I don't think philosophy is a quest for truth at all; it's more a search - quest is too romantic a word - for some modus vivendi that would yield the best results - best, that is, by the philosopher's reckoning, which is formed by his time and culture and experience and convictions. — Vera Mont

Do people value truth? — Andrew4Handel

Morality has failed ... — Andrew4Handel

Would you say that religions qualify as theories? — Hallucinogen

Would you say theories among scientific theories or theories among historical theories are incompatible with each other?

If your answers to these two questions aren't both "yes", what is the substantive difference between religion and theories (historical/scientific)?

The point I am always trying to make is we can not have rule by reason without transmitting a culture that manifests that. — Athena

My second point is education for technology prepares us to be ruled not to have rule by reason. The 1958 change in education changed our culture and the clip Proof gave us is a pretty good explanation of that. In the clip, Scott represents all of us who remember when things were different, and f**k the damn computer that has replaced a human receptionist.

Does it even make sense to quantify knowledge? — Moliere

How would a view from everywhere look different from either in your understanding? — schopenhauer1

The logistical 'problems' mentioned in the OP are features of a representative form of government not flaws [ ... ] the US government has been erring on the side of the few for around 50 or 60 years. That's the result of the corruption, not the form of government. — creativesoul

How would a view from everywhere look different from either in your understanding? — schopenhauer1

Does anything stand out to you about the difference, such as the captains' relationships with their crews and with headquarters? — Athena

Just for the record, the art of mass manipulation was brought to modern form by Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) considered a pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".

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Walter Lippman was Bernays' unacknowledged American mentor and Lippman's work The Phantom Public greatly influenced the ideas expressed in Propaganda a year later. — BC

If you were to watch old TV shows you might notice cultural differences between the 1950's and the present. The original Star Trek TV shows contrasted with the Next Generation Star Trek TV shows is an excellent example of what the change in education did to our culture. Captain Kirk is the John Wayne of outer space and Picard is the "Group Think" generation. — Athena

Without irony I say - I think it's simpler here in the US - the Republicans did it. — T Clark

And this is made possible by adopting the German model of bureaucracy. Before Hoover and Roosevelt worked together to give us Big Government, the US government was relatively weak. — Athena

Are you saying it is not values that lead to shoddy construction, prolonged disrepair, and entropy?

I remember the older people who all about honesty and human dignity.

I just wanted feedback on my objection to mysterianism. — RogueAI

[W]e are destroying our democracy as all our institutions are failing. — Athena

I worry for my children. We know from history the world sometimes does go to hell. — T Clark

1) Can objects be understood without reference to human subjectivity? — schopenhauer1

2) Is it even wise to try to overlook the human aspect to all knowledge?

Is this not only a fool's errand but somehow anti-human or is this just trying to take out a pernicious anthropomorphism that might lead to a more open field of exploration?

Also, when you say it won’t be Joe Biden as the nominee — care to bet on that too? — Mikie

In fact, I think idealism is the obvious solution. — RogueAI

What is nihilism? It is variously expressed as the idea that nothing is real, or that nothing has any real meaning. — Wayfarer

Does theism as a philosophical position, act as a valid support for religious doctrine? — universeness

Btw, I'm in no way a 'mysterian'. — 180 Proof

Does mysterianism entail that all brains in the universe cannot understand consciousness, or just us? — RogueAI

So, is a persons claim that they are a religious philosopher, the inevitable beginning of losing/rationalising away, their [own] religion? — universeness

Against the common view that philosophy is a two-thousand-year-old failing enterprise, a body of thought that has produced no knowledge, couldn’t we say that philosophy has in fact done pretty well in bringing dominant beliefs into question, revealing their incoherence or baselessness, or just submitting them to rational enquiry? — Jamal

Btw, philosophizing began for me in encounters with (raw) stupidity of other teens and adults, then authority figures and institutions, finally profound failures and missed opportunities I'd discovered throughout the histories I'd studied. Recognizing stupidity as endemic to the human condition was my initial existential crisis (i.e. despair) at 16/17 from which, over four decades later, I've still not recovered. — 180 Proof

Reality is a donut-hole, or nothing out of something. — Thus Spoke 180 Proof

Marriage [Love] is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage [love again] is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. — Toni Morrison

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek