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Philosophy & Meaning

1 day ago1d

Posted by FvckY0u

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. There's a lot of truth to this. A philosophy I've pretty much adopted on my own later in life. This showed up in my youtube feed and I thought it worthy of sharing. I'm enjoying listening to it.

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by Matias

"Many elements of what we today call our environmental crisis—climate change, resource depletion, groundwater contamination and scarcity, species extinction—are signs of battles won but a war being lost. Today we are accustomed to arguing that we...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by puff

Who remembers the days when the US sought people, apprehending them to bring them to face justice, upholding important principals like trials/ evidence and allowing both sides of the story to be heard in a court before judgment? The days we refused ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by SpikeTalon

Bottom line is, actions speak louder than words.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by MajesticHero

The world and other things…

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by MajesticHero

Your…Self…

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by skado

Consciousness Question: Given what I perceive as a long-standing skepticism of scientific progress in the understanding of consciousness, whether Chomsky has seen any promising shift toward good ideas in this domain. Noam Chomsky says: ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by dalefvictor

A school of thought states that everything is determined, preordained, and measurable. This rather blunt message for humanity would lead one to think that we are just living the chapters in a book already written. I listen and read to arguments ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by Matias

LINKWhat does it mean to be a "person"? That depends on your culture - Big Think

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by TheoryNumber3

“If I had my life to live over... Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind. If I had my life to live over again I would have waxed ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Kutty58

Who believe in this

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by imtiyaz_ex-m

Rule 5 - Delete games from your mobile. It's a electronic device for your success, not to be a sucker.

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Archeus_Lore

The ultimate Turing test would be giving an advanced Artificially Intelligent being power and money . . . To see if it starts abusing the power it has, becomes more greedy, starts invading and bombing other countries, committing mass murder, and ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by AtheistPeace666

POLLWhat kind of philosophy do you side with?

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Matias

"The problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by bijindoll

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKWhy I, as an Atheist, Am No Longer a Humanist

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by MichaelSanchuk

TRUTH Be Told

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by Unity

"This is a man's world, but it would be nothing without a woman or a girl"

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by Matias

Every society can be described as a struggle for power among several groups (example: the bourgeoisie against the proletariat in Marxist theory). In many cases, especially in democratic societies, there is a majority holding the key positions of ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by SpikeTalon

Since there are some folks on this site who for reasons unknown cannot take some dark humor well and in the process jump to conclusions and start in with the fingerpointing, I'm reposting the image below. Sarcastic/cruel/and or dark humor is hardly ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by Archeus_Lore

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." . "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." . "Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by Jolanta

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you never done. Thomas Jefferson

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by FrostyJim

He has a point...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by Word

Agnosticism is another way to prove the statement illogical. Knowledge is a subset of belief being illogical. Agnostic does not hold the existence of gods to be true nor false. So, agnostic has no belief. What does agnostic have? Agnostic...

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Philosophy & Meaning

4 weeks ago4w

Posted by Matias

Is it wrong to pigeonhole people and judge them not according to their personal merits and actions, but according to the label of the pigeonhole? Most people intuitively would say: of course that's wrong. That's what racism, sexism and other -isms ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

4 weeks ago4w

Posted by cseajay

If you could, would you

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Philosophy & Meaning

4 weeks ago4w

Posted by FvckY0u

Why It's Better to be Single | 4 Reasons

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Matias

Robert Hughes, in his book "Culture of Complaint", hit the nail on the head (in 1993!) : "The all-pervasive claim to victimhood tops off America's long-cherished culture of therapeutics. To seem strong may only conceal a rickety scaffolding of ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Druvius

Blogging again. "AS FOR SELF-DECEIT, MOST PEOPLE FIND IT AS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL AS AIR.":

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Spinliesel

Another Rumi quote. I like that man, whoever he is.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by ErichZannIII

nobullies lgbtqia

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Word

Reasoning - the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way. Reasoning requires free will to choose. Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Critical thinking - the...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by puff

There has been quite a bit of speculation on how Russia invading Ukraine happened, what led to it. Russian expansionism? NATO expansionism? The 2014 coup and resulting civil war? Who is at fault? A thought occurred to me earlier. Intellectuals ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Matias

It is part of the logic of individualistic modern societies (with a certain tendency toward individual and collective narcissism) to celebrate minorities. Where emancipation and individuality are central values and goals, the minority becomes the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Lorajay

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Sofabeast

Roe v Wade overturned. I open a debate on the controversial subject of human abortion. Please keep it civil and argue objectively on the subject avoiding social clashes based purely on subjective opinions. The question is not reason why an abortion ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by FvckY0u

