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Clinton is by no means above reproach but all this nonsense about Libya and emails, are just echoes of enormous efforts by the fringe right to manufac...

Interesting question. I suupose first-person experience is a different matter, but generally speaking 'experience' implies a subject of experience. I ...

Ah but they're not, unless you're materialist.

there are plenty if grounds for criticism, which has been made, and responded to. But compared to the malevolence and incompetence of Trump it is poli...

Bollocks. Sorry that was rude, I meant 'no, not at all'.

In the general sense, conscious organisms are referred to as 'beings'. 'Human' is used to qualify that, although in practice, if you speak of 'beings'...

'Experience' is a transitive verb.

Well, that's a shame. My estimation of your judgement has just plummeted. It's not even a matter of politics - I disagree vehemently with some of the ...

I agree with the gist of your post, but it is trying to express a very difficult idea, and one which is easily mis-stated. I would say that objects po...

The only text I can find of the actual award citation is 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'.

I assumed that you were referring to the lyrics of Doors songs, like Riders on the Storm, from which that line was taken. But some of Dylan's songs, s...

Jim Morrison? Really? 'Like a dog without a bone?'

I thought Positive Psych started with Martin Seligman who was then head of the American Psychological Association. (I know this because my spouse had ...

My all-time favorite radio single - the Hendrix version, mind you: 'There must be some kind of way out of here' Said the joker to the thief 'There's t...

I would suggest it's relationship, or, more precisely, 'relatedness'. But, out of scope, please carry on.

At last! Five years of useless wrangling, and finally we agree on something! You say widespread, but have you measured it? I watched an ABC documentar...

Which is fine as far as it goes, but it doesn't encompass any over-arching goal, purpose or telos. It might be more equitable for animals, but less so...

I first encountered Eagleton through his scathing review of The God Delusion, Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching. Actually it was that review that got me ...

That building never looks like it could have been pretty.

I think conversion is often misunderstood. It is seen as being like joining a cause or a party. I suppose sometimes it is like that, but I think the r...

Don't much care for his love for hunting but I think I understand it, I saw it as an attempt to return to his cultural roots, a connection to his Angl...

Jacket copy for current edition of Hillary Clinton's book, It Takes a Village 'A decade ago, Clinton chronicled her quest—both deeply personal and, in...

I don't mind Scruton, but he is an awfully dull writer IMO. Terry Eagleton runs rings around him as a stylist (but then, he's Marxist. Although I real...

Desperate diseases call for desperate remedies.

Fair enough, that I regard as a credible source. But I am still nonplussed by the hostility about Clinton, considering the alternative.

Please don't bother with Internet conspiracy links about 'lying Hillary'. Clinton has faults but Trump is a threat to civilization.

'Not voting' will work in his favour, people have to vote AGAINST him.

that is terrific BC (in the absence of internal comments) (Y) ...although Stein knew that a rose is a rose is a rose.

I only say it, because it often seems politically correct to attribute the causes of terrorism to US foreign policy. Whereas whilst I would agree that...

Except that the assertion that 'Hillary is dishonest' is dishonest. 'Lying Hillary' is a lie. Clinton has been hauled in front of numerous senate sele...

That is empirically false, a compass is indeed moved by a force, which is the point of the analogy. But you write such nonsense there's no point discu...

So would you argue that 'US foreign policy' is more or less responsible for terrorism than, for example, Saudi Arabia's financial support for Wahabi i...

We should all be grateful that you have time to condescend to us. ;-)

I really can see why you think about it like that, and in many cases I would agree. The only quibble I would raise is that, I think Derrida, and some ...

It seems to me that could be described as a period of history, but it is also a movement and school of thought. They even have their own journals. Jus...

There is a principle in adult learning. It is about stages of learning, starting with 'unconcious incompetence' - there's something we don't know that...

Indeed! I think one can benefit from the perspectivist approach characteristic of post-modernism, without trying to make it into 'a method'. (Personal...

Islam is and always has been a martial religion, i.e. it has a fundamental belief in just warfare (or 'Jihad' which has several meanings). The history...

I didn't say that Islam was violent and intolerant, I said it was a martial creed. It was indeed founded by a general, and did grow by military conque...

Yes, fair point. But the article goes on to say: I also think that it's mistaken to say that Islam is really a peaceful religion. It is and always was...

Not only is homosexuality forbidden, but trying to disseminate Christianity in Saudi Arabia is punishable by death. Here is an article on The Left's P...

What 'rules of the Universe' are you referring to? Scientific law? And 'being moral' requires deliberation, to the extent one 'obeys instinctual progr...

I agree that 'po-mo' as a kind of school of thought is like that, and also its lamentable effects in the academy (as demonstrated vividly by the Sokal...

'Post-modernism' is not a school of thought, but a period of history. The reasons that 'objectivity' is called into into question are many and various...

It's perplexing because of the disconnect between what seems like such a high-achieving life, and the reality of Trump's personality as revealed in th...

So if there were to be such a thing as a moral compass, what do you think it would point at? What force would attract the needle? If 'philosophy' is '...

Right! I must admit, I only have passing familiarity with Mill, although I recognize his importance, but I never studied him at University (although I...

I've noticed that book and have also read quite a few of the curious sub-cultural group of Zen Catholicism. I like them a lot. Philosophical rationali...

I've stood in the foyer of Trump Tower Chicago. It is an amazing building, (right near the Magic Mile, which is also amazing). I can't say that it's n...

His 1995 bankruptcy was nearly a billion dollars. He was left quite a few hundred million by his father, I wonder if he would ever have made anything ...