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Philosophy

delrem

(9,688 posts)

16. I like your posts!

Reply to Sweeney (Reply #14)

Tue Nov 25, 2014, 03:06 AM

Nov 2014

Very much!

"This emotional bond of morality is a spiritual connectedness with ones group, and so for the life of the people who are our life, and who share our common life."

That is poetry.

I think a problem arrives when a spiritual connectedness with ones group becomes formalized under a tribal totem, a 'god', with the 'god' having equally formalized spokesmen issuing edicts, including edicts pertaining to the treatment of the heathen, the enemy without. Then you have war.

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I don't see how there can be a goal, in philosophy. [View all] delrem Jun 2014 OP

To the sages of old, TM99 Jun 2014 #1

That's very well said. nt delrem Jun 2014 #3

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What you wrote does not contradict nor correct me. TM99 Nov 2014 #18

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When I read the OP Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2014 #2

I would take your questioned ethics/morality delrem Jul 2014 #4

You seem to be saying that I am bigoted against myself. Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2014 #5

I was only questioning your language. delrem Jul 2014 #6

It appears that you did not understand me Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2014 #7

You aren't alone. I don't understand many people. delrem Jul 2014 #8

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I like your posts! delrem Nov 2014 #16

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All I can do is repeat what I said before. Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2014 #17

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First, the paragraph is your friend, and even more the reader's friend Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2014 #24

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language - Wittgenste Jim__ Jul 2014 #9

I'm not a fan of Wittgenstein. delrem Jul 2014 #10

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To defeat a goal? Expat in Korea Oct 2014 #11

I like this answer. nt delrem Nov 2014 #12

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