I went to the bookstore (Borders) today. It was raining all day and although it's not now the temp is 76 and the humidity is 89%. A good day to stay inside and read. I bought, Seneca, Letters from a Stoic. The philosophy section was just ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by isaiahfzell1990

So being an atheist, one of the most significant things that I struggling with is that since I also have a strong love for learning about different cultures, people, and countries, and I do not believe in any religous/spiritual/supernatural things ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Castlepaloma

What is worse, FEAR or GREED? I pick fear, because when people control their fear they can control mass hysteria, which politics , religion and superrich feed off of, so easily.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Matias

Our minds manage to distract us from the terrible reality by filling our lives with stories about hopeful goals and encouraging us to strive to achieve them. The ups and downs of that struggle are part of our common history of striving for what we ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by FrostyJim

I didn't know...!

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKNothing Exists But You | The Philosophy of Solipsism

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by mistymoon77

It's a pretty good feeling when this does happen. All about perspective.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Advin

Islam isn't a religion because this is a Tererism.according to Quran 9:5...Ban the Islam from all non muslim contrys...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Matias

Some of the leading figures of the so-called identitarian right in Europe claim to be no longer racists, but they call themselves "ethno-pluralists". The basic idea of this concept is that there are different races and peoples, and each of them has ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by AtheistPeace666

agnostic is the most rational position to have because both Atheist and religious are more definite positions even though there is no possible way to prove or disprove God for certain.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Matias

Nowadays, many, maybe even most of us do not live in the world described by science, but in some kind of "Fantasyland". In his eponymous book, Kurt Andersen describes and explains how we arrived at this point. The pivotal moment, he argues, was the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by FrostyJim

No kidding...?

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by puff

We have recognised that people have a right to gender identify outside the biological/ physical attributes. I have seen up to 16 mentioned here alone Just kinda made me smile though with all this talk of abortion ie which ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by towkneed

I was thinking about how I had tried to explain Marx's Theory of Surplus Value to someone once when it occurred to me - the starting point of Marx and communism in general is the absolute opposite of market theory. Market theory starts with price, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKRebirth | A Shamanic Documentary by David Al-Badri

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by Matias

Some excerpts from the book "Inventing the Individual" by Larry Siedentop "The roots of liberalism were firmly established in the arguments of philosophers and canon lawyers by the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: belief in a fundamental ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by Ryo1

The definition of being 'COOL'. 😆 Click on the link to see the comic in full size.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by Advin

According to Bible(Book of Genesis):-human thinking test with temptation by god...This is god's technology.....😁😁😁😁😁

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by Anabucerias

“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by Anabucerias

From the arrival of the earliest humans on earth to the present ,God has always been a human invention intendednto control others.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 22Jun 22

Posted by Matias

When modern citizens cease to be religious they do not cease to be moral, they still have the same moral mind and the same moral impulses and needs that they used to channel through religion. They still have the same need for a moral identity, for a ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 21Jun 21

Posted by Matias

Steven Weinberg once said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." I've read this quote hundreds of times, and I never liked it, because it assumes ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 19Jun 19

Posted by LovinLarge

I hope no one minds if I share this here. I lost my dad last year just before Father's Day. He was 94, a white liberal academic who led a very privileged life and he acknowledged that. He paid significant income tax and was happy to do so. He was...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 18Jun 18

Posted by Matias

What does liberalism mean to you?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 16Jun 16

Posted by skado

Carlisle, Vervaeke, Spinoza, and voluntary necessities. .

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 14Jun 14

Posted by Matias

Christians believe in the miracle of the virgin birth : The Holy Spirit inseminated Mary and she gave birth to Jesus Christ. But many atheists and secular humanists also believe in a sort of miracle: the miracle of the Scientific Revolution and - ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 13Jun 13

Posted by SpikeTalon

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 13Jun 13

Posted by Beachslim7

POLLI want to know how you lefties explain this one Feminist facing 3 years in prison for saying men can't be lesbians Lets say he was born as a man but identifies as a female lesbian. Since he is a woman, why isnt this statement ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 12Jun 12

Posted by Matias

It is one thing to originate an idea, and it is another thing to live according to this idea. Example: The Founding Fathers deemed it self-evident that all men are created equal, but they did not include black people or women in the category "men"....

