Jack Cummins

What I do believe is that superiority and inferiority are poles, and that a sense of power can easily collapse into the opposite. Most people can prob...

One idea which I think is relevant is the idea of the inflated ego. People may develop grandiosity in the face of feeling insignificant. We all like t...

Your question as to whether the underlying shared reality we know is changing. It probably could involve questions about physics and laws of nature. W...

I am not quite sure how my discussion on the thread has become about love affairs. I have so few, and most of my friends, male or female, are single. ...

I know a number of people from school and college who married, and a lot of the relationships didn't survive long. I think that this is part of the pr...

I think that your post raises a couple of important questions. Firstly, we live in a society based on images and the idea of the perfect body. We live...

I am just adding the following quotation for anyone who is still interested in the question of what is reality. It comes from an interview by a lectur...

I do agree that part of the debate may depend on what is logical. I have read some of the ideas of Strawson, and I do believe that they are useful for...

I think that we should listen to both positions and judge the arguments fairly. The debate has barely started, and I wish to learn from it. Part of th...

I have just come across a review of a republication of Mary Midgley' s final book, 'What is Philosophy For', by John Shand, in 'Philosophy Now' (June/...

I am extremely unclear how long the transhumanists would try to extend life, and I am not really sure it would work completely, short of having a comp...

I think that we are in deep trouble with the problems you list. However, one of the difficulties is that all the doom and gloom could end up creating ...

Funnily enough, I always thought that 'Being and Nothingness' would be dry to read and I actually read it about 6 weeks ago. I could see see parallels...

It is just that it does appear to me that this is so unusual for a person to be banned on the basis of how they wrote, or style.

I just hope that he is able to see this online and not give up. I think that it would be possible for someone to feel so demoralised for banning, but ...

I do agree with you that many philosophers write badly. Perhaps it is about going too far in the direction of logos. I do think that there is a danger...

I am sure that you had your reasons for banning him, but he had a certain unique style. It may just be that his writings fit somewhere else rather tha...

Okay, thanks for looking into it.

It is interesting to think how worldviews are embedded in literature and music, and also how these are embedded in our own assimilation of world views...

I am not sure that story(or fiction) is absolutely only mythos and that philosophy and science are entirely explanatory. Fiction can incorporate some ...

I feel that you are missing out on the aesthetics of Dickens, and probably many other writers, if you prefer the dry writing of some of the psychologi...

I believe that she does provide a useful metaphorical perspective for reflection. However, it has its limitations, in translating it into specific ana...

I think that it would be possible to write a very good novel about free will, because you could look at the question of choice from different points o...

I think that in trying to see philosophy questions as stemming from fear, you are missing how curiosity and wondering are essential to human life. You...

So, do you wish me to put this discussion into the feedback thread, because it was also meant to be a discussion of diversity of thinking. I know how ...

I chose not to put bannings in the title because even though the banning lead me to write this thread, I did also intend it to be a general discussion...

Thanks for clicking on a couple of names of moderators and I probably should have done that in the first place. But, there are quite a few and it's ha...

Well, it is early days for you, and you will have to come to your own conclusions. I do continue to use the site because most of the people I know are...

I hope that you enjoy the thread on mysticism. I definitely have my punk and grunge days, and perhaps it is time for me to get tattoos. But, I would d...

I think that I really know some people who wish to live forever. I believe that people have varying degrees of ego strength. Some barely have enough t...

I think that you are new to the forum, so I hope that it goes well for you. It is possible that a number of people will be put off by your name, and y...

This is the first internet forum I have ever used, so I did not come with any particular set of expectations. Generally, I don't think we really live ...

Well, so far you are the only person who has replied, so maybe this thread will create a big silence.

I think that novels and philosophy are different forms of expression of ideas about truth. Some people prefer reading novels and some prefer philosoph...

I was thinking about the issue of suicide when I wrote my own response, because I was reading an exploration of the topic in Camus's 'The Rebel' yeste...

I was rather troubled by some of what I read on transhumanism because it would seem to be about extending life as far as possible for certain people. ...

You are fine to speak of whatever metaphors you wish, but I just think that Midgely's plumbing one gives so much scope. The reason for this it draws o...

They are necessary and we cannot live without them and art has been made of toilets and urinals. So maybe we need newer redesigned models, which are m...

I agree that her approach does seem solid. I think that what her metaphor does point to is the importance of rethinking of basic concepts, and it is a...

I think that you are right to see the artists and visionaries as being important in bringing ideas and culture forward. That is because culture and ph...

I think that any idea of immortality, as in conventional ideas of life after death, or ones created in a transhumanist vision, raise the question of w...

I think that your analysis of the way in which pity is the negative side of compassion is very helpful. It is about the way in which someone may look ...

Going back to your question about piety and justice, in connection with religion, I think that being pious became separate from justice in Western tho...

I am a dreamer and a psychonaut, but with a strong interest in philosophical logic, so my head will probably explode,or implode, with it all. But, I t...

Hello, this thread keeps popping up. So, here I am wishing for reincarnation at 2.45 in the morning. But, at least I haven't created yet another threa...

I have a fluid approach to the topic. At times, I side with the materialists, because I see disembodied existence as problematic, but I keep an open m...

What I think could become very complicated in this discussion thread is if the idea of philosophical plumbing, and the social contract, lbecomes a gen...

You specify the role of individualism in depression as if human beings are really in a position of being able to follow their hearts. Even though depr...

Yes, I think that it is about juggling so many factors and it would depend on what group of philosophers. It is not as if they agree, and even though ...

I think that a lot of people, in philosophy and other disciplines are genuinely interested in better alternative ways of social life, but in some ways...