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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
The original post said nothing about being anti-feminist.
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The article states: Socrates's theory of virtue states that all virtues are essentially one, since they are a form of knowledge. For Socrates, the reason a person is not good is because they lack knowledge. Since knowledge is united,
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Socrates(en.wikipedia.org)
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While I think your first sentence is true, I think this is a consequence of being human - i.e. it's hard to be an objective observer. Remember, all these countries were Warsaw Pact countries. And from my limited knowledge of the situat
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Exactly. The logistics may not be simple (i.e. actually getting the federal government's support) but the logic should be obvious: piecemeal support results in the ones that are doing the most to help get "penalized" with mor
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I believe the author's point is not that you can't have thoughts (how can you not?), but that they're not identical with identity, and that awareness is more fundamental to identity, a great insight of Eastern philosophy. I h
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The linked article "Appeal to consequences" is also interesting.
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I don't know, what you said is pretty confusing. Either the temperatures are increasing or they're not. Either CO2 is retaining heat and increasing temperatures or it's not. But ocean surface temperatures are 0.9°C warmer whe
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Would you prefer denial of the denial? I only know what I learn from the media, so as far as I know, you could be right. But is there not a consensus from the scientists, the people in the best position to know? Does CO2 not come from com
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I think what's cynical is that the honest answer would disqualify someone. The interviewer can always follow up with a more specific question.
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Maybe the arrow of time has an implication on free will - since time is constantly moving, there's always only one thing you can do, so in a sense you don't have a choice.
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Show HN: The Virtue of Virtue Ethics
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Everybody is trying to achieve or maintain a sense of well-being. Part of well-being is understanding, so the (inevitably) missing parts of the context are rationalized?
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Go to your user screen and select "yes" in the dropbox next to "showdead".
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I read the first 100 or so pages of the Starkie translation, but lost it and later read I believe the Cohen translation in its entirety. I thought the Starkie version was clearly superior for the part I read.
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Civilization requires trust and fairness. Saying someone theoretically has a fair shake therefore an unfair outcome is fair won't keep getting it. There's also this strange idea that government itself is a bad thing (from Thomas P
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Most of Plato's dialogues are available for free on an app.
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This reminds me of how recently Google did not make it clear that there is no longer a tax penalty for not having health insurance (except in five states and D.C. I think).
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Injustice seems like something relative to particular frames of reference. I've noticed when I know the reason for something my anger subsides. I'm not necessarily arguing that judgements aren't valid, just that they depend o
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There's also the page with the smug looking hippy, saying something like, "wow, me Sam Jones with the angels..."
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Judgement seems relative to the finite self.
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An expert from the article states if you think boosters can be administered to Americans without hampering efforts to immunize 3rd world residents, you're kidding yourself. I heard on NPR today that the variants are forming in people w
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Review of the book Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli. According to the review the author proposes that there is no essence to things but only relations, but doesn't explain his theory completely.
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..And it's not all about the money.
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With great power comes great responsibility(en.wikipedia.org)
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There’s a big tradition on the left dating back at least to Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs, the Climate” of insisting that building a zero-carbon future requires the adoption of radical anti-capitalist politics. And
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From the book: LESS LIKE SWEDEN A few years ago, in the heat of the battle over the Affordable Care Act, Daniel J. Mitchell of the libertarian Cato Institute posted a blog entry with the provocative title “Why Is Obama Trying to Make Ameri
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How Not to Be Wrong(en.wikipedia.org)
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Moderation(en.wikipedia.org)
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After "Do you like this story?..." popped up for the fifth time I stopped reading.

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