I believe that if not for love, there would be no real sense of justice at all.
“And behind all logic and its seeming sovereignty of movement, there are valuations…” Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885 Why do I distrust theories that purport to explain and predict conscious behavior? Because there is no science of conscious behavior, and there may never be one. Share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this! Share on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on [...]
When it comes to males who think that they must act violently in order to show their control over nature, what they are really showing is that either they do not understand the reality which confronts them, or that they feel afraid and powerless in the face of that reality, or both. Ample social/psychological [...]
We are in a struggle for our lives, and the fact of life is that it will always be a struggle, as we “rage, rage against the dying of the light” hoping to go on living, knowing that life only has meaning in opposition to the nothingness of the nonexistence of death. But that [...]
“We have to respect freedom only when it is intended for freedom, not when it strays, flees itself, and resigns itself. A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not [...]
I used to think that Truth was something I could find “out there” if only I searched long enough, as if Truth was a thing to be discovered, the way one might discover a planet circling some distant star, as if Truth had an eternal form, some non-material substance – a contradiction in terms [...]
Did you know that as of Dec 31, 2010, approximately 450 out of every 100,000 white men in the US were serving time in state and federal prisons? Did you know that as of Dec 31, 2010, approximately 3000 out of every 100,000 black men in the US were serving time in state and [...]
If you think that the sentience of other animals is sufficient to afford them rights, then please explain what sentience consists in and how we can recognize it. For example, we know from carefully controlled experimental observation that bacteria (an animal life form — oops! this is incorrect, although certainly a life form, bacteria [...]
Suppose you are walking down the city street and happen upon some homeless person who lies there, sleeping on the sidewalk. Would you kick such a person as you passed by? Would you deliberately cause someone such harm? I hope that you would not and I suspect that you would not. Most people aren’t [...]
In light of conversations I’ve had with others about the subject, the thought occurs to me that my post on the Ad Hominem fallacy could be misconstrued as an Ad Hominem itself, because of the examples I used. Share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this! Share on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share [...]
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." ~ Karl Popper
