RE: Philosophical Quietism
February 11, 2015 at 8:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Pizza.)
(February 11, 2015 at 6:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: To be fair, it's not an issue that's hotly debated on street-corners or in pubs. In the context of a forum like this one, it's probably as much an ongoing mental workout as anything else: looking for logical errors, defining terms, digging up new fallacy names to throw at your opponents, etc.That's mostly why I think about these kinds of things. The value for me is more extrinsic than intrinsic.
(February 11, 2015 at 8:32 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Sounds like a lot of work that will acheive very little.That's academia in general for ya.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
