Who indeed? Nazi, schmazi, eh? But you might want to read some of what Thomas Sheehan wrote about Heidi and his devotion to National Socialism sometim...
He was one of those good Nazis. Sort of like Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. Even looked like him. He didn't see anything, either. https://image...
What would you contend he meant by referring to "the Jews"? So-and-so who lived a few blocks away? In what way do you find that pertinent? No doubt so...
Why do you assume I've done no research? Because I poke fun at the fellow? Not all of us follow in his goosesteps, you know. His infatuation with Hitl...
Sacred cows are allowed to wander where they will. after all. Perhaps especially where Heildegger--sorry, Heidegger--is concerned. His student that he...
Funny thing. I feel the same way about the craven, miserable, pretentious, obscure, mystical, romantic, jackboot-licking, Hitler-loving, Jew-hating Na...
One must order a murder to be a Nazi? Well, that lets those who were ordered to murder and did so off the hook. Swept up by a cultural revolution too,...
Interesting, but unpersuasive. Polytheism and anthropomorphic gods remained quite popular in the West at least until Christianity began stamping the g...
You mention his girth. I haven't. But you're right, of course--it was impressive, like that of his hero, Thomas Aquinas. George Bernard Shaw used to m...
So the totemic regard for assault weapons, and even their use, is associated with the sexual fears/disappointments of unfortunate males? Well, I only ...
Yes, when it suited his purpose. I doubt he would have agreed with this statement by Hume, though: “If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or ...
Which would make it an off-hand conclusion on his part, absent any thoughtful consideration and evidence. He was an unabashed apologist. Note his stat...
Well, being glib, he provides no definitions, no explanations and no evidence. Neither does he make an argument. He proclaims, declares. It's not clea...
Augustine was a very odd person. There's something strange about his eagerness to confess his sins and misdeeds. He seems to revel in them in a bizarr...
Well, the individuals you refer to are philosophers and theologians. They purport to explain things, or justify claims. No doubt I should have been cl...
Chesterton is an amusing writer, but never careful in thought or analysis. He is, for the most part, glib. His writing is breezy and superficial, and ...
Those initiated into the ancient mysteries took their oaths of secrecy very seriously. That secrecy together with the intolerance of "triumphant" Chri...
Again? Last time you claimed I couldn't understand you unless I had read Being and Time if I recall correctly. Now I must be admitted into the mysteri...
First, if there is a question to be answered, it should be "Why is there something?" Second, that's a question nobody will answer by thinking really h...
You're hammering and thinking about hammering as you hammer. We're quite capable of doing both if we want to, and without distinguishing ourselves fro...
When one thinks, one is doing something. Thinking is conduct resulting from interaction with the rest of the world. It's inapposite to say that we obs...
I'm not sure what you're asking. If something's ineffable, it can't be described in words. Are you asking for a description of the experience of liste...
Quite right. Also, Stoicism encourages active participation in social/political matters--Roman Stoicism, in any case. That's why some Roman emperors, ...
It seems we can't know whether they do or not without testing them, and my guess is you don't think testing should be required (I think it's likely it...
It's a very Stoic point of view. As Epictetus said, there's only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things beyond the power of ...
My understanding is Covid may be transmitted through breathing, and there's good evidence that the nose is used in breathing with some frequency as we...
You're view of what constitute "human rights" seems extremely broad; so broad as to render some of them, at least, trivial. "Give me the right not to ...
Come, that isn't at issue. The law is quite clear that governments, federal, state and local, have what are called "police powers"--by which they may ...
When people think, e.g., that being required to wear a mask is a violation of their "rights" I don't think we can expect much of them in the way of pe...
The people of our Great Republic are convinced they have what they choose to call individual "rights" by virtue of which they may do as they please, e...
Better yet if it causes them to kill themselves, thereby assuring they won't procreate and disposing of themselves to boot, resulting in less people i...
Oxymorons, you mean. I've had a few brushes with members of the Posse Comitatus in my time. I particularly enjoy the statements such folk make about t...
What was it Patrick Henry said? "Give me convenience, or give me death!" right? No, that was the Dead Kennedys. But I'm sure Patrick Henry would have ...
In that case, I'd say you don't know of a reason why I should have to justify my moral principles to others. Welcome, then, to the world in which at l...
You don't know whether I should kill some random stranger? Or you don't know whether I must have a reason not to kill some random stranger to refrain ...
Why must I justify the fact that I won't kill some random stranger? Do you believe I should do that? Do you think I must have some reason not to kill ...
Dammit, I was hoping a limerick was in the offing. Well, I'll try one then. There once was was a species called human, Who thought God cared what they...
What need is there to justify morality, by the way? Questioner: "Prove that you should be moral, Ciceronianus!" Ciceronianus: "Why should I do that?" ...
I'm curious about your choice of title for this thread. It seems to have no relation to the question you pose, unless you assume, but neglect to expla...
Descartes never really doubted anything. He was engaged in an exercise which he thought necessary because, for reasons not entirely clear to me, he th...
I'm curious, though not curious enough to read through all posts, but assuming the linguistic turn is over (I don't think it is, but what the hell) ha...
Although I cherish the hope that his father's name was Naughtius Maximus, in my less silly moments I'm quite willing to accept as probable the claim t...
I know too little of Eastern thought to comment. I'm of the West by birth, upbringing and education. But I know there are similarities between Stoicis...
Mirabile dictu! It's my experience as well, with this caveat: If something just read can't be related clearly by the reader, it may also be the case t...
It's interesting that among the documents found at Nag Hammadi are portions of treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. That suggests there was a ...
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