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 Physicalism is itself a philosophical point of view about the mass and energy in which humans exist and of which the Universe is made. It used to be called materialism.… Read more

When Jesus said judge not lest ye be judged I had a sense that he was referring to the judiciary or something like it. That is one could make judgments… Read more

Treacherous policy changes done with no public debate and carried out like a burglary make one wonder if the President is having his strings pulled by foreign puppeteers. President Trump… Read more

Turkey had no combat troops in the Second World War. Because they were on the German side in the First World War and lost much of their empire as a… Read more

Sartre’s major works haven’t communism in them. It is a fact that he wrote part of The Critique of Dialectical Reason in the Soviet Union- in 1958 I believe it… Read more

I read a couple of Marx’s books a long time ago; Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. The material was also covered briefly in a Sociology course (101). Karl Marx… Read more

Shouldn’t some auto insurance be pay-per-mile or for when the vehicle is used rather than monthly? If there are people that would buy an electric car or jeep if they… Read more

Analytic truths are self-consistent without reliance on something besides the internal logic for truth. Synthetic propositions involve something outside the statement. They are somewhat more like algebra with variables that… Read more

Matthew 27:22-25 seems like an assumption (a claim) of legal and moral responsibility for the execution of Jesus. Though they were a necessary enabling act for the worldly execution, since… Read more

Reading western philosophy is a life-long project (that one can complete generally by about age 40 with a lot of reading. Start with Plato’s books where he narrates the dialogues… Read more