Jeez, can't you find something better to do than being insulting about something that's, basically, none of your business. I mean, do you feel empowered by being an asshole about things?
Hey there. Remember the board intro says any topic. Over the years we have touched on ancient philosophical musings more than a few times.
"lol, no I think you're hung up on a stupid topic and are devoting more time to it than you should. This board, if you haven't noticed, is not a bunch of ancient philosophy scholars. "
Much of their thoughts are still relevant today. Lets do a quick little easy Plato search:
The late F6 -- The state of the union: meaner, not leaner By William A. Cohn [...] From Plato to Aristotle, Locke to Hobbes, Karl Marx to J.S. Mill, David Hume to Adam Smith, and J.J. Rousseau to John Rawls, political philosophers have shared an understanding that government has an obligation to act in the interests of its people, and that absent that it loses its legitimacy and authority, and an appreciation that private-sector actors have different motivation and duties than public officials. P - The emergence of Libertarianism over the past 45 years has been based on convenient premises which are at odds with the understandings of the previous 4,500 years – that govt. is not a marketplace, but rather a bargain made between people and government – of the people, by the people and for the people. Markets, after all, are not naturally self-regulating or sustaining. Government must treat its people first and foremost as citizens, not consumers. That the free market provides the optimal solution to all societal needs is a tough sell given the lessons of history, most recently with the subprime mortgage lending crisis exposing once again the fallacy of laissez-faire free marketeers’ magic. Feb. 2008 -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=26739043 .. ...the search...
The late StephanieVanbryce -- The Compassionate Instinct Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature. P - Humans are selfish. It's so easy to say. The same goes for so many assertions that follow. Greed is good. Altruism is an illusion. Cooperation is for suckers. Competition is natural, war inevitable. The bad in human nature is stronger than the good. P - These kinds of claims reflect age-old assumptions about emotion. For millennia, we have regarded the emotions as the fount of irrationality, baseness, and sin. The idea of the seven deadly sins takes our destructive passions for granted. Plato compared the human soul to a chariot: the intellect is the driver and the emotions are the horses. Life is a continual struggle to keep the emotions under control. P - Even compassion, the concern we feel for another being's welfare, has been treated with downright derision. Kant saw it as a weak and misguided sentiment: "Such benevolence is called soft-heartedness and should not occur at all among human beings," he said of compassion. Many question whether true compassion exists at all—or whether it is inherently motivated by self-interest. [...] The biological basis of compassion P - First consider the recent study