Janus

But this is merely stating the obvious; there is for us no "reality as such"; at least there is nothing " as such" that could ever be discovered by hu...

The rapid growth of science and technology, along with population, is mostly down to fossil fuels; i.e. it would not have happened without all that ve...

I can get that...perhaps my conception of breath was too narrow. Breath can be dry or moist, fiery or icy, so yeah.

That's one aspect but too narrow if taken as comprehensive: think Zeitgeist as one meaning that "breath" is not adequate too. One aspect of the idea o...

More: fire.

Thanks, if I find some more time I will check it out...

A translation is being read here, not the original text. Anyway I don't want to derail this thread any further. I don't have time to read along with t...

The terms 'absolute idealism' and 'objective idealism' being polemically opposed to relative or subjective idealism are synonymous, as I understand th...

The iron mine will have to get it first then. It's all pretty ugly stuff!

Better if you tell me why 'neoplatonism' is not a more specific term than 'objective idealism', not to mention 'idealism'. If 'objective Idealism' is ...

Better if you tell me why you think it isn't.

LOL,above mine too!

Yes, I heard on ABC Radio the other day an interview with an academic (I don't remember his name, but I think he is a professor of military history) w...

Neoplatonism is a much more specific term than "objective idealism" (which is at its most specific associated with Hegel) not to mention "idealism"; a...

Boycotting would be the most effective method of protest; but it would be very hard to do. And there would be reprisals from the CCP, and probably no ...

Dude, I have little idea what you are talking about. When you say which are the higher life forms you refer to, and why would not referring to them as...

I don't trust Chinese production ethics either. If the US is anything like Australia, it's not so easy to avoid buying Chinese products.

Cannibalism isn't widespread among animals or humans. That may be because is is counter-adaptive. In any case, why should it be widespread?

That's a sweeping claim; do you have evidence to back it up? I have heard of a tribe in New Guinea who consumed their dead (out of love and respect an...

You don't know that, in the extremity of desperate hunger, you would still not eat human flesh; no one does. You can't know that unless you've been in...

I agree: our separation from the animal world is only a conceptual distinction, our superiority is also merely conceptual. We are conceptual beings, w...

Ah, I thought the "we concluded" was odd there!

I agree that it is good to be aware of these issues, so thanks for posting!

Would it cause you to abstain from purchasing Chinese-made solar panels, for example?

What are you proposing to do about it?

Yes, I meant conceive in the fullest sense, as enabled only by language. As I said I think animals do value things and they live accordingly. Of cours...

We would if food was not abundant. It's not a matter of "should care". but " do care" or "don't care", which largely depend on what we can afford to c...

Yes, animals live life much better than we do, with much greater inherent wisdom. If that ability to live well were the metric of value, then animals ...

As I already said: All animals favour their own kind over other kinds. What more is there to say about the matter? Well, it's quite possible that a pe...

More or less valuable according to who? You? Me? Us? The animals themselves? As to your poodle example; it is general expected that mothers will love ...

Yes, truth and falsity cannot be properties of neural processes (the biology of the brain) or adaptive fitness; from which it certainly seems to follo...

Interesting OP! Once there is society and culture, then there is a network of intentionallity and agendas that create quite different, more volatile, ...

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When you say "it's not clear" I interpret that to mean there is no proof, or there is no empirical evidence. I would agree with that. But it is also n...

Geothermal power, to be viable, will rely on storage and transportation of energy on an unprecedented scale. You say hydrogen can meet that need; you ...

To orient ourselves; existentially, ethically, aesthetically, we need to embrace theism (in the broadest sense) or let it go. There cannot be a defini...

I'm not sure what you have in mind by "experience", but I would include the experience that something feels very right. To distinguish between that an...

This is entirely right in my opinion; your experience is indeed a good reason for you to believe!

Fairy Nuff Mad Fool

1.What single proposition could socialism be reduced to? Darwinism? Jungianism? Freudianism? Modernism? Post Modernism? Platonism? It doesn't seem to ...

Is there more than one correct or accurate way of looking at it, or is it all just metaphor? And, if accurate, how do you know these things, anyway? A...

So all you're really saying is something like a universal soul or mind or patterns of attachment is/are constantly dying and being reincarnated as eve...

:up:

My question, though, was as to what it could mean to "reject" them all. Could it mean to posit a contrary or opposite standpoint to each and every one...

I'm not angry Tarbricks just contemptuous of your arrogant stupidity. :smile: Water can be divided; whether by freezing or not. Take a glass of water;...

No, I would tell you to fuck off if I didn't think you deserved it, or if I did think you deserved it I would get you a glass and pour half the water ...

Whether yours or not, it's simply a bad analogy; despite which I do agree that minds and their mental states are logically distinct.

But it does, ice is divided from liquid water as is water vapour. :rofl:

If that's true then it follows that Tarbrick's analogy was a bad one; which is all I was pointing out.

It seems obvious that his money comes from investors, and that Musk is already, despite very limited production, extremely wealthy. What is not obviou...