The distinction between passive & active nihilism is taken from Nietzsche. He talks about the meaninglessness of our situation as a transitional step,...
Hi John: I understand that the "value of life is considered to consist in the overall balance of pleasure and pain" is a very old notion. But, I don't...
Yes, I think the force of Eros can be decadent, pornographic, prurient but it can also be ascentive, pushing us emotionally and rationally, the force ...
Let me speculate that both gender bias and racial bias come from the same source, they are implicit in the language we speak. That our attitudes, valu...
I remember a few years ago going to a pool party and talking with a lady who was learning pole dancing. My only prior experience with pole dancing had...
I think to hold a person responsible for his actions that person must have performed those actions. There seems to be a need to identify a moral agent...
Hey Apo/NL Does entropy explain the arrow of time...its direction. I read an interesting paper recently, which reduced the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics b...
Hey Mongrel. I have not seen Synecdoche, New York, but I am watching Awake on Netflix. In Awake a man his wife and their son are involved in a car acc...
Yes & no to numerical identity, rather sameness. Both quantitative and qualitative sameness seem to rely on the notion of numeral identity. A) You are...
No, he missed, great SWAT team member!? Actually, the power company has cameras in the area and my understanding is the police now have a full recordi...
The officer involved in the shooting is a 4 year veteran, member of the SWAT team...well ya'll know it is Miami...I live about 40 miles north of where...
I am coming to the at least partial conclusion that gender is based on the dominant linguist dialogues of the culture. How a language supports a point...
The idea that the police officer in Florida tried to shoot the patient and not Charles strains credibility. This explanation, I read, was attributed t...
The identity question has to answered if ethical responsibly is to be asserted. How am I to be held responsible for my actions if I am not the same pe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n29LR6UCjVw&feature=youtu.be When choice became the people's voice Shout loud Put your hands up in the crowd Raise you...
Justified true belief as knowledge appeals to universals of truth, belief and judgement are all Enlightenment ideals. We live in an age of communicati...
Charles, the therapist said that he was lying on ground with his hands up, figuring I'am safe...I got my hands up...then he got shot...he said he was ...
Identity is a logical concept x=y, the relationship between x and y is timeless. Persons exist in time and any attempt to explicate how the consistenc...
Are UK's conservative the same as US conservatives? In reading and listening to both, I get the impression that US conservatives are far to the right ...
I am in the slow process of touring local pubs, trying to do a little Bar painting. This work is based on Havana Hideaway a little place with a good s...
In human terms scarcity is a valuation. We normatively value what is scarce. Diamonds are scarce and they are considered (generally) more valuable tha...
Hollande was at 90% disapproval prior to the attack, which was record breaking at the time, who knows where it is now, I think he needs to step aside....
Gender is a social construct, but it is a real social construct, that is you can't just wish it away. It is real, and it changes over time, which is w...
"The declivity where he sat to rest was part of a railroad bed blasted out of the hard shale and lime deposits cut by the Hudson River, which was just...
Aesthetics describes the surface of the world in terms of form and matter. A child knows its teddy, long before it understands the word. The basic str...
"I would like to be remembered as a man who won the heavyweight title three times, who was humorous, and who treated everyone right," he wrote. "As a ...
I like the Schmitt Music Company building. I was thinking more along the lines of http://www.urbanedgeny.com/apartment-living-blog/wp-content/uploads/...
It's Memorial Day here. We always seem to be at war somewhere, and it is just not our dead, but as is in the case of Iraq, I saw the figure 650,000 ci...
I kind of agree with BC on this but, Turkey is another story. They are, arguably in one of the worst positions under constant pressure, but they appea...
BC "Transsexual adults have been attacked in public toilets" I looked and I could not find any citations that corroborate your assertion...at least no...
Monsanto is pretty much "The Ugly American", although maybe not for much longer as a separate company, if Bloomberg is right http://www.bloomberg.com/...
As a guess, Libertarians don't think any trade agreement is 'free trade', it is government restricted trade. Free trade is free trade, you have someth...
http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/06/11/ttip-talks-state-ec.jpg "The EC chart shows that ...
France has no veto power over the deal with the EU, but it could inspire the EU to suspend the deal, which has been negotiated for years. Obama (who m...
Well there is an argument that goes like this: The "Right to Work" laws are unconstitutional because they amount to a taking. Article here: http://www...
I have an idea, which might be too unpractical, not quite sure. George Soros claims Europe should spend £23billion and accept 500,000 migrants a year ...
I like Plato's Ethics, from which Aristotle took a lot. They are difficult to compare because, Aristotle wrote treatises and Plato wrote conversations...
There is now a new Tennessee Toilet Law. I think that most legislators & governors who sign off on these laws understand that these laws will not stan...
I get the sense that the NY Times was pissed off that they did not have access to the leaked papers, that they were not part of the consortium of news...
You may want to look at the April 6 comic Black Panther (Marvel Hero), which was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer for the Atlantic Mag & 2015 Nat...
Do you know any heros personally? People who fit or come close to your description or are all the examples you cite learned from reading? Normal peopl...
The role these corporations and others played in the legislative arena can be compared to that of lawyers in the judicial arena. Just as lawyers provi...
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