Philosophy Now Forum

bahman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 4:32 pm I have been discussing this with Catholics for a long time. Noone could convince me that there is a meaning in the relation with God. Could you?

What's a. "noone?"

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 2:08 pm Premise: the most kind, are the most worthy to live in society. Yea, or nay?

If any words in the premise need defining, define them ...

It's your premise. You define them.

RC, I didn't realize you were pure virtue, the laws then are for the rest of us. Everybody is different. If you think it is a virtue to not need someone else to tell him what is right and wrong is a virtue, why wouldn't you aspire to that? If you are beig snyde, that's OK too. Cute, but OK. Apparen...

No doctrine has ever been responsible for more evil than the doctrine of altruism. As usual yours is one-track thinking and a one track mind. Thank you very much. It is not easy keeping one's mind on the one path of truth. Most are what is generally referred to as scatter-brained, whose thoughts ar...

If humans aren't 'social animals' then why do they become psychotic when deprived of all human contact? First of all, that's not true. Some probably do become psychotic in forced solitutude. Some become psychotic when deprived of their drugs, or alcohol, or anything else they become dependent on. B...

1. Given continuous change what we observe as a thing is an event. I think you are mistaking the fact that in the dynamic universe there is only change for the assumption nothing has permanence. In fact, it is only what does not change that actually exists. The fact of constant change does not excl...

If humans aren't 'social animals' then why do they become psychotic when deprived of all human contact? First of all, that's not true. Some probably do become psychotic in forced solitutude. Some become psychotic when deprived of their drugs, or alcohol, or anything else they become dependent on. B...

Those who are worthy of society are those who keep the social contract, those who do not are imprisoned penalised or ostracised. Nice! You'd love a police state. That's not society, it's a prison camp. RC, I am just describing the society you presently live in. If you insist on breaking the social ...

Identity with others is the seed of compassion and it is compassion that motivates the individual to make a selfless act the property of his own will, thus he acts to fulfill that will, but the motivation is pure love or sympathy. From " Sentimental Journey ." Instead Of Virtue Most of th...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 12:26 am the basic society is the family...

-Imp

Like the Manson Family.

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 6:34 am Those who are worthy of society are those who keep the social contract, those who do not are imprisoned penalised or ostracised.

Nice! You'd love a police state. That's not society, it's a prison camp.

A thing is a cognitive experience. A "cognitive experience," is certainly not nothing, but an experience is not an entity, it is an event. "Thing," usually refers to an entity, something that can be perceived. Perception, (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting), is als...

What if..The lucrative business of manufacturing Nuclear Weapons, which is just one of many other weapons of mass destruction that can be used to destroy life...gives licence to bully other nations ..already knowing they will get away with their agenda's..whatever those agenda's may be...only the o...

America does not want peace its industrial-military complex needs and wants war, it has military bases surrounding the globe. The people are not the government the industrial-military complex is, war is profitable it is their global cottage industry. How would the states react to pro-Russian forces...

Neither the Hatfields nor the McCoys were particularly fond of the Revenuers, let alone love 'em. That was three-way war, each against the other. Oh, well, then, war is just lovely. After all, the Hatfields and McCoys .... Good grief! :D I suspect you missed the point on purpose. Yes, I suspect tha...