Can't and will not happen, nothing can stop killer robots from happening, and the smarter they get the worst the danger to humanity. The military does...
Attorney John Dowd has shot down any speculation that his client obstructed justice, saying Trump is president and therefore above the law. The “Presi...
They can't be differentiated on the basis of how they exist, but unlike the bird we differentiate them because the kind of beings we are. The followin...
We are a unique 'mix' of form & matter, same as the bird. The bird's connection to what it is (its being), is immediate and intimate with what it is, ...
The bird is as tightly caught in the spell of its own being as we are tightly caught in the spell of our own being. A bird can't sense the beauty we s...
A certain amount of circularity is involved. I must sense the object in order to know that it is an object outside me. The experience of a tree is nev...
All information is intentional, and none of it is physical unless you really believe that Jesus put his face on a tree burl or perhaps its him on the ...
Nature and Life seems to be pragmatically inclined, is this what you mean by "good", I am assuming that we cannot ascribe any moral value to nature or...
The sense of awe at power, tremendous force of nature is not confined to mountains. The idea that mountains provide ample opportunity was put forward ...
Paul is expressing slavery to Christ as a way of being in Christ, not by shackles, whips, or physical force but in a free act of the will. Your OP ask...
'Saul' was a noble and kingly name. His switch to 'Paul' was to a diminutive nickname given to a slave. He became a slave to the Messiah, "For when I ...
"we are the way are" because that is the way we imagine our self as acting in our relationship with our self and others. How "we ought to be" suggests...
I am suggesting that pragmatism may be a way to confront relativism from within a relativistic standpoint. If our description of the world on a perspe...
Everything objective must be first thought, but there is no way to confirm that what is thought is the way things are. Perhaps the only way around rel...
History tells us how we have behaved for the last 5000 years, and we are still looking into it, still going to war, still making the same mistakes we ...
I agree that all that we experience is natural, all our works, thoughts and actions, but this concept is non-differential, and therefore I don't think...
My thoughts seem to be close to what you have outlined. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", reminds me of Protagoras "Man is the measure of all th...
It is good only in so far as it suggests that truth is not the exclusive provenance of academics, lawyers and others whose supercilious views treat or...
Thanks Tiff, I hope you had a great day. I deboned a 13 lbs. Turkey and brought it over to a friends house, and we all had a grand time. It was a fine...
The artist's production of a work of art is a struggle for a) the artist, b)the viewer c) and for society. The artist struggle is with the paint, the ...
Trump's " true hyperbole" ("Art of the Deal") argues for the productive effect of innocent exaggeration, as opposed to negative exaggerations and fabr...
She shoots up her "vein pleasures" by the shot. She silently dances to her sadness, oblivious to the rest of the world. A negative pleasure. https://y...
Hegel's concept of alienation has to do with human powers, and needs, which form reality for a man who finds himself in a certain context or history. ...
Perhaps like trust (as a needed part) being certified by a third 'neutral' party consensus as a regular part of what we receive from media. Decisions ...
This is not enough for Davidson, but I think it may be the best place to start. Local constellations, or domains, where we have a familiar basis for d...
I mean that I don't think that evolutionary explanations, or explanations of actions which rely on the physical happenings in the brain, or its chemic...
During WWII Stuart Hampshire, an English philosopher, was in France working with the French Resistance (WWII examples are the best). He was tasked by ...
Regarding honor killings: I think morality arises somewhere in the distinction between justice and utility, where some actions we take may be viewed a...
Maybe truth today has to be local, familiar, in the neighborhood. Once you get away from home territory it is easy to get lost, confused by competing ...
I think we all make moral claims to objective rightness, which must be judged on the basis of rational arguments based on our convictions and beliefs ...
I have read Davidson's essay "On the very idea of a Conceptual Scheme" a few times, it seems to me that he reaches a paradoxical conclusion: This seem...
Nature forces us to be social, but to be social means that we respect of the rights of others, we become moral, the topic of discussion. The laws of n...
The distinction has to do with nature's forcing us to be social, in spite of our natural instinct to act as we see fit. It is a defensive maneuver tha...
Social behavior must confront the reality of where it finds itself. A city has highways and byways, is set in the middle of a desert or on the mouth o...
It sounds reasonable to me, hardly gratuitous. As stated our sociability is necessary for our survival, even though this sociability goes against our ...
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