counterpunch

Thank you very much. Yet somehow I sense that being likened to a brilliant public speaker, successful academic and clinical psychologist - isn't inten...

I don't believe in magic, but I think it may be possible that you smelt death - some pheromonal off-gassing, not acknowledged by the conscious brain b...

You already know what I'm going to say!

I don't accept I have an obligation to colour within the lines you draw - unless you think your comprehension is so definitive, no-one could possibly ...

What rule, exactly?

Sides in what? It's a phoney war - pursued beyond all sense of reason. I'm not choosing sides in a phoney war. I despise politically correct activists...

I disagree. I think seeking to proscribe the manner and scope of a discussion is bad form - which is why I brought attention to it. I have nothing to ...

Seems to me, you're asking the wrong questions on the basis of a misconception of morality and ethics. Morality is fundamentally a sense - innate to t...

I'm going to completely ignore your appeal against taking sides; and acknowledge from the outset that I am vehemently opposed to political correctness...

I keep trying to answer your post from 8 hours ago, but then something happens - like someone was responding right now, and I just couldn't get to it....

The explanation is that the species evolves from ignorance into knowledge, and similarly the individual is born ignorant, and learns as they go along....

This comes across as reductio ad absurdum, but I can only assume you are sincere - so by elimination, I must suppose you haven't understood my proposi...

We evolved in hunter gatherer tribes that then joined together to form societies and civilisations. In order for society to function; for hunter gathe...

Humankind evolves from ignorance into knowledge over time; and similarly, the individual is born knowing nothing. So in both cases, the lies come firs...

Interesting. I disagree. I think if we accepted truth wholeheartedly, we'd be much happier!

By my definition, hedonism requires the pursuit of my wants, regardless of anyone, or anything else. By your definition, anyone who isn't wearing barb...

Consequentialist hedonism? If the individual is required to take into consideration what other people want; surely you've got something more akin to u...

Alastair Crowley said: 'do what you want will be the whole of the law'? Capitalism is not indiscriminate pleasure seeking. Capitalism is primarily, th...

My intuition suggests intuition is useless, because time as I experience it, is not what time actually is. Time is very strange. We can observe time d...

In my view, hedonism cannot be an ethical principle because ethics reconcile individual behaviour to the social good. The social good would not served...

I am a modernist. Capitalism can still save itself; and continue to grow into the future. I just don't know if it will save itself; so it's difficult ...

I suppose it depends upon what form your philosophy takes; mine is a narrative describing the evolutionary development of the human organism, civilisa...

I think that the origin and nature of the universe is a bad place for a philosophy to start. Valid knowledge begins at the fingertips, and builds from...

Agreed. It's not possible to reconstruct the past 400 years with but one significant difference. There is only the one example: that which actually ha...

The Dialogue of Selves is a means of exploring the existential difference, for two otherwise similar people, where one belongs to a species with a fut...

Then you will indulge me to repeat this: If you like my ideas, feel free to copy and share them.

Entropy versus the unlimited potential of imagination multiplied by energy.

I disagree with the principle contention. The idea that philosophy has failed to create a better world is false. We face challenges in the coming year...

Then half my congratulations for partly recognising sense when you see it!

Oh. Okay. I must have misunderstood when you said: I just wanted to explain a little about anarchism; and why I think institutions are necessary, and ...

Government as a necessary evil, in face of a boat load of incoming evil. Exactly what I'm trying to convey.

I'm not optimistic. As a function of entropy, it is inherently unlikely humankind will survive. We need to do the right things to survive, and we are ...

Maybe what this comes down to in the end is a family that's not getting on; and that's a bit sad. My sympathy is somewhat dulled by the fact they are ...

Certainly we can agree that legitimate institutions are preferable. Perhaps anarchism seems wildly romantic until you ask, how would that work? How wo...

I am forced to disagree with your assertion: Science was not afforded moral worth or authority by the religiously justified power structures of the ti...

It's a good job you crossed it out. It's mostly wrong. For starters anarchy is not freedom. It's slavery, because that is the underlying condition of ...

I don't know what it's about. I've read this thread and watched Newsnight, and I still don't know what it's about. But this is probably the right plac...

I cannot do that. It is inherently contradictory. I cannot pretend "you know nothing about reality except that you exist and you have a conscious mind...

I have no particular insight into abnormal or criminal psychology. I haven't given it any thought. My point was that people don't generally behave thi...

I have no interest in furthering this false narrative. I'm not going to be used as a sounding board for a virtue signalling intellectual midget to par...

I don't accept I'm suggesting that only the descriptive domain exists, because I assert that life stems from the action of physical forces on inanimat...

Maybe you only got 7 votes because the options offered are not exhaustive. They are, to be fair - the options offered by Western philosophy, but none ...

The possibilities are truly exciting - if only we can get our act together. My terrible fear is; there's a lot of doom and gloom about; and the prevai...

If you agree that the term is a misnomer... — counterpunch Well, there you are then. I did try to warn you against vaguely waving in the direction of ...

I do, but it's a subtle distinction, and one is not wholly exclusive of the other. One can, for example, use an illustrative example of a phenomenon t...

I've been thinking about how to overcome the time lag. Do you know how much further Saturn 9.58 AU is than Jupiter 5.2 AU? That's almost twice as far....

The content of your link - where you seem to agree with me that the term white privilege is a misnomer, doesn't change the fact that you rolled your e...

So your argument then, is that the trial of Galileo had no effect on the subsequent development of philosophy or science? — counterpunch I suppose not...

Doesn't all morality beg the question? Why is it wrong? Because it's wrong! I can give you a slightly deeper reason than that. It's morally wrong beca...

Ask Ciceronius. He said it on page 4. It may have been misattributed by the quote button, but that's definitely not my claim.