T_Clark

Yes, I share your concern.

I don't see how honor or fellow-feeling are any more vague than judgments of utility and consequences. Those two supposedly more rational criteria are...

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say whatever kind of crazy-ass thing you want.

Thank you for the clarification.

If you'll check my post, you'll see I didn't demand anything. And I have no issue with non-Americans taking an interest in our politics. It's the obse...

I have no problem with non-Americans finding fault with American policies and international actions, but it makes you look like a bunch of chooches wh...

Note my correction of @"BC". You use subjective pronouns, e.g. "we", as the subject of a verb. You use objective pronouns, e.g. "us," as the object of...

Thanks for the opening, but on those infrequent occasions when you have something philosophical to say, you say it very well.

And I have three Scottish nieces. I'm interested in politics in the UK and I pay attention a bit, but it's not an obsession. You guys seem to care mor...

I asked myself that question while I was writing the post. I think you're wrong. "We" is not the object of the prepositions, "Americans" is.

It just seems to me feriners could find something closer to home to be obsessed with, like the endangered Tasmanian devil or the price of bilibongs.

I think that's a nice, midwestern way of saying you don't think I'm very funny. That's ok, you are forgiven.

I advocate for using what works. That keeps things open for taking what I find useful from all sorts of sources. Almost all of my philosophy backgroun...

For me, spirituality means self-awareness - emotional, intellectual, physical, perceptual, social. Spiritual practice is an activity that makes me mor...

Philosophy helps me recognize how my mind works. How I know what I know. Why I believe what I believe. Why I care about what I care about. Why I'm int...

It's important to me that I treat people honorably. Sometimes I don't live up to that aspiration. The source of that isn't some formal, codified, "rat...

I wish you fucking foreigners would leave the US politics to we Americans. The argument that what happens here effects the whole world and that justif...

You call it projection, I call it empathy. I think it's the source of our ability to care for each other.

I think that is the source of the transcendental realm. It's why so much of my philosophy is based on introspection, for which I have been criticized.

I agree. For me, that recognition is a function of my intellectual self-awareness. I gave my definition - activities that promote self-awareness.

I'm not sure what constitutes my Philistinicity.

Yes, I know. And I was just tweaking you back.

Yes. I remember thinking back in the early 2000s, while listening to Bush's justifications for the Iraq war, that "truth" is just another word for wha...

I don't think that is true at all, and it's especially not true in matters of morals. The essence of morality is human values, not truths.

Although I like your enthusiasm, I don't see why we don't just use a single category, an upvote. If you don't like it or are indifferent, just don't v...

I think it's a metaphysical statement - a way of thinking about things or a point of view - not a fact. I like the way @"Janus" said it in a different...

Yes - I think that's a good way of saying it.

To me, the essence of racism is personal. I imagine what it would be like to go out every day being bombarded by the dislike, suspicion, and contempt ...

Should we explain to them about justified true belief?

I was certain that it was.

I found this surprising. In, perhaps, related news:

I like @"Tom Storm"'s answer.

You ate a Georgia resident's brain?

Great philosopher P.W. Herman died at 70 years old. Here's one of my favorite philosophical discussions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5UqUyFmT0

Both these stories were on my news feed today: 1st US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia Georgia res...

It's my understanding that's a true response.

I don't disagree with the result of your arguments - the world is mind-dependent. I'm not so sure of some of the arguments themselves. That being said...

In line with that argument - My (personal) answer to the question of what philosophies purpose - Philosophy is an exercise for learning to be aware of...

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I think the answer is simpler. We all have human minds with similar capacities. Those minds are stuffed full of knowledge about the world and how it w...

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It is my understanding that's a true story.

You are forgiven.

I'm thinking more about my response. I didn't really answer your question. I didn't like your use of "inspiring" but as I think more I think there is ...

My position is simple and I think I've explained it clearly. Saying I have failed to think clearly is hard to respond to unless you provide justificat...

I think the idea of racism leads to an inaccurate understanding of racial relationships in society. I that that view is also an over-generalization an...

Sure, but what gets said then is conceptualized. For me, that's the essence of the unspeakable - whatever it is, when you speak about it it becomes so...

I do think that language is necessary for abstract reasoning. I think any philosophy that doesn't address the unspeakable, unknowable foundation of re...

Kant can be a wordy, inconsistent, confusing philosopher. The same is true of Lao Tzu. They both use the same words to mean different things at differ...

Example - I think a materialist approach to reality is useful for doing science. Conceptually breaking the world down into pieces - analysis - allows ...