Make sure I understand what you are suggesting. Truth corresponds to experience, and the translation of that correspondence is based on the perspectiv...
Do you think it is objectively true that the sun rises and sets each day, we experience it that way, but then when we ask what does it mean to say the...
In so far as a government acts, its actions can be evaluated as moral, immoral or neutral. The actions of most governments appear to me to be mainly u...
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vdare-live/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/12164456/meme.jpg Trump is looking more & more likely as Clinton sinks into a...
A nose by any other name would sound the same, study finds http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/09/nose-any-other-name-would-sound-same-study-find...
It may not make them true or even "agree with what is the case", but if you admit that you derive meaning from what you experience, and, that this mea...
It is amazing that the media outlets that ran this advertisement escaped criticism. Unfortunately they are not the only ones who have tried to capital...
Either virtue can be taught or virtue cannot be taught. If virtue can be taught then there must be rules, principles that can be pointed to, arguments...
My point is that virtue ethics, is traced back to Hellenic thought and Divine Command theory evolved out of Abrahamic thought which was rule based. Ch...
Abraham may have acted from his faith in God, but he followed God's command. This is different than the Hellenic approach. No, I think he destroys his...
I have to work.. but consider that Abraham was commanded by God to kill Isaac and that it was Paul who introduced the idea of will divided against its...
Socrates is trying to figure out if virtue can be taught, Protagoras is a Sophist who claims he can teach virtue. In Plato's Euthyphro Socrates asks: ...
I don't think Trump is party motivated, or loyal to the Republican Party and many of the senior elite of the Republican Party understand this and they...
The Burkini prohibition, I think is really kinda prescient, given that ISIS has recently banned the burka. It is an excellent way to disguise an carry...
I think free will, our ability to act as author without being determined to act in a certain manner is real, and it does not require a leap of faith. ...
You are probably too fast for him Mongrel. I downloaded the prisma app but I have not tried it. I do a lot with photographs for biz, I have to manipul...
I am not sure how it occurred but there was a negation of that formlessness and regardless of what may have caused it (if that is the right word), tha...
Suppose that each plank on the Theseus is replaced exactly with a steel plank. Is it the same ship? & of course if each of the old planks were conserv...
Perhaps without time there is no form...the wax always has form, regardless of when you look at it, the candle is just one form that wax, being what i...
Take a look at Book I of Aristotle's Politics. Perhaps Plato had no slaves in his Republic because the majority of its workers in it were no better of...
Perhaps in the early morning, all alone in the frozen north and when you've gotten the fire started in the wood stove, which is now cranking out its r...
Yes, language enables the self. What we learn and, how we value our experiences, how we conceptualize what we experience would not be possible without...
If no moment has any intrinsic (any objective value), over any other moment, then the only difference is the value I give to one moment in relation to...
Georgetown University, a Jesuit institution, apologized in public for its selling of 272 men, women and children in 1838, and said it will give prefer...
What difference does it make how long ago we came into existence? We exist, and if we are the result of a long natural process, then we are inherent i...
MIT is working on synthetic biology that might be of assistance to people with diabetes as well as other ailments. http://news.mit.edu/2016/gene-circu...
I wonder about this whole line of discussion as it applies to the Meno. Plato's Meno is an epistemological dialogue about what virtue is, can it be ta...
I specifically avoided mentioning 'free will' in my post because I think to talk about man's viability as an autonomous agent is categorically differe...
Ireland made a deal with Apple. You move here and we will give you a tax break, that was back in 1990. Now the EU 25 years latter cries foul? Sounds l...
Take a look at: https://priceonomics.com/what-happens-if-you-commit-a-murder-while/ It looks at legal precedents which suggest that if you can prove y...
Neuroscientists have updated Libet's experiments. A study by scientists at Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin 1/4/16 studied the nature of cerebral pr...
I liked Brokaw, he slurred his words in just the right tempo. Yes, I don't think the Alt-right can be anything but nostalgic. Nick Land, says that the...
Don't we invent? Create something (conceptually as a conjecture) that has no foundation and use it to unveil something through a process, which in its...
World armament sales...the top 5 in millions of dollars. 2014 1 United States 10194 2 Russia 5971 3 China 1978 4 France 1200 5 Germany 1110 Also, I th...
Yes, the laws that have been put in place over the last 70 years have had the effect of mitigating overt racism. Lynching is not occurring (last one i...
I did not feel anxious when conversing with others or even in small groups, it was only in situations where I was addressing large groups. The affect,...
Perhaps a chemical imbalance? I recall that I had anxiety attacks when I had to address large groups, and while it may sound funny, I found that 2 Har...
The French Court lifted the ban on the Burkini, it suspended it...saying it would rule on its legality latter. Several of the towns with bans in place...
You may want to consider how norms arise. If what we value is based on desire what we want, then how we act must be based on our ability to act in suc...
[reply="VagabondSpectre;17761" I am not saying it is endemic in our system, the Department of Justice is saying this, with all it reports looking at h...
The MTV video was mean't to be cheeky. But, you must compare apples to apples. Comparing White on White crime to Black on Black crime is not appropria...
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