Nozick: "so as you can see, the minimum wage is oppressive because it prevents people from making free decisions, like freely choosing between working for starvation wages or literally starving."
Heraclitus thought everything was in an endless state of change, so we could never 'step into the same river twice'.
Descartes tried to methodically doubt everything, much like children do when they ask an endless stream of 'whys'.
Hume doubted that inductive reasoning was strictly rational, so even if someone had past behavior such as cheating, there was no 'rational' reason to use that to predict future events.
Nietzsche was a loser.
Hegel was long winded.
Nozick's entire philosophical project was justifying extremely wealth disparity as having arose from 'free' decisions.
Descartes tried to methodically doubt everything, much like children do when they ask an endless stream of 'whys'.
Hume doubted that inductive reasoning was strictly rational, so even if someone had past behavior such as cheating, there was no 'rational' reason to use that to predict future events.
Nietzsche was a loser.
Hegel was long winded.
Nozick's entire philosophical project was justifying extremely wealth disparity as having arose from 'free' decisions.
True virtue is to only bother Aristotle with asinine objections to his theories about half the time.
For Aristotle, virtue was often a sort of disposition between to unhealthy extremes, sometimes referred to as a "golden mean".
Zeno is best knows for his paradoxes, which often involved the difficulty in conceptualizing infinite regresses. If we applied the type of logic Zeno uses to Aristotle's concept in a rather stupid way, it would cancel itself out.
Zeno is best knows for his paradoxes, which often involved the difficulty in conceptualizing infinite regresses. If we applied the type of logic Zeno uses to Aristotle's concept in a rather stupid way, it would cancel itself out.
"Is it always immoral to lie on your dating profile? I mean yeah...but come on guys, I've been on this site for like a year and havn't got any dates...there are limits to every rule."
"How can I cure my anxiety about death?"
"Do you mean...aside from dying or...?"
"Do you mean...aside from dying or...?"
Edmond Burke is in some ways the founder of modern conservatism, and is most famous for staunchly opposing the French Revolution. Burke believe that people ultimately understood very little about the forces that governed society, and any changes that we make have to be done slowly to ensure that society doesn't collapse into anarchy. He thought the radicals that wanted to remake society "rationally" during the French Revolution were far too arrogant in their ability to imagine a utopian society from scratch, and any attempt to do so would only result in disaster. While he believed in social progress, he thought we should never make large changes all at once, or we would risk dissolving institutions that we did not fully understand and upsetting the balance in society, bringing large scale suffering.
He wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790, only eighteen months after the revolution had begun, so a lot of his predictions of unrestrained violence came true. Of course, his ideas such as "actually, democracy is bad", and "women shouldn't be educated" aged a little less well.
He wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790, only eighteen months after the revolution had begun, so a lot of his predictions of unrestrained violence came true. Of course, his ideas such as "actually, democracy is bad", and "women shouldn't be educated" aged a little less well.