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Started by Neal. Last reply by Chris Jun 2, 2016. 46 Replies 0 Likes
For the fans of Waal, a small excerpt from his last book that for the most part I disagree with. His thought that there may be some tie between one's religion growing up and one's militant atheism does not ring true; at least for those militant…Continue
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Chris Oct 4, 2013. 87 Replies 1 Like
Nature News has a very good article on free will, it's a couple of months old, I've been meaning to post on it for a while, but at first I felt we had sort of beaten the free will's dead horse quite a bit, and people may not be interested.…Continue
Tags: free will, philosophy, neuroscience
Started by Michel Jul 23, 2013. 0 Replies 0 Likes
"If you assume there's no afterlife, Stephen Fry says, you'll likely have a fuller, more interesting life."I love how he puts that whole field of philosophy in perspective. Continue
Tags: video, Philosopy, Stephen Fry
Started by A Former Member. Last reply by Neal May 20, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Tamar Gendler, Department of Philosophy Chair at Yale University, Cognitive ScientistWho gets what and who says so? These two questions underlie and inform every social arrangement from the resolution of schoolyard squabbles to the meta-structure of…Continue
Tags: wealth, income, social contract, culture, philosophy
Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Michel May 9, 2013. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Maybe this question has been asked here before, but I would still love to hear your opinions on the matter.For the sake of argument let us posit that a god exists and that this god is omnipotent, I posit that the biggest question that would trouble…Continue
Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Michel May 9, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Friends, this is the beginning of a sketch on morality that I have been developing and I would so much welcome comments and questions in developing it further. I am trying to describe my moral position from a philosophical point of view.My thesis is…Continue
Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Onyango Makagutu Apr 29, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes
I agree with Friedrick Nietzsche when he writes this All primitive psychology, the psychology of will, arises from the fact that its interpreters, the priests at the head of ancient communities, wanted to create for themselves the right to punish-…Continue
Tags: Determinism, Atheism, Religion, Guilt, Punishment
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Doone Apr 1, 2013. 29 Replies 1 Like
Provocative post at the site Philosophy Talk. There will be a podcast discussion on it to, if you're interested. The fact that gay people are not allowed to marry in most places in the…Continue
Tags: law, philosophy, rights, marriage
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Neal Mar 21, 2013. 31 Replies 0 Likes
I'm basically done reading Massimo Pigliucci's "…Continue
Tags: neuroscience, cognition, religion, morality, Pigliucci
Started by Onyango Makagutu. Last reply by Adriana Mar 21, 2013. 39 Replies 1 Like
Epicurus asked this question Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?Then he is malevolent.Is he both able, and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?Then why call…Continue
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What is it that people want so bad that they are willing to be led by faith? The problem is that Rome and Greece had it dieties. The pagans had their belief and we have what . Science and free thinking are the absolute truths. Why are people so hung up on something they can not see. But cause wars ans mass confusion in the world. To believe in Asops fables. People are so eager to be led they think the way they are accepted. But why so much mass confusion to it.
TAVSHEDENS TYRANNI
THE TYRANNY OF SILENCE
ABOUT THE BOOK
When Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed five years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech.
The paper’s culture editor Flemming Rose defended the decision to print the 12 drawings while the world went up in flames, and quickly he came to play a central part in the debate about the limitations to freedom of speech in the 21st century.
For the past few years, Rose has visited universities and think-tanks and participated in conferences and debates all around the globe in order to discuss tolerance and freedom. In The Tyranny of Silence Flemming Rose writes about people and experiences that have influenced the
way he views the world and his understanding of the crisis; he writes about meetings with dissidents from the former Soviet Union as well as ex-Muslims living in Europe. He provides a personal account of an event that has shaped the debate about what it means to be a citizen in a democracy and how to coexist in a world that is increasingly multicultural, multireligious and multiethnic.
THE AUTHOR
Flemming Rose is M.A., journalist and Foreign Editor at Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. After 14 years of working as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the USA, he returned home to Denmark in 2004 to pursue a more stable life.
Go Socraties!
Abuse of philosophy by the Religious
I contend that religious apologists from Aquinas down to Craig in shoring philosophy to defend their claims about the truth of religion end up by abusing philosophy. And that their many philosophical spins only go so far to prove that the human mind can come up with logical premises from which a given conclusion must follow but that the arguments can't be said to have proved that a deity exists, other than in the mind.
Via Sean Carroll, a lecture on "Laws. The nature of Statistical-Mechanical probabilities" (more over at the YouTube channel of lectures from the UCSC Institute for the Philosophy of Cosmology):
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Richard Marshall reviews Ian James's The New French Philosophy:
Ian James sets out to show that in the new French philosophy the idea of ‘new’ is its subject, where new is understood in terms of ‘rupture’ and ‘discontinuity’ and ‘novelty.’ The French philosophers wonder how the new is possible. Gilles Deleuze started this in the 1960’s in his philosophy of ‘difference.’ Lyotard, Derrida and Foucault continued. Lyotard’s ‘event’ seeks to explain how discourses are contested and thinking is transformed. Jeff Malpas thinks this ‘the founding moment of any postmodernism.’ Lyotard’s ‘The Different’ is defined as an instability in language and discourse. It is supposed to create ‘new addressees, new addressors, new significations and new referents’ and ‘new phrase families and new genres of discourse.’ Derrida’s late ‘Spectres of Marx’ is about going beyond existing research programmes, ‘… beyond any possible programming, new knowledge, new techniques, new political givens.’ Foucault talks about epistemic breaks as an ‘event’ in ‘The Order of Things.’ He asks, ‘ how is it that thought has a place in the space of the world, that it has its origin there, and that it never ceases to begin anew?’ He suggests a process that ‘… probably begins with an erosion from the outside, from a space which is, for thought, on the other side but in which it has never ceased to think from the very beginning.’
James discusses seven new French philosophers; Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle. This is intended to be neither exhaustive nor up to date but rather an indicative group in support of an argument about a paradigm shift. These seven all agree with Foucault that the new comes from ‘an erosion from the outside.’ Five of them established themselves in the 1970’s. Two are younger and not yet established as much.
In the 1970’s the philosophers moved away from a linguistic paradigm which had dominated Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault. Signifiers, signifieds, the symbolic, discourse, text, writing, arche-writing were recast in terms of materiality, the concrete, ‘… worldliness, shared embodied existence and sensible-intelligible experience.’ The paradigm of structuralism and post structuralism as being a literary genre was subjected to its own ‘event’.
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There are two US Epicurean groups: one in Chicago and one in New Jersey. If you're ever in the vecinity, please join us!
Also, my article for thenewhumanism.org is live. It's titled That Old Time Secularism and is a pretty complete introduction to the philosophy. Cheers~!
Neal, I believe that one day all of humanity will be controlled by big corporations if we let them. Even when we are not in work our every move will be watched by someone. Hell, Big Brother already has cameras up all over the place. Credit cards tell them where we are when we buy things with them. The internet has no more privacy anymore either.
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