'Bushwhacked'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
See, if you had a math degree, orthogonal would have been the only word you understood.
Hee. From which we learn that it was the only word I understood.
To paraphrase, though Kant was a devout Christian, his moral philosophy made it possible to hold reasoned categorical moral positions without being religious. Which weakened the Church's position among the intelligentsia. Or, to paraphrase still further, it was the vibe.
My favourite trash-talk slur is "Yo' mamma's like Hobbe's view of nature - nasty, brutish and short."
That used to be used against Harlan Ellison - probably by him.
Thinking on this, I've come to realize that I am an extremely cynical hobbesian
Hmm. I think I'm a Calvinist.
Must clear brain of Kant.
I am, happily, Kant-free since 1991.
you misspelled cutiehead.
You say this to someone who was pondering that friendships exist because they work to our selfish advantage (more people likely to help you when that dude over there wants to kill you, thus keeping you alive) and because the bennies then set off little chemical explosions (that laughter crap? I dunno) that make us feel good which thus strengthens the will to avoid being killed?
BTW, I still like you!
There is a reason I'm single, people.
Maybe dinner will help.
That used to be used against Harlan Ellison - probably by him.
The Onion once gave it a run too, viz. "I believe the children are our future, insofar as most of them are nasty, brutish and short."
This discussion would be incomplete without the following:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could drink you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Hall drank whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!
Oh, thank the gods someone else posted that. I was hoping I wasn't the only one hearing The Philosopher's Song in their head....
**smooches Sean**
WOOHOO!!!