Wayfarer

It's an interesting topic but perhaps too broad a question! Many things have been resolved, but many other questions have been raised. I think the rea...

by whose judgement? Oh that's right - you don't accept democracy. So it must mean 'according to you'.

no, but public sanction of it is another matter (and it's coming, like it or not.)

You can agree that persons can do as they wish without necessarily agreeing that what they wish to do is fine.

What, do you show that at the Pearly Gates? X-)

The point is, the subject is never an object of perception. We never know the subject as something 'in the world' - it's rather more that the world is...

It might interest you to know that in the early Buddhist texts, the Buddha is often referred to as 'the recluse, Gotama' ('recluse' being another term...

Maybe, have a think about the couple of billion people in the world who are struggling desperately to get some kind of foothold in a country that's wo...

Where I take issue, is with the various attempts to present science as capable of a theory which accounts for everything - which is typical of science...

But they do assume them. Every time that an experiment is run which involves velocity, they don't have to first check that this time, F really will eq...

He certainly seems an awful kind of guy. I only paid scant attention to the proceedings but that fact became crystal clear.

I don't know if it is theism strictly speaking, maybe it's simply a 'higher intelligence' in some vague sense. You know, some of those Pew surveys of ...

One doesn't get arrested for a period of time. One is arrested, tried, and sentenced. So the question ought to have been, how long a sentence will X r...

There's really no point in copy-and-pasting stuff verbatim out of other websites, unless you're presenting it in support of an argument Scholastic phi...

I rest my case.

I don't see any contradiction. There are objectively real things, but 'objects exist for subjects'? What Greer is suggesting, and I concur, is that sc...

That explains why you're so uninformed and opinionated. You never quote or refer to any sources whatever. I suspect your 'primary sources' are nothing...

I see no contradiction there, I think that is exactly how cognition works. There is an objective element or pole that is certainly quantifiable and pr...

Thanks, welcome to the forum. Well written post, but depressing. I think it makes the mistake of elevating evolutionary biology to the status of philo...

you think? I find this essay insightful and quite profound, really: The Clenched Fist of Reason (Mind you, I'm put off by the Druid regalia.)

There's an insightful Time magazine story about David Gelertner, who is a professor of Computer Science at Yale, on the question of the possibilities ...

So you're point is only that it's not 'a law' until it's written down, whereas I am saying that objects will accelerate in accordance with the formula...

Good luck with that. That's not the point. The point is that democracy enables principled opposition. When you say that democracy ought to be abolishe...

I'll ask you a question, and you will evade the answer. Democracy is not 'a system'. Democracy is the opportunity to suggest 'a system'. You still don...

You still don't get the point. What is 'fair'? What the government thinks is fair? What a court thinks is fair? And what will be their criteria? The p...

Of course, slavery is never OK under any circumstances, but I thought we were talking more about poorly-paid workers in the emerging industries.

judged by whom, and according to what? What if the ruling party decides that criticism of it is unfair - otherwise, you're free today what you want. T...

According to whose definition of 'fair'?

you have no argument. 'The law' refers to a regularity in nature.

I think I can see why fear trumps reason so easily. It has to do with Edward Bernays, focus groups, messaging and political persuasion. There is a sop...

Life is full of inequity: the point of social democrat politics is to try and address them through labor laws, public education, tax policy and so for...

First, I take back my endorsement of JornDoe's post and have removed that comment. Right - so you might be reactionary, rather than fascist. But, what...

What makes is a law is the fact that it describes an outcome that will occur, regardless of anyone's opinion of it, or knowledge about it. The idea th...

This is where I think you tend towards fascism. You have a real hang-up about authority and control. Banno raises the 'tradition of liberalism', and y...

What makes it 'a law' is the fact that its predictions always work out. F=MA for ancient egyptians and modern Americans. The rest is obfuscation.

He's relocated but if you google his name, you'll find it.

He writes pretty well on philosophy, I have to say. Very impressed with his Gnosis, Doxa, and Episteme. And he has quite a lot to say on the theme of ...

I'm impressed by that BC. I would like to find a way to contribute in a like manner. Yet, my mobile telco provider has all its helpdesk in India, in t...

If an ancient Egyptian dropped a brick, it would accelerate according to the formula given in the Laws of Motion; although the Egyptian wouldn't know ...

Sometimes fear trumps reason. But I really will leave it at that.

the fact is he has told more than 1000 documented falsehoods, in public, since his inauguration, beginning with his lie about that.

Hear hear. But the framework relies on honesty and respect for facts. And it is documented beyond question that Trump has no respect for facts.

I wrote a long impassioned response here, but - forget about it. I'm here to discuss philosophy not sound off.

Physical laws purportedly act without intention; if there is no intention, there can be no question of morality. So how could moral laws be compared t...

Are feelings part of experience? Do they matter? If you believed someone was approaching you to do you harm, would your adrenal glands kick into actio...

Worth noting that McIntyre converted to Catholicism, and that that Anscombe was Catholic. That might be incidental, but the thrust of McIntyre's argum...

I think a religious response might be along the lines that 'this world' with all of the above-mentioned suffering, is actually unreal; that beings are...

If nihilism bothers you, you're not actually nihilistic. If you really were nihilistic, then it couldn't possibly matter.

I don't understand it. There's a lot of depth in your other posts, even though I don't always agree with them, although in some respects I do. But the...

At least in part due to yours truly, who dutifully brings back items of post-truthiness on a regular basis....