The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Maybe not but then I think I'd hesitate before defining it. At least until I'd heard a few views that is.

This the post-modernist/deconstructuralist approach to things?

Profound

Arising_uk wrote:Where would you start if you don't understand it?

What does that mean?

I don't think you have any idea about the philosophy of mathematics either.

Arising_uk wrote:You say you don't understand a subject and then try to define it?

What's wrong with that?

Never understood this subject.

I think this category is really dealing with The Enlightenment.

chaz, you know a lot. So, why don't they have a Nobel Prize for philosophy?

Perhaps the sound of capitalism is Chaz chafing at the thought of it. There is a burning snell that goes with it also.

If you can't store money, as some think, you can certainly park it in investments, like in real estate. And real estate generally appreciates and you can sell it for more. So, that's like money working, making more money. I was fortunate to buy some property and then rent it out and get an income fr...

How insightful of you!

At least I have eyes and the sense to see what is going on around me. I don't live in a micro-world or a bubble.

One sound of capitalism I am reminded of is the sound of velcro, the sound of it being pulled apart as one opens a wallet or a purse.

Chaz, You must expand your scope if your going to have a realistic understand of things.

ad hominem: "(of an argument or reaction) arising from or appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic." Chaz , I think you've been too emotional and irrational in your arguments. If you want to be philosophical about capitalism you have to detach yourself from your own personal feeli...

"IT" is not an agent. IT is not broken. IT is not damaged. IT cannot fix itself. It does not exist as a force of nature. IT is comprised of people and their relationships and interactions. If you persist in turning this into some sort of thing with its own volition you are never going to ...

chaz: What do you think you are doing here? You are just valorising a human practice whose proximate and contingent results happen to put food in the table for some people. This says nothing about the real processes which have nothing directly to do with capitalism that actually put food on the tabl...

Thundril: S/he hasn't said anything yet about finance fiddling 'capitalism' yet What sound or other sense can we apply to that? I agree with what you say about 'private enterprise'. But I would say that capitalism is the web that connects each person's private enterprise together. Private enterprise...

Dynamism is the distinct sound of capitalism. Perhaps, though, we can also use the other senses to appreciate it, such as what it looks, feels, tastes and smells like. One thing that capitalism has given the world is an abundance of food. I know, I know, there will be many saying that a sizable port...