The basic thing of my "philosophy" is locality, of being born into history and thus into ever shifting meanings and customs and ways of thinking. I th...
This is a theme I have been wondering about for years. I will just copy-paste a couple of my blog posts on this subject: For me history is at the cent...
"Reality" is one of those classic concepts that will end up in endless metaphysics - you go to Descartes or Hume or Kant or Nietzsche, the usual army ...
Helsinki is the capital of Sweden. If n is any integer, then either n is even or n is odd. Killing is wrong. (Except maybe in certain individual or co...
I guess "moral facts" are a third main category of facts that otherwise tend to be divided into the main camps of empirical and logical and which tend...
The tone is mostly amazingly civil here. You can find many really knowlegeable people and enlightening discussions and debates. Some content is obviou...
Well, to my mind I have empirism to my side. Yeah, we obviously have many longstanding biological impulses, but we seem to be a hyper-cultural species...
Well, we do have had quite radical cultural evolution and change. As species we are maybe 250 000 - 300 000 years old, and within that time period peo...
I wonder if in a morally perfect world male lions would not kill the existing cubs of female lions in order to get them into heat? Or if there would n...
Nature is amoral. There is nothing immoral a lion, a bat, a bee could do. Obviously the worst behaving species is us humans, as we are the only specie...
Well, I would absolutely want a massive public-private investment and action plan to counter global warming and other environmental dangers - quarter ...
Oh, the planet will go on for billions of years until it's destroyed by the Sun. We are desperately dependent on our enviroment staying clean and stab...
Oh, animals are mostly rather boring and plants are even worse. Nature is quite overrated.Humans are pretty interesting, you never know what they will...
To put it in rather non-philosophical language: that there seems to be someone here who is experiencing the world and at the same time thinking and po...
And I don't have a very comprehensive theory of "totalitarianism", obviously there are similarities though, but not a very important concept for me. W...
To be honest, I find your approach to be so idiosyncratic and anachronistic to not really make much sense. I appreciate your historical knowledge but ...
Well, I see in your criticism the full benefits of hindsight (plus a very questionable apologia for the Spartakists). The reformist work of the SPD lo...
No, I just took issue of your sort of defence of the Spartakists and pointed out that they actually violently occupied the premises of the premier nat...
Well, it appears to me that we are very different kind of machines then, so as to make the analogy rather tenuous. But some materialists seem to argue...
Strict materialists often make the argument that we are essentially machines, that there is very little authentic base for awareness or mind or consci...
I have found "experience" a useful term - we have the experience of being in the world. We are not directly in the world, we experience it and thus ar...
So, they occupied the legendary mouthpiece of the SPD in a fit of absence of mind? They only meant to destroy the freedom of expression of the bourgeo...
And, well, the Spartakists had attacked and occupied the Vorwärts house - some sort of protofascist military headquarters? It's very obvious what woul...
Well, when Communists got into power, they tended to hang the Social Democrats, so... And in the 30's the Soviet Union and Comintern labeled SPD "soci...
Well, there is a perfectly viable ideology of Social Democracy which predated the Soviet Union and has absolutely nothing to do with that hateful tyra...
I just repeat this observation here: But those people who do believe that a person is born at the moment of conception will then have no choice but fo...
Well, here is another pretty typical example: No more phrases, Swenson: I was once A hunter of those sovereigns of the soul And savings banks, Fides, ...
If there never has been a consciouness, you can't take it way. A lump of a few cells is not a person, but most people would agree that a foetus approa...
I still haven't gotten the hang of the quote function here - bit of a counter intuitive platform... Anyway, not that it is important at all, and I can...
The way our experience of being in the world is constituted precludes any absolute certainty. On the other hand both Descartes and Hume used front doo...
Oh, I have. Actually in my distant youth I engaged in long passionate debates about him and his obscure metaphysics. A long story. And he wasn't much ...
I believe some researchers think that the mind is an evolutionarily useful illusion created by the brain: to deal with all the myriad stimuli a kind o...
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