Recent content by peacegirl

It is very sad what’s going on in the U.S.! 🫩

Your sarcasm is an effort to provoke me. If you had a true interest, you would have shown a little bit of curiosity by asking relevant questions, but you haven't. I cannot waste my energy on responding to you anymore if your posts are of the same quality.

I don't have to necessarily fight this battle (a modal fallacy) if I don't want to, but I want to, which makes anything other than what I'm doing at this very moment an impossibility. Later, I could change my mind and have others fight the good fight (I don't call it a fight; those are your...

This has nothing to do with wanting to win an argument.

Now you're just trying to get back at me (like the bully on the playground) because you don't like that you are being told you're not only wrong but wrong as wrong can be. No libertarianism, no compatibilism, no adequate determinism, no soft determinism, no indeterminism, just DETERMINISM. :yes:

It doesn't resolve anything. It just repackages the same old story. Actually it has not evolved. The only thing that has come into the picture is compatibilism, and that solves nothing. It only supports the status quo of holding people morally responsible because, according to them, they had...

Absolutely false. You are like a kid who will not give up the belief in Santa, no matter what his parents tell him. 🎅

This entire debate goes back to moral responsibility, which is why it is one of the most difficult and longstanding discussions in philosophy. Where philosophers are stuck i(regardless of what side they're on) is that they are missing the other half of the equation, which shows that the...

No it does not have many definitions that change the meaning. Determinism and free will are opposites. You can say one plus two is three or two plus one is three, but it doesn't change the fact that when you have two things and add one more, or one thing and add two more, it equals three. We...

He was torn because he loved Spinoza, who was a determinist. but could not get past the implications, so he turned back to believing in free will, even though his logic was faulty. p, 37. Because Spinoza was dissatisfied with theology’s explanation of good and evil, he opened the door of...

You are just as ignorant today as you were yesterday! Can’t you do better than that? 🤣

Read again. It was Socrates’ intuition. If Durant believed direct perception was considered superior to reasoning, is it any wonder he was so confused and his reasoning so fallacious since the word “because,” which denotes the perception of a relation, whether true or false, indicates that he...

I'm sorry Steve that you have become suspicious because of how my father wrote. He was humble, he didn't flourish his writing other than in a dialogue that was meant to be entertaining to keep interest because of the difficulty of the subject matter. Whoooooo, you cannot do this. These two...

Decline and Fall of All Evil: The Most Important Discovery of Our Times This was his introduction to Durant. p. 31 To show you how confused the mind can get when mathematical relations are not perceived, Will Durant, a well-known philosopher of the 20th century, wrote on page 103 in The...

Influential American historian and philosopher Will Durant was an influential American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which he co-authored with his wife, Ariel Durant. His earlier book, The Story of Philosophy, published in 1926...