I think it depends on patriotism, the love of country. The logic in national laws enable and shape our ends in life. Patriotism may have logical aspec...
I am not sure which is more accurate, I think there are good arguments for each view. The second view reminds me of Plato's lines in his Crito when So...
I like what you have said. I think that honesty is closely related to justice, truth and fidelity to one's word. Each of these are complex notions. Ju...
I mostly agree with what you have said, but a couple of points. Thought uses language for itself, to enable it to construct complex ideas, as a tool o...
Wikipedia There are two distinct types of Merge, external which involves the merging of two separate items, and internat which involves merging of two...
Utopia/Dystopia both fictions, but they are useful for describing the limits of society's structure, each point toward very different the futures. Mor...
Happy Birthday! Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz...
The perception of space is a biological process not an idea, which is not to say that ideas can't influence what we perceive. Animals also perceive sp...
The sacredness of imperfection lies in realization of the impermanence of everything, being in awe of it rather than saddened by its eventual loss. Ye...
I think we construct all ideas or concepts. Space is both a concept and not a concept. The baby crawling around constructs its concept of space, which...
I think sacred things are fetishized by religion, the real is taken as the ideal in the sense that bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ....
Russia planning to send monitors to US on election day after 'rigged' claims... ha, ha! US State Dept says ok. Maybe I laughed too quickly. While the ...
Dylan has yet to acknowledge the Noble Prize https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/22/bob-dylan-criticised-as-impolite-and-arrogant-by-nobel-acad...
It's funny that Rosa Park's action was her refusal to act, to give her seat. She was sitting in the 'colored' section of the bus when she was asked to...
Sellars established two broad conceptual frameworks, which are analogous, not equal or parallel but are related. He suggests these views are like view...
It appears to me that she is role playing, a role that she has seen taken place before... she is improvising upon what she has learnt, which is amazin...
In the video of the little girl, I think (speculatively) that she is mimicking her parents behaviors and language. "holy crap" the mother translates f...
I like the Sellarsian distinction between Manifest Image and Scientific Image as two distinct conceptual frameworks in which man conceives the world. ...
But I wonder if they thought that each new day is a new day or as the same day restarting all over, same chores, (milk the cow, pitch the hay, plant, ...
NIce work Punshhh! I like this better than my 1st Pabst. https://66.media.tumblr.com/c4329cee6253f6f9a838568d658219c9/tumblr_of60t0JFKb1rkbhqwo1_1280....
I've not read his book. Is centralism dead in America? I guess that's its meaning. But an interesting choice of words. Maybe "yellow lines" could also...
Dylan talks about first meeting Suze Rotolo: "She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blooded Italia...
Have you ever read Dylan's Memoir Chronicles? "We recorded "Man in the Long Black Coat" and a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things. I h...
Anger is an affect, it arises between the body and thought. Affects are manifestations of drives, basic instinctual physical responses to certain stim...
I don't know if anger is a secondary emotion (but there may be something like hard and soft emotions, some more intensive some less intensive), it may...
I disagree about how CBT is administered. Here is a summary: 1)pragmatic – it helps identify specific problems and tries to solve them 2)highly struct...
What are you saying. That CBT is different from Positive Psychology, or different as I have described it, unsure from what you said. They sound the sa...
Doesn't it tend to homogenize the essence of individuality? I am not saying it cannot be effective, but doesn't reliance the goals that are "normative...
You may want to look at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/16/blog-posting/did-vermont-pastor-get-sentenced-prison-refusing-...
Because ultimately it is about mechanical systems and software, and how technology and the rest is affecting our life style, and how this can be inter...
British FM Johnson calls for protests outside the Russian Embassy to stop the war....but the very people he is calling upon, the Stop the War collatio...
I am not sure about the Philosophical implications, however anything with the potential to affect as many people as this new technology may effect oug...
But who will do the Exorcism.? Father Guido Scarducci lifted The Curse of the Bambino from Fenway, but that was many years ago but I think someone new...
Perhaps, but what Zizek suggests appears much closer to what the OP is talking about. What happened in Germany was overtly against the law. Not being ...
Initially I thought the term social conservative an oxymoron. It is hard to see how a conservative can be progressive socially, they seem to involve t...
There is a difference between phenomenological discourse and scientific discourse, which is not to say that they are not related but rather that what ...
I like what Zizek has to say about PC https://youtu.be/5dNbWGaaxWM Perhaps an unconscious cause of PC lies in the difference between public and privat...
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