Habit, inertia, hope, romanticism, idealism, revenge, apathy, momentum, to list a few, seem to be what keeps people going. How much choice plays into ...
Not respecting a person doesn't automatically translate into being vicious toward them or that the conversation will devolve into a brawl. Why should ...
Please. Why do you want to add to the bad image that philosophy already has in culture at large, and rightfully so? Apparently, you want to produce a ...
Then threatening people with eternal hellfire and burning them at the stakes are good practices, for they work! Yes, the Holy Inquisition were "lookin...
One doesn't actually need respect for people in such discussions. It's not like one intends to take them out for dinner afterwards or start a company ...
Of course, but then the criterion "Giving all ideas a fair consideration, at one's discretion" becomes moot, and there is, for all practical intents a...
One of my points is that there are different social norms, rules and they apply locally. Again: The lines between countries, nations, races, cultures ...
The kind of power that gets people locked up in institutions with white padded cells. Insisting that omnipotence should include being able to do the i...
The individual is fundamental to Christianity, because without the individual, the whole prospect of the Judgment and of eternal heaven or eternal dam...
What does drawing square circles or making superheavy rocks have to do with omnipotence?? Why should drawing square circles or making superheavy rocks...
What are you talking about?? It's bizarre that a person goes to some foreign country and expects that the people there will play by this person's rule...
Meet you there! Nobody is talking about an "adoring crowd", but about a woman not being good enough to be loved. Not pretty enough, not rich enough, n...
Someone who is willing to give all ideas a fair shake, if and when he decides to do so, occasionally decides to do so. The people I listed above never...
There are ways for people to live harmoniously together: such as under tyrants; or when everyone knows their place and minds their own business. It do...
To be clear: You're looking for the principles by which love of wisdom proceeds, right? How is a philosopher different from a non-philosopher? Some pe...
There's a difference between having strong opinions and voicing strong opinions in a particular social setting. It seems to me that people typically h...
Awww. You're trying to clearly delineate a philosopher's efforts that testify of his love of wisdom, you're looking for the principles by which love o...
And if God can't draw a square circle, then he's not omnipotent, right? Resorting to the illogical and the absurd is lame. What is the aim for trying ...
An argument in favor of not having children is specific in that it is aimed at people making an important change in their lives. This means, among oth...
A social situation like this couldn't have happened over night, as if there was no history to it. It seems unlikely that women somehow wouldn't be com...
Whereas in "civilized" countries, a woman needs to live up to a certain standard, or no man will want her, and she will be ridiculed for being an old ...
It's politically correct to call it a "choice". How about the situation in "civilized" countries, where a woman who doesn't wear make-up and who doesn...
I think that most people who think science defines the world are proponets of scietism, and therefore, very much assume that science is the one that h...
I wonder where Nietzsche got that idea from. I grew up in a religious country. The idea above is entirely foreign to me. Where I come from, nobody car...
Do Christian nuns _want_ to wear miniskirts? I doubt it. Have you ever thought about how revealing Victorian dresses actually are? (I tried to find th...
Because to begin with, people, unless they are pathologically narcissistic, have an existential need to believe there is more to their preferences tha...
This is giving men too much credit. The idea that a half of the population is supposedly under the thumb of the other half of the population is proble...
The point of the commandment of having no other gods before Jehovah is that the believer is willing to have no other gods before Jehovah even when it'...
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