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This is an excellent article. I admired Sidney Book's anti-communism and still do.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

gaffo wrote: ↑

Sun May 06, 2018 5:02 am

whats with the slam against Solipsism?

solipsism is self evident no?

Baloney

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/solipsism

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...

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/

. ................................................. 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...

Shai Tubali considers the roots and implications of Arendt’s active philosophy. https://philosophynow.org/issues/125/Hannah_Arendt_and_the_Human_Duty_to_Think This is an excellent article. Arendt's writings are neglected. Justice John Paul Stevens, in advocating the repeal of the Second amendment t...

tbieter wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:02 pm

What book changed you?

Apparently, no one's actions have been changed by a book.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:08 pm

The only female 'philosophers' I can think of are Ayn Rand and Simone Weil, and they are both dreadful.

How do you justify calling a particular philosopher "dreadful"? What standard have you used?