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In the US, this is a conservative position. Liberals are pro-regulation.

Gotcha. :cool:

I get that philosophers cleared away the clouds for the scientists. I'm on board. I described my complaint above. Fetishistic partisanship and a detac...

Sure. This falls in with my "clearing away the clouds" metaphor. Scientists have specific and daunting clouds to clear away - whatever hinders progres...

This seems like a valuable insight into varying constructs of reality - for the practicing psychologist: "Some constructions are better than others. M...

Re George Kelley, who apparently doesn't have a wiki page: "It began to occur to him that what truly mattered to these people was that they had an exp...

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I agree with this.

I can't tell if that's a yes or a no.

I dig Carl Rogers, his approach to therapy is refreshing. I'll check out George Kelley. But nobody should dump Maslow. :joke: He was a beautiful man a...

I don't really compare science and philosophy in this way. Science sends folks to the moon and gives me omeprazole for my reflux. So to my view, it's ...

All? Do you mean testability exists vis-a-vis the realist v. idealist showdown?

This seems to be a healthy - non-fetishizing - approach to the philosophical adventure. My complaint is with, for example, folks on this forum who hav...

I agree we should constantly strive for a new perspective. But when a vital healthiness of mind is achieved, to my view it's time to put philosophy to...

Day or night, only clear away the clouds and you get a "magnificent vista." The word "new" here I can take or leave. The old Stoics have provided me w...

To the extent that philosophy clears away clouds, eliminates confusion, it has value. But philosophy also has its part in creating clouds and confusio...

Philosophy in general deals in untestable theories so it's easy to get snared in one's personal fetishistic philosophical labyrinth and thereby to sel...

No, they did science and research but needed philosophy to clear away whatever clouds created confusion or hindered progress. Philosophy should be a t...

That's the idea. It's a malleable metaphor.

Far too seriously. Certainty can be a crippling psychological illness. Uncertainty too. Philosophy has its place but should keep to it: clearing away ...

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It's conceivable that some X becomes visible only when transcended.

I was extolling a transcendence of worldview X, Y or Z. Worldview XX, YY or ZZ provide the clearest vista on worldview X, Y or Z. Hence the perpetual ...

At that point I think we start to take philosophy less seriously. It's still healthy brain food and good for clearing away the clouds. But has little ...

"Mass formation psychosis" is not an appropriate psychiatric term or a clinical diagnosis to describe "groupthink." Terms like "mass delusion" and "ma...

Those damned leftist radicals over at Reuters.

Didn't know a tie could have that kind of power :joke:

Reminds me of the Mechanical Bride.

They're out there in masses looking for a megaphone.

It sounds like you've never turned on Fox News. Alt-Right reality is now a caricature of itself. Turn on Fox and see - the simulacrum. The most popula...

Bears repeating.

It's only a simple question if you have no concern at all for persons with gender dysphoria (et al) trying to make sense of their complicated feelings...

The Algorithm exacerbated - inflamed - a pre-existing condition.

The arousal of defensive aggression via propaganda and social circumstances conducive to propagandistic coercion:

From Fromm's thesis statement (quoted in full above): So the question of character has become central. How does Fromm define character and why do some...

But...

Aggression-producing circumstances - for example, crowding - are more prevalent in human than in animal habitats. .

An aside on Freud's transition from a libido-centered theory to a theory centered on eros and thanatos:

Fromm links the spirit of capitalism to instinctivist accounts of human destructiveness:

Fromm's thesis statement:

:smile: It's a good feeling. As long as it lasts. :smile:

Could we not rid ourselves of the bulk of philosophy in this way?

I get that. Doing my best here to ferret out a locus of concurrence. Next we'll pick pistols for the partially-primarily gage. I call it progress. :sm...

The US congress, doing emphatically not shit, I'm thinking could squeeze it in between summer and fall, or Thanksgiving and Christmas, hiati.

Not, as a whole, an "exemplar," if you like. But it's defensible to hold that the Tao Te Ching has ontological, and therefore metaphysical, content.

True enough.

It easy to accept there's a kind of ontological thrust to the assertion of the Tao as prior to the creation of the ten thousand things. If ontology, t...

As the Tao Te Ching is amenable to vastly divergent interpretations, it makes sense that some folks call it metaphysics, others not so much.

Good policy :smile:

Swift. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. From memory so check it. :smile: Reasoning will never make ...