I saw that review or article. If that is in fact what their project involves (and perhaps the wording is wonky). My quesion is what exactly does 'disp...
We'll that's not much different from most ideas, I'd suspect. How do you take existentialism seriously? That seems to be the real quesion that the OP ...
No idea. Most people who use the term to describe themselves seem to pronounce it more like a magic word than with much knowledge about it. I find it ...
Say some more - only thing I came away with from Sartre was the familiar - existence precedes essence. Can one call oneself an existentialist without ...
You're exactly the person to ask this of in relation to the old, something from nothing trope. My question is: as far as we know everything in our uni...
From my perspective anyone who can be in a position to become president is an elite. Left and right mainstream are just differently wings of the same ...
Well, for starters, it's unavoidable and, for the most part, out of our control, so why worry about it? Given death's inevitability, make the best use...
Yes, I was wondering about consequences too. But it might be good if in the OP we specify that this is not for secular polemics or atheist grenade thr...
I referred to this phenomenon already, so I must be aware, right? And then you proceed to dismiss my awareness of this issue as per below. Are you in ...
I didn't make wild assumptions, which is why I asked you for your view. It’s the kind of piece my right wing family circulate to demonstrate that all ...
I wonder if there should be (if there isn't already) a thread on (dare I say it) alternative accounts of god which are not personal or anthropomorphic...
A familiar argument from trans bigotry talking points. When people straw man trans using exaggeration to argue that - 'next people will want to identi...
Nicely put. My issue with contingency is that we don’t know enough about reality to know if all things are contingent. We know a little about of our l...
:up: Nicely put. I suspect that just as one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist. So too one person's rebel may be another person's ...
This is very grand wording and may sometimes even be true. It doesn't seem useful in the case of my position on trans. I believe people should be the ...
Consumer culture, entertainment media and marketing have really sold the idea of The Rebel for many decades, from James Dean to rock and roll and even...
Thanks for this and nicely put. I am aware of this more sophisticated account of god and probably first encountered this through Tillich. My point whe...
The problem with this discussion may be the various understandings about what counts as 'elite'. Does it mean the rich and powerful - the corporations...
Oops forgot this point. You seem to be universalizing my response about one aspect of one issue in order to dramatist a point. I make no such claims a...
Ha! Ok I’m not here for interminable arguments, I’m here to arrive at tentative positions. It seems you now want to gate-keep this site? Yes, but ther...
My answer is an attempt to supply you with a different frame for this matter. What I guess I am saying is that your demand for clear language to me se...
If you are going to quote someone highlight the words wanted and then click on the 'quote' option which comes up. Much easier to read. :up: Sorry too ...
It's a trend I'm seeing in a city of 5 million working in psychosocial services and hospital partnerships where we have around 4% trans clients. But y...
More trans people I've known these days don't undertaken the operation or use hormones. Certainly not for the first years. Like every other community ...
You can't be 'wise in many ways' without knowledge. When I studied Socretes at university we were taught that the claim was not to be read as a concre...
I may be reading you wrongly but here's my take. To me it seems as if point 1 potentially contains your overarching idea - the need to promote human (...
That's interesting. It would be good to get this right since my limited understanding has always been the contingency argument and Third Way presuppos...
I hear you. I have not attempted to identify what I know for certain. I also take the view that absolute certainty is not available. However I hold th...
Is it not just the argument from contingency? There are threads on this argument here. Something from nothing. I have never found it convincing (along...
As I said, I enjoy dreams. So I do pay attention to them. And I tend to remember some of them. I just have no additional use for them. I can’t imagine...
You're talking to a non-philosopher, so I have no problem acting on that which I think is beneficial. :wink: I also think that one ought not do a lot ...
That's what I keep coming back to. It seems there is an assumption that cooperation strategies are good and therefore ought to be obligatory or founda...
Ok. I'm not an essentialist. I'm not sure what ground you are referring to. Are you asking what is the foundation of personal identity grounded in? As...
Of course. I was asking Jack mainly because I know of his fondness of Jung and Jung's work on dreams. Your response is very interesting. We're all dif...
:up: I guess it all depends upon whether we think a ghost is a person's soul trapped between worlds, or some other (incoherent?) idea like an energy o...
No idea why you're taking this as some kind of response to an attack. Your assorted responses seem more like you're arguing for the sake of arguing. A...
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