In talking about reason I am talking about reason as a canon, not reason as a hypostatized theoretical entity. This is not a theory of everything. Without a...
Trinidad, Please pardon my poor offering this morning (bitchin' headache) but I don't want to drop this thread just yet. I've found it ironic that a few of my...
... <existlist1@...> wrote: "I think the fact companies can and do manipulate government laws and regulations means the companies cease to be "capitalistic.If...
... Try TOPS Herm. Theory of practical something. Epistemology can only ever be partial and temporary. It cannot even directly reflect. Just because it cannot...
Now Trinidad, It is the least evil system. Besides, greed and "counting" are an essential components to progress, period, and without it there is no progress. ...
I recently viewed the cinema by that title, the movie was nothing like the book and the book is so radical as to be widely banned. It explains how to make...
I have to agree w/ you. The world doesn't operate in the abstract, measured vacuum of theory and research; it happens through passion, chance, and human...
Chris, I have been around guns all my life and they scare me more and more. That may be a factor of age but is also because I have a good understanding of...
Bill, wanting to have children in the future, your advice is very well received. Anarchist seems to want to throw the baby out with the bath water so to speak....
Aren't anarchists left-wingers who have slipped right off the cliff?? Anyway, we shan't make headway until we kick politics into touch. It don't belong here,...
You are not sure if you believe in "existence precedes essence" I think that there is some biology/genetics that makes the person who he is, and I'm not saying...
Well, you know Bill, I can't help ut agree with that statement. It conatins a lot of depth to it, thought, on the surface, it might seem to be just an...
Trinidad: I cannot really deny the kernel of truth in what you are saying, or, at least, what I believe is the attitude behind it. What you say goes hand in...
First, packaged and pre-cooked Existentialism is not what we offer here, so we're not obliged to respond. And secondly, you must be an existentialist for the...
Sorry mates for belaboring the point, but I don't see any actual guns, bombs or wmd in the DEMANDS AS INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISTS. Anarchy is essentially freedom...
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~ If a couple thousand years are not suddenly sliced away for men and this bridge demolished in order to teach men to begin with the problems of actual life...
Here is the "Existentialism and Darwinism" section of a 4-page/part article. "Existentialist Aesthetics" is also a topic near and dear to my heart. ...
Mary`s fine post concerning Darwin and existentialism adds to her continuance of well chosen documentation of contemporary ideas. Existentialism is not...
Mary: That post was entirely appropriate and it provokes ideas that we should be discussing. I have not been able to digest it entirely, I am totally immersed...
Mister (Miss?) Dasein: In all probability, the most appropriate manner in which to try and fit me into your picture of what goes on here is to imagine a great ...
Thanks, Bill. From bread baskets to fuel pumps, who saw it coming? Where is Gaylord Nelson when we need him? A few months ago I came across an interesting...
Rules? Who needs rules? All those whose principles are not lived, in organic physical instinctive movement. Chemical is also physical. The outer body may be...
I am in the middle, I believe in the power of choices, I believe in the concept of 'bad faith', inauthentic vs authentic, but I also believe biology has a...
Gerald--Neither Camus nor Sartre felt they fit neatly into an existentialist box, eider. Camus was shocked when he met and talked to Sartre for the first time...
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It would be more than two hundred years ago and prostestants would be at war with catholics. Intellectuals of the enlightenment would be at the forefront as...