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henry quirk wrote:" No need to add a philosophical or moral dimension to that which is just commonsensical ('I don't wanna die, I don't wanna be restrained, etc.').

Seems to me, this is where it's needed the most.

Ned wrote:Evolution

While thumbing his phone
he walks into a lamp post.
Evolution sighs.

Or into an oncoming car. Watched that happen the other day.

But what if my peaceful peasants prove victorious? Guilty of what?

henry quirk wrote: Just War theory: no such animal as a 'just war'...there's just 'war' (with reasons, rationales, and excuses made up along the way and after [by the winners]).

So I'm not "justified" resisting the lunatics invading my peaceful country?

3 minutes philosophy. Learned something new today, I didn't know (or remember) that Epicurus disliked desire, though I've probably heard it many times. Sounds similar to the Four Truths of Buddhism. Epicurus was, I believe, interested in ethical hedonism , which served as a boundary to endlessly 'l...

Arising_uk wrote:Any explanations for why such things occurs so often in America and hardly at all, if ever, in Norway?

Ever heard of Anders Breivik?

The greek -roman civilisation fitted as a ready made catalist for christianity.without greek philosophy and roman government the church could never have expanded as it did independent of those ready made systems in place.it was perfect timing. Maybe, maybe not. I'd hesitate to use the word "ne...

The Romans admired their predecessors, the Greeks. A lot of Roman architecture survived because of the keystone arch. European and American law is heavily based on Roman jurisprudence. There's really nothing new going on.

...................................................... http://www.altergroup.com/alter-care-blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obama-health-care-logo.jpg In the first stop on President Obama's week-long midwestern bus tour, the president appeared to attempt to take ownership of the term "Obamacar...

The Voice of Time wrote:It is outrageous that he was killed for merely trying to steal! The 75 year old must be sent to jail!

"Merely trying to steal?" Was Watts armed?

John Dewey wrote volumes of drivel? Or Dewey said that "ethics is volumes of drivel" in a sharp indictment of those around him? The "or" in your post meant to contrast John Dewey's brilliant writing with other writing that is "drivel"? Was this an OR-of-CONTRAST ? Was ...

bobevenson wrote: Please refrain from using vulgar British terms:
Word Origin & History
bollocks
"testicles," 1744, see bollix. In British slang, as an ejaculation meaning "nonsense," recorded from 1919.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Never Mind the Bollocks.

KaydeeDID88 wrote:i feel as if abortion is not necessary though it is the right of a woman to make... its her right to do what she wants with her body and no one can tell her different, though if the a male is involved he too should have say what happens to that unborn child.

Which is it?

... I see is what I would call 'human entropy.'...if we haven't gotten it right in all these years (with less world population), what needs to happen in order to do so? .... John You speak of "human entropy" and ask (perhaps rhetorically): " if we haven't gotten it right in all these...

uwot wrote: I'm not a fan of Schopenhauer, but I think he had a point when he said: “Compassion is the basis of morality.”

Hats off to someone who's read Arthur. That's one of the most powerful axioms (if I may be so bold) of philosophy.