Mere sensationalism. The creators of the "documentary" have acknowledged they left out evidence, claiming there was too much to include and none of th...
Consider the wording of the paragraphs in which "the light" appears here. "The Word" in this Gospel was at the beginning, and was God, but "He" was al...
Well, as for the last, and as for works: Music--that's difficult. I have to mention three; two jazz, one classical. "Round Midnight, Thelonious Monk, ...
Well, the Gospel of John is the last of the Gospels, and by the time it was written Christianity was absorbing pagan philosophy. So, we have reference...
One of the most grotesque aspects of the peculiarly grotesque Great War is that an estimated 11,000 casualties were incurred on the final day of the w...
The Latin is taken from a poem by Horace. The poem could be taken as urging that Romans appear to be so inclined to war, so filled with martial spirit...
That won't necessarily help, you know, at least as far as the Christian God is concerned (I don't know much about the others, though I suppose I have ...
You should ask this of those men who drafted those "founding documents" you refer to, one of which claims that it is "self-evident" that all men are e...
Well. Being, being being, is no being; or to put it another way,no being can be being, because being is being. While it may be true that beings be, by...
To the extent I can judge from what is quoted by Bitter Crank (I'm too lazy to read any Plato), I would call it simple-minded and incomplete. Justice ...
Cicero used the phrase in referring to the law, and "justice." I would say he refers to the need for the law to treat people fairly, impartially, by n...
I think that "reason" was viewed by ancient philosophers in the West as something different from "reason" as we think it to be now, influenced as we a...
According to Pierre Hadot, The Meditations were a part of Stoic practice on the part of the Emperor, which Moliere hints at. He wrote them to discipli...
I've always had a fondness for Cynicism as practiced by Diogenes the Dog mostly, I confess, on an unworthy basis--I relish his mockery of Plato. Stoic...
Strange how the law keeps being dragged into this preposterous debate. Is it thought that its existence somehow explains , proves or disapproves somet...
There is nothing logical about comparing non-existence to existence, sorry. There is no thing that is non-existence; there is no person that does not ...
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."--O. W. Holmes I think most lawyers dread clients who go to court seeking justice; I do, i...
Well, certainly nobody can accuse you of understating the significance of philosophy. But I'm merely a practitioner of the law, and so can only know h...
I've been practicing law for longer than I care to say, and have given it some thought. The law as a functioning system has little to do with ethics a...
You confuse debating the existence of God with considering whether God exists, and coming to a conclusion. I suppose others who cherish the task of re...
In arguing against an absolute claim (we should not have children, ever), I'm not required to adopt an absolute position contrary to it (we should hav...
Crime and punishment are functions of the law, and the law is one of the things we do.. And what we do, outside of philosophy classrooms and forums an...
Praemonitus praemunitus then, I suppose. My personal feeling is that people should refrain from telling others whether they do or don't believe in God...
So is the quote, just above, you know. But thank you for the unsolicited declaration. Secretly, I've always hoped you would explain your "stance in re...
Well, there's always the eugenics option. That would eliminate those damned mistakes. Probably reduce the suffering inflicted on those unfortunate eno...
It's quite possible to sensibly advocate the position that reproduction should be reduced. The key word in your post as far as I'm concerned is "ratio...
Read Xenophon, if you haven't already, for a somewhat different account of Socrates. I dislike Plato's use of Socrates as his mouthpiece ("sock puppet...
I think I'm fated to believe, always, that there is not now, has never been, and never will be, any purpose in discussing "free will" or "determinism....
One does what one can, of course. But the beginning of the universe is just a tad remote in comparison with the sexual intercourse of our mommies and ...
Ah, but to the antinatalist there are answers to some of them. For example, the question "Why am I (or we) here?" is easily answered. Plainly, it's be...
Well, no. I need believe nothing at all about the Bible but for the fact you quoted portions of it to point out your interpretation of those quotation...
That an analogy is intended. That scripture is (conveniently) strewn with symbolism. That Jesus said what is attributed to him in the gospels. That Je...
It seems to me that if you believe that our parents should not have had children--that if they acted morally none of us would be alive--you would thin...
Dewey's writing is rather dense as well, I must say. It's his views on education I thought of in reading the OP. That and his theory of logic, or inqu...
I don't know Deleuze and so may be talking through my hat, to use a charming old phrase, but damned if he doesn't sound a lot like Dewey here. And it ...
I'm surprised, and in a way pleased, to say I agree with you entirely. I think you put it quite well. I think it saturates all our utterances because ...
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