Key phrase: 'Wisdom is not only knowing things, it’s knowing what to do with them, knowing how to deal with them, knowing how to treat them, knowing h...
Agree but the mods will (and should) merge this thread with the main Trump thread. Committing criminal acts, failing to discharge the duties of the Pr...
You keep repeating this. The simple fact is, Mueller found ample evidence that crimes had been committed, however was not empowered to bring charges a...
It's become an interest of mine, although I only know a few snippets about it. However, there's a school of thought that the medieval disputes between...
I think we're seeing the end of the Trump presidency. The news that's coming out about the Ukraine relationship is clear and unarguable evidence of cr...
It's scientism that is hubristic. It holds the human capacity for measurement to be the sole arbiter of reality. That is one of the factors leading to...
But the fact of the difference between birds and bats, or lizards and fish, is not an ontological distinction, but a taxonomic one. In fact to view h....
The Mueller Report was damning of Trump. He produced actionable evidence of wrongdoing, the only reason it didn’t culminate in impeachment proceedings...
There’s no evidence he made millions. He got paid normal fees as a director of resources company - the ‘millions of dollars’ is part of the spin. Then...
Do we see the resonance between this, and what is nowadays extolled as ‘scientific empiricism’? Doesn’t scientific empiricism simply mean that whateve...
OK to answer your question, I think there is an ontological distinction between human and animal life, that we’re different in kind to animals, despit...
The only difference between living and dying is a heartbeat. I see Western culture as being predominantly concerned with what have been called 'sensat...
I lean towards spiritual philosophy, Janus is adamantly naturalist. In some ways I feel strong affinity with Thomist philosophy although I’m not Catho...
All naive realism does. Academic philosophy, not so much, but it permeates popular philosophy. It comes up in the inability to distinguish human intel...
I get annoyed with my dog for crapping on the garden path. I’d like to be able to say ‘Look, dog, can’t you see that your crap is revolting?’ But the ...
The argument that 'the law courts are interfering in politics' is very reminiscent of current American conservative politics, isn't it? It basically p...
But science doesn't and can't explain why laws obtain, or the sense in which they're really laws. Certainly we observe those regularities and hopefull...
Well, I think it might help to make sense of the distinction between 'necessary' and 'contingent' being. The former exists necessarily, the latter as ...
I think there's a misunderstanding at the back of this, though, arising from the anthropomorphism of 'God as super-engineer'. In that vein, both the p...
The ancients assumed that reason would lead us all to the same understanding. But their criterion was not ‘objectivity’ in the modern sense - the idea...
The Mueller report decisively established that the Trump campaign was co-operating with Russian agents during the campaign. Trump actively 'colluded w...
actually the Wiki entry on Hume has the following Where I think both Hume and Dawkin's argument fails, is that science itself presumes an order which ...
As I mentioned above, have a careful read of this Maritain essay https://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/jm0112.htm It explains so much of what is said and writte...
Hume lived and worked a long time - about 100 years? - before Darwin. The objections you're attributing to David Hume are much more like those of Rich...
I'd be interested in any comments on the passage I quoted above (and the article it comes from). I think the notion that there are 'degrees of reality...
I’m just saying that giving up on democracy plays into the hands of those who wish to subvert it. I’m often surprised, and depressed, by the number of...
Democracy is threatened solely by the electorate. In a democracy nobody else can be held responsible. Blaming the system or politicians is exactly wha...
Hey the Labor party seems to have gotten itself into a right pickle. Going on what I'm reading here in Oz, they're tearing themselves to pieces over B...
I entered the above in part because of the equivocation of the term 'substance' in philosophical and ordinary language, In philosophical texts 'substa...
'For 17th c philosophy, at the very deepest level the universe contains only two kinds or categories of entity: substances and modes. Generally speaki...
Just look at the things President Obama was allowed to get away with in office: - pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American preside...
Whatever doesn't kill it makes it stronger Note that now that Trump has gotten away with so many crimes, each new one (1) lowers the standards of the ...
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