Shawn

Thanks for sharing that poignant personal experience. Contrary to you, my isolation has manifested itself in the form of a deep mood called 'depressio...

... Some would say your trying to find some deeper meaning to your life, or at the very least your not satisfied with them on face value. Though I und...

Well, everyone has a cache nowadays built through a laborious process of facebook likes, e-mail's, and such. I don't think there's anything to worry a...

Well, I think you're in the right place. I tend to this of these forums as a self-help guide/process. I'm still not halfway through my own therapy pro...

Yes, but I have in mind the mind of the alienated individual who freely chooses to be alienated and in some sense or manner despises the masses due to...

That's funny that you mention that. A couple months back Google was acting funny with the search results it was giving me. Then a couple of days later...

Thank you, a little overweight; but, doing fine. It's mostly just a thing we just do and not rationalize over that much. I guess the easy answer is th...

I started going to once a month Buddhist meetings around in my area. They're definitely good to be around with many other people who feel the same way...

I guess this passage really expresses the malaise I feel. Epictetus, Enchiridion.

Thanks for the reply, wasn't really expecting any. I went ahead and bought some 'back to basics' books I relied on upon heavily in the past. The singl...

You make pissing contests seem like a sport.

As an interesting side note, many priests and religious leaders consider philosophy the subject just behind by one step to religion itself. And, how m...

Yeah seems so too.

Someone is sane. Can the same be said of other philosophers? I wish there was some sanity check before reading Nietzsche or Schopenhauer. There is som...

All this debauchery and decline of moral values. That's what happened to America, ya'll hear me?

Well, let's at least not encourage it?

I would say that the limit isn't when the ding an sich is discovered; but, comes even before then. In other words, it isn't a known unknown; but, rath...

Looks like a good read.

Schopenhauer clearly said that salvation can be found in the object of art and aesthetics. Where the will is not manifest and where the self-becomes o...

The map is not the territory.

Regarding profanity and sexual references, can you tone those down a notch? I don't think there's really any reason to let Hanover, et al. post about ...

Where does 'meaning' fit into this. Hope seems like that dopamine release from the presynaptic channel to the postsynapses, while meaning is the respo...

We used to invite professors to the old philosophy forum I spent time around in. It was a great way at gearing the audience (informed) towards posting...

Typing on my phone waiting for a dentist appointment... I have to say that what your pointing towards is the convergence of the left and right towards...

I have wrestled with this statement to a large extent, and still think it is generally true. A prime example I ask of is why are males much more repre...

Philosophy has been searching for an ideal rationale for guiding moral theories and ethics for a long time. Even the most universal of ethical postula...

Most people, generally, don't view other people as tools that can only be exploited. Although, I know of examples that exploit sympathy and other emot...

Perhaps, then there's a deficiency in this bias towards others? I don't think we should require us to be caring or emphatic towards others; but, there...

One can make the argument that all of ethics boils down to a sense of feeling, according to emotive theories and intuitive notions of what feels do et...

I don't think there was a value judgment made about the ability to care for women more-so than men. If you want me to make a value judgment for the sa...

Yeah; but, I didn't suggest that the above was the case. You did. And, although it is an important point, I was solely asking about what members of th...

Well, then you've answered your own question despite evidence showing that prison populations are predominantly male vs female. The issue still is tha...

That would seem to be the case at least. Implicit or explicit, it's true on face value. As a population representative of what ethical conduct means o...

Am I the only person that views this as a boon for the world and not only the myopic fixation with the US, prevalent on these forums?

The issue with command type ethics is that you're left with a person who doesn't realize what they're doing is good, or why it should be counted as so...

There's always a bigger fish out there, if not in the pond, then in a lake, and if not in a lake then in the deep depths of the ocean.

Objectively, is it really a tragedy if you have a nation spending on warfare as much as the next seven nations down the list? Most nations recognize t...

Let me really kill the joke... What goes around comes around. It's karma! I meant karma!

It's a circle-jerk, what can one expect?

Yeah, reminds me of Hegel and his theory of development and stable government. Poland has had a long history of poor governance and the elite being el...

Send me a book to read to educate myself. Thanks, boss.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/William_James_b1842c.jpg/463px-William_James_b1842c.jpg Wille zur Macht?

I don't really know. I guess national socialism is a really appealing concept if you're down in the dumps. I can't say I can put my foot in their shoe...

No arguments, just facts. If they managed to convince a highly educated nation (albeit poor) on the basis of hate, prejudice, malice, and resentment, ...

Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!

Take a look at this highly acclaimed and influential book. Somehow they convinced a nation to do so, though. Oh, the paradox!

Yeah, but there's only so far you can go without eliminating both parties in a nuclear exchange. There are some things that go beyond the power of rea...

Well, we've reached a point where fighting has become a road to complete and utter annihilation for most nuclear-capable nations. Fists have turned in...

I think a reduction in suffering and an increase in happiness could be a reasonable thing? As in, reducing the chances of a being having an illness or...

Least amount of chance to have the typical genetic predisposition towards all the biological and psychiatric issues due to genetics? Along with having...