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as I am going across a couple of different areas, the political, the social, gender, I am going to place this here as a compromise... I have heard of attacks from conservatives about how society is becoming corrupt because of the "feminization of men"... part of what is "wrong" w...

I have mentioned before about the value of the Kantian question... the questions that we face right at birth and end at that last minute of life... among those questions are "What am I to do?" "What can I know?" ''What can I believe in?" 'What can I hope for?" and there...

we have a saying in my neck of the woods... you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.. If you are not intelligent enough to understand one of the fundamental questions of philosophy, of the relationship between the state/society and the individual, I really, really, really can'...

we are faced with a problem... one of individual free will and our connection to society/state... Why is this a so-called 'problem', exactly? As galling as it is to agree with "Age," this is the right question. (I guess even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut.) There's no problem he...

we are faced with a problem... one of individual free will and our connection to society/state... Why is this a so-called 'problem', exactly? one such answer is Adam Smith in his "Wealth of Nations" AGE: For an answer to come about firstly there needs to be a question, or a 'problem'. Obv...

Wondering about Wiki as I am wont to do, I came across this statement by Theodor Adorno, about Standardization: ''A concept used to characterize the formulaic products of capitalism- driven mass media and mass culture that appeals to the lowest common denominator in pursuit of maximum profits" ...

we are faced with a problem... one of individual free will and our connection to society/state... one such answer is Adam Smith in his "Wealth of Nations" he suggest that by our own individual, private, selfish actions we somehow, he never actually tells us how this is so, but our own self...

Here I shall argue for democracy but full democracy.. in other words, full opportunity for anyone over 18 to vote.. conservatives today, at least in America, are attempting to strip away voting rights from anyone not deemed to be politically pure.. (conservative) these anti-democratic attempts are b...

We see the signs of our "Modern" science everywhere including the technology that we use computers to create threads and ops.. that almost instantly go all over the world... The modern question has been, Rousseau wrote about it, has been, has morals/ethics kept up with the science/technolo...

I think the problem lies within the nature of your posting.. frankly, it is rather scattershot.. a whole lot of posts that don't seem to have any coherence.... you may have more success with longer post and less of them... rewrite your thesis and change the nature of your thread.. from a million lit...

Certain disciplines I find fascinating, among them is philosophy, political philosophy, geography, astronomy and history... I could stare at a picture of another galaxy for hours... and those deep space pictures of hundreds of galaxies, man, I am in amazed by those... but the topic today is history ...

so the question becomes, why do we change our 'TRUTHS?" and one answer might be to better fit within reality... the reality is that evolution is the best fitting explanation of all explanations of animals and human beings we have... as with all science, that explanation is the who, what, when, ...

so let continue this thought... we have science, in which every statement must be based in ''truth''... I cannot hold to random opinions and claim they are fact/ scientific unless they are shown to be factual... for example, I can claim that there is a planet between the Earth and Mars...but unless ...

In the above mentioned thread, comes the question of change.. especially in the ''BIG stuff" questions of existence... this question has several different aspects... among them is epistemological.. How do we know that the beliefs we hold is actually true? On what basis can we hold certain belie...

Now for me, the question of ethics/moral isn't what ethics/moral should we follow but why... what exactly is the point of, the value of having ethics/morals? Why do we have ethics/morals? What is the point of engaging in being ethical/moral? are we ethical/moral because of our beliefs/actions or are...