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Phil Devine

['Member']Joined: April 24, 2020 at 18:39Last active: May 19, 2020 at 19:45None discussions14 comments

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In: Brexit  — view comment
Europe wasn't created to give people an identitty but it needs an identity to to support solidarity among its members (and thus prevent war). Between ...
May 19, 2020 at 19:34
In: Brexit  — view comment
What Christianity used to do for Europe was to provide it with an understanding of what it meant to be European. Personal belief is another matter: ma...
May 18, 2020 at 17:09
In: Brexit  — view comment
So what are you going ro replace it with? If you didn't know, the stock of the Enlightenment is very low, especially in Europe (the collapse of Marxis...
May 18, 2020 at 14:45
In: Brexit  — view comment
The fact remains. The EU is fundamentally unsound. The only basis for union I know of -- Europe's shared Christian heritage -- the Eurosecularists sco...
May 17, 2020 at 11:59
In: Brexit  — view comment
Human beings are tribal creatures. I, We, and Them are the categories of social life, like space, time and causality in the natuof ral order. Where th...
May 16, 2020 at 12:39
We know what we value most highly only by testing. At a time when the bishops (or many of them) have shut the Church down, some Catholics have discove...
May 08, 2020 at 13:52
I care not a whit whether the Spectator is right wiing, left wing, or something else. Its analysis of the contemporary Left is sadly true.
May 04, 2020 at 00:32
Only brainwashing or the grace of God can change a core belief. Ormaybe what Kuhn calls anomolies can build up to the point where they compel a paradi...
May 04, 2020 at 00:28
Both W and A said things like this, but the meaning is different. W is mainly concerned (and is right to be concerned) to deny the need for an ideal l...
April 28, 2020 at 18:27
Men and women are both human beings. But they are different kinds of human beings. Otherwise you would have to say that sex and reproduction are unimp...
April 27, 2020 at 20:41
The key idea in the later Wittgenstein is that our language is all right as it is; we do not need an ideal language. Careful attention to real world l...
April 27, 2020 at 20:34
The small communities that Anarchism supports are a good thing. (I agree that the nuclear family is not ideal, thoiugh not I think for feminist reason...
April 26, 2020 at 13:17
I had a bit of trouble following this, but our two party system is toxic. Pro-life Democrats, New Deal Republicans, Socialists, Greens, Libertarians, ...
April 25, 2020 at 14:22
I am more and more puzzled about what anarchism is supposed to be. That majorities can be gravely wrong is standard constitutional (aka liberal) democ...
April 25, 2020 at 12:43