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...
Life isn't usually that simple, unfortunately, at least it isn't for a great many people. It isn't even a matter of choosing* how to act that makes a...
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...
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...
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...
Mary`s fine post concerning Darwin and existentialism adds to her continuance of well chosen documentation of contemporary ideas. Existentialism is not...
~ 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
To decide for oneself is a philosophy: anarchism. OUR DEMANDS AS INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHISTS (1945) by Emile Armand is a reasonable hope for future generations....
1) FULL AND UNRESTRICTED RIGHT to decide for oneself in all respects. This means that every unit in society moves according to its own discretion, develops...
When torturing a spider with a match there are two distinct methods. Flaming the extremeties causes an extinuation of pleasure. If you have been bitten by...
One of the main points of dispute in my time at the list has concerned the nature of the personal. It is embarrassing, or undignified, at times, to make...
Reason and feeling are functions of the brain. And if you are able to so neatly tease them apart from one another, you are far more gifted than most. Do...
Bill, Do we really know the pathway, causative, that brought HIV virus to humans in California and beyond?? What about the hypothesis that laboratory testing...
Trinidad asks questions that are not easy to answer. I guess one can say something called civilisation exists but no two people could agree as to what is...
The generations coming of age now in the beginning of this twenty first century are inevitably facing an Orwellian dichotomy; a question of cause and effect...
I bring both Kant and Rand into the discussion of Existentialism because of their shared respect, optimism and enthusiasm regarding reason. The topic of reason...
Bill, paint me a picture. think my mind's being blinded by science. could be fault of your mate Trinidad. Mary, stop encouraging him, would you? Louise .....
~ "When next I awoke from the slumber of centuries I found that Europe had once more been transformed. The Mediterranean Sea had snapped the Italian...
~ I must describe Europe as it appeared to me before I next fell asleep. The Mediterranean Sea was divided into two great lakes when Italy became attached to...
~ The system which obtains among modern scientists, of dividing the history of the earth into geological epochs and the pre-history of man into cultural...
Invitation to Research Participation I am a PhD student at Saybrook Graduate School. My research is concerned with how individuals grow psychologically and...
This is to let everyone know that Olive Films will be releasing Ben Wright's fascinating documentary "Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual" to NYC's Quad Cinema...
