I've already requested of you on this point in my first response to you: Are you unable to satisfy a simple request to backup your claim? If indeed yo...
Oh, so you agree with my point 'd' that the overwhelming reason Rand isn't taken seriously by academic philosophers is the low quality of her argument...
The problem with your argument is you use "we". You are lack the imagination in your argument to understand that other people can, in a very strange a...
Yes, we agree here. I also believe it is not constructive to simply list negative adjectives without context, pointing to further resources, or backin...
You're being too generous. If Rand's ideal was realized (nearly everyone believed in objectivism because, being objective, nearly everyone arrives at ...
People who stumble into a Scientology center (as alludes to), a meeting about the "Chronicles of the Girku", some evangelical group preaching the eart...
Ok, we both agree that whatever previous material you've written about the subject is not worth finding and referencing, if it hasn't been deleted. We...
The first thing you say is: Implies you've already made answers that you consider satisfactory with respect to the issues raised here and are only her...
Yes, I thought this was your method. And yet you make 3 successive posts about more than one thing. What gives? I thought you only ever did one thing....
"(i) not being a 'systematic' philosopher" also says nothing about quality of arguments. Many philosophers are not considered 'systematic' in their pr...
It's assessment of only part of her content, the part dealing with views of other thinkers, it says nothing of what arguments she presents herself fro...
Your points a, b and c, are all extraneous to the quality of argument. One can write fiction and have high quality arguments. One can develop outside ...
Yes, this is the debate. You've advanced the theory that it's for reasons extraneous to the quality of her arguments: that a. she wrote fiction or the...
I didn't make any such claim, only that they all wrote initially and in some cases only fiction and are taken seriously in academic philosophy (your r...
What does this change? There are plenty of authors that likewise wrote initially fiction that are taken seriously, in some cases only fiction. If you ...
Please provide a link and the reasons you believe your answer was complete and correct in the other discussion you mention. There are plenty of author...
Though I agree with your conclusion, that Ayn Rand is uninteresting philosophical material, I have issue with several points of your argument. I'm not...
These "Stoic" books for a popular audience are generally written by fools that don't understand stoic philosophy, but are just trying to cash in on th...
Perhaps, it shouldn't surprise you that this is what you find on the news, but you maybe mixing different kinds of self-identified "world changers" an...
Sure, there are many new elements to the current situation that have no precedence. However, unless our novel abilities reduce risks to essentially ze...
Though I agree we won't stay in overshoot for very long, by definition overshoot comes to an end, the danger is ecosystems collapsing. Population peak...
I think it's useful to add to my last comment, of which the theme is to reduce everything to observations and abstract mathematics, that physicists do...
Yes, I agree, Kant's noumena, the thing in itself, could be anything. When I mention we may have a revolution in physics that may change completely ou...
I'm not sure what you mean by everything happening simultaneous. If such were the case there would be no cause and effect? Yes, hidden variables theor...
I am not equating classical and metaphysical time. One could do so (that there is a newtonian-like world beneath our ability to observe), but by metap...
We all work for gain, but not all of us can work for personal profit maximization or the system doesn't work? This is what I understand from your stat...
We agree that they deserve no credit, I am not convinced that they are doing God's work though unaware. But let us get back to this point at another r...
How so? Anyone from any culture can join a gang and work their way up to become a mobster; in some cases, given their skill set, it's an economically ...
This is exactly my question. Do they do this due to some internal difference in their greed ethic, if so what is that difference, or because they happ...
The mob also runs on a system of personal greed, likewise the system is inefficient but certainly more efficient than anarchy, are the mobsters also d...
Yes, I didn't make it clear in my post that he's still talking to an intellectual class, who then take ideas and make art or write articles and books ...
The threat/violence and repression of the communists were done under constitutional powers granted by the Reichstag Fire Decree. It's debatable how ma...
Ok, then yes, we disagree on this point. Though I don't view Hitler being elected as a point against democracy, it's simply the case that he used the ...
So you read the sentence "and it would go without saying that they'd be able to argue their view that the Nazi's were democracy gone wrong (and perhap...
To add to ssu's comment, Hitler was voted for in a democracy, so were many other dictators (as well as many a coup that simply overthrew the democracy...
All post-war French philosophers and intellectuals tend to sound ridiculous in English. However, after living in France for a few years I started to u...
Yes, the whole debate was a long discovery of the fact that Perterson has just taken for granted the US right-wing meme term "neo-marxist" to refer to...
Yes, the corporate friendly media will only allow corporate friendly environmentalism. However, when I was in the 16 to 18 range and becoming aware of...
I thought about it for several years and turned things in every which way I could, but decided it's basically impossible ... for now ... in the West. ...
Agreed. I just wanted it to be clear, to anyone unfamiliar, that large famines did occur. The problem I was alluding to was not that engaging in globa...
How do you suggest the High IQs get this 50% value? The low IQ's should just vote in laws to hand it to them? Though I understand your frustrations wi...
Yes, we're in agreement ... sort of. The theater part is the debate framework of individual initiative and "eco consumerism" being the available actio...
This is not correct. The fact that technology (which I agree is a big factor) can increase carrying capacity, and technology is largely responsible fo...
I agree it's interesting what historical philosophical trends changed moving from Galilean to Einsteinian relativity. I wouldn't go as far as to say p...
By "fight off possibility of famine", do you mean the great leap forward? At least for now. As for what happened, the US cut a deal with the Chinese t...
Though of course a substantive answer from @"I like sushi" would be welcome, globalizing the debate is I think a natural step. Some global capitalism ...
Yes, in terms of strategy, two plans can be equal, and a coin flip can be a convenient method to decide. For instance, if you build a chess program to...
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