Philosophy Now Forum

the idea of god flounders in a couple of areas.... One: chance, randomness..... it is clear that the universe is quite random.... two people walking down a trail, a tree falls, kills one and totally misses the other, not a scratch.... and then those believers say, the mind of god is unknowable, insc...

much of the world's conflicts and drama, comes from those, people, states, nations, tribes, political parties, that say their needs out way the needs of others.. if we are equal, and we are, then no one entity needs outways any other party needs... that all men/human beings are created equal... mean...

One might say, I have the right, based on my own needs to torture animals... as they are not human, but that is against animal needs... for we must be prepared to  offer to animals we demand for ourselves....and why? They are just animals..... but to a certain extent, animals have many of the same r...

''We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'' That is perhaps the central point of the American experiment.... that the essential aspect of the American experiment is equality.... that all men/human beings are equal.... the equation is that equality and justice are the ...

not only do we not have a sense of time, no past and no future, we also lack an identity....... But Kropotkin, I am a male, an American or British or French or Chinese, whatever the case maybe, I am a checker or whatever job one has.....but the reality is those are the roles we play, not our identit...

In reading about the Enlightenment, I see that many of the ''Philosophes'' were very well versed in ancient Latin and Greek.... virtually all of them including Rousseau read the Ancients in their original language...... So, what they did was compare the ancients to the current situation, 17th and 18...

this question of authority, whose authority do we follow? If we were to follow our own authority, then what do we base that on? And here the Enlightenment writers were quite clear about... we are to follow our own reason, to examine our values, to question all forms of authority.... again, depending...

whose authority do you follow? The police's, to name but one. and why that authority? Mainly because I don't want to get arrested. :( K: To name a few people who have been arrested, Jesus, Socrates, Gandhi, MLK, Martin Luther, Joseph Smith (Morman) L. Ron Hubbard, Bill Gates, Plato, Cervantes, Karl...

the problem of the Enlightenment was this question of authority...... On whose authority should we act? Should we follow god and the bible in our lives or should we follow the political authorities, the state, the king, democracy, dictatorship? and on whose authority do we practice ethics/morality? ...

so, part of this utopia, is also this question of autonomy in the modern age... can we be autonomous in our modern age? I hold that there are two distinct and different aspects to modernity.... one is the inner aspect and the other is the external aspect.... if we are autonomous in our beliefs and t...

I praise the call to a utopia... But Kropotkin, what an odd praise, why should we even want a utopia? A utopia is by definition, not achievable, not reachable... and hence their need..... think of our modern world today.... in our scramble for the trinkets of existence, we no longer have any goal to...

"Peter Kropotkin: think about the MAGA party basic philosophy... that everything is fake.. Iwanna: Everything??? or is it different things are considered fake from what the Left considers fake. Further, remember that in the 60s and early 70s, much of the Left thought that government, the media,...

so, in our world of Standardized experiences, what does a ''radical'' idea look like? How does one resist in a Standardized world? Calling everything fake is one way, but that leaves us the problem of, if everything is fake, is there anything real? Calling everything fake means even something that d...

think about the world and how its built.... vacations for example, we have standardized experiences for vacations.... Disneyland for example, (the first time I went to Disneyland I was 40, although I have lived in California since I was 15) I have been to Yosemite several times, mostly in my twentie...

How do we reconcile this opposition between the one/individual and the state/society..... to meet its needs the state requires us to be economic slaves..... to be expendable and to devote everything to the state/society.......in the modern state, there is no off time.... even on our days off, we are...