Janus

Yes, what a self-serving, cretinous arsehole!. I remember the archidiot a week or so ago telling the people to attend political rallies, since they ar...

That's your prerogative. I'll just say that anyone who doesn't see the immense differences between the ancient schools and modern universities may ind...

You're missing the point, I am talking about academia in the modern sense. The fact that philosophers founded schools (which were more like what we wo...

I don't know what you have in mind with the term "concrete questions', so I can't answer to that. Philosophy has not always been, and is not now exclu...

Read a philosopher? You're thinking like an academic. If you want to know how to live, you must enquire into the question. That enquiry just is the pr...

Worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqw-9yMV0sI&feature=youtu.be

As I see it the core impulse of philosophy is and always has been concern with the question of how to live. All else in philosophy is merely froth; it...

Without power to coordinate, what use would the federal government be?

:rofl:

Yes, I certainly don't want to dismiss, or even diminish, any estimation of the effects of human panic and self-interest in a projected scenario of to...

I don't know how significant an effect that vigilantism precipitated by panic, and the concomitant lawless plundering and theft, would have in a pande...

Your point may have been well-taken if I had been speaking about the origin of corporations and their dependence on humans for that. My point was conc...

I haven't said anything at all about radically reducing the human population deliberately, or anything about how such a thing (done in what most would...

I haven't said anything at all about radically reducing the human population deliberately, or anything about how such a thing (done in what most would...

Me not following! That's a laugh. Your trying to portray this situation in terms of identity politics shows your simplistic level of thinking about th...

For sure if international flights are stopped in three weeks, rather than having been stopped early enough to prevent or at least greatly limit the sp...

Sure, I have no argument with that claim.

I'm saying the effects of stopping all international flights would likely have incalculable short, medium and long term effects on economies, and that...

Sure there could be such adverse effects, but they are not necessary concomitants of civilizational collapse. The one worry would be decommissioning o...

It doesn't make corporate profit into the public good, per se, but it has become a part of the public good, given that, even apart from ordinary inves...

:ok:

Unfortunately because of the nature of share markets a large part of the common human good, in simply economic and lifestyle (including healthcare) te...

You missed the point; all effects on the natural environment carry costs that are not generally factored in by economists. Also the natural energy eco...

Your overly long analysis simply ignores the fact that economies are part of the natural ecology of the Earth. The financial economy is really a funct...

Injecting more money into the system will cause inflation, particularly if there is a shortage of available goods in the market.

Why do you ask?

Can you afford it? Also, if CV gets to Jamaica they may not fare too well given what I suspect would be the state of their healthcare system. Remember...

Yeah, if you can afford it...

We are animals, Shawn. Animals can learn from their mistakes, just as, individually, we sometimes can, but collectively? What makes you think that, if...

Because we actually are animals?

The markets are driven by greed and fear of loss; whether expectations of gains or losses are based on plausible considerations is a different questio...

This is a ridiculous, completely unfounded, statement.

I doubt the resources are there to prop everyone up, but I do agree that international travel may be greatly curtailed if not altogether stopped. How ...

I'm not confusing anything. On the contrary you seem to be completely discounting the real negative effects, leaving entirely aside considerations of ...

There will likely already be supply chain disruptions in various industries and product lines, due to China being a major supplier. Add to that the li...

Right on! :strong:

I agree with your analysis, and would only add that it is not only the volatility of the stock market but the complexity and fragile nature of global ...

Still not really seeing the connection.

I have read some of Freud many years ago, but I am not thinking about revisiting his work at the moment. It would be helpful to understanding what exa...

So, what according to you does Freud say would get us closer to the truth than rationality? Which of his works are you citing? And what sense of "grou...

A pandemic is probable if containment fails, which is itself likely due to at least the two facts that asymptomatic infected people are apparently inf...

But would that not be the same as to say that they are delusional insofar as they believe they have rational grounds (as opposed to merely emotional a...

I'm don't know what work(s) you have in mind. Would Freud say the delusion consists in having, or aspiring to have, rational grounds for all beliefs, ...

So according to you not every thought you have about yourself and the world is a guess? Apparently there is at least one which is not. Are there other...

Not sure what point you want to make here?

Thanks for your efforts here, but although you seem to be asserting that there are "basic beliefs" which are dependent on language for their genesis, ...

Your statement expresses what you think is the truth about yourself; you could well be mistaken. Thus it is either a belief about yourself or a guess....

The salient difference between thinking that the Sun will rise tomorrow, and that human ingenuity will enable us to colonize the Planets is that we ha...

And yet the sense of the sacred is usually found in conjunction with some form of religion and Freud was against religion, believing that it has its g...

You're being unnecessarily pedantic and proscriptive regarding what constitutes "normal usage". The terms "further" and "beyond" are often used beyond...