The general outline, as I explained, is that the debate happened within the Church as much as it did outside of it. Copernicus was probably a priest. ...
He was perhaps the most famous philosopher in Europe at the time. She spoke excellent French and surrounded herself with luminaries, many of them Fren...
You presented his being invited to the court of Queen Christina as a reward for his supposedly 'subjectivist' philosophy, which the powerful would hav...
Important in that Descartes was invited to what was then a pretty horrible place, and he was reluctant to go, and when he went there, he died of cold....
If we are to use history as a source of philosophical insight, it might be useful to recall a few important points. One is that Queen Christina was we...
This starts almost like elevator music, but it quickly becomes orgasmic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzjJEGd62o Je l'salue les mains dans les poc...
One could define philosophy as an effort to clarify one's ideas in a progressive, heuristic manner. From this perspective, philosophers need to deal w...
That' strikes me as naïve. In any case, he accepted his sentence, and that is the central point: he realised that one can't be free and expect others ...
Freight train, freight train, run so fast Freight train, freight train, run so fast Please don't tell what train I'm on They won't know what route I'm...
Sanders' capacity to piss off people will never cease to amaze me. A Frisco teacher -- Ms Ingrid Seyer-Ochi -- has written an OpEd about how his mitte...
In truth we know very little about Socrates, and it's all based on one single source: what his student Plato wrote. As for his ideas, they were not ac...
The phrase "to corrupt the youth of Athens" has more than one meaning. The charge may have refered to something far more mundane than philosophy. We k...
Vive la différence, oui. The French were initially baffled by #metoo because we invested quite a lot culturally onto the idea of romantic heterosexual...
Oh really? I thought Socrates was sentenced to death because he was what we call today a pedophile. Also I am not aware of any present day philosopher...
It goes beyond the essentialist idea that some things are bad and others are good by nature. I believe it applies to gender roles and differences. A t...
According to Wiki, the idea dates from the renaissance, and from a physician: "The dose makes the poison" is an adage intended to indicate a basic pri...
29 years here... :-) Like always, the dose makes the toxicity. You have to allow for a little masculine assertiveness once in a while. The women who c...
That's a totally different topic. My point is you cannot be a free spirit if you keep anguishing to no end about what others will think of what you sa...
If you care so much about what others expect of you, you will never be free. Rewards from society are not necessary to live well. Your own personal fr...
Does the question matter? They are not in a competition for any job. Their views are qualitatively different, they each have their pluses and minuses....
Do they? For the fine details, yes, but their knowledge of their own times was necessarily partial, limited to their surroundings and social class (th...
Another text by Nougaro, on the music of Berimbau (Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes) Regarde-la ma ville Elle s'appelle Bidon Bidon, Bidon, Bidonvill...
By etymology, romance is the kind of love story described in the chivalry romance, a genre of ancient chicklit set in the middle age, with princes and...
The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his pe...
Bernie Sanders' inauguration memes help raise $1.8 million for charity "We're glad we can use my internet fame to help Vermonters in need," Sanders sa...
You're asking the wrong guy. The only thing I've heard is that encoding algorithms into quanta and extracting the solution from the quantic level repr...
The substrate likely constrains what the system can and cannot do. Like, we can think in terms of fuzy sets: sets that have a fuzy limit, where it is ...
I never said anything about using people. People use one another constantly. It's called a society. What I object to is any materialist computation of...
Among those interests figures the desire to perpetuate and transmit something, a culture, a way of life, a heritage, to leave something behind, rather...
You may want to read The Measure of Time by Poincaré. It's a bit dated but still solid. Searches for the definition of simultaneity, and only finds ru...
Because that's treating human life as a commodity. If the market values boys more than girls, the supply of girls is reduced until such a time when th...
This sounds far more 'real' as a situation than a lot of the metaphors and wild computations evoked on this thread, lifeguard included. Another real-c...
And then a very long text, about Europe. L'Europe - Noir Desir + Brigitte Fontaine The wild boars are running free I repeat The wild boars are running...
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