what's your favorite philosophical principle?

I like the principle of charity.
What about you?

I like the principles of the private porn industry, drug use which makes me feel like a rastafarian, lethargy, taking advantage of drunk women, general apathy about the world, and lying about liking the principle of charity.

I quite like the principle of ‘the meaning of a word it its use in language’. Or, if we’re talking earlier Wittgenstein, ‘I am my world’. Your choice.

ren (co-humanity/benevolence/two-peopleness/humanity . . . and a variety of others, depending on who is translating it).

Detrop, I think we’re soul mates.

The presence of the Other as a basis for morality, purpose and meaning, the principle of using the Other as an end and not as a means.

principle of princesspush

-Imp

In the natural sciences what? and why? become how? “I don’t question the existence of God. I just want to know how he did it.”-- Einstein (paraphrased).

nihilism

dependent origination

Cognito Ergo Sum

Truthfulness.

oh oh oh can I can change mine?

Truthiness

The principal of elemental invincibility and reality as a closed-system, is my favorite philosophical principal, for it is the only reason we are not all eternally dead by now.

:wink:
But that’s more a metaphysical realism than a philo-social principal…
Hmmm…

If this is to be about values, social-moral virtues, etc.
I’m going with Nietzche,
In that all vice and all virtue are part of ones own actions and characteristics, thus they are part of a greater, whole-self. Virtue and self can never be separate. One can never be more or less than the other. And when one separates virtue from self-actuation, it only degrades thyself. So: “I AM virtue”, would be my favorite virtue,
And mans original sin was that he loves whole-self-actuation too little.

I am thinking about John Steward, and Curt Cobain…
“Todays word…”
:laughing:

PLEASE tell me you’ve seen that video!

Let’s make a thread about nihilism’s family/genus!

Quite un-Nietzschian, actually.

I wasn’t talking about equality.
I was talking about ones virtues and ones self being the same things.

Infact, I think you’d misquoted my whole meaning.

Complete quote here:

Sorry. :blush: Blame it on the alcohol.

Hey, a car just crashed today.
You’re not driving, your posting!
It was good.
It was very good,
That you were posting, instead of driving.

Pass me a mild dose, too, please.
Pass me a litte of your poison, if yee may.
Pass me just a little, for I wanteth to create myself beyond it,
And that is how immunity and resistence forms, through a certian kind of dose into the poisonous.