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- Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:13 am
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Slavoj Žižek
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2337
Re: Slavoj Žižek
Within the first five minutes of the interview PROFESSOR :twisted: Zizek states that he declines to write on Donald Trump because "he is not interesting at all as a person. " I understand that Zizek is a communist and an atheist. A collectivist. In contrast, consider and compare these wor...
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Simone Weil
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10908
Re: Simone Weil
A documentary about Simone Weil http://linestreet.net/ Here is the trailer.
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 9:16 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Values vs. Goodness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1510
Re: Values vs. Goodness
This morning I finished reading David Cayley's book on the thought of Ivan Illich, who frequently referred to himself as an historian, not a philosopher ot theologian. He was profoundly inflenced by the parable of the Good Samaritan, about which I will write later.
- Sat Oct 07, 2017 1:21 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Values vs. Goodness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1510
Values vs. Goodness
On September 27, 2017, I was watching Muhammed Yunus being interviewed on Democracy Now about the alleged "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma. I was startled to hear him state: "She stood for democracy. She stood for human rights. She stood for all the human v...
- Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: Is silence language?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5061
Re: Is silence language?
I recommend "The World of Silence" by Max Picard.
I'm currently reading his book "The Human Face".
I'm currently reading his book "The Human Face".
- Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:55 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: What Book Changed Your Mind?
- Replies: 217
- Views: 82912
Re: What Book Changed Your Mind?
I'm currently reading this book about the thought of Ivan Illich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3s-MPtbDKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3s-MPtbDKc
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:46 am
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Trump's verbal diarrhoea
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7899
Re: Trump's verbal diarrhoea
It's not our fault that he spouts embarrassingly stupid shit every single day. But it is a shame that that sideshow got him all the way to the presidency without ever having to answer a single useful question about the policies he was going to implement. How true. They let him distract them every t...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:14 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: In defense of colonism
- Replies: 100
- Views: 29403
Re: In defense of colonism
Bruce Gilley's "The case for colonialism" rocked the intellectual world this last couple weeks. Should be easy enough to find the article online, here is the abstract, "For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a bad name. It is high time to question this orthodoxy. Western...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 1:28 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Humanism on my mind
- Replies: 62
- Views: 19290
Re: Humanism on my mind
Woke up this morning to find humanism on my mind. When a person runs out of faith, and cannot sustain belief no matter how much it brought comfort and a sense of belonging, where to turn... I read online bbc news that the demand is up for humanist pastoral care, and Charity Humanists UK are trainin...
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:35 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: How to end my computer game addiction?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 257435
Re: How to end my computer game addiction?
How about learning a language online, using something like Duolingo? Lots of little challenges to be overcome, a clear sense of progression. You can comment on the process and get responses from other 'players'. And unlike most computer games, you can use the skills you acquire in real life, with r...
- Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:53 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Doing The Right Thing
- Replies: 99
- Views: 31154
Re: Doing The Right Thing
This morning as I was waking, I suddenly thought about this thread, "Doing the Right Thing", in relation to the parable of the Good Samaritan. See Luke 10:25-37. Was the thought a revelation to me from....? But, I digress... Maybe the runner was simply imitating, and acting from, the comp...
- Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:55 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: How to exit the religious mess!
- Replies: 311
- Views: 84982
Re: How to exit the religious mess!
- Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Suicide by Cop by Troubled Activist
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35940
Re: Suicide by Cop by Troubled Activist
I vaguely remember that at my first university, UMIST, there were a couple of bored security guards who spent the night dozing in a little hut by the main entrance to the campus, and occasionally wandered around campus with a torch. This was a city centre campus, after all. Nobody would have dreame...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Suicide by Cop by Troubled Activist
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35940
Re: Suicide by Cop by Troubled Activist
The school identified the victim as Scout Schultz, 21, a fourth-year engineering student from Lilburn, Georgia, who police said was armed with a knife. Schultz, president of Georgia Tech's Pride Alliance, identified as non-binary and intersex and preferred to be referred to with they/them gender pro...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:59 am
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Suicide by Cop by Troubled Activist
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35940
Re: Suicide by Cop by Troubled Activist
I was home-schooled, so I don't believe I could say from experience. But I don't doubt homophobia is still a big problem in school. Regardless, I don't think the issues people like him face in society can be so easily swept under the same label as "homophobia". I have known plenty of gay ...