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Which modern philosopher said…?

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:13:19 +0000

Question by David G: Which modern philosopher said…?
(in a qualification of the Golden Rule) that the only law one was morally permitted to advocate was one under which one would be willingly agnostic a priori as to one’s eventual societal place under the application of the law? In other words, if you’re not willing to exempt yourself from the provisions of a a law, do not support it.
Arrgh, yes, I meant ‘include oneself in the provisons of’, not ‘exempt one from’. Sorry

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Answer by Ray
Are you asking the question to find the answer, or to find if someone else, along with yourself, knows the answer?

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The Hindu and Buddhist traditions had already said all about what the modern philosophers tried to say?

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:13:31 +0000

Question by Dave: The Hindu and Buddhist traditions had already said all about what the modern philosophers tried to say?
Philosophers like Descartes, Plato, Socrates, Kant and so on came after the Hindu and Vedic traditions and these guys just involuntarily plagiarised philosophies that are said in Hinduism about the nature of reality but these modern philosophers get all the credit for what was said in the Vedas and Upanishads. Why is that?

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Answer by Grip Tail
arent hindu and buddhist still two of the biggest religions in the world? i think they are getting their credit

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An interesting discussion between two great philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century, exploring topics such as truth, meaning and reference. I apologize for the audio sync. It was a problem with the original file (not that it matters much, the video is simply two old men talking). Richard Rorty (1931-2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative—a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive—an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty’s view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. plato.stanford.edu en.wikipedia.org Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most important philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. His ideas, presented in a series of essays from the 1960′s onwards, have been influential across a range of areas from semantic theory through to epistemology and ethics. Davidson’s work exhibits a breadth of approach, as well as a unitary and systematic character, which is unusual within twentieth century analytic philosophy. plato.stanford.edu en.wikipedia.org
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Would you agree with me if i said that philosophy encompasses the greatest elements of religion, and none of?

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:39:39 +0000

and none of the worst?

Could one consider, perhaps, that philosophy and religion are like two seperate possibilities?

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