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No, I haven’t. I’ll take a look. I went to the link, pushed a button, and automatically sent it off to my Kindle. Ain’t modern life wonderful.

As I understand it, Lao Tzu certainly didn’t.

I thought about this some more after my previous response to you. I think there is a higher truth to learn here, it’s that all human philosophy, all h...

Maybe, but if I were he, I wouldn’t think so. Not that I have any insight into how he really thought or to his philosophy as a whole.

Maybe this is related - Since retirement, as my life has become less stressful and I don’t have to be involved with the difficulties of involuntary so...

I guess I don’t consider undermining a principle based on a trivial circumstance as a higher truth.

Neither. I don’t think Kant would consider the example as undermining the validity of the categorical imperative, as much as we might.

Anti-pragmatism - finding an obscure or trivial situation in which an otherwise useful and effective principle falls short and using that to invalidat...

I agree with all this. To be fair to the OP, they were talking more about spiritual, psychological, and social conditions rather than economic ones.

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Some people use other people, exploit them, for their own benefit. That is true, has always been true, and likely will always be true. I will agree to...

I recognize many people feel that way. I don't. It feels like a cheat to me. Looking at my own life, I can see that pretty much all the problems I hav...

Sorry to be so long in getting back to you on this. You pointed out some inconsistencies in my post and I've been rethinking what I wrote. As you've p...

Speaking of which, has everyone seen “The Man Who Would Be King?” With Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Great movie.

Perhaps rather than responding to @"Count Timothy von Icarus"’s response to my comment, it would make more sense for you to respond directly to mine.

An interesting and thoughtful OP, much of which I'm in sympathy with, but, for me, there are some off notes. You decry the loss of our humanity and ou...

Pasta - I guess you could think of that as bread. And of course, Velveeta.

I like this, but it raises the question of what “sufficient warrant” means. The answer I’ve always given is that usefulness is the measure of a metaph...

It’s true, making things right is more difficult than apologizing or a gift card.

To the extent possible reestablish status quo ante. That’s Latin for “gift card.”

One of the true pleasures of the forum is knowing you will always be there to put things in perspective. It is an honor to philosophize with you.

Strikes me the whole apology/forgiveness thing is really just a way of avoiding responsibility. Don’t apologize, make it right.

I disagree.

The only things that have a true claim to being real are those phenomena we humans experience in our own daily lives - gummi bears, 1975 Ford Mustangs...

No

Have they deported any innocent legal residents to El Salvador without due process of law recently?

I’m not familiar with the controversy around Snow White, but your post reminds me of the recent hooha about using a black actress to play the Little M...

I think you’ve gotten the definition of scurrilous wrong. This is what it says in the Cambridge dictionary - “Expressing unfair or false criticism tha...

Knowledge and reason are specifically developed to constrain our choices.

Thank you.

There’s another one of the many differences between us. I, personally, would rather be a dumbass than creepy.

Creepy pseudo-philosophical psychobaloney.

Correct. Redundent.

All of reality is merely reified abstractions.

All of my answers are based on my non-mathematicians understanding. No No The difference between the two sets is the same size as the sets themselves,...

I'm going to be on the road until next Monday and may not have a chance to respond much till then.

That's a pretty naive way of looking at it. So, all I need to justify my ownership of my home is a "sense of property?" I just claim it's mine and, I ...

I own a house on land in Massachusetts. It was originally included in a grant from the King of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colony the...

In Virginia in the United States, where I went to high school, it was not legal for a black person and a white person to marry until my junior year, 1...

You’re the lawyer, so you probably know better than I, but I don’t think cake makers can discriminate against gay people. That doesn’t mean they can’t...

That doesn’t seem reasonable to me. For many people marriage isn’t primarily a legal agreement, it’s a spiritual one. I do agree that government perso...

At my own wedding the only ones who despised me were my wife’s parents.

Sorry, way over my head.

That seems reasonable. Do you really think we should force ministers to marry gay people if they have moral objections?

Not all numbers are expressible as fractions, only the rational numbers are. All infinities made up of rational numbers are equivalent - they are coun...

Some philosophical thoughts not worth their own thread. Poetry and humor both act by overflowing language and intellect and diving directly to whateve...

@"Tzeentch", @"NOS4A2", @"AmadeusD" While we're all here, I'd like to bring up another specific instance of government support for business. I alluded...

I don't think that's a realistic scenario, but it does highlight a point I made earlier - business as it is currently practiced can not exist without ...

Thanks for the answers. This is a bit different from the direction I thought this thread would go when I wrote the OP, so I'm not adequately prepared ...

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