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The note I usually add when I use that Chuang Tzu quote is “Easier said than done.”

I wasn’t trying to be a nitpicker. It’s just that I’ve always understood postmodernism to be a reaction to the stark and dour minimalist rationalism o...

I have always understood that the modern period was dated between the early and mid 1900s.

No, I was just describing a fictional procedure by which you could tell the difference. I never said it was a female.

Female pig’s tails curl clockwise. Male’s curl counterclockwise. I know for certain that’s true because I just made it up.

Neither option matches my personal understanding of morality. I’ve talked about this on the forum before. Here’s the quote I always use. It’s from Zip...

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It was a self diagnosis. Yes it is an inside joke - it came from inside me, although I have shared it here on the forum before.

Thanks for the clarification.

This is from what is an instinct by William James. A bit florid… “It takes, in short, what Berkeley calls a mind debauched by learning to carry the pr...

I wouldn’t call it a theory. I think it’s more a value judgment. I do believe there is a biological basis for all the things we think and believe. Tha...

One major problem I see with your model is that all three factors on the lower tier - desire, capacity, and behavior - are equally influenced by the f...

There’s a good chance I’m the only person yet who has been formally diagnosed.

I think we do have a convincing, or at least plausible, incomplete scientific explanation. A good question. Here’s my personal take. I see most public...

Don’t think too hard about this. I generally include Donald Trump Jr. on every list I make, including my weekly grocery list. You’ve probably heard of...

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Do you mean we shouldn’t spend much time as philosopher’s, or in general? Beyond that, I disagree. I think the sociological or biological explanation ...

A bit heavy handed for the Onion. Things must be worse than I thought.

I would say moral theory is more sociology than philosophy. Morals fill a social and political role. Then again, I guess that statement is moral philo...

In my recent exchange with @"Quk", above, I convinced myself that I’m being too definitive in my statement. As I noted, Marx certainly had a big influ...

It seems to me if morality developed biologically through evolution then it could have developed differently than it did. How is that not relativism? ...

I used the words "usually" and "generally" because I didn't want to be too definitive. I'm sure there are some cases, although I don't know enough to ...

Yes. You're talking about morality from an entirely different perspective than I am. We're using entirely different language. I think you and I have h...

I don't find this a convincing argument. You don't have to punish bad guys, you just have to stop them. There doesn't need to be a moral judgment to p...

No, I don't think so. As I see it, philosophy usually reflects rather than leads. It's generally a couple of steps behind.

Mortimer Snerd and Edgar Bergen

I wouldn’t. This is your quest, not mine. I was just commenting that the only possible way of achieving what you’re talking about is politics. Unless,...

Welcome to the forum. Philosophy is not really equipped to solve the problems you’ve identified.

To the extent the problems you identify are soluble at all, it would only be through political action.

I am mostly on board with this, although I don’t think you go far enough. You should give us humans more credit. We treat others with kindness and com...

I think this is not true. Certainly not true of me and a lot of people I know who are not psychopaths. If there is a moral imperative to care for, loo...

Here is a recipe for fried tripe. INGREDIENTS 2 lbs beef tripe 1 cup flour salt black pepper cayenne pepper, to taste oil (for frying) DIRECTIONS Heat...

Isn’t that a problem for your clients?

I’ve had better luck with moderators than you. Baden in particular takes these things seriously. He’s not around all that much these days. Other moder...

That’s my problem with you - you’re always downplaying your philosophical aptitude. You seem to want to come off as a down home, down beat, Aussi schl...

This has been a frustration for me in my own threads. I try to write detailed OPs and be very specific about the issues I want to discuss. This is imp...

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We all look on you with awe.

I like music, movies, and other arts, but my primary interest is in written words. I read fiction, watch movies and TV, and listen to music for entert...

Right, but you haven't included advances in science in your evaluation of the current creativity of philosophy. That was my point. You're measuring mo...

There are some metaphysical issues I've been thinking about. As part of that thinking, I made a list of metaphysical statements that seemed related an...

I like Georgia. I have friends there. I like Coke too. I don’t like Pepsi. Let’s not mention RC cola. It’s true my heart was taken by Dr Pepper somewh...

For me, the forum is a community. I come here to hang around with you guys. Some of you I consider friends, most of you neighbors, and a few nemeses. ...

What a mean post. I like it.

In Georgia, it would be.

Here in the US, we are required by law to drink at least a six pack of either Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola every week. If you were here, what you’ve writte...

No, no, no you dumbass - it’s “faze,” not ”phase.”

My quote referenced the fact that you've excluded science, which until 1600 or so was part of philosophy, from your evaluation. Not funny at all. You ...

I am skeptical, both of the press and what we are calling the decline of the arts. I just look around and see thousands of high quality books, movies,...

A joke.