How do you tell which is which? And how do you distinguish between who a person is and who you think said person is? "Closely"? I think it's quite obv...
Bear in mind that within Buddhism, this view that you sketch out above is criticized. In short, by doing certain "Buddhist practices" while being deta...
The effects of comfort and standard of living are not to be underestimated. They can make people what some older cultures would consider "shallow" and...
The problem is that you (plural) don't know whom you're up against and you don't even care to find out what it would take to win against them. This "p...
This is pretty much a description of a Buddhist monk (albeit an incomplete description). In a traditional Buddhist society, yes, actually. From a worl...
The problem is much broader: in that the issue is framed as a matter of "offending people or hurting their feelings", rather than as a matter of moral...
No, they "need" education on the authority and validity of psychology. If his actions "undermined confidence in the system" then there wasn't any wort...
But what would such a state of mind even be like? If we had satisfactorily resolved all our questions about first causes and unmoved movers, would we ...
Would a reasonable person go on criticizing Trump the way so many of his critics do, on and on and on? This is from the film "The Ides of March" (2011...
I sometimes wonder whether this is actually the point of those "discussions". To verbally and vicariously extend and participate in the war that is be...
Will you give up acting like a lawyer at a philosophy forum? Not the threads/topics themselves do this, but the adversarial approach to interaction wi...
With Nietzsche, I can never tell what is merely rhetoric and what is it that he really means. Perhaps it was his intention to make a point of this dic...
Thank you for this reference. Eco's list of 14 features of ur-fascism seems rather general. But I agree, it confirms my intuitive suspicion that there...
More than this: people are typically not democratic to begin with. They like democracy insofar it means that the political option they favor can win (...
On the contrary, his, let's call that "specific business practices" are possibly what many people can relate to the most, because they themselves use ...
From what I understood, the theory of informal logical fallacies seems to be a rather novel development, and that in the past, what are now considered...
This has got to be a Western phenomenon, though, because in Eastern philosophy, the distribution seems to be more even. There, some desirable, positiv...
It seems to me that overall, Nietzsche (and Rand etc.) are trying to do something similar as Machiavelli did with The Prince, except that unlike Machi...
This is obviously not true on the face of it, as evidenced by many broken people who have survived a serious physical injury or disease, or a socio-ec...
From the introduction to a Hare Krishna book: There's a pattern for dismissing some potential readers, and it can be found all over the places and gen...
I just want to know what John Galt and co. eat and who is cleaning their toilets. In other words, Rand always struck me as a plebeian attempt to reima...
You first said: I don't understand. How is morality "a trick of the weak to constrain the strong"? Where's the trickery? Even when it is in reference ...
Things like this are often said, but I need something more to become convinced of this. From what I've seen of Trumpistas and the like, they aren't "b...
What many people don't seem to realize is that this, too, is democracy. The problem isn't Trump, isn't Orban, it's the very phenomenon of democracy it...
Thus, ego-friendly. With a vague approach like yours, you can always feel good about yourself and always feel that you have prevented or relieved more...
It's vital to the topic at hand. (Waiting for @"Joshs" to chime in.) You said: If you want to "prevent or relieve" _more_ "suffering than you cause", ...
Actually, I heard about the need for hatred from you for the first time. I was quite taken aback. But some things started to make sense. Is it even po...
We don't dump them because in order to be able to dump them safely, without adverse consequences for ourselves, other people would have to dump them a...
I have been faced with similar situations when I approached some religions/spiritualities. But I wasn't actually sure that something I enjoyed was wro...
If only it would be clear what "moral" means, in any particular instance. Hating your enemies (the persons), like the Jews do? Stoning infidels, like ...
Insanity. Insanity. It seems to me that the implicit assumption in all this is that people don't know, aren't sure about what is moral and what isn't....
It seems the OP and several other posters here take for granted that the meaning of hate/harm (as well as goodness, evil, etc.) _should_ be transparen...
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