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"If the rivals of materialism have any advantage it must be because there are some residual phenomena which they can explain better. Now, most of the phenomena which the supernaturalist throws in the naturalist's teeth are such as the supernaturalist himself has never explained." (William...

Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. https://philosophynow.org/issues/161/The_Illusion_of_Illusionism "Consciousness has always been a serious embarrassment for those who believe that everything is physical and that physics is the most authoritative account of the material worl...

[This is hopelessly off-topic here, by the way! Well…] How is that possible? You asked me why the Euthyphro dilemma is solved. I told you. How could a forthcoming answer to your actually question be "hopelessly off topic"? It was the topic you chose to go to. There's a misunderstanding, b...

So God is the prototype of all goodness. Man is a palid copy, and is only partially and occasionally possesed of borrowed, reflective goodness. And when he recognizes goodness, and gets it right, what he really recognizes is the nature of God. [This is hopelessly off-topic here, by the way! Well…] ...

I suspect Chomsky is right And if we want an end to the Ukraine War, our leaders should negotiate with Russia and draw a line at Ukraine ever becoming a NATO member and leave it at that. Or extend some olive branch of good will toward Russia. Yea, let's be nice to the Devil…! – No, thanks! As histo...

Yes (if "good" just means "good at philosophizing"), but I was asking for examples of defenders of atheistic theological voluntarism, or atheists who are theological voluntarists. Atheistic theological voluntarism? It's almost a contradiction in terms. It's not, according to the...

Yes, but these similarities don't justify the assertion that political extremism is always a left thing. It obviously isn't! Quite true. But the extreme Right looks rather different from the version the Left would like us to adopt. They're not Fascists; they're anarchists, nihilists, Randians, open...

…So the whole Fascism-Communism struggle is a family fight: two Collectivist Totalitarian systems fighting it out to see which form of Collectivist Totalitarianism will win. And their true opposites are democracy, liberalism, individualism, human rights, free markets, and so on. Yes, but these simi...

Consequently, "Cultural Marxism" is perhaps the most appropriate and polite term we could use for them. Culture is the lynchpin of their current activities. Yes, there is a left phenomenon that is appropriately called so; but when "cultural marxism" is used to refer to the conte...

James Lindsay puts this paradox extremely well. He says, "Fascism is the right hand of the Left, just as Communism is the left hand of the Left." They are both species of Collectivist Totalitarianism. Lindsay's statement implies that totalitarian extremism always belongs to and emerges fr...

Whatever, when I use the phrase "Cultural Left" (especially in discussions about the "Woke Left")…, I use it much more narrowly (in Henry Gates's & Richard Rorty's sense) to refer to the post-New-Left, post-1970s "Academic Left" … The (post-70s) Cultural Left = the...

Indeed, there is a split in the left, between the traditional "social left" and the new "cultural left" (to which the "woke left" belongs) Yes, there is. But effectively, the Cultural Marxists have eaten the old-style Proletarian Leftists. And ironically, the Cultural ...

But you're cool with the workers forming unions at least, right? C'mon man u gotta give me sumthin. Today's Socialists now hate the unions: haven't you heard? They're all "deplorables" and "rednecks," they want us to think. The new proponents of Socialism (for us only, mind you,...

You are right only if socialism is equated with (Soviet-style) communism. I'm completely right. There's not a single case of Socialism being the regnant economic plan, and there not being death and economic disaster. But if you think otherwise, just name this Socialist success story. Not all social...

In every real-world case in history, Socialism has turned to a devastated economy and piles of corpses. No exceptions. So only when Socialism is not the dominant economic or political strategy in a place is any measure of it even tolerable. And there's a serious doubt that it's ever functional, let...