I am just wondering: Why don't you THINK? Why do you always use quotes from dead and gone people? It is extreemly easy these days to just copy materials from...
~~ Meghan wrote: "Okay, people, let's talk intent. ... absolve ... play ... the ... of ... the ... did ... of ... in ... responsibilty?" ~~So, in a nutshell,...
Meghan, I would tend to agree with your views on intent. I believe that all I am free to do is to make choices - I am not free to control the responses of...
Yana wrote: <<By my "questions to all" post, I did not mean to restrict any1 from their freedom.>> Okay, people, let's talk intent. If I don't *intend* for my...
Hank, you ask 'How's this go' in response to the part of my post which went 'Therefore I choose to try and show that I have taken responsibility through...
Yana, I have noted your recent posts and believe they contain a very important question for existentialist ethics. It seems to me you have chosen to try and...
Is anyone else getting bored of the current thread of discussion? (dis- from Latin, literally "to come apart") Question-- Georges Bataille... Frustrated...
My Dear Nicholas, 1) my reply to Charles V. is simply "there exist one situation that I can have NO choice nor freedom in rejecting it" 2) I did NOT accuse...
"Dead peoples quotes are worthless?" It's unfortunate (sometimes) that all philosophers and Yana (if s/he considers him/herself such) operate under the...
Mary, Thank you for sharing, do not feel that you can not share because you may or may not have been educated in the schools of philosophy. Philosophy is about...
Speaking of absolutes. One of you spoke of absolute freedom. It seems to me there is only one absolute we can be sure of. This is death. WE DIE? Brandon...
you would not have been so upset with my post! I guess eventhough I "irritated" some ignorant people on this list, I also made them ask questions from...
Hey Mary, I do not have any formal training in philosophy either. I took my degree in Economics. I read somewhere that Socrates was a great believer in the...
I've been 'lurking' on this list for awhile, and I though I believe I may be far out-gunned and utterly under-educated in relation to you, my fellow list...
Tiffani and Kirby, you have both expressed a belief that there is no such thing as 'absolute freedom'. I would tend to agree with you. After all, if you want...
My personal experiences seem to lead to the conclusion I can find the way myself(but in my old age I tend to doubt this assertion)but finding my out of where ...
To take responsibility for a action you have taken would be to answer to a higher authority: values and virtues. Is honesty a virtue of yours? Honesty to...
I witnessted my first cousin's burial yesterday. I felt I was dreaming and that I would wake-up, all be gone and he will be with us again! I could not bread,...
Tom, now I have read your post of 15th September yet again, I have some tentative thoughts on the issues you raised. If it looks as though I am trying to...
Dear Meghan ... <Man is an aspiring angel limited by a mortal body>> ... This, dear Meghan, is exactly what I mean by being "limited by the body machine". We...
... This is true, in part; but humans are also subject to intropunitive forces. What I mean is, an individual human being has a natural appitite for an active...
I wrote: "I have used this principle (of full moral responsibility for one's actions)in attacking the notion of the "conditioned reflex" and the "unconscious"...
Tom, I'm still trying to think through the ramifications of your post of 15th September - please don't think I'm ignoring it. Certainly wasn't 'bollocks'. ...
"Magic shares another fundamental principle with mysticism: the notion 'as above, so below' (attributed to Hermes Trismegistus). In mysticism, this means that...
My thanks to John C. and Jakob for their responses. Both of you have given me pause for thought and I appreciate that - I like to have my ideas challenged...
Hi, ... Do you differentiate between a principle of "conditioned reflex\Unconscious" and the actual factor of "conditioned reflex\unconcious"? Do you believe...
Dear Charles, This is Rajiv Pande. I liked your words on maorality and agree with you on the aspect of full and complete responsibility for one's actions. I...
