Since it's World Autism Day, I'm wondering about these unique minds which are challenging science and impacting families/communities. How does the concept of...
Wil (44016): Solipsism is an insincere position. It cannot be maintained by anything more than stubborn foolishness. That I even have to respond again to it...
Children, let's end the political debate and return to the topics at hand -- philosophy. This is NOT a political group and not everything revolves around...
An invitation is open to the members of this group for a study and sustained discussion on Kant's "Critique of Judgment". I welcome all the talent and insight...
if we allow that commitments aren't easily made or kept, does this not strengthen the notion of their ethical importance?? put in more concrete manner, is it...
Jim, I also wonder why you would think that acknowledging the sexual advance would be something necessarily authentic. I can't see how her bad faith, from ...
The discussion as of late reveals a basic "truth" from my perspective: philosophy is academic, but academics are not always the best or brightest philosophers....
I have always suspicioned that Bookdoc sets with his fingers crossed laughing out loud at the continuance of his existance argument with any number of well...
"I have suspicion Bookdoc has serious acedemic credentials which he delights in trashing. Wil states he has little formal training in philosophy." Sorry, I had...
When it proves difficult to meet life stoically, cynicism is a temptation. The idea of living with innocence cannot perish, like all immutable essences - and...
What does your pure ego display? Guy in the white cowboy hat comes to mind but that was Reagans gig. What has been proffered and subtly grafted onto your...
Before I am pillioried for off topic let me aussage all this relates, in my mind , to the discussion regarding modernism and post modernism. Today I viewed...
I found this sight while browsing for new audio. Of note here is an excellent lecture on Heidegger by Prof. Hubert L. Dreyfus long time faculty at UC Berkeley;...
The primary criticism of Derrida is that his word play seems pointless and endless. Yet it appears to me as very productive from the perspective of reverse...
Mary, Your article on moral ambiguity explores the question in depth and explores the questions of decision making from moralist and relativistic viewpoints....
I know why I cleve to the French existentialists. They spring from that chaos called the French revolution. Cutting off the head of a monarch was the best of...
Mary, Was it not the ultimate shape shifter,RR, who gobbled the rainbow candies? Benedict baptizes a moslum while Bush taps McCain on the head. The enemy of...
I've browsed over a few comments and would like to post a reminder to those critiquing. Left speak / right wing; these are terms that are too often thrown...
Bill, The discussion apparently was triggered by the suggestion that the Bushes are great American philosophers. They are not philosophers in any sense of the ...
I'd like an opinion on the influence of Derrida's work and it's relationship to existentialist thought anyone may have studied or found independently. His...
The basis for Sartre's reading of history, and his politics, was laid in that section of Being and Nothingness that describes the birth of the social in the...
Sometimes distrust and misunderstandings go so deep, that to earn respect, proves impossible. As someone long diagnosed with what is euphemistically called a...
The problem of existential communication Hell – is Another People, as Jean-Paul Sartre spoke with the words of the heroes of one of his plays. The Another...
. . . the beloved neo-con's coulter. The sentiments sound similar to hers. Here are a couple fun videos. Yes, people are dying at the hands of her beloved...
ANNOUNCING Humanistic Psychology in Practice The 2nd Annual Conference of The Society for Humanistic Psychology Sponsored by the Division 32 of APA August...
I am pleased to report that our group: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassicsBookDiscussionGroup/ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassicsBookDiscussionGroup/>...
The recent revelations of fraudulent memoirs, fake author persona, and the intentional purveying of fiction as non-fiction in the publishing world is being...
My love is for the nations of Europe, and not for bureaucratic structures that attempt to enforce a political harmony by cultural appropriation. Insofar as I...
