Yes. Though "the philosophical fallacy" is more evident in metaphysics and epistemology, it occurs in ethics as well. Dewey's concern to avoid the ill...
Well, there's abstraction, and then there's abstraction. What we think in particular circumstances may involve abstraction, but we also in most cases ...
Well, recall that Einstein also said he believed in Spinoza's God. That God is hardly one to be a cause of fanatical opposition or, for that matter, f...
Some of his works are available to be read here: http://www.peirce.org/writings.html More are available here: https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/libr...
Christianity was remarkable for it voracious assimilation of, and violent intolerance towards, the ancient pagan religions and philosophical tradition...
For me, it's a kind of nostalgia, largely associated with music, sound, colors, even smells. Listening to the Tantum Ergo being sung, the language--re...
Holy Mother Church gave me a great deal. A love of reading, learning, tradition; a fascination with the Roman Empire, of which it is a kind of ghost; ...
I made my bones, so to speak, in a Church where the mass was said in Latin. I was a wine-pouring, patin-holding participant in the great Latin rite, a...
When believing in a doctrine comes to require not only an effort, but one that demands acceptance of unsubstantiated assumptions and the repeated perf...
Yes. But it may be no argument was intended, and the poster merely wanted to express disapproval of the change of name from "Redskins" in some inoffen...
Let's assume that's true. Do you think the name should not be changed? If so, why do you want the name to remain "Redskins"? If you think it should be...
We doubt something when we're uncertain of it. That's not a minority view, as you'll find if you consult any dictionary. Uncertainty isn't something w...
How do you know, though? How, or what, would he doubt in order to truly doubt? Something more would be required than the mere statement "I doubt." One...
God's teeth. Does anyone really think that Descartes "doubted" in any serious sense his own existence or that of the rest of the world? That, while pi...
Like Heidegger, you mean? (The response which should be made whenever one is accused of being a Nazi in a philosophy forum--copyright Ciceronianus the...
Well, you're clearly not referring to suicide, so arguments that suicide is immoral clearly are inapplicable. You seem to be referring to living in a ...
Such a discussion. It makes one long, almost, for the simpler explanations accepted in the past. Certainty has its benefits, especially when its found...
Has anyone quoted Oscar Wilde on our Great Republic yet? Old Oscar was a clever fellow. The only country to go from barbarism to decadence without civ...
None whatsoever, alas. And I so hoped to be convinced, somehow, that I alone exist, that there are no material things, that nobody should be born, tha...
You'd think it should be clear that the phrase "Black Lives Matter" doesn't mean, nor can it be inferred to mean "Only Black Lives Matter" or "Black L...
Yes. Critics of Stoicism of course claim that we can't control our emotions, and that no real distinction can be drawn between things in our control a...
It became a kind of caricature, useful to opponents of the school and, much more recently, accepted by those who came to think of Stoics as being Vulc...
My position is that the traditional proofs constitute efforts to provide a reasonable basis for a conclusion arrived at largely without a reasonable b...
The great Roman Stoics lived during the ascent of the Empire, actually. Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius lived in the first and s...
Let's not lump together Wittgenstein and Power-mad Paul-Michel Foucault. Long ago, they made students at the college I attended read The Structure of ...
I wonder at the presumption (as in temerity, audacity) of those who, like Jung, make sweeping declarations regarding our essential nature. What was it...
How good to know there are some others who aren't thrilled with Heidegger. You know, I wrote a little poem about Heidegger once. It went something lik...
Not an easy task, but I'll try. This is just my interpretation. First, note that in the title Pierce refers to proof of the reality of God, not God's ...
I'm not sure that suffices to make a reasonable inference, but I think I understand what you're saying and acknowledge its persuasiveness. I would say...
Intelligence is part of the universe (there are intelligent beings in the universe--sometimes, anyway). We may not fully understand it, but it's here,...
I think that if we're inclined to pontificate (it seems an appropriate word) on the subject of the existence of God, and intend to come to any conclus...
My daemon, Marcus Tullius Cicero, keeps muttering Ignoratio Elenchi. Well, he says he's my daemon, anyhow. He also says "Believe or disbelieve, and be...
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