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No, it's not since so many people's views on freedom of choice vary and clash, and many people want more than just freedom of choice. They want safety...
August 04, 2017 at 23:00
Thanks for the info.
August 04, 2017 at 22:07
Another unfounded statement that shows you never read it. And you said it was impossible to understand (meaning you couldn't understand it), so you ca...
August 04, 2017 at 22:04
No, it's impossible for you to understand, as millions have understood, valued, and taught it. Thanks for proving you never read it; your post stinks ...
August 04, 2017 at 21:55
Firstly, that has no bearing on the quality of their works. The fact Heidegger was able to integrate the works of such brilliant varied philosophers a...
August 04, 2017 at 21:51
That's a childish unfounded claim that shows you probably never read it.
August 04, 2017 at 21:05
It depends on what you define as moral rights and how binding they are across nations and cultures. You should make those points clear.
August 04, 2017 at 21:04
No, much of morality is centered on tailoring harmful individual acts on other individuals and society; that is the matter and focus of the philosophy...
August 04, 2017 at 18:42
Goodbye, Andrew. Your last post, like most of your posts, display a decided lack of education in both biology and contemporary scientific and human sc...
August 04, 2017 at 15:10
So? Animal is an indisputed classification. I'm sorry you never took biology in high school. Sex and gender are openly-debated terms in the scientific...
August 04, 2017 at 14:18
It would be helpful, Andy, if you realize that many people have many different definitions of "improve life." I've already shown how people have used ...
August 04, 2017 at 13:57
LOL. He was tried for contesting technical aspects of the Summa (a charge from the rival Franciscans), and he won his case. So, try again. If he had e...
August 04, 2017 at 02:52
No, he didn't, that would have made him an Arian heretic, and he would have been excommunicated and possibly worse the moment he wrote it, said it pub...
August 04, 2017 at 02:38
Fascinating....
August 04, 2017 at 02:18
I have proven nothing but what I wrote in my last post, Andrew4Handel.
August 04, 2017 at 02:17
Then McGinn was wrong, if he actually said that. Firstly, Eckhart never stopped believing that Christ was also God, so he was definitely a person, the...
August 04, 2017 at 02:11
Oh, yes, he was a devoted Dominican. He just investigated what "Personal God" meant in a neo-Aristotelian way.
August 04, 2017 at 01:48
As someone educated by the Jesuits, I can tell you that is not the case, and you certainly haven't shown any support for that claim. Christian mystics...
August 04, 2017 at 01:35
No worries. It's late in the week; it happens.
August 04, 2017 at 01:22
What is the standard dogma about divinity? The belief in God? Kierkegaard did not reject that. And a leaning towards mysticism doesn't preclude that e...
August 04, 2017 at 00:59
Since that's a specific usage, you should probably note that. How exactly was Spinoza an atheist?
August 04, 2017 at 00:48
No, Kierkegaard was always a believing Christian/Lutheran. His attacks were on its tendencies towards A-Romantic dogma and institutions stifling the i...
August 04, 2017 at 00:34
Thanks, man. It took me a second reading to get that...:)
August 04, 2017 at 00:22
Yes, but wouldn't Kierkegaard be saying it in a Thomist sense, as all things point to God in their own way, while Nietzsche would eschew such spiritua...
August 04, 2017 at 00:20
Being and Time is, in essence, a reading of Nietzsche and Hegel, and a reinterpretation of Husserl, through a Medieval theologian sensibility.
August 03, 2017 at 21:33
No, because much of morality is centered on tailoring harmful individual acts on other individuals and society.
August 03, 2017 at 20:08
And again, that's a mistake to claim inaccessibility of ideas based on one paragraph. It's intellectually and scholastically lazy, the opposite of rad...
August 03, 2017 at 14:55
There are few things less intellectual or philosophical than judging a thinker, particularly a brilliant one, on one paragraph...even if you did get t...
August 03, 2017 at 14:37
Scintillating response. You should ask for your GED-tutoring money back...:)
August 03, 2017 at 11:15
This hasn't come close to happening, as millions of Americans are rejecting and protesting against Trump, and he has some of the lowest opinion rating...
August 03, 2017 at 11:09
This is merely your unfounded opinion. No, it is not a post truth world, and everything you said to back up that claim is unfounded and untrue.
August 03, 2017 at 08:27
No, it didn't. That is true. That makes no sense at all. No, those that view the evidence and arrive at the conclusion that Manafort is a Russian oper...
August 03, 2017 at 08:25
That's funny, since you've failed to do that over and over. LOL. First of all, you never ask pertinent questions, and secondly it doesn't say that in ...
August 03, 2017 at 05:19
And yet you commented on it when you have know idea what sorts of things can be true/false and what makes them so. Ironic...:)
August 03, 2017 at 05:07
Sorry, Wayfarer, this interesting collection of partial quotes doesn't back up your ridiculous claim above at all. In fact, they just help prove how i...
August 03, 2017 at 04:49
This is a lot of unfounded conjecture. There has been no establishment of Russia and Trump's campaign causing the RNC platform to undergo remarkable c...
August 03, 2017 at 04:46
I appreciate that, Erik. And it's true: I do not like Trump, his reactionary political agenda, or continuation of the war on Syria. But we need to foc...
August 03, 2017 at 04:29
Yes, and for that trivial bullshit, all one needs to do is read Creativesoul's banal and/or erroneous posts. In real life, Creativesoul is being alarm...
August 03, 2017 at 04:19
Sorry, prescription drugs doesn't even cause 10 percent (if that) of the illnesses or diseases or physical ailments needing medical treatment. So, you...
August 03, 2017 at 04:11
No, it's people like you who serve as unpaid marketers for the money-making machine called the insurance industry. I want the government to put our ta...
August 03, 2017 at 04:01
And that argument is wrong and has never even been well-argued, much less proven. That's completely irrelevant to Single Payer health care, and most o...
August 03, 2017 at 03:47
Sorry, you're reading it wrong, many cancers are not preventable. And people who don't know about food toxins or environmental hazards can't prevent t...
August 03, 2017 at 03:38
That's very interesting, but I said congenital conditions and unexpected diseases like Cancer. And even if that is the case, the 20% sure need care to...
August 03, 2017 at 03:29
Thanks, man...glad to help.
August 03, 2017 at 03:16
And that has nothing to do with the many congenital conditions and unexpected diseases, cancers, or physical ailments from accidents that can cost hun...
August 03, 2017 at 03:13
No, not for good reason, since most citizens need health care and cant afford it, so they are not going to begrudge the US government paying for it. T...
August 03, 2017 at 02:52
A substantial portion of the population, Democrat and Republican, consider this not enough government involvement and that we need Single Payer to mak...
August 03, 2017 at 02:46
No, it's not, and that's not even close to any official definition of the word. No, it's not, economics is both "a social science concerned chiefly wi...
August 03, 2017 at 02:44
The goal shouldn't be to determine a correct philosophy, but the best one for the moment...and one will never suffice for all issues or needs.
August 03, 2017 at 02:18
Feel free to actually address what I said, even though you're not very good at that.
August 03, 2017 at 01:51