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PK’s posts are about the same 5 themes repeated :
P: Conservatives are awful, liberals are wonderful.
K: I have multiple times attacks liberals… IN fact, I have begun a couple of
threads attacking liberalism and liberals… can you say the same thing with
an thread/post attacking your own position?
P: Trump is awful.
K: IQ45 IS AWFUL… and hands down, the worst president
in American history…it is a telling sign that the single most useful thing
he could do for America, is to drop dead tonight…that is not a good sign
that a person could be the most useful, dead…
P: Capitalism is awful.
K: and so it is, but I have also attacked communism… and I have suggested
the economic solution lies in some other fashion outside of capitalism and
communism…and in one thread, I even praised capitalism, that was the entire
thread, an attack upon my own position of the “evil” capitalism…
P: Philosophy ought to be done this way.
K: I have stated and will continue to state that we don’t actually engage with
philosophy… we study it and then go off and do whatever the hell we want…
ignoring the point and value of philosophy which is to help us understand
what it means to be human… we ought to be exploring our own possibilities…
philosophically including…
P: People ought to be doing this.
K: and you have ignored vast number of my posts/threads where I ask,
what is the point of existence… metaphysics… what can we know…
epistemology… what is beauty… Aesthetics…what should we be doing instead
of seeking happiness? should we be seeking knowledge? or wisdom? or engaged in
hedonism? the Kantian questions of existence… what can I know? what should I
hope for? What should I be doing? What values should I engage with? What should
I be spending my energy on?
all valid questions and questions ignored by the vast majority of ILP’ers…
are we seeking a TRUTH, a vast single TRUTH or do we seek our own
individual truths, that can and quite often do, conflict with the
ONE TRUTH as seen by others…I hold that there are a multiple
number of truths… because each of us holds to our own individual
truths… that there is no one SINGLE TRUTH that works for all human
beings… such as “there is a god”…what does that idea that there is
“no god” mean for us, individually and collectively?
how are we to understand morality/ethics without a religious point
of view? that was Nietzsche goal, to create an ethics that didn’t include
a religious/god viewpoint…an ethics solely from the human concern…
my own questions arise from a strictly philosophical standpoint…
what does it mean to be human?
so, what does it mean to be human?
I am sorry you think that is a “Limited” question…and one only Kropotkin
should engage with…
so, I ask a vast number of questions… but you choose to engage with
only a few of them…may as well ignore me then…
Kropotkin