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- July 13th, 2012, 9:15 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Heidegger Contra Humanism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5813
Re: Heidegger Contra Humanism
Many of Heidegger's translators capitalize the word ‘Being’ (Sein) to mark what, in the Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Heidegger will later call the ontological difference, the crucial distinction between Being and beings (entities). The question of the meaning of Being is concerned with what it ...
- July 12th, 2012, 4:06 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Heidegger Contra Humanism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5813
Re: Heidegger Contra Humanism
Not only do I now have an earworm, I've also given in to a compulsion to make up a sub-Pythonesque second verse ... They say John Locke liked to knock back the hock While writing his second treatise Jean-Jacques Rousseau drank buckets of Bordeaux And would often get the DTs Auguste Comte could drink...
- July 12th, 2012, 12:16 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
growled the man who gave us "cruentation"!
- July 12th, 2012, 10:22 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Heidegger Contra Humanism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5813
Re: Heidegger Contra Humanism
I thought it was "David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel?" Ah no, that was the revised version.Altfish wrote:David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
- July 12th, 2012, 10:15 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Guilt, Projection, and Moral Execution
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10944
Re: Guilt, Projection, and Moral Execution
I am not discounting criticism, only that it is premised by a certain particularism and destroys the coherence of what I wish to demonstrate. I wasn't just talking about criticism, Kismet. Not all the replies we have made to your posts have been critical, let alone destructively critical. Some have...
- July 12th, 2012, 9:39 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Heidegger Contra Humanism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5813
Re: Heidegger Contra Humanism
Have you heard the full song? Here's the Monty Python version, complete with gratuitous scantily clad showgirl. I think I preferred Christopher Hitchens's less tuneful performance.animist wrote:Heidegger (not much of a rhyme with boozy beggar!)
Emma
- July 12th, 2012, 9:05 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
I apologise. The original clue was "Eye-catching dots of colour on a chicken's plumage". That should have been " dot of colour". That should help. And yes: Pen = hen. nikin < speckled. And yes, there is rhyming word of three syllables which is a synonym for conspicuous, and also sounds just a little...
- July 11th, 2012, 5:06 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Heidegger Contra Humanism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5813
Re: Heidegger Contra Humanism
Oh, good grief. If your understanding of humanism is as Heidegger narrowly defined it in his "Letter on Humanism", then no wonder it's difficult to understand you. You're barking up the wrong tree. Humanism is not so narrowly defined. And I think it's worth remembering that Heidegger wrote the "Lett...
- July 11th, 2012, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Guilt, Projection, and Moral Execution
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10944
Re: Guilt, Projection, and Moral Execution
The problem with humanism is that, basing its morality on the human, it is involved in a gross form of hypocrisy and power grabbing when it judges those which do not accept humanist principles as criminals. This is because a transcendent reality is denied altogether and those who are disaffected ar...
- July 11th, 2012, 4:02 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Guilt, Projection, and Moral Execution
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10944
Re: Guilt, Projection, and Moral Execution
... And the question arises then of: why do we commit evil deeds? I would venture to say it is hardly of our own free will, but as a last resort of our humanity being unwilling to forgive, not capable of overcoming the wretched and torpid darkness that becomes situated through no fault of our own, ...
- July 11th, 2012, 3:41 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Evidence (?) for Christ's Resurrection
- Replies: 196
- Views: 28246
Re: Evidence (?) for Christ's Resurrection
Arthur - yes, maybe, I don't think this contradicts what I said; some of Arthur's alleged victories were in very different parts of Britain, which might make it improbable that he could have won them all. But that does not mean that there was not an "Arthur", that is my point. Well, what you said w...
- July 11th, 2012, 2:31 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
Oh, come on. You can get this. You've got the Pen nikin (Pen = chicken; nikin = dots of colour (on plumage)). All you have to do then is put them together and replace the first letter so that you have a word that sounds just a little bit like conspicuous and also sounds Scottish or Northumbrian. The...
- July 9th, 2012, 6:02 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Evidence (?) for Christ's Resurrection
- Replies: 196
- Views: 28246
Re: Evidence (?) for Christ's Resurrection
we seem to be going round in circles somewhat. For me it does not matter whether some Jesus of some description existed in a place called Nazareth: I rather think that he did, since I cannot see that anyone (quite a few people in fact) would wish to spend time on fabricating stories about people an...
- July 7th, 2012, 10:56 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
Well, it certainly means conspicuous, and phonetically it's not entirely dissimilar, but the words are not etymologically related.
- July 6th, 2012, 10:31 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
animist wrote:any Scots or Northumbrians know names for chickens?
The chicken's the easy bit. And you've got the dots of colour on the plumage, more or less. So what's left?
- July 4th, 2012, 3:15 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
This one might be easier if you're Scottish. Or Northumbrian. And you're on the right lines.
- July 3rd, 2012, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Social Club
- Topic: Grammer and phrases wot is irritating
- Replies: 388
- Views: 114610
Re: Grammer and phrases wot is irritating
I've just come across this series of Ask the Edtior videos by Merriam-Webster. I think they're rather good.
Emma
Emma
- July 3rd, 2012, 12:04 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Modern economics
- Replies: 1408
- Views: 125976
Re: Modern economics
Oh, no. I had been seriously considering them. Glad I didn't ever get around to it. Thanks, Alan.Alan H wrote:Of course, you may want to avoid Triodos Bank: The Bank that likes to say ‘Quack’.
Emma
- July 3rd, 2012, 11:55 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170381
Re: Henny Penny
Hennikin Pen nikin [---][/---] Eye-catching dots of colour on chicken's plumage
- July 2nd, 2012, 4:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
- Topic: Kindle Help
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3475
Re: Kindle Help
Does this page help, getreal?