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Oh but it is. Perhaps you are unable to see your unnecessary, superfluous, psychological baggage that you pile upon these threads of yours.

The definitive reply. I'm still laughing.

So, have you decided that Dasher was content while doing this all day long?

If we let 'psychology' stand for the characteristics of our operating system (our ego), then I think philosophy exists / serves to inform our operatin...

What AndrewK may be getting to is that you are the topic. You just want the attention.

Thank you for your response.

Are you aware of a reason, in your own mind, why you believe you are posting these things?

Spinoza could not help but to examine what was before him. We all do by degree. We're getting hung up on the trappings

Then how can it be trivialized any further by saying that it is ubiquitous?

I couldn't disagree more. I believe philosophy is far more humble than its trappings. We are all philosophers. It is an activity of anyone with a worl...

Find the easiest way to do the hardest part.

Excellent example. A portion of the population, that might otherwise thrive, being disenfranchised due to societal fears. Yet it won't stay buried. It...

The lava will get to the surface, it will just take the path of least resistance. Which is our black sheep. Is he then playing a necessary role in soc...

Good point. Maybe the OP is looking at the body's (or society's) activity of maintaining homeostasis. Does mental pain serve society to balance / coun...

It has been said that mental problems are a result of our susceptibility to such problems and societal oppression. Whether or not society is dysfuncti...

The Schopenhauer card says: you can't win anyway and you would't be satisfied if you did.

So what exactly, are it's limits?

It would seem that everything has a finite life span, a temporal state of affairs. Would evolution or creative evolution (Bergson) make sense if perma...

Krishnamurti said something like "it's not the unknown that that we are scared of , it's the end of the known". Conspiracy theories give a good jerk t...

I don’t think it has been demonstrated in any modern society that people can provide equality to the satisfaction of those who feel affected by its ab...

Since this is in the political philosophy section we might first ask, what kind, and to what extent, can we provide equality for anyone or anything? I...

Outlines of Philosophy by Will Durant

Maybe the only reason we are looking back in the first place is because of meliorism. We know we'll see technological progress but does anything reall...

Hell of a good thread so far.

We all do it. Examining the criteria (however badly) for our chosen frame of reference. Everything follows from that. We are all philosophers. Making ...

In those groups where growth is the highest, I believe the primary motivation to have children is still economic survival. If no government will take ...

It would be hard to defend the practice of philosophy without a demonstration of its practical effects. It can only be to improve our decision making ...

There is also the position that we are all philosophers. If philosophy is the daily reappraisal and reassessment of the criteria that informs our choi...

Aren't you passing the buck? " no one is obliged to answer" is right. And what sort of answer would be sufficient? Who do you want to validate the rea...

He's got the codes.

I've seen a lot of wedding photography that included candid, unstaged shots but, yes, there is always the requisite group shots. The reason probably h...

Look before you leap. vs He who hesitates is lost

The beauty of the process is that it takes the waste products that we are drowning in and breaks them down into their base ingredients. The system has...

Thermal depolymerization holds a great deal of promise and is already up and running. But whatever technological advances come the final instance of l...

September 12

Well now it seems to be working again.

It used to be, after I looked at a thread, it's title would go grey presumably to show that I had seen the most current post. It no longer does this. ...

Everyone seems so threatened, cautious, ill at ease.

I thought there may be a Hegelian in our midst. I thought it my duty to announce my suspicions.

I'm sorry, but I wasn't sure which comment or question you were responding to. Human progress converges on the resolution of...? Or true knowledge of....

Converging on what?

That it can't be trusted or verified would seem to be a condition of the fact (?) that we are metrical and the world is non-metrical. We project a uni...

Yes an interesting interview and many here agree with him. But doesn't it change things if we consider everyone a philosopher? That anyone with a worl...

Doxastic voluntarism I should say.

It comes to volunteerism doesn't it?

who knows? "..from little acorns grow.."

My friend Mig and her dog Tig are trying to stick with the arc of this conversation.

I'm not sure about that. The last war that anyone in the United States could have been satisfied with was the first Gulf War. Our tanks, rifles, and u...

When I try to drag a photo into the post box I get a box that says " You don't have permission to upload files"

This is of course another thread, but I'd like to see how you're defining "polite society"