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Words are Descriptions. You dont need dictionaries for personal or agreed upon descriptions. Definitions are just to see if your on the same page rega...

@"Daniel" What is the person "itself"! Some kantian abstraction!? Some ideas are an expression of a person. Or do you want to preach to me anymore how...

@"Daniel" Sometimes the idea is an expression of the person.

@"Daniel" You call that an attack? Wow! As I said before the snowflake preachy philosophy is well represented. You get a cupcake for your wise cliche.

@"Daniel" Philosophy precludes humour? Go back to sleep.

@"Daniel" It's a joke. You know humour.

I see many of the sins of "philosophy" in this thread. We just need some scientism and some political or religious propoganda and we can pin this thre...

Nazi germany! I rest my case! Pure kneejerk clicheism with no nuance patience or attempt to understand the posters intent or analysis. Let's be real. ...

@"tim wood" Here's a man that doesnt understand clear english or subjectivity! Tbh,you are coming across as pretty dim now. Just strawmanning every po...

@"A Seagull" Yep. This subjectivity is inter subjective in many cases as well. I do think ethics is Innate to some. Morality seems more like authorita...

@"Judaka" A perfect illustration of what philosophy shouldnt be is mr @"tim wood" totally misunderstanding what posters write or just ignoring anythin...

@"tim wood" A Prejudice is an opinion based on deferral to Authority, fear or incomplete knowledge. The second term is obvious. All truth is subjectiv...

@"tim wood" A man who doesnt know the difference between a prejudice and a subjective truth. :cool:

@"tim wood" You mean strawman zone. Your favorite! Solipsism! So your suggesting we both agree Independently? Then what happened to solipsism! I know ...

Soul,personality or identity,whatever you want to call it. Do we really have to debate whether your Identity is a real or measurable thing? And this p...

@"Punshhh" In previous years were these people forgotten or locked away as a rule?

To understand that Life is it's own Casuality. And that things by their intrinsic quality can be "self causing" would go a long way to refuting materi...

@"MAYAEL" Most folks are so invested in corona that even when you show them clear evidence from various official sources they still dont click that al...

Old and chronically ill people die every year from flu and pneumonia. In your lifetime has any country ever looked down or had such govt and media hys...

Just propoganda and sensationalism from a socialist academic. First sign of journalistic bullshit? Doom mongering and apocalyptic scenarios. No differ...

@"A Seagull" :up: Far too many think philosophy Is deferring to famous writers. And on TPF deferring to "science". Standards of proof and certain conc...

@"ssu" Yes. And all official history is written with an agenda regardless of the country.

:rofl: No sense of irony or scientism. Let these rabbits eat their strawman thistles and put on their lab coats complete with Idols for logic. Appeals...

@"tim wood" The irony and contradiction in your position is blown to smithereens by marx and you know it. Hence your ad hominem and verbal gymnastics....

@"tim wood" Your quite the snowflake. All bark and no bite. Academic History is an Idol. Pure propoganda. Theres a reason marxism was a dirty word for...

@"tim wood" Yes,my Language has far too much clarity and finesse for you i agree. Must seem like another language to a pedant. The irony is your last ...

@"Augustusea" By sectarian you are referring to religion or ethnicity or tribe or what? What is the current sectarianism based on in your opinion?

@"tim wood" You have a bad habit of over complicating and arguments from authority. Are you saying before 1850 and mr dilthey nowhere in the world had...

@"Augustusea" You said there wasnt sectarianism in the abbasid times but its a recently developed thing. What time period did this start. And what do ...

@"tim wood" See you can do it. A relevant post. Albeit a little strawmannish and not delineating how history is a reliable general source. So history ...

@"Augustusea" Iraq included Jordan back then? Thats a different border. And Syria what were the borders back then? So basically you want your history ...

My goodness! Snowflake philosophy! To me Philosophy or better still Logic is honest human Description. It is Subjective. The word objective is a nonse...

@"Augustusea" So in other words the borders are different now. What do you mean by future wannabes?

@"niki wonoto" I would say try not to read to much pessimistic philosophy and try to do things you enjoy. Thoughts like these arise from a traumatic c...

Childbirth. Hard exercise. Dieting. All can involve pain and untold happiness. Happiness also depends on your attitude and responsibility to create yo...

Here's an open question. What distinguishes the "scientific" modern history of the US,Russia and North korea? Is the implication US history is more "s...

@"tim wood" A cynic! You mean A realist who has seen how govt operates and what it is. As per usual I will ignore the ad hominem and your ploy of maki...

@"tim wood" What part of the term republic American history you not understandin timmy? Maybe you are under the illusion that history and american his...

@"ssu" Yes. Official American Republican academic history.

My goodness! I forgot Confucious!!! Apologies great one! Confucius at B: let's kick out bergson. Rest as you are. Phew.

S: Numerous unknown Poets yogis shamans sages. A: Protagorus. B: Pantanjali. C: Guatama buddha. D: schopenhauer/Nietszche/kierkeegard. E: Bergson. F: ...

@"ssu" You dont have to buy anything. Fact is every country will have a different history geared towards its national propaganda. Do you really think ...

@"tomi7" Nice story. That is what I call real Karma! To me Karma is the human desire for honest justice. Whenever philosophers or dogmatists get there...

According to extremist Islamist or extremist Jewish history Iraq belongs under the rule of a single caliph or greater Israel. Whose "history" is valid...

@"Augustusea" The "history of the people". You mean the Iraqi propoganda called history. The masses dont write history the wealthy political Elite do....

@"Augustusea" The potential oil and American business contracts are top factors as to why iraq has these problems. Plus the greedy factions covering p...

@"Augustusea" Iran is more multicultural. Doesnt speak Arabic. Has even more Shia and ethnicities. And has twice the poulation of Iraq. But the point ...

@"Augustusea" Yes I'm aware the parties were hostile and had different approaches. I'm showing that there was similarity in political structure in bot...

@"Augustusea" Was there an ottoman empire. And was there a Sykes picot agreement In 1916? Other individuals matter because I'm showing people dont agr...

@"ssu" Because the history from 60 years ago is full of propaganda. So 600 years is gonna be even worse. I'm not American btw. What's important is rec...