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nice. that makes me all quivery

presumably you consider the disembodied state preferable?. Why?

Fuck off Craner you delusional death sucker i treat your posts with respect so i would like it returned. On a serious note i was talking of the invasion of iraq when i spoke of abslute terms. It is entirly possible that american could inadverty cause some good (not in the iraq case) but that...

Yes, fair points. I was thinking of subjective in the extreme sense of the word. Of course the first person perspectve is inaccessible to others but that is my point. We must refer to shared meanings if we are to understand what each other are saying. Pure subjectivity would involve some kind...

Craner is certainly Knowledgable in the way that only watching fox news can make you. I am glad you dont agree with him, does that mean you agree with me? I only refer to philosophers inorder to locate short posts within a wider framework of ideas and to make the disscussion more interesting...

Thought and argument is a discipline, if you think everything is subjective and personal then why bother telling anyone about it. The game is not played by rationalists they use reason as a tool for persuasion and philosophy. The game is played (play in the sense of ruleless spontinaeity) by...

erm Detached in the sense of calm and rational, obviously we are all located within interest groups. I am certainly not arguing for some kind of relativism, what american is doing is wrong in absolute terms. The point is that a detached and rational approach is safer i.e in your interests...

Reply to Dominic Virtues are the outward appearence of the good man in Aristotle. But the Golden Mean is not sufficiently prescriptive to give practical help to one who wanted to act virtuously.As Aristotle says over and over again (Niomachean Ethics) for help is this respect we must observe...

kant provides a means of evaluating the morality of given act namely the "categorical imperative" (it a nut shell i must be able to universalise my actions without being involved in a contradiction). This is the key element around which kantian ethics revolves. The concept of will is important...

kant provides a means of evaluating the morality of given act namely the "categorical imperative" (it a nut shell i must be able to universalise my actions without being involved in a contradiction). This is the key element around which kantian ethics revolves. The concept of will is important...

It is exactly this kind of detachment that is necesscary for a sensible perspective. It is, at least ,certainly the responiblity of our "elected representatives" to adopt this stance. The only way i can understand those who support the current actions of the american goverment, without losing...

There is no need for normative lanugage like freedon fighters and terrorists. They are just rival interest groups. Unfortunatly America needs to preclude the possibility of live and let live in order to shore up the current administrations power.

Yes i am preparing for the terror threat cowering under the stairs with my tined food. The war on terror is self propelling like the war on drugs the enemy is created by the war. In a few years we will have wide spread terrorism if people continue to buy into the fantasy. The illegal occupation...

Reply to Oliver He doesnt ignore this, he demonstrates that it is nonsense. There is no doubt that there is a great edal of share ideology amongt extremeist islamists. But the concept of a network requires channals of cash equipment and detailed information. This is clearly not going on (or...

Blair's Aristotelianism I am enjoying Kpunks take on Blair’s conviction that he is essentially good and therefore he actions must be virtuous. This is very reminiscent of Aristotle’s Man of Virtue that is of an agent centred morality. I f we want to know what a good action is we simply look at...