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Then you maintain wrongly. Seeing the bad in others: focusing on the facts that the person has a criminal record, is in a wheelchair, is Jewish, femal...

Think about desiring to do drugs or rob banks. Or bite your fingernails. Desiring to do something (and knowing one enjoys it) is not a sufficient reas...

Awww.

Sartre can go suck on a lemon. Read up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith

Read again: I'm talking about approaching interactions in bad faith, in ill will. Not about looking for the bad in people. I was replying to KK talkin...

What's helping you win arguments and prevail?

Is there anything as real as words?

Nah. Bad faith and ill will are evolutionarily advantageous. The social contract actully teaches us that it's good to think bad of people. If you can ...

To listen is not to be a man.

Yet it has never stopped the religious nor the philosophers from doing it.

For one, the nun probably isn't weighing her options like that. I wouldn't assume nuns or prospective nuns generally do that. There was a time when I ...

Exactly. And there's a name for this wanting to rescue others, seeing them as helpless victims: white knighting. This, combined with being a social ju...

"Seeming" being the operative word. No, that's not good enough. There you go. You think that with an attitude like you've been displaying here toward ...

I'm not going to defend stances that you merely imagine I hold. I've been polite to you so far, but you're abusing it.

Really? The constitution of Iran states that people can wear whatever they want??

It's not an equivalence. I'm saying those repercussions are on a spectrum. The repercussions that someone in the West will face for not living up to d...

If you want to apportion blame (and emphasize personal responsibility), then the blame lies with the employees who chose to go to work instead of losi...

I have noticed that religious people can be strangely disassociated from their religious beliefs. I've known Catholics who, for all practical intents ...

To a lesser or greater extent, this applies to any choice people make anyway. It's not like it would be acceptable for, say, a male bank teller to com...

Oh dear. This thread is in the Political Philosophy section. I only saw this now.

I suppose that's true for small companies, but I'm not so sure about the bigger ones.

So what is your suggestion: Where should people go and what should they do in order to learn and practice criticial thinking? (Other than college cour...

Your title says "Bad theology as an introduction to philosophical thinking". From what I've seen, for not just a few people, religious apologetics, sp...

Wow. You're not a typical capitalist!

Can you actually see a square circle? If you can't see it, it's moot as to whether God can make one or not.

By going in circles.

I'm talking about one's purpose for trying to prove or disprove God's omnipotence, not about belief or disbelief in God.

If you don't care much about what others expect of you, you put yourself at risk of their anger and their revenge.

I suggest you talk to as many women as you can. Ask them by whom they have felt most oppressed in their lives. I bet at least some of them will reply ...

What do you mean here by "obligation"? We've been saying all along that it's far more complex than that. On the topic of obligation: I take it you're ...

I agree. And what is worse, it's not uncommon for women to be complicit in these assumptions, supporting them. In Western culture, much of the fashion...

I mean that you're presenting a model of different ways of engaging with people, based on whether they agree with you or not. Not that you suggest tha...

And you're here to tell him what actually is the case?

I eschew the defining of terms of engagement in advance, and instead just follow the arguments/ideas. It's an interpersonal communication dynamic, wit...

The thing is that you chose a hot topic, one of the worst hot topics on the internet. There are ways to frame and formulate an existential quest on th...

If you want to solve the problem of solipsism, you will need to be more disciplined. A haphazard, ameteurish approach to philosophizing is a recipe fo...

Since I don't practice that common practice, the whole classification is moot for me. Like I said: The categories in the OP are unilaterally defined t...

Which still is not an imperative to join the Roman Catholic Church -- or whichever one. IOW, the God of philosophers has no practical implications in ...

From what I've seen in online forums, much of the time when people ask the latter, they mean the former. Obviously, a person can only understand thing...

In that case, it again comes down to one's purpose for trying to prove or disprove God's omnipotence.

Luck is problematic because it puts to the test some firmly held notions, such as "People deserve what they get". But it's an big topic with many impl...

This is about the methods or strategies of debate. I think most people haven't thought about this much, and are just going with their gut feeling, or ...

Not being locked into a certain position can also be detrimental to oneself and to others. Like they say, "If you stand for nothing, you will fall for...

Exactly. Further, in order to ge closer to the truth of this matter, we'd need to carefully interview these women, and also account for when they give...

People who don't fight for what they believe is right go crazy.

Romance is the opiate of the masses.

Sure, you can do so as private persons (ie. when not in your professional capacity), or else, only produce qualitative case studies, which are of limi...

The thing is that it is the other way around already: People at large judge a company by its employees. If you know a guy who works for such and such ...

If you look at the way theories of ethics are usually used, it's to judge, condemn, and punish people. So one purpose of a theory of ethics is that it...

Damn straight it can't!