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If one is blissfully ignorant of how one's opinions came to be (and whom one got them from), then all is well in la-la land... This is also a reason w...

So return the favor; or disfavor, in this case. Wimps don't win. So who or what is the instance to whom or which you can file this complaint?

Critical thinking is vastly overrated anyway.

Will the irony never end!!

The problem is that those external points of reference are often hostile to us, and we have to find a way to rely on and trust people who, at the very...

And yet precsiely those same people who demand the Universe to be a welcoming place for them, who demand it to be secure and comforting for them get t...

That would require one to be an epistemic autonomist, and to in fact be epistemically autonomous. Epistemic autonomy is not possible. Because, as you ...

Let's just keep in mind that for many of these ancient authors, a half of the human population was by default considered lesser beings. They thought w...

? The extrapolation was never that women in general are aggressive. That's all on you. The original claim was that American women tend to be more aggr...

And all this to what end?

And if one uses this conviction as a starting point, and then practices accordingly, then -- so the official theory -- one attains the fruits of the P...

Oh come on. These are just exaggerations in the name of humility, not statements of factuality.

When there is a power differential between two people, we cannot talk of reasoned persuasion anymore, then it's preaching. I don't find preaching irks...

But why should we accept them?

But did he arrive at his certainty about those religious ideas by those same rational arguments with which he's trying to persuade thinking people? Wh...

You don't have Asperger's and you know damn well what I'm talking about.

So this is not an aggressive dog, he's just "being himself"?

That's bizarre. Nothing in what he says suggests he had such ignorance. Rather, that like a good boy scout, he was dead sure of right and wrong, good ...

By my dinosaur standards, they _are_ aggressive, and this isn't mutually exclusive with "being themselves". I find that generally, it's the women who ...

No, I want to know what use is there in reading those old books. Don't just brush this off idly, it's not an idle question. Is there anything more to ...

IOW, a hierarchical one-way relationship in which you are the underdog. IRL, you'd get tired of such an arrangement quickly.

Thank heavens that false humility makes for false pride!

I don't think self-interest is the culprit. Rather, it's contempt, hostility. The normalization and preference of contempt and hostility. The oppsoite...

Did anyone bother to read the Buddhist text I posted earlier? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/574131

Are you American? I find that American women in general have much louder voices, speak in a lower tone register with less tonal and dynamic variation ...

There is a physiological difference, e.g. According to several studies, two hearing assessment tools—auditory evoked potential and oto-acoustic emissi...

In a first world country, a poor person has to have many things just to be able to live up to the demands of earning a living. One doesn't have them f...

Apart from the above-mentioned digital fill-out forms, one can choose to conceive of the situation in a different way. Ie. not as a matter of picking ...

Actually, this scenario can appear in digital fill-out forms, for example, where the program won't allow you to go to the next step unless you complet...

Rather, the question is, do people even want to communicate?

So you go for beers with Laozi & Lucretius?

Don't you find it odd that people who supposedly were so skeptical about their own abilities to obtain proper knowledge, nevertheless had so much to s...

This is outrageous, and the section you refer to does not support it.

I think the problem stems from seeing Plato and company through modern secular eyes, as skeptics, giving them more skeptical credit than they're due, ...

Note the bolded part. The difference is between knowing things for oneself, or taking for granted that someone else knows.

But then we're still left with the problem of distinguishing which is which.

No. Moral realism, for it to be consequent moral realism, needs to be held a priori, in an axiomatic manner. The moment one ventures into finding just...

Experience or realization?

I don't mean to be contrarian. But what is the use of this ancient wisdom? How can it be used nowadays? Unless one has already internalized the worldv...

It matters because by studying and appreciating those ancient authors, one is basically putting oneself in a fantasy social relationship that is only ...

If you were to meet those ancient authors, philosophers, wise men, what would they think of you? Are you sure they wouldn't scorn you, reject you as a...

An actual person can only look at and experience things from their own perspective, from their own experience, from their own life as it is, right on ...

And then they become those "most adults". What a pity, what a waste.

Encouragement for what? "Loving life"? Work?

It would be strange for a person to pursue what they genuinely believe is bad. It's not clear it's even humanly possible to deliberately pursue the ba...

I picked Hitler as an extreme example of someone who, by popular opinion, went horribly astray, but who, at the same time, cannot be said to be someon...

The relevant type of poverty is the relative poverty. It does not help the poor in first world countries that they would be rich in some banana republ...

You call this an "excuse"?? Oh dear.

Sadly, I'm pretty sure it's easier for the avergae Afghan to earn a living and to know how to behave in order to escape calumny than it is for a Weste...

Note that here with your notion of moral objectivism, you're already taking for granted that certain acts are moral, while others are immoral. What yo...