Replying to Msg. #733, is the jurisprudential analogy that I used in Msg. #718 an appropriate model of logic to use in assessing the justification offered to...
Are animals equal? We dare not answer that, do we? We might lose that tool of human development, cruelty. On the other hand the truth might be something ...
Than you for taking the time to write to us. Sadly much of what you say has truth to it. Many of these are also in a way attacks on white Americans and there ...
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Henry Lindner
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Mar 4, 2003 4:27 am
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Regarding my Msg. #718, I have uploaded a copy of Professor Ted Honderich's important "Omissions & Terrorism"article to the files section of this forum and in...
Hi Thomas, Just a quick note -really enjoyed reading the articles on honderich and tryranny. Not sure whether you are trying to test our logical powers here or...
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... their ... Study" to do ... to ... but I ... Might I direct you to the Buddhist teachings on this subject. Trying to pin down the true nature of emotion is...
williamjw2000
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Mar 9, 2003 10:26 am
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As a relative novice to the world of philosophy, this post may seem amateurish and even arrogant, but i have a question and whilst i'm not searching for an...
The intelectual position U describe is called "solipsism" and is a very lonely "world view". Descartes believed he was firstly "a thinker", but it seems he...
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Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson Assistant Professor History University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, Minnesota Dear Professor: I look forward to attending the March...
It is obvious that the ‘voices’ do exist, if only to you. However I think the amazing issue is where do they come from? What is the purpose/reason behind...
Ali: I am an attorney not a physiological psychologist. However I am getting old and have collected knowledge and collect truth to some result. Hearing voices...
I come to make you share my taste for the philosophy. Of what to think of the philo Web site? Please, come to visit the Nutcase and maybe to give me your ideas...
Neau
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Mar 10, 2003 3:10 pm
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Dear Thomas J. Bieter: I enjoyed reading your missive to Rosemary Stanfield Johnson and your mentions of the application of historical analysis to both Islamic...
Sorry if this point has already been raised, but I wonder if nihilism is possible, or if it is a coherent idea. Does it make any sense to say that you believe...
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Christopher Leadbeater
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Mar 12, 2003 12:08 pm
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Patrick, Your inquiry surely is timely relative to one of my current projects. In fact, I think we have been considering the same question and problem -...
Hello again Tom, Your identification(or at least association) of Nihilism with Irreverence is quite provoking (in a nice way). Of course, I can see certain...
Just thought I would mention that the following line of reasoning is totally unwarranted as it would rule out all evolutionary theories and social science to...
"It is a fact placed forever beyond doubt, say the modern psychologists, that every perception received by the mind is determined by certain general laws which...
Thanks for the Proudhon quote - a bit odd to hear a 19th century thinker talking about 'modern' psychology :-0 but very deep all the same. To simplify is this...
I wasn't able to load the copy of Ted Honderich's Philosophy Now article which Thomas J. Bieter put into the files section of this forum recently. Therefore...
I'm sure many people here have strong opinions (pro and anti) about the invasion currently being undertaken by British, American and Australian forces. There...
Nick Bieter, Esq.: Dear Son: While working on my essay on the patio (sun and sixty degrees!) this morning, I heard a noise, looked up, and saw that two pages...
Thomas Bieter
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Mar 24, 2003 11:28 pm
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Rick, Is the war a "just war?" In my opinion, it probably is NOT NOW a just war when considered from the perspective of "legal justice," i.e., strict...
YOU WROTE: ... I reply here, sending a note from a friend Special Ops sargent, which follows now: Wars, like the political eruptions of teenagers, groan under...