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 12Jun 12

Posted by Silver1wun

POLLSaw this and it reminded me of so much more than mere religions.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 12Jun 12

Posted by Matias

One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still have in our Western societies, even among people who call themselves atheists and rarely miss an occasion to rail against Xtians. One prime example is...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 11Jun 11

Posted by MsKathleen

To Have or To Be? and The Art of Being In the mid-1970s, twenty years after his influential treatise on the art of loving and four decades after legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead turned to him for difficult advice, Fromm became interested in ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 10Jun 10

Posted by Jolanta

Paulo Coelho. The Winner Stand Alone. An interesting book with lots to think about.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 9Jun 9

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKJoshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 9Jun 9

Posted by Advin

The sky according to Islam😁😁😁

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 8Jun 8

Posted by Partyhawk

Our Home is actually in the Milky Way Galaxy, one in a 100+ Billion Galaxies. I've been lately watching a bunch of "The Universe" different documentaries on YouTube. I'm thinking we are no more then a particular Germ inhabiting a grain of sand. I ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 8Jun 8

Posted by Matias

Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion. Nevertheless, this metaphor is correct from a purely historical point of view. First, what we call science today was born in a thoroughly religious...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 7Jun 7

Posted by Word

For as long as people have been seeking knowledge, they have sought after and philosophized about the secret or hidden knowledge that has and will always elude the pursuit. However, an understanding of the secret knowledge has been revealed to ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 1Jun 1

Posted by Matias

Why the Golden Rule is overrated. Whenever I write about morality in this forum, or that a society needs something like a social glue, I am always lectured that this is just religious rubbish, and that the Golden Rule is quite sufficient when it ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 31May 31

Posted by Matias

"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love. This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 30May 30

Posted by skado

A little Spinoza for your Memorial Day from Will Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy” published in 1926 “The essential principal of is that the language of the Bible is deliberately metaphorical or ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 30May 30

Posted by Matias

We in the lucky countries of the West now regard our two-century bubble of freedom and affluence as normal and inevitable; it has even been called the "end" of history, in both a temporal and teleological sense. But this new order is an anomaly, it's...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 30May 30

Posted by Julie808

What are your thoughts on the idea of "collective consciousness" as something we absorb not necessarily through religion or formal education but through the shared real world experiences of humanity? By that I mean as told through stories, ideas, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 29May 29

Posted by Matias

To borrow an expression from novelist Margaret Atwood, I'd say that we are "doomed by hope". Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 28May 28

Posted by puff

When there is more action done regarding restricting access to books in schools when compared with restricting assault firearms, something is severely awry with society.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 28May 28

Posted by Matias

Question : Is something morally wrong, reprehensible, because individuals , or a whole society, judge it so, or is something intrinsically wrong, no matter what people think? Example: Imagine a world where slavery is ubiquitous and universally ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 27May 27

Posted by MizJ

LINKWabi-sabi

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 26May 26

Posted by skado

Does love exist?

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 24May 24

Posted by Matias

I am not a Conservative (at least not in the American meaning of this word), but I have to acknowledge that this political "tribe" has understood something about politics in general that their opponents and critics seem to have forgotten: that in ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 23May 23

Posted by TheMiddleWay

It's not a perfect rule, but it's as close as we've gotten.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 22May 22

Posted by Matias

Nowadays it is fashionable to constantly pillory white people and to put Western culture in the dock. The list of charges is long: sexism, racism, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, etc.... Shouldn't we also remember once in a while that most of ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 20May 20

Posted by Archeus_Lore

From Merriam-Webster Dictionary. - - "Karma" - - "The force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence." . I do not...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 19May 19

Posted by William77

found in my twitter timelines....looks intersting

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 18May 18

Posted by callmedubious

While sitting at our breakfast bar this morning, with a coffee, i watched my neighbor walk her dog by our house & had an epiphany: the actual weight of human beings is only about 3 lbs. our brains are what makes us human so, basically, the rest is ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 17May 17

Posted by Matias

Do animals have morality? - - - - No. One may say that they show 'moral behavior', but this would be a kind of behavior that we - the only moral animals on earth! - interpret as 'moral'. Morality is a set of norms, rules, commandments and values. ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 16May 16

Posted by Matias

A thought experiment: Let's imagine a utopian society that wants to abolish all differences between male and female. This society raises children in a completely gender neutral, uni-sex way: same haircut for girls and boys, same clothes, same ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 15May 15

Posted by FvckY0u

I'd like to explore stoicism more in depth. Any comments regarding stoicism?

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 11May 11

Posted by Flyingsaucesir

I think the kids have the moral high ground on this one. And that's not even considering climate change.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 11May 11

Posted by Matias

Shouldn't those who call themselves humanists protect human life just as bird lovers protect the lives of birds ? They also protect nests containing eggs from which chicks have not yet hatched, because they know that inside those eggs are ...

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