I think the end of history claim is likely to go the way of the belief in the end of physics at the end of the 19th century. People are not very good ...
I used to be a big fan of Tom Robbins. As I got older, I got to feeling that he was too cute for my taste. When I reread books I'd previously enjoyed,...
You seem to be equating the end of history and the end of the world. I thought they were different. To me the end of history has meant the end of the ...
I assume you've read The Tao Te Ching. It's the best of all the religious/philosophical foundation documents. Why you ask? Because it's short. You can...
Welcome to the forum. You write well and your ideas are interesting and well presented. I hope you'll hang around for a while. As I noted, I won't be ...
My knowledge about Hindu religion is minimal, but it is my understanding that when eastern philosophies became known in the west, they were considered...
Apparently it was a difficult life for children in Sparta. Among other harsh child care practices, it is reported that "unfit" children were killed so...
Two thoughts. First, if you ask a non-religious person about religious principles it's no surprise if you find negative attitudes. Second, just becaus...
The purpose of each human's life, to the extent there is one, is the experience of that life. The inability to face that is what religion and philosop...
I've been thinking about starting a poll to identify the most intelligent, funniest, most obsessed with pigs, and most obsessed with goats members of ...
But I think the zero-point energy density of space is always a constant and greater than 0. I don't see that as necessarily contradicting what you hav...
I don't think you can separate religion and human and civil rights. Did Christianity cause the drive for rights to liberty and self-government? Probab...
The Declaration of Independence was written almost 250 years ago by people steeped in the western traditions of culture, including Christianity. What ...
I think you and I are talking about different things. I'm talking about what moral agency means to me. It has to do with my obligation to behave in mo...
Here's a more complete quote from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they ...
I believe we should protect vulnerable people. Child abuse hurts children. I have a moral obligation to try to stop child abuse if I can. If I gather ...
It comes down to this - Judging the morality of other people or beliefs is not an autonomous moral action. Morals have to do with how you live your li...
I'm with @"Unenlightened" on this. You're afraid to engage with people who disagree with you, so you refuse to address directly those who have a less ...
Maybe that's true for you, but it's not true for everyone. It doesn't seem to have been true for Frost. But that's beyond the point. "Only when love a...
This is clearly wrong, unless you jigger with the meaning of "own interest" as @"Tom Storm" has. People help each other because we like each other. We...
An "autonomous moral agent" is someone who takes responsibility for their own actions. Passing moral judgement on anyone or anything is not the action...
Are you not familiar with Dr. Strangelove? It is considered a great film. It is a dark comedy - very, very, very dark. It's not propaganda at all. It ...
It's funny. As I was looking for the text of the poem online, I came across a paper that discussed this. It was a summary of past reviews of the poem....
Of course the wood chopper gave the work to the tramps. My right might be love but theirs was need. And where the two exist in twain Theirs was the be...
I should have put in a couple of more stanzas: Out of the woods two hulking tramps (From sleeping God knows where last night, But not long since in th...
Your quote made me think of this: But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes ...
Well, you caught me by surprise, the way you drove off the cliff like that. Earlier in the thread you sounded way to hawkish for my taste, but now you...
There is one primary question - Does what the other country is doing affect the national security of the United States? If the answer is "no," then, g...
From Wikipedia - An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intellig...
For me, philosophy is an activity that helps increase my awareness of how my mind works, especially why I believe what I believe and how I know what I...
IQ - A number representing a person's reasoning ability (measured using problem-solving tests) as compared to the statistical norm or average for thei...
When you get down to it, I don't really care about what we call China. We deal with countries that do bad things all the time. We can't fix the world,...
I don't think that making progress is the point. Philosophical, metaphysical, issues are intended to be basic, foundational. What's to progress? It's ...
Yes, a poor choice of words, although it was meant metaphorically. @"tim wood" takes pride and pleasure in being cantankerous. Not that there's anythi...
Funny - "metaphysics" and "being" are two of my favorite philosophical words. Because they both tend to mean different things to different people, I g...
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