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Hello. I know that This is very old post but I want to say that Humanists are atheists and agnostics who make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values. Right .... what is an atheist and agnostic that doesn't use reason, experience and shared human values? That would be a ...

I have for a time been sympathic to the Atheist claim of believing in something close to science, but here's the limit! It can hardly be said that Atheists can believe in Ethics/Morals and Meaning for real. Atheists are undeniably going to write those sizes off as psychological compulsions! What ca...

I have for a time been sympathic to the Atheist claim of believing in something close to science, but here's the limit! It can hardly be said that Atheists can believe in Ethics/Morals and Meaning for real. Atheists are undeniably going to write those sizes off as psychological compulsions! What ca...

Thank you Van De Merwe Hi, I have a philosophy on life and i wrote a book about it. I never studied Philosophy. Out of all the philosophers Socrates is my man. I wrote the book and i dedicate it to the greater good of mankind and to my sister Angela who took her life in July 2008. I offer the book t...

Kuhn is going down! Argument developing against Kuhn. (This is "imported" from http://forums.philosophyforums.com/ where it can be found in the Phil. of Science section with the same title. It has been posted there Sep 20, 2009 01:28 PM.) :) The object of this thread is clear. It's to mak...

Just finished Rousseau's Dog by David Edmonds and John Eidinow. I enjoyed it but not as much as their first pop history of philosophy book, Wittgenstein's Poker . This book is an account of the relationship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hume saved Rousseau from his persecutors on th...

I thought this was a Philosophy Forum, not the whinging of a novelist

Never forget the symmetrising words of Slavoj Zizeck when he completed Rumsfeld triad of knowability (known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns) by adding the all important and frankly more interesting "unknown Knowns". These are the unrecognised endemic assumptions and taken-for-...

The concept of historical progress of mankind cannot be sundered from the concept of its progresion through a homogenous, empty time. A critique of the concept of such a progression must be the basis of any criticism of the concept of progress itslef. Walter Benjamin. History has always treated the ...