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Parmenides (Dialogue)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ttonkytonk 3y ago|0 comments
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I was basically just responding to your flippant suggestion that someone just "go somewhere else" if they don't like it where they're at.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
A place to live is not only a positive but a natural right.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
There is nowhere to go for Americans who have become completely disenfranchised. I read recently that many political philosophers think the U.S. has become a (de facto) oligarchy. In Republic book eight 552 it's argued that oligarc
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Indeed the article points out " The Marxist philosopher G A Cohen might well have been right when he declared in Why Not Socialism? (2009) that ‘[e]very market, even a socialist market, is a system of predation.’ " I've latel
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Political Philosophy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
The article was originally published in 2021.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I'm with the people who hope that humanity will go extinct. The "virtueization" of excess and deception creates a psychic nightmare for many, many whose voices are ignored and eventually muted. It's untenable to take pow
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
But we don't want the sharks to turn on us - it should be demonstrated that 1) they're not being cheated (or robbed) and 2) that their welfare is not being seriously compromised.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
If liberty can be sacrificed through conscription, why not property through taxes?
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
May also find this article interesting (even if you don't necessarily agree with the identity politics): https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/04/21/the-jackson-kush-plan-t...
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Basing taxes on income and/or expenditures as opposed to property, and supplying a universal basic level of support for necessities? As things are now, many or most are defacto forced to work(and consume - I believe the two are corre
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220630095714.h... " Key findings from the analyses include: The length of the annual fire weather season has increased by 14 days per year (27%) during
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
The Wikipedia page on it looks pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy Sociocratisch Centrum co-founder Reijmer has summarized the difference as follows: "By consensus, I must convince you that I&#x
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Okay, thanks for the link and the insight!
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
If you learn by reading, read primary sources: Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel (the Science of Logic in particular), in that order, are basically what you need to get caught up to modernity in philosophy. What w
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
A "Philosophy for Dummies" - type book would probably serve as an adequate introduction, as well as the online resources already mentioned. I'm a big fan of Socratic philosophy, and there's two main sources for this, Xen
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
"...if the top 10% of global emitters were to cut their carbon footprint to that of the typical EU citizen... that alone would cut global emissions by around one third." - p.208 The Climate Book (Greta Thunberg)
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I still have considerable difficulty with interpersonal patience, but I feel I've learned something about the sort of personal patience the article is talking about. Basically when I feel myself becoming inpatient (it's a feeling
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
A review of In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
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Holocaust Analogy in Animal Rights(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by ttonkytonk 3y ago|2 comments
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Absolutely. I was impressed to hear that he even started addressing flames of fire as "brother flames" (iirc).
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
*sympathize somewhat The (crude) analogy that comes to mind is something akin to the "checks and balances" of U.S. government, with the head of one checking the ass of the other, but instead everybody's head is under everybod
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
My opinion is speculative and not well-informed, but if I had to guess I would say 1) our governments are more or less defacto oligarchies (or at least the politicians are generally on the upper end of the economic spectrum), and 2) because
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
She understands that to know the good is to do the good, the criterion established by Socrates, the only philosopher worth his salt in a sea of bigoted pedants.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Who is your favorite living philosopher? Which living philosopher has changed the world the most? Which of the living philosophers is the most truthful, at least in theory? Greta Thunberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
" Rather than a reflection of antipathies between Right and Left, today’s culture war is a continuation of the age-old conflict between liberty and authoritarianism. " Is private ownership of most or all the land, without compensa
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Interesting article, but lots of ads - when a video ad started auto-playing, I stopped reading it.
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" Conclusion Timing of the critical AMOC transition is still highly uncertain, but increasingly the evidence points to the risk being far greater than 10 % during this century – even rather worrying for the next few decades. The conser
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I wonder how things might be different if President Reagan hadn't repealed most of the Mental Health Systems Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...

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