Wed 24 Jun, 2009 04:35 pm - Welcome to this forum. I guess I am a tad too old to be called a teenager, but I share many teenagers' concerns as a typical college student. Philosophy is so deep and captivating. (view)
Mon 22 Jun, 2009 01:58 pm - Just throwing a question to everyone, do you think a good philosopher should necesarily construct a philosophical system? Aristotle and Hegel certainly did at least attempt to make a coherent... (view)
Mon 22 Jun, 2009 01:46 pm - [QUOTE=xris;71149]Every one needs to justify a habit or it becomes an obsessive disorder..sorry but you appeared a justifiable puffer.[/QUOTE]
No worries at all :) I am not completely innocent... (view)
Mon 22 Jun, 2009 12:51 pm - Wild Friday nights are nice! Nothing wrong with getting drunk sometimes when our daily lives are filled with stress and exhaustion.
It's a personal choice, I agree. I only go out and party in... (view)
Mon 22 Jun, 2009 12:36 pm - [QUOTE=xris;71124]So all those before the discovery of the obnoxious weed are what?what did they do instead, pick their noses?because that is more intelligent than sucking on a fag.I think we have... (view)
Mon 22 Jun, 2009 11:42 am - Many philosophers in history were tobacco smokers, Arendt, Camus, Sartre, Kant, Kierkegaard, etc and often have their photos taken while smoking. Is it a habit associated with philosophy or... (view)
Mon 22 Jun, 2009 10:27 am - Greek philosophy did not die --- it is still all around us in new faces. Alastair MacKintyre once taught at my school, and he is a quite excellent exponent of Aristotle. He is considered to be one... (view)
Sun 21 Jun, 2009 09:30 pm - Pardon me for asking about a passage from Aristotle's Politics the second time. In 1317b6, the book says, "Of all institutions, a council is the most democratic when there is not the... (view)
Sun 21 Jun, 2009 12:25 pm - [QUOTE=jgweed;70804]"Bekker numbers" refers to the page numbers of the collected works (in Greek) of Aristotle in the critical edition of the Prussian Royal Academy, edited by Bekker.... (view)
