Thu 23 Apr, 2009 02:24 pm - [URL="http://plato.stanford.edu/"]Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[/URL] is very good, maintained by philosophers and free.
The [URL="http://www.iep.utm.edu/"]Internet... (view)
Tue 21 Apr, 2009 02:23 am - Just call it "problem" if it cannot be called a "puzzle" or a "paradox"...as you did in your bit about Obama. :Not-Impressed:
Problem solved. Sorry, for both the poor... (view)
Mon 13 Apr, 2009 02:25 am - My favourite books, in no particular order,
[I]Love's Executioner[/I] by Irvin D. Yalom
[I]Invisible Monsters[/I] by Chuck Palahniuk
[I]The Dice Man[/I] by "Luke Rhinehart"
[I]When... (view)
Wed 8 Apr, 2009 09:15 am - There'd be a lot of ground to cover if I was to paraphrase, but if you can grab hold a copy of [I]Descartes' Error[/I] by Antonio Damasio, it may help you. (view)
Sun 5 Apr, 2009 04:05 am - If they allow them to be viewed freely on the Google Books service, this is a good thing. But I would agree that should Google start to publish them and claim the rights to profits from them, this... (view)
Sat 4 Apr, 2009 03:19 am - [quote]What I think I am trying to say is that there is no absence of things because in the absence of things there are non-existing things.[/quote]
You are over-complicating a word that does not... (view)
Fri 3 Apr, 2009 02:37 am - Nothing is most simply, the absence of anything at all. I do not think we are immortal.
I quite like Hegel's distinction;
[LIST]
[*]Thesis: The Absolute is Pure Being
[*]Antithesis: The... (view)
