Dear Mr Platon Ariston, Regarding how Strauss understood the meaning of what a philosopher is, "Progress or Return?" and "Jerusalem and Athens" are...
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Emerson Strauss
emerson.harvard@...
Jan 1, 2006 11:17 pm
Hello everyone, I'm new to the list and just wanted to introduce myself and say that I look forward to chatting w/ all of you. My name is Emerson and I'm a...
I seem to recall from a lecture long ago the contrasting of property ownership of John Locke as inventing consumerism --the notion that property could be...
Dear Emerson, Welcome to the list. I hope you have many fruitful discussions here. What is the focus of your interests in the areas of philosophy and religion?...
Dear Ms. Sorensen, I enjoyed your post. So, do you see yourself more as a philosopher open to the challenge of theology, or a theologian open to the challenge...
... that I look ... and ... say more, ... Emerson, Welcome. You really are new if you are looking forward to chatting with all of us. Very Warm Regards, ...
Kim, I tried to trace back this exchange, but couldn't find the beginning. I don't know exactly what's being discussed. What you've said and how you say it is...
Proponents of intelligent design, the claim that the complexity of cellular life points to an intelligent designer, want this theory taught in high schools to...
... must ... they are. This statement is only true in the most formal sense as it gives the very false impression that MNS might explain "how thing work" by...
Paul Rhodes wrote: " Modern natural science is not competent to determine the truth or falseness of atheism. That is a job for another branch of science or...
... Both evolution and intelligent design are silly and stupid. They are not worth anything except as examples of modernity's ill-attempts at rationalizing the...
Dear Paul In a sense you are just repeating what I said: that if ID is what it claims to be then it is just one more trendy movement to tell children to doubt...
For a good exposition on this topic please see Riezler's Physics and Reality, the links to an electronic version of which was recently posted on this site....
... are not ... involved ... because he ... call ... justify ... The reductionist argument with respect to the thoery of evolution does not do justice to the...
... I did a detailed examination of Darwin for a lecture I gave at the Henry George School in New York some years ago. I went through his works and carefully...
... Ex nihil, nihil fit? But that really is not the theory. The theory today is akin to the infamous primordial soup and electrical discharges resulting...
Dear Mr. Rhodes, I wonder if MNS has the right to delimit itself in the way in which it has. Rather than calling for high school philosophy classes, perhaps we...
Dear Mr. Pehme, I must agree that Darwinism the scientific teaching leads naturally to Social Darwinism the political teaching. Really, the political teaching...
Dear Mr. Pehme, I have been waiting for the lightening to strike, but the junk in my garage has yet to organize itself. Nor have the various computer parts...
Mr. Pehme, It is to be admitted that Darwin expresses a low opinion of non- Westerners; neverthless, he did not support slavery. But, more to the point, the...
... garage has yet to organize itself. Nor have the various computer parts lying around organized themselves into a spare laptop. Pity. In my world, things...
... it has. Rather than calling for high school philosophy classes, perhaps we should be calling for the reintegration of science into philosophy, in high...
Dear Mr. Crabbe, ... I don't reject the idea of polytheism, or even the possibility of the demi-urges (possibilities with which I would expect Mr. Pehme in...
... cellular ... atheism under ... is taught ... but an ... that ... there is no ... science is ... thereof. ... they are. ... cannot be a ... science is ... ...
Dear Mr. Crabbe, ... Hmmm... the province of natural slaves, isn't it? (Aristotle, _Politics_, 1255b 27.) ... Subordinated to but not part of? There are...
... That Darwin didn't support slavery was the English view of the day, far advanced over the loathesome Southern slave holders in the USA. Nevertheless, he...
