Garth

I think you're using a more sophisticated theory of consumption than me. I am treating goods like "watching basketball on TV" and "going out and playi...

You've raised a valid point here. To some degree we do always perceive some as better than others. I think the harm arises when that difference become...

I think that people's opinions about fascism are less due to lack of having learned about it and more due to people having not thought about it. The f...

I know nothing about philosophy of math but I'll take a shot at this. All you establish with is that it is possible for this object to be real. It exi...

Some of these questions will have multiple answers, because they are context dependent. For instance, if I ask "What is color?" The answer could be a ...

I will consume whatever is legal for me to consume without guilt. But I will advocate for changes to the economic system. We are playing a game with e...

The last chapter of Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature sort of says what I am saying here. He seems to be saying we should conduct philosophi...

Well, according to what I am writing: We can only feel free when we desire something, and upon experiencing emotion related to that desire, realize th...

Then what cannot exists has existence as the thing I'm describing.

I think the ancient peoples had a better qualitative experience of death since they lived in closer-knit communities and there was just more death aro...

This thread is too long. Also this Zizek article didn't age well: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article205630967/Slavoj-Zizek-My-Dream-of-Wuhan.html

Can I try to describe what cannot exist or am I unable to even try?

I'm of the opinion that Kant's entire philosophy is built on defining certain things as precisely what they are not, and maybe freedom is one of the b...

There is no universe. Therefore it didn't need to be created. And when we think that we exist, we are not actually thinking, nor do we exist.

I see theories of rights as arising from preexisting rights as defined in law and jurisprudence that go back into history. Philosophical rights are at...

I see the role of these fringe ideologies as emerging from the confluence of two social factors. 1. The myth of the "Real American". It is arguably th...

I agree. Because people didn't object to this man's rage and hatred in this particular instance. In fact, they offered him support. Yes, I admit that ...

Can you provide evidence that I'm making an empirical claim? According to whom? You? I don't particularly care about your opinion. So I don't see why ...

1. If I justify my view, I simply offer another set of premises which are equally unjustified. You may refer to Aristotle's Prior Analytics for a disc...

It's an analysis of merit. Basically, you could take two people with the same misogynistic attitudes and obsession with punani, but it is the one who ...

How we describe the incel is one thing and how the incel describes himself is another thing. I don't think that my essay really requires me to address...

I've written an essay last year about whether we honestly judge others as incels or whether we actually apply a different set of criteria to them. In ...

How can the "easy" problem explain anything without partially explaining the "hard" problem? Even separating these two problems suggests that the aspe...