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Please see this other thread regarding Kant. http://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12062 Just took a peek and saw it was a long post, so I'll look at it closely later. A much more fruitful question is to ask: What was the state of Western philosophy immediately prior to Descartes? ...

Being a happy amateur, That makes two of us... ...not having read too much political theory, I am still curious of the picture of possible steering mechanism of a state (or such) defined by the coordinate system spanned by the capitalism and socialism. First of all, those were "discovered"...

The first, obvious one, that comes to my mind is this Gainsbourg/Birkin's classic from the 60's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA And everything tha Julie London sang transpired sexyness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JbP8apTP3o&feature=share&list=PL23BF61E4893ECB16&index=36

There are reasons to cast some doubts over the usefulness of these two concepts of capitalism and socialism, as "oppossite ends of the political spectrum". Problems arise both from the abstract theoretical perspective and the practical or empirical grounds for this supposed dichotomy. The ...

Conde Luncanor, Our brains are not deduction machines. They are primarily an organ whose purpose is the survival and maintenance of the body. The same is true of sense organs. Alright they are not machines, of any kind. I will assume that "purpose" means in this statement something differ...

We may agree that knowledge is NOT directly derived from sense perception, that the human brain is not a tabula rasa , and that modern biology and neuroscience can explain the structures of our minds and bodies, and how they interact with the environment. We may agree that the philosophy of Descarte...