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- Wed Sep 16, 2020 12:45 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Historical Constants
- Replies: 7
- Views: 937
Re: Historical Constants
Please describe a state of affairs that you consider to be a historical constant.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:58 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Et In Arcadia Ego
- Replies: 9
- Views: 601
Re: Et In Arcadia Ego
May one ethically choose to have no ethical duties to any other being?
May one choose to torture another being, whether a human being or an animal such as your neighbor's dog?
May one choose to torture another being, whether a human being or an animal such as your neighbor's dog?
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Et In Arcadia Ego
- Replies: 9
- Views: 601
Re: Et In Arcadia Ego
The article is fascinating and timely for me because I recently wound up in a nursing home (where I now reside) where most of the residents suffer from dementia. A retired lawyer, I'm here because of diabetes, not dementia, or any other cognitive impairment, other than the normal slowdown in cogniti...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:55 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: McCarthyism and American Philosophy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2201
Re: McCarthyism and American Philosophy
This is an excellent article. I admired Sidney Book's anti-communism and still do.
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:20 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Learning To Love Our Teachers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 811
Re: Learning To Love Our Teachers
Anushka Bhaskar (18) and Zachary Cerniglia (19) consider the importance of gratitude for education. https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Learning_To_Love_Our_Teachers Listen to Jon Voight relate how his father was brought up in Jewish culture by Jewish golfers. Amazing how they taught him manners a...
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 2:23 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Learning To Love Our Teachers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 811
Re: Learning To Love Our Teachers
Anushka Bhaskar (18) and Zachary Cerniglia (19) consider the importance of gratitude for education. https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Learning_To_Love_Our_Teachers Listen to Jon Voight relate how his father was brought up in Jewish culture by Jewish golfers. Amazing how they taught him manners a...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 2:57 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Christian Atheism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1607
Re: Christian Atheism
The New Testament is composed of several gospels, of which only few gospels remains in edited form in todays Bible. Non-canonical gospels, like the gospel of Judas, Mary Magdalene amongst many others, were not canonized along with the gospel of Luke, Mark etc. These gospels were edited from their o...
- Mon May 28, 2018 8:06 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Our Duty to the Dead
- Replies: 3
- Views: 814
Re: Our Duty to the Dead
The author claims that the duty is derived from our good will, or the moral law within us. The moral law is universal and rational, following Kant and Aristotle ( an "inner voice").
Does anyone disagree with this basic natural law argument?.
Does anyone disagree with this basic natural law argument?.
- Fri May 25, 2018 1:28 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Our Duty to the Dead
- Replies: 3
- Views: 814
Re: Our Duty to the Dead
Stamatina Liosi enlists the help of Immanuel Kant to discover why we have a duty to treat the dead with dignity. https://philosophynow.org/issues/126/Our_Duty_to_the_Dead In a feminist philosophy class, the teacher asserted relative to a duty of care that the duty even extended to dead bodies. She ...
- Wed May 09, 2018 12:21 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Being and Time by Heidegger
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3520
Re: Being and Time by Heidegger
Heidegger is considered a modern great philosopher. You will profit from grappling with his thought.
- Mon May 07, 2018 3:27 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: bullshit philosophy at its finest.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8388
- Tue May 01, 2018 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Life is boring and meaningless, and most humans are ignorant & stupid. What is the meaning of life?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 42624
Re: Life is boring and meaningless, and most humans are ignorant & stupid. What is the meaning of life?
N ext week I'll start reading the classic Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Frankl . I invite others to read the book and discuss it here. This is the edition that I bought and will read. https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525...
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Life is boring and meaningless, and most humans are ignorant & stupid. What is the meaning of life?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 42624
Re: Life is boring and meaningless, and most humans are ignorant & stupid. What is the meaning of life?
Next week I'll start reading the classic Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Frankl.
I invite others to read the book and discuss it here.
I invite others to read the book and discuss it here.
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: ~ The Last Great Mystic ~
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1418
Re: ~ The Last Great Mystic ~
Here is the short version of the "I have a dream speech"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
The author suggests that the speech was provoked by a mystical experience.
http://www.transformingcenter.org/2011/ ... h-of-soul/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
The author suggests that the speech was provoked by a mystical experience.
http://www.transformingcenter.org/2011/ ... h-of-soul/
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: ~ The Last Great Mystic ~
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1418
Re: ~ The Last Great Man ~
. ................................................. http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/140/cache/05-martin-king-010909_14089_600x450.jpg . As I was listening to his last speech in Memphis on Democracy Now this morning, Bill, I wondered: Was King a mystic? What do you thi...