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Harsh. I like them all but Rogue One was my favorite. Gonna wait and see the new one coming out soon, "Solo". On another note, they sure treat death l...

Yeah, that comment was a low blow (pun intended?) to @"Bitter Crank" in the Cat thread. Though, I think you two have some special relationship going o...

Did Disney ruin the Star Wars franchise? Just watched The Last Jedi, and overall liked it as an independant movie. I didn't grow up on Star Wars and t...

I'm not a comic book buff; but, he felt like a watered down version of Darkseid. I did watch my fair share of Justice League though as a kiddo. IDK, I...

What purpose does philosophy serve you? I have already stated what I think philosophy seems to be for me, am quite interested in other opinions too.

Thanks, fun talking with you Mayor!

So, instead of contemplating the philosophy of shoe picking... May I ask about your take on the Humean saying that reason is (instrumental) or a "slav...

Disney buying Fox, wow. That would have been amazing.

Was good. Liked it as well. Think they should have made Thanos not an environmentalist but stuck to the comic book theme of him wanting to win the lov...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbyfDbi-MI

Thanks for polishing that sentence for me. Yes, concerned or focused seems more apt here. Comfort seems to be the key word here. Comfort is a attitude...

Again, your desire not to feel pain or induce bodily harm decided that the slippers weren't the optimal choice. Reason was simply instrumental in that...

Reason doesn't tell us anything. It's not like some God entity that commands the mind to act in a certain way. Emotions do that for us. 'Truly reasona...

Got it Greg. Took me some time to conceptually polish that turd up. I'll just rest my case and stick to philosophers being known as lovers of wisdom.

What do you mean by "practice" here?

That doesn't quite sound right, or maybe it's a tautology. I think philosophy serves a need. I'm quite interested in what need that may be.

Well, I couldn't phrase the question differently without sounding illiterate or my grasp of English is eluding me. Allow me to rephrase the question: ...

How so? Genuinely interested. What alternative do you propose? The Nietzschean will to power? But, what does that prove? Sure, there are differing mot...

I would like to clarify any ambiguity about my attitude towards philosophy. I am not proposing that philosophy serve as a utilitarian purpose here, si...

So, returning to the question posed in the OP. What purpose does philosophy have or whether it can answer its own questions? You responded by saying: ...

Fine. Would it be uncharitable to say that philosophy has already served its purpose? All the unrealized potential that people had, driven by wonder, ...

Because meaning is use. We're not talking about Platonic forms, are we?

If you don't mind me asking, what use does philosophy have? I understand that from (Western) philosophy sprang about all various and different fields,...

I'm just going to ramble here. I have read Wittgenstein many times, and think his metaphor of throwing away the ladder once climbed upon is apt here. ...

Having read through Schopenhaurs aphorisms many times and isolating myself in the past as he would have prescribed, that there is a great deal of trut...

Yes, although it sounds like rationality has no will or intentionality of its own. I find this troublesome; but, even Kant mentioned that what is good...

Man and woman I suppose.

You must be a fan of Hegel then. Because that be dialects in a nutshell. Heh.

If only that were true in the realm of economics and other domains of human thought. Science is uniquely exempt from the formalities of customs and co...

But, but... Plato and them religious types that all copied his argument! How does one address the authoritarians?

The truth has been spoken!

Feels like a party in here. Festivities yay!

Yeah, I still think ever since my father taught me about the Platonic forms, that is when my philosophical endeavors started and ended at the same tim...

I can see some truth to your version of solipsism. I've always wondered about the paradox of holding solipsism as a propositional attitude true and fa...

The feels are real today.

To idiotize the answer it seems to be justified true belief. That seems like it makes things more complicated than necessary? Who decides these things...

Isn't that called "emotional reasoning" in CBT? A "cognitive distortion" otherwise.

I think Greg already used the phrase I would. Accumulated (hand picked) knowledge. This implies some metaphysics about how do you go about "hand.picki...

Then we're in the same boat. My propositional attitude about my lack of certainty is the same as yours, hence we understand what we're dialectically g...

It all seems like a conceptual leap to me. Kind of like climbing a ladder and them throwing it away once done with. But, yes, when someone is mature y...

I don't think you can be wise and immature at the same time. Or can you?

I don't know. But, I think, your making sense here. 'I think' being the performative utterance.

Yes, the ambiguity as to whether 'thankfully' or not is due to me not knowing what your beetle looks like. Or to put it another way, the lights are on...

I would like to also add, that, what I call a false dichotomy between emotions and reason runs very deep and is even ingrained in linguistic analysis....

I have recently been an adherent of the Humean saying that reason is a slave to the (human) passions. I'm not saying that reason cannot stand on a hig...

Just make her fat and plumpy. K, thx, bai, g2g, cu.

I hope you can sometime post a picture of your cat being fat and plumpy.

Your taking this quite seriously. What's the prize?

My take is that moderation in that regards is pertinent. I was just posting yesterday in a thread about the philosophy of 'farts', so go figure.

The drama is real, what happened to cool and dispassionate rational analysis(?)