Jack Cummins

I see your point about giving up using the word 'evil', but if anything I think that it is a word we should use with caution. From this thread discuss...

I think that you probably go to rather different music events to me, but it probably goes back to what music we were brought up with as children. I wa...

I find that listening to music on headphones is a far better way of copying when not being able to sleep than writing on a phone.I find dance music go...

Perhaps, it would have been better if I had said simply that I had said that I have known moments in my life where I have seen the blank sheet in fron...

I do agree with you that magic is seen as a 'different causal schema' to the explanations we take for granted. The anthropologist James Frazer, in, 'T...

You are lucky if you can sleep throughout the nights every single day. I need the lights in the night to read my phone if I can't sleep. I thought tha...

I think that the words which you emphasize show how the mystery of existence is linked to the question of whe is the meaning of life. Of course, the m...

There are so many books and sites on writing and how to write good fiction that it would be possible to spend years reading them before beginning at a...

I do think that on my threads and, others at times, it is a problem that people are often talking past one another. I was just looking at a thread sta...

I just looked at the results and there is a lot of disagreement on many of the questions. It shows just how complex the relationship between theories ...

I like your 'music of the spheres played in the park'. Summer is the time of music festivals and it feels so miserable that Glastonbury and other musi...

I definitely agree that 'magic exists in the eye of the beholder.' What once appears as science fiction becomes a living reality. Think about how diff...

I have just read your article which you linked in, and thanks for sharing this. It is very useful in thinking about blame. In addition, Kelly's ideas ...

Welcome to the thread. I don't live in America, but in England. I do believe that it is often a case of being prepared for the worst in many aspects o...

I tend to think of evil as negative energies, or tendencies destructiveness. Aside from any religious worldviews, I still do find that Freud's idea of...

I am glad that you are feeling better about this forum than others you have joined. It is my first one but I feel that I have learned a lot since I jo...

I clearer now in understanding why you brought up a previous thread. In comparing human beings with animals, it is definitely true that the big differ...

I am not wishing to argue against the importance of the golden rule, but you have to realise that in philosophy it is about competing views. But, of c...

You could start your own thread on utilitarian ethics because there if you simply have your view on this thread or another there is a possibility that...

I definitely agree that there is 'no one answer' to the problem of evil. To 'preserve one's existence' seems to me to be an instinctual aspect of life...

I think that your idea of evil being 'trying to get back at God' for being in the world is one which some people have, even if they don't believe in a...

I think that you are really describing a utilitarian approach to ethics, but more from the standpoint of the view that the individual subjects should ...

Interesting poem, and we could also ask what is nothing? Is it a complete absence, because as you point out,' ''nothing' never sleeps'. So, maybe, the...

I'm probably the worst person to ask because I only use a microwave, and it's a lot safer...But being on the phone can be a big problem and I often mi...

A few years ago I bought and read a book by Stephen Grosz, called, 'The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves'. It was mainly a collection of ...

I think that it is a problem that human beings don't all wish to be treated or have their needs met in exactly the same way is one of the complexities...

I have to admit that I am inclined to look at mysteries and even wrote a whole thread several months ago about philosophical mysteries and whether the...

No offence taken. I think fat fingers worked well as an image of the character grappling with his phone, especially using small digits.

You have managed to incorporate my struggling fingers into a little story, although my fingers are not fat, but simply clumsy. I have a true story of ...

Perhaps, I did not explain clearly enough. I was trying to say that torture would be classified as being one of the most severe crimes, taking account...

But torturing someone over a period of time would involve the subjective experience of the person suffering as an end, and clear long term intent to h...

[reply="Hanover;570837" It is a smartphone and I can do a fair amount on it. I obviously haven't mastered the art of dragging very well, as I don't se...

That's interesting because I thought that you had started it as an alternative one. I have read some of yours but you may some relevant discussion on ...

Oh, I think that I now understand why you started another thread on what is evil. You thought that mine was based on religious assumptions. That is fi...

I definitely don't want pop up features because I can't do that on my phone. The reason why I don't quote others in my posts is because it requires a ...

I am glad that you have mentioned your post to @"Trey " because his thread is based on the same theme as mine, and he wrote his thread only about 12 h...

If there was a thread for short stories as a regular feature, I think that it would work best if it was based on writing a story which has a philosoph...

You have just written a great little short story on the theme of this thread, and I hope that others see it!

I think that it can be a challenge to work with people who have committed terrible crimes. But, I think that it is easier to work with those who show ...

The question is whether evil is purely an intention or a consequence though, which is of course a classic philosophy debate and, of course, the former...

I believe that you have a useful basis for thinking about evil starting from our experiences and relating it in a wider way to others. Here, I think i...

I do actually understand you being bewildered by what 'evil' is because I think that the nature of good and evil is one of the most complicated areas ...

I agree with you absolutely because I would just love to read as many stories as possible. I thought that there might be so many entries that Baden wo...

Yes, and I think that loads of others should enter too. Creative writing can be fun, and an interesting form of experimentation. I would love to read ...

I was taught the view that what happened in Nazi Germany was down to Hitler and people I have come across who were alive at the time seemed to have be...

I know that it is hard to define evil precisely. I know that you say it is a Zen moment by not knowing what evil is. The only problem which I see is t...

I definitely believe that understanding how atrocities, such as the German concentration camp come about is essential and @"Amity"s reference to the '...

I definitely believe that it is important to separate the nature of 'evil' acts from the people who have committed them. I have worked in some forensi...

I think that it is a matter of speculation whether 'all philosophy questions are rhetorical questions.' which we may ask are rhetorical or much more. ...

I think that it was extremely unhelpful when human beings were cast under the doom and gloom of 'sin'. However, I think that we have destructive tende...