Okay then, sure. I have a degree in politics, and I'm telling you these terms have specific meanings, but if that's not what you meant, fine. You know...
'Science should be at the centre of all policy making' By Prof Ruth Morgan University College London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56...
"Transcendental idealism is a doctrine founded by German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 18th century. Kant's doctrine is found throughout his Critiq...
So when you said equal outcomes you did mean equality of outcome?! It's not just a conservative talking point. It's obvious that a road-sweeper and br...
I don't speak teenage girl. Could you explain what's amusing you? Is it that Jack hasn't heard of the Amish? Because that's no cause for mockery, is i...
I'm not a proponent of scientism, in that, I don't argue that science can establish values. I maintain that morality is a sense - like humour or aesth...
You seem to understand "equality" differently now, from how you did only moments ago. You we're talking about equality of outcome. Now you're talking ...
That's a disastrously naïve thing to say. Kant is subjectivist. Subjectivism supports the Church's position on science - and this obvious on the face ...
The Amish are a religious sect in the US that forgoes the use of modern technology. They are admirable people in many ways - very hardworking and inno...
"Kant was born on 22 April 1724 into a Prussian German family of Lutheran Protestant faith in Königsberg, East Prussia. Baptized Emanuel, he later cha...
You quite clearly blame science for nuclear weapons, and the climate and ecological crisis. But if science is "just a tool" how can science be to blam...
You're a canard! (Couldn't resist it.) I have seen Gattaca, yes - and the underlying premise of a creating a genetic elite is a genuine problem - part...
Previously, I explained to you that nuclear weapons are science mis-applied for ideological reasons; and that there's no reason grounded in a scientif...
Do you believe you can reliably make germline alterations to human DNA, without possibly, making subsequent generations susceptible to disease, or oth...
At the 1634 trial of Galileo, the Church decried science as heresy - divorcing science as a tool, from science as an understanding of reality. We used...
I'm not suggesting that a scientific understanding of reality is anything more/or less than a description of reality. But it is not a description of m...
What about a method? I wish to discuss science as an understanding of reality - relative to a religious, political and economic ideological understand...
I do understand, I think - you're talking about politics from the POV of an anarchist, and saying that they caused all these problems; why on earth sh...
A half bottle of brandy, actually, doesn't help - because my drunken debates can become violent! I'm very passionate about philosophy, even when argui...
That's not my position. Give your specs a once over with a j-cloth, and you'll see I argued: Your error is easily remedied. I'll simply change 'you ar...
Yes, sure, but still - the human organism lives within a complex biosphere, and your proposed design changes have not been rigorously tested by evolut...
Spot on. I like the aesthetics, the special effects were ground breaking in their day, the music is very atmospheric, but it's not science fiction. It...
I argue with myself - out loud. I pace up and down in my living room, arguing both sides of a proposition, to try and achieve synthesis. There's somet...
There is. It's called capitalism. And I suppose I could do a kick starter campaign. If I can get 65p from everyone in the world, that's £10bn - and in...
I see young people being set up to be enslaved by communism; via political correctness and environmentalism. The "woke" are sleepwalking into a trap, ...
Science is not just a tool. It's also an understanding of reality; quite at odds with an ideological understanding of reality. For example, scientific...
I've read some of it, but I write using the simplest words possible. There's no value for me in obscurantist jargon, but the left can't get enough of ...
I'm an angry old man, and I know you won't take my advice - anymore than I would at your age. Your post is peppered with lefty keywords, so I guess we...
The UK Labour Party are far more influenced by communism than the Dems. We didn't have a 'reds under the bed' McCarthyite purge against communism in t...
I recently read a book entitled 'Despised - why the modern left loathes the working class' by Paul Embery. He wants the left to get back to representi...
I edited out that crack about five year plans, because I'm not talking about Russia in particular, but about communism in general. It's a kind and gen...
He said that to me in 'Who owns the land?' Here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/538599 He offered no supporting argument, and then ...
Well think about it. Every time Labour/Dems lose an election, it's the fault of the electorate. They're stupid, racist or greedy, and that's why the l...
I'm so glad you are impervious to corruption, because otherwise such power could drive a fool mad! — counterpunch Have you never noticed how the right...
...and you'd be the centralized authority, in control of the commons, ensuring that people don't do what's in their own self interest, but limit their...
On the so called "genetic crapshoot" - we evolved in relation to a rich and complex biosphere by the function or die algorithm of evolution. This is a...
Your example strikes to the very heart of the issue. Nomads cannot be said to own the land, because ownership of the land is the essential difference ...
I have commented that your proposals are frankenstien-esque - and not just to religious conservatives. Genetic engineering carries a huge risk of unin...
There is a past and a future - in reality, that occurred as a consequence of the faster than light expansion of the early universe. The big bang cast ...
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