Ciceronianus

Well, it serves as an excuse to watch Springtime for Hitler one more time, which is always worthwhile. I bet Heidi saw it and wished he had thought of...

Whatever it may be, you can be certain even less will be done to correct it than is done to control guns. It's not the government's problem to find ou...

There's never a real debate, here, when there's money to be made. Thus far, the more guns, the more money. That may change when we each begin to make ...

Indeed. He also fraudulently claimed to be the creator of Bearnaise sauce, explaining the difference in spelling as part of an an effort to get women ...

I would think that a supernatural explanation becomes less plausible the more a natural explanation is provided.

See Warren Zevon, Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse, or rather hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O2S1pH1bOo It even has "monkey" in it.

In what sense are they supernatural, though? If they're not, then how do they support your point?

No, but it would be difficult (though not impossible) to compose a roundelay about Marxism.

The unalienated employee leaps gladsomely into the air, and sings a roundelay having to do with not being estranged

All hail to the western way of thinking they're all drunks, you mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events Here's a handy list of the many times the apocalypse has been predicted. ...

I think the notion that our judgments are "distorted and flawed" has become so commonplace among many of those of the Academy and their acolytes that ...

James Lee Burke, a writer who spent a great deal of time in Louisiana and writes of it and its people in his fiction, described it as a "fresh air men...

I think it's unsurprising Roe v. Wade is being overturned. That a majority of the Justices intended to do so has been apparent, despite their disingen...

You know, I'm beginning to think you don't really want to be a shepherd. It could limit your surveillance, though, as well as your exposure to the hor...

I suppose he can be a Christian shepard, then. Or a lamb, an agnus dei.

Then be a shepherd.

Sorry. If a gift isn't accepted, it's not a gift. Similarly, a bargain, like a contract, must be agreed to by the parties. And, since you're not in a ...

You've bestowed nothing on me, nor has anyone else. The U.S. Constitution merely provides that Congress shall not adopt a law abridging the freedom of...

My point isn't that speech must be censored, but that there's no "right" to say whatever one wants, no matter how stupid, offensive, malicious, bigote...

The trial of Socrates is an example of state action (prosecution sanctioned by the state). He was also accused for his association with Alcibiades, co...

The only legal right to "free speech" in our Great Republic addresses restriction of speech by the government. So, other people, and any group or orga...

The concept of Justice arises from the ubiquity of harm. Because choice will in most cases be tainted by self-interest and other factors peculiar to i...

The words, alone, don't make something the case (except perhaps in the case of the bet). Anyone may pronounce someone husband and wife, or name a ship...

If the mind is separate from reality, where is it? Describe what it is to be "separate from reality."

That age may have begun, at least here is God's favorite country. Already we see Yahoo-like behavior in state and local government, which matches or e...

I read that. She's a perceptive sort. I agree with her that Gaucho isn't given the credit it's due.

True. So far, in any case. I wonder if communication via social media will come to be face-to-face communication through Zoom or holographs or images ...

I don't, beyond the fact that Alabama, the Crimson Tide, is one of the winners in the world, and the voice of the lyrics has chosen "Deacon Blues" as ...

I'm a big fan of Steely Dan, and the solo work of Donald Fagen. Part of the fun for me is figuring out the various references in the lyrics. They mana...

My feeling is that social media, email, text messages; the technology of the Internet and communications, discourages thought (and other things as wel...

Well, Hume was talking about miracles, you see (violations of the laws of nature). Your talking about the score of a football game. Perhaps this defea...

"Stoic"?

I have to admit I don't know enough about theoretical physics to say whether it may have a "real use." I suspect it may, but don't know. It strikes me...

Certainly, you may think about what why there is something rather than nothing if you wish. I don't say you can't; I say you shouldn't, unless you wan...

Not a list of traits one should have to be able to call himself an ideal Man, you see. I wonder what list of traits one should have to call himself "J...

You think that when we determine what something is, or what is true, or what justifies an action, we disturb ourselves with something completely beyon...

There are very few you think can be called a "Man" in the world, it seems.

Only if philosophy consists of being disturbed by something completely beyond your control, in which case-- DIE, PHILOSOPHY, DIE! (copyright Ciceronia...

Things just are. 'Nuff said.

So much for consciousness, then.

It should be obvious, but I doubt it is. So, I think it should be emphasized, lest we fall into the Never-Never Land of relativism or mere speculation...

Agreed.

I, for one, don't accept that analysis (reasoning) is inherently suspect, regardless of method or the results of its application, merely because it's ...

I don't think Dewey ever maintained that habits, or customs, or culture or what have you (name your preferred source of prejudice) prevent us from mak...

Doesn't seem bloodthirsty to me. Why did the poster convey to you the idea the ape, or German soldier, drank blood or was thirsty for it?

It strikes me that there's a point when the inclination to discount any assertion or argument because we can't really know anything since we're permea...

Wouldn't be more apt to ask whether magical thinking is philosophy? Was Helena Blavatsky a philosopher? What about Aleister Crowley? What about other ...

These are matters which don't yield to thought. Addressing them are tasks for the artist or mystic or the religious. What is sought is an evocation, a...

A curious metaphor, as there is no eye that sees anything, really. Our eyes don't see. We do. And we see ourselves with some frequency. So, just what ...