Hobbes is one of those rare thinkers that is simultaneously brilliant and dead wrong most of the time. He kind of reminds me of Robert Heinlein, in that regard.
The incoherence of philosophers By Al-Ghazzali, written in the 10th century of the common era, the 4th of the real era, comes to mind when hearing this. Nothing is original, everything is derived. This is the thesis of Russel, who neither literature, nor the history of the topic. Indeed the greekc contributions were minimal, the Sanskrit was non-existent. Translation is a dead end, these texts had been supposedly around for centuries with nothing being done to them because there were no people of intellectual capacity able to comprehend them anymore, not to mention these not original. Greeks were primarily Middle Eastern people, they lived there for most of their history. Their script came from there. Most of their people settled there permanently. To try to latch on being a northerner to people of the Mediterranean vis-a-vis anachornism is laughable and herein russel shows his folly in attempting to take the contributions of another and assigning to himself somehow, as if it is somehow to his credit. It appears to me that Russel is indeed a product of his time, unlike any of those that he mentions in this video.
With Spinoza monotheism becomes pantheism. The next step is just removing God from nature, leaving just nature, as LaPlace does in Celestial Mechanics. So this leaves physics as the ultimate means of describing nature simultaneously eliminating free will, though humans retain the illusion of free will. Quantum indeterminacy makes predestination impossible. So we have neither protestantism nor catholicism. And i say good riddance. If we stick with a rigorous empiricism we are safe in pursuing theories about physical phenomena and can test these theories. To proceed otherwise is to slip back into useless metaphysics.
Coolest battle boss song in any final fantasy game especially this one fighting against guardian in kefka tower he's the best boss to fight better than the statue bosses
As an atheist I would love to get deep into studying Leibniz,as in at times I wonder how such a great intellect would conceive of a god.But his strong belief in logic rendered this a possibility. Was he sincere?I would love to know this.
Lord. Russell really mutilated Dewey's idea of inquiry. To answer whether "Ceasar crossed the rubicon." is true, is to ask in what context is this proposition asserted, and how would it benefit if it were true within a historical scheme? If it helps us explain how certain events occurred, then that is our best account explaining these events and therefore "true", but it doesn't mean that such a proposition is absolutely true. If evidence supporting the idea that "Ceasar crossed the rubicon" is false, then we adapt to the new information. This is a much better formulation to explain scientific progress. I really love Russell, but he seams to ignore, through Aristotle and Newton, that some of our scientific propositions have been rendered obsolete time and time again...
What a load of poo. The labor theory of value is absurd. Value is the price agreed upon in a voluntary exchange between a willing buyer and seller [Menger] w/o the voluntary exchange, discussions of value are based on Marx's theory of Labor, which pretends the buyer cares how hard your worked to make a shovel. A free market sets the value for shovels, Marx doesn't. Simple simple.
When I was a child, I often saw the Light of Heaven. It is like silent lightning from the blue sky, a pure benediction with absolute conviction that everything is forever safe and sublime. It passes quickly, leaving you with the desperate hope that it will happen again.
Holy shit, I remembered this all wrong. I was thinking this was the song by the Ramones from the original movie, so I looked up that song and was like "WTF, this doesn't sound how I remember it at all", then I realized this is the song I remember from the sequel. I think I somehow remember it being by the Pursuit of Happiness now that I see it.
How can you have reason without understanding? Just look at the etymology of the words. Understanding is the basic quality of consciousness; that's why it stands under everything. There is nothing deeper or more fundamental than understanding.
About justice, I would say that a just man is one who testifies truthfully, even if his own testimony hurts him personally, and when he alone is the only witness.
