Leghorn

So there is one cage from which we might escape, but as many ways as there are individual human beings of escaping it?

Merkywurdy (if I may give you a pet name, but not in any derogatory sense, but just because I am prone to do so to those I feel some familiarity with)...

Is not wearing a mask in public a form of free expression, like burning the American flag, or wearing a tee shirt that says “Black Lives Matter”, or o...

Dr. Strangelove (if I may translate your name into my native tongue), I assume that your independence of thought from the “rabble” extends to less phy...

It is a difficult situation... I now am living with a woman, and have been for many years, under the same roof, whose family lives in various parts un...

To call public efforts to contain the coronavirus tyranny, is like calling a dust-devil a tornado; a creek, a river; a pond, the sea;... ...hunger, a ...

Nowhere: a nonexistent place (Webster’s) Place: where something is (should be Webster’s) That there is a place for nowhere in the dictionary means tha...

Ha ha!...that made me laugh... Describe to me the “color” of your peculiar life, and, you mad fool, I will (I promise) return the favor.

The “beauty of ugliness” makes me think of Socrates, as he, in Plato’s dialogues, led his aristocratic interlocutors to consider how a wooden spoon, f...

In other words, it is not “nothing” that is the “concept”, but rather “nothingness”, the quality of being nothing... For example, if I conceive of the...

But the concept is different from the thing it comprehends... I can conceive of the concept “nothingness”, but if I “conceive of nothing”, that only m...

The “concept” is not “nothing”, but rather “the definition of ‘nothing’”; that should unravel the paradox.

It’s similar to the old paradox “moderation in everything”...does that include moderation itself?

I read the posts here, sometimes by ppl who are regulars, having posted thousands of times, sometimes by ones who have remarked a few hundred, sometim...

Reading back over this discussion, I am led to remark on what I see as the hierarchical nature of the scientific disciplines; for, mr. Banno, for exam...

If any of you can explain how a knowledge of quantum mechanics or general relativity or string theory or quarks, or whatever the post-Einsteinian phys...

Thought this quote from Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind (p 71) might be germane to the discussion: “Plato’s teaching about music is, put si...

Having read over this discussion a couple times, the most striking thing to me is how the original topic, how physics has encroached on philosophy, wa...

Good point.

Maybe her tears resulted from the unfaithfulness of her husband, who she knew was having sexual relations with professional prostitutes, even while sh...

But surely a girl like Melania would dry her tears, and revel in the persona of the greatest beauty of the free world; why else would she have married...

I’m not sure Trump’s ascension to power was set up by Obama’s presidency so much as by Hillary’s candidacy... In general, the eight years in which Oba...

I don’t have time to respond to you just now Phforrest, but I like your answer; I will respond tomorrow, when I have had time to more fully consider y...

Barack Obama, a young black man, first in American history, with an Arabic name, becomes president, mirabile dictu, seeming to usher in the great open...

By “the post that preceded this one”, I mean, of course, the penultimate one, not the ultimate; ie, not Mr. Cummins’, but Bert’s

Rereading Rousseau’s Emile on this subject (Allan Bloom’s translation). Here is a paragraph taken from his (Rousseau’s) instructions to the tutor of E...

Funny, to join a philosophy forum and find masturbation as the most interesting current topic! The Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes (as Diogenes Lae...