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The beauty of the film or the flower is in its aesthetic, its surface. This is what strikes us, what draws us to the flower, or to the film. So yes, b...

The idea of quantity is basic in nature Wikipedia Perhaps language evolved out of our sense of sense of size, our ability to convert quantity into mea...

Both have a surface, an aesthetic, and both are made: by nature, by man (as if man is different, unnatural, mediated versus immediate, as if his cogni...

Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network in effort to reach the UN goal 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing lega...

I like the analogy, but I wonder why you think the nominal is balanced with the phenomenal or with a shade of difference, why being is balanced with s...

I've been to the to of the Prudential Sky Bar to watch the lights go on over the city at dusk, fantastic views. Great question BC, but you have not me...

Perhaps the language of dignity is broader than the language of rights?

I think many of his works are like the portrait I posted, he has no regard for harmonic proportion, I think his works are an overt refutation of the h...

Yes we all live in some sort of structured society, and I think this is also true for the Native American tribes you reference, theirs is a tribal soc...

Harmonic proportion http://www.galleryintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Lucian-Freud_Portrait-of-John-Deakin-1963-1964.jpg

There is natural beauty and man made beauty, one of the things they share is that both are more than what they are, they transcend what they are as ob...

There is no referent of to the word "nothing" no relation between its expression and an entity in the real world to which it refers. "nothing"'s sense...

You are asserting that 'rights' arise because of blatant violations of human justice men inflict on men. I like that. So then rights and the state ari...

Yes I think very young, pre-linguistic children come to understand that if they cry someone will typically come around to see what's up, when they hea...

The little I recalled had to do with the Flood. I looked it up and read a little about Enkidu, 1st thought that came to mind is that this must be a Ne...

Thinking of Parmenideshttps://youtu.be/SEZvh5rVnPo

I agree with there are similarities, and I think there must be a way to fit it all together, but I don't know the way. I think there must be certain a...

Do you suppose that because some did not consider blacks human that these people did not have the rights that we assign to all humans. Could the Nazis...

Later slater

No, we learn and we apply what we have learned, thoughts that make sense, that can be realized in action. I must have mixed up threads, but in any cas...

You mean like the Grenfell Tower fire?

Thinking a little more about this. Perhaps not all thoughts end up in physical actions but rather are actions of thought....thoughts that are parts of...

You added this before I saw it (I think :D ) No, I thought we agreed that thought and action are inexorably enmeshed didn't we, now you want to bifurc...

All thinking involves action, and I think our actions are structured along the lines of how we think. To say these are not the same may be true, but i...

Theological justification of the divine right of kings, this is what Nietzsche's Genealogy concluded happened, priests gained power by explaining the ...

Rights can be thought of as tools, which are recognized or not by the societies where we find our self located. A tool that can do this is in itself p...

Don't most (not all) companies sponsor insurance plans, with perhaps some contributions to the plan but typically very little contribution at the leve...

K good. Language seems coordinated by its grammar in thought and in our acts of communication...how's that.

Are you saying that we can't have thought without action, I would probably agree with that, but action is not thought.

I answered your question. I think self awareness is the result of the inner dialogue we each have with ourselves. The grammar of language is as much a...

Sorry I don't see how this follows from: and this Thanks

Language, we talk with our self a lot.

Adam Smith's invisible hand.

https://youtu.be/jkruW5DvQl0

No, I don't recall seeing it.

Dimitrios Gounaris was PM Greece in 1915 and again in 1921, he was charged with treason along with 5 other cabinet ministers all were found guilty (sc...

He gave Kim Tump's "Art of the Deal" Here

I once had a dog...Sidney, a terrier, a little yappy thing, that was dumber than shit but still loveable.

Which guide would you rather have, a guide who knows the way to the Walmart or a guide who has a true opinion about its location?

My interpretation: Life is the struggle, the boulder, we push because we have to push to survive just as Sisyphus has no choice but to push the boulde...

The future is always uncertain, so while I may know the way to San Jose, getting there may be another story, which is not over until I get there.

I think Camus wanted to say that regardless of fate, man creates his own values. Sisyphus is happy because he is his own man regardless of his fate.

Thinking a little more about Edward Snowden. His crime against the state, his 'traitorous' act stopped the State system from the continuation of its u...

Are you trying to prove god?

I think we share a bias based on the cultural theme of unending, unlimited progress (kinda of a continual capitalistic dream}, a bias towards the futu...

Ok, my question, do you think Is Edward Snowden a Patriot? The NSA program he disclosed was latter found to be unconstitutional and this was only poss...

You are conflating nationalism with patriotism: Sidney J Harris Diogenes Laertius when asked where he was from said he was a citizen of the world. The...

Hi Following Plato, I think everything can be otherwise than what it is, that 'nothing' means something other or different from what is referenced, an...

Tractatus 6.44 Heidegger. Quotes from Meillassoux's After Finitude.

A man and a woman have a child, but that does not make them parents. It is what they do, how they demonstrate their care for the child, that makes the...