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Please describe a state of affairs that you consider to be a historical constant.

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?

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...

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...