A philosopher’s job is to provide intellectual weaponry to fight the evils of the day. We’re arms manufacturers, but others use our weapons.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:17:00 UTC
A philosopher’s job is to provide intellectual weaponry to fight the evils of the day. We’re arms manufacturers, but others use our weapons.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:17:00 UTC
Philosophers have small constituencies. It’s our constituencies that have large constituencies. We don’t, and can’t, write for the masses.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:16:00 UTC
So back to technicals (Andy Edwards Jay Dyer), it is always better to seek to understand than to assume you are correct. At present, as far as I know, my work provides the greatest explanatory power that is currently available to us. The problem with it may be the problem with all the sciences: that as a science of the rule of law, it survives all scrutiny. That I can also create a revolutionary demand for it. But that as a personal philosophy, and an ideology, a science is insufficient. And that my estimate that truth is enough of an incentive because it provides a purely meritocratic ethic – is insufficient to inspire. The question remains only whether I am able to do that which I did not set out to do. I set out to create a language, that language has evolved into a science, and a science that is sufficient to restore the west to it’s orgins as the people who take the oath to speak the truth and not steal. But that it is not sufficient to inspire a war. It is still open to me whether that is something I should try to do or not. If to counter our upcoming defeat is not sufficient an inspiration, then I do not see why a story (narrative) would matter. But then I am not motivated by such things, I find them somewhere between entertaining, childish and silly. It is not my language. But that does not mean it is not the language of others.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-15 08:53:00 UTC
One can always speak the truth even if it means one’s death, only if one is strong enough never to fear for one’s life.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-15 03:37:00 UTC
Positivist fallacy. Science requires full accounting.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 22:42:43 UTC
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Christian western man begins debate with the presumption of equality of interest, and pursuit of truth. This is the source of his failure.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 18:02:39 UTC
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http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/08/07/q-how-do-i-learn-philosophy/CURT: “I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO YOU. HOW DO I LEARN PHILOSOPHY?”
Well, I have a pretty good post on that.
(Please contact Ramsey Mekdaschi if you need something from our Library.)
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 15:49:00 UTC
Only a dishonest man would criticize truth as arrogance. Because lying is the only defense against truth. Right?
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 15:48:16 UTC
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@SteveFriess @ThomasEWoods Argument to relativism. Argument to distraction. Sensation(impulse) and sense(reason) are opposites….
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@SteveFriess @ThomasEWoods Argument to relativism. Argument to distraction. Sensation(impulse) and sense(reason) are opposites….
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Argument to relativism. Argument to distraction. Sensation(impulse) and sense(reason) are opposites….
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 15:45:50 UTC
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@curtdoolittle @ThomasEWoods these days EVERYone thinks they’re the ONLY ones w sense. And they’re obnoxious & arrogant about it.
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“showing grit” has no bearing on the truth or falsehood, merit or defect, of any proposition.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 15:29:37 UTC
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@ThomasEWoods There are many motivations for protesting. But on any issue, it shows more grit & commitment than you tweeting mockery.
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