Mon 21 Feb, 2011 01:06 pm - It depends how you construe 'fairness'. I would define it as the impartial application of standards in effect. "Eye for eye", or [i]lex talionis[/i] to use the legal term, is... (view)
Mon 21 Feb, 2011 01:00 pm - [quote="apehead"]
"Capitalism - an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained... (view)
Mon 21 Feb, 2011 05:59 am - The only way to prove the non-existence of something is to show that its existence would be contradictory. This could involve either showing that the predicates it instantiates are mutually... (view)
Sat 12 Dec, 2009 06:54 am - I think part of God's purpose is to give everything else a purpose.
To define purpose, you could say that it ultimately depends on a goal or a plan which is superior to the object in... (view)
Fri 11 Dec, 2009 08:01 pm - [QUOTE=manored;110353]Is consciousness really relevant? after all, how to even define it? When we can tell someone is conscient? Is a dog, a pig, a dolphing, conscient?
I think that ability to... (view)
Fri 11 Dec, 2009 05:03 pm - There would be great scientific value in cloning extinct species in order to study their behaviour. It would be like the holy grail of palaeontology - being able to actually study the behaviour of... (view)
Fri 11 Dec, 2009 03:57 pm - Consciousness is what makes human life more valuable than spider life. A spider has no conscious mind since it lacks the necessary cerebral apparatus to sustain conscious experience; therefore,... (view)
Sat 5 Sep, 2009 02:00 pm - Hello, I'm buffalobill90. I'm starting a philosophy degree at Warwick University next month, and I am looking for somewhere I can debate philosophy at a more educated level than on... (view)
