Any colour you like, they're all blue. — Wikipedia
It is the problem which faces anyone who writes that they cannot predict what will be done with their work. It is a bit like music. There is always the risk that someone at some stage will name a song which made them feel suicidal or lead them to self harm. Of course, it may be partly about projection and people latching onto certain ideas sometimes though rather than simply about the actual ideas and those who developed them — Jack Cummins
I neither know nor think I know. — Socrates
No one is wiser than Socrates. — The Delphic Oracle
When I am speaking of the question of 'dangerous' ideas, like the Nazi's on one hand and the question of knowledge as questionable I am probably referring to conflicts in assumptions which have appeared historically. — Jack Cummins
It is a question of whether intelligence is an upgrade or a downgrade in the sense of civilisation has been achieved. However, human beings have created so much destruction and plundered the planet rather than acting as stewards of the natural world. — Jack Cummins
This sentence looks like word salad to me. I think you have not found then correct words to ask your question or that you are using these words in a very ambiguous way. — I like sushi
I guess that thinking about the impact of ideas and philosophy is part of the same process as evaluating truth of ideas rationally, as the ethical dimension. — Jack Cummins
I don't wish to write word salad and I just like to juggle ideas as a way of thinking, almost like lateral thinking. — Jack Cummins
It is therefore obvious that ... (Frequently used in the Celestial Mechanics when he had proved something and mislaid the proof, or found it clumsy. Notorious as a signal for something true, but hard to prove.) — Wikipedia (on Pierre-Simon Laplace's tendency to omit proofs)
What I mean is that thinking of the ethical aspects of philosophy, as consequences in real life, is important. It runs alongside understanding of ideas as explanations for the nature of causation and processes. — Jack Cummins
‘Ethical aspects of philosophy’ IS ethics. — I like sushi
It was part of the humanist focus, with or without religion, but as the emphasis on social existence is the key domain, as opposed to in relationship with God, awareness of effects of action has become more important as a form of social ethics. — Jack Cummins
:up:To the degree they [philosophies] can be encapsulated into a simple thesis, they [philosophers] do not ask anything of us. — Paine
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