WISDOMfromPO-MO

Yes, generally speaking, fairness and justice are not features or properties of the universe. I have never encountered any theology, science or other ...

Before a human is born, he/she is developing, growing, etc. If the experience after death is like the experience before birth, is a dead human develop...

Or those people are ahead in adjusting. At least that is what I gathered from reading Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures, by Gus...

I should add militaries. I hear plenty about how people like me and the companies we work for and consume the products of are destroying the Earth. Bu...

The "green" mandate has not spared the practitioners of science, I'm sure. Energy efficient Bunsen burners are the norm now, I'm sure. But I'm talking...

The Wikipedia article is packed with interesting material. Wow, a Western philosopher criticizing scientists' condescending attitude towards astrology...

Here is an article that touches on my concern. But it is talking about the social costs of science, not the ecological costs or costs to the natural e...

Yes.

I already answered this. I want to know the environmental impact of a specific enterprise: science. I am sure that if I wanted to find sources address...

I'll check it out.

A Google search for "environmental costs of technology" yields 4 results. Not what I am talking about. Educating/training scientists. Conducting resea...

I would say that science offers explanations for specific events and other observations and seeks to construct models, find universal laws, etc. with ...

Knowledge can be gained without using any logic at all. I do not have to know how to construct a valid deductive argument to gain knowledge. I do not ...

You said that it is the "backbone of philosophy".

That sounds to me like saying philosophy is basically nothing more than the skills developed in a logic textbook or on a debate team. I beg to differ....

That just tells us that sharks and humans know different things, not that anybody thinks better than anybody else. The statement was that some people ...

How can anybody believe anything without evidence? Whether such faith is rational or irrational is a moot point if it does not exist. Can a belief eve...

It was stated categorically that it is obvious that some people think better than others, and that this forum shows it. That makes absolutely no sense...

Does the following sound like some Marxist calling for the realization of a utopia? To me it sounds like a health care professional trying to help peo...

I do not believe that anybody can truly understand "mental illness" without considering the work of David Smail. For those who do not feel like ever r...

No. "There is of course no disputing that in modern Western society whites often oppress blacks and men often oppress women. This is bound to be the c...

"Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect...

But, as I understand it, that is not the same as the materialism/physicalism of a naturalist worldview. It is not the same thing from which determinis...

I think that the point is being missed here. The materialism in the scientific method is just an axiom or something like that assumed for the purpose ...

“What does it mean to be a well adjusted Nazi? Is that mental health? Or is a maladjusted person in a Nazi society the only one who is sane?” -- Ken W...

Find material to read that is entertaining and makes you laugh. For example, in one issue of "Philosophy Now" there was a hilarious article about how ...

I never have. No. It implies that there is some goal/objective that all human thinking is directed at and some threshold that must be met or passed to...

It does not make any sense to state categorically that some people think better than others, let alone to state categorically that it is obvious that ...

Non-humans do not have intelligence? Wisdom is the opposite of folly. Humans may have a great capacity for intelligence, logic and reason, but has it ...

Integrate all known systems, beliefs, dogmas, etc. into one coherent whole. I believe that that is what Ken Wilber has spent an entire career attempti...

In my interactions with liberals/progressives, it has been thinking that I frequently encounter. Maybe I am misunderstanding the meaning of all of tha...

The liberals/progressives will probably say that they have science on their side. The scientific evidence shows, they will probably say, that sexually...

The liberals/progressives championing the Sexual Revolution would probably say that it is the other way around: the character of the content of pornog...

My perspective is mostly one of a neutral observer watching from the sidelines. With that in mind, please consider this observation: the liberals/prog...

If it is about intentionality, and if design has nothing to do with intentionality, why are people bringing arguments for and against design into it? ...

I think that it is a false analogy to begin with, never mind how far it is pushed. How do I know? I know because of the properties that the argument s...

No matter what one calls them, I sense that there is often no cognizance of the distinction between them and that that contributes to the confusion in...

But in the link give above ("Meet The Man Who Lives Normally With Damage to 90% of His Brain") the inner part of the brain is gone.

Yet, a clock/watch is used as an analogy. Nobody thinks that a clock/watch was made with the clock/watch "in mind".

But comparing humans to a clock/watch means that God is not very good at designing some things. If humans were designed to worship/serve god, and if t...

"Paley's argument proceeds by identifying what he takes to be a reliable indicator of intelligent design: "Suppose I found a watch upon the ground, an...

Again, without any scientific evidence I can only go by my own observations. Again, I have no reason to believe that the global capitalist system care...

I don't think so. I have not had any formal education in business management, so I don't know what is taught at accredited institutions. But I've been...

I don't know what they teach in business schools, but I gather from my observations that nobody responsible for leading other people has the duty or d...

I am convinced that the entire problem boils down to the artificial, socially/culturally-constructed divisions between households and firms; labor and...

It is all interconnected and interrelated. You can't do justice to any part of the landscape by taking it out of its larger contexts. Where you are ri...

The materialists and determinists will probably tell you that that "stepping back and seeing that you're not your mind" is an illusion. And they will ...

Clearly you do not know what I mean by wasteful. A system that does not encourage people to realize their true, full potential is sad. A system that i...

I don't know what rigorous scientific research says, but my subjective experience says that good work has little to do with hiring, assignments, promo...

But philosophical materialism and its favorite offspring, determinism, are increasingly telling us--and increasingly being accepted for saying--that h...