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Question about Art - Oliver Leaman responds 25 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
This might be a weird question, but I'm wondering if there is some kind of philosophy of fashion. Has anyone ever commented on what the goal of fashion is, what it means to express a style, or our rel...
Question about Mind - Allen Stairs responds 24 Aug 2013 | 01:13 am
What characteristics essentially define an immaterial soul? I've heard philosophers define a soul as being an immaterial substance which possesses a range of mental capacities or dispositions, but the...
Question about Philosophers - Nickolas Pappas responds 23 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
What's the relationship between Greek Drama and the sorts of dialogues that Plato wrote? What are the origins of the genre of philosophical dialogue? Response from: Nickolas Pappas This question is ...
Question about Logic, Philosophers - Douglas Burnham responds 23 Aug 2013 | 12:21 am
I am reading Neitzsch's "Human, All Too Human", in one of his aphorisms he states that logic is optimistic. Does he mean that it would be foolishly optimistic to trust logic or in its truth? Or does h...
Question about Ethics - Stephen Maitzen responds 22 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm
My question involves "moral truths" or "ethical truths." I struggle to see how anyone could claim that a moral proposition is either true or false. By calling something either right or wrong are we si...
Question about Value - Andrew Pessin responds 22 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
Everyday, people set out to make the world a better place. And every now and then, people actually do something that DOES make the world a better place. Sometimes it's on a large scale, sometimes it's...
Question about Religion, Science - Andrew Pessin responds 22 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
Does the principle of increased entropy support or challenge the Cosmological argument? I am getting mixed messages and am unsure which if any are valid. Response from: Andrew Pessin Good question, ...
Question about Rationality, Science - Stephen Maitzen responds 22 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
It seems to me that today's rationality is completely irrational in a sense that it attacks everything that is not rational. But who define what is rational? For example, many people like to back up t...
Question about Ethics, Religion - Stephen Maitzen responds 22 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
I notice that many of the people asking questions on your site are atheists. I am an agnostic; however, I can understand that many people see their religion as a guideline for moral/ethical behavior. ...
Question about Ethics - Ian Kidd responds 16 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
According to Taoist philosophy good and evil are equal and should both exist because one cannot exist without the other. However, according to traditional ethics good is better than evil and we should...
