Russia-Ukraine live updates: Kyiv to declare state of emergency https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/23/not-peacekeepers-at-all-un-chief-condemns-rus...
Sure. That's why I linked to this article, not another one. The FT is interesting. It has to present more or less tolerable view of the world to the p...
Ha. I mean, I'd need to wait a bit so I can find some reliable info. At this moment, most info is going to be very politically charged. I'm not sure d...
That would be nice. If NATO won't do anything - which is not clear to me - then I think we can have some confidence that sanctions will be forthcoming...
We'll see. They keep saying this invasion is imminent, for like the 5th time. Again, I don't particularly like Putin - but we all more than know about...
Yes, it doesn't need one. But why does Washington care about Ukraine and not Afghans? One is clearly connected to the US, the other is not. I'll even ...
All that you mention there is fine and important for people to know. But even without such a context, one can say that the US would not allow for Russ...
No, not militarily. They can only defend themselves, but I believe the US has a few submarines with nuclear capacity, which deters China. That situati...
You think Heidegger is more radical than Husserl? I don't know about this literature much, have read a few things though. On the other hand, I've spok...
Sure about Russia not joining the Western sphere of influence. But Russia itself is hardly a paradise. I think they right in this situation. But Russi...
I should've specified, a country in Russia's context would be acting as Russia is. Look at Taiwan, for instance, both sides are doing military drills ...
And if I'm not mistaken, I believe Husserl thought something similar about Heidegger after Being and Time was published, in the sense that he thought ...
Ah yes, Henry. I'm not a fan, nothing against him personally, but I really don't see what big contribution he made. One of my professors knew him pers...
Just a general comment, when I was finishing my studies, a portion of my teachers were into phenomenology, often following the thought of some of the ...
Clearly "taste" is the wrong word, I'd have to say, it's a matter of one's own philosophy. As to the Lexus example, and the bells and whistles, there'...
Russia behaves as would any other country given its size and military. Fisk's The Great War for Civilization is a masterclass on this, though it focus...
Not at all. Russia has committed war crimes in Chechnya and also in Afghanistan and most recently in Syria. There are no innocent states. But the crim...
Yes. I remember the Kosovo situation, Western Intellectuals really went crazy in that one. As if anyone really believes they actually care about Musli...
Frank, it's propaganda on both sides, we happen to choose which one we think is most plausible. I'm not pretending to be viewing this thing from a "vi...
I mean, if they (US and UK intelligence) continue saying such non-sense, it would not be surprising if they'd actually do some false flag operation an...
Hey Joshs :cool: There's no wavey icon here, so that'll do instead. Eh, it becomes tricky. I think this depends on how one thinks about rationalism ac...
That's right. But Kant's a-priori presuppositions are, strictly speaking, false. We may individuate space and time as being different things, but they...
Yes. I'm currently reading Descartes now and I have to say, most of the criticism hurled at him is extremely unfair. He was eminently reasonable, clea...
Heidegger has his own philosophy which depends on the use of language, it's a kind of description of the world attached to a way of thinking. Kierkega...
Probably something like being aware of how little we know and to moderate our aspirations and expectations accordingly. It seems to be an important th...
That's exactly right. In general, it's good to be clear and precise. But some people try to be so precise they end up saying nothing at all. On the ot...
It's part of the same old playbook, if you agree with out economic policies, you're in the club, if you don't, we don't care. Some European countries ...
Maybe. Then again Greece doesn't have much of a military itself, so a war in that situation would be rather quick and favor Turkey. Of course, if you ...
NATO's not going anywhere regardless of what should happen. What I fear is that the hawks inside this situation think that using diplomacy to settle t...
I can only speak of the larger significance of Chomsky's linguistic theory as it pertains to philosophy. I know a little about the linguistics aspects...
Yes, Germany has it tough in terms of military. France used to have an independent path in world affairs - more or less - and did not join NATO until ...
It's an interesting tension. The EU could have it's own military alliance, not dependent on NATO. Yet they don't do it, I think they don't want to pay...
Makes sense, they need international partners after all. As I've told him, I don't agree with the way he expresses himself and some of his claims, I w...
I don't know what will happen, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that diplomacy will work. I believe that if an agreement is made that Ukraine will not j...
Building up forces around and in Ukraine. Putin may be many things, but he isn't stupid, much less suicidal. If he invades Ukraine, it's game over. Ne...
What's this out of the blue? It's not black or white. We can say things clearly: Ukraine has a right to self-defense, Russia has a right to safe borde...
There's no reason to expect a species to need science to survive. Most living organisms are bacteria, they do quite fine without positing any theory a...
These power systems don't go down without a fight. And as usual, the so called "national interests" reflect the interests of the elite within that soc...
Correct. Same with Japan, they had an internal debate as to how to handle the post WWII world. The world needed supplies, the US needed market for sur...
It's very misleading. Putting a long story short, what Israel does, however horrible it is, does not bother the US much, rhetoric aside. Public Opinio...
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