The Philosophy Discussion Forum

The ending of World War II and use of the atomic bomb brought an unconditional peace between nations that never existed before. It brought the United Nations and established Human Rights. The movement is still continuing.

Philosophy Now wrote an article on "Unfit For The Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement" a few years ago. However, I found the subject of that book a failure to Human Rights.

Lacewing... I like your observation about the flow . The flow thing has something to do with not always having to be in control and letting things unfold. But it's strange, looking back, in my case, how things transpired, that there was sort of a ditachment from what was occurring. It is difficult t...

Two negative things happened to me recently that ultimately led to positive outcomes. One had to do with cigarettes and the other with scaffolding. Yes, cigarettes and scaffolding. The other day I lost my keys. I lost them somewhere outside. They fell through a hole in my pocket. I traced my steps i...

Two negative things happened to me recently that ultimately led to positive outcomes. One had to do with cigarettes and the other with scaffolding. Yes, cigarettes and scaffolding. The other day I lost my keys. I lost them somewhere outside. They fell through a hole in my pocket. I traced my steps i...

I don't think that Britain will leave the EU. It's too dangerous and costly for everybody.

. From Wikipedia: An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable , so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, or the state of being so. "Absurd" is an adjective used to describe an absurdity, e.g., "this encyclopedia article is absurd." It derives from the Latin absurdu...

I just used the topics to play around. I don't think I used humour in particular. I just used it like the other elements as means of discovering something more interesting than the articles offered in the magazine. And as I said , I feel underwhelmed by what I have been reading. Sometimes I find tha...

The Philosophical Absurdity of What America Has Become To think in these terms is to be an Existentialist . Existentialists have always been aware of the absurdity of life. That is their main shtick . But for those who don't realize it absurdity is also America's shtick, big time. And its embrace o...

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

spike wrote:

Democracy's end is always just one election away

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I consider that a silly statement.

Take it up with Aristotle.

What would an ancient like Aristotle know about modern democracy, its requirements and how it works?

Democracy's end is always just one election away

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I consider that a silly statement.

Some people are quite naive about democracy. Democracy does require an openness where people are free to criticizes, speak freely and exchange ideas. And those that are naive about it tend to think that democracy is just about voting, like the vote that brought Hitler to power in Germany and the Mus...

Hobbes' Choice, Democracy's intent is to create open, secular, pluralistic societies. Such societies works best and are more resilient no matter what part of the world adopts it. Not all democracies have to be the same as long as they adopt the central principle, government of the people, for the pe...

There is a saying "If you want to make an omelette you have to break eggs". The omelette in this instance is democracy, democracy in the Middle East. The eggs that need breaking to make way for democracy are the ancient traditional cultures of the Middle East that are standing in the way o...

I’ve wondered about Experimental Philosophy and how it works. Now I think I know. My grasping the concept began with me being underwhelmed, underwhelmed by some recent issues of PN magazine. As a lark I decided to combine three recent issues of PN magazine, the ones on “Liberty and Equality, “Humor”...