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Comment was by John Leigh on June 15, 2017 at 11:13am

 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.

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on March 25, 2017 at 3:47pm

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.

Comment was by Chris on May 29, 2016 at 3:17am

Go Socraties!

Comment was by Onyango Makagutu on September 11, 2013 at 12:35am

On choice and free will

Comment was by Doone on September 3, 2013 at 7:38am

Philosophical Orange Juice

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Comment was by Onyango Makagutu on July 11, 2013 at 1:35am

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.

Theists misusing philosophy

Comment was by Doone on July 5, 2013 at 8:38am

PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY

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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Comment was by Doone on June 22, 2013 at 7:02am

THE NEW FRENCH PHILOSOPHY

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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Comment was by Hiram C on May 23, 2013 at 1:42am

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~!

Comment was by Neo on March 14, 2013 at 3:20pm

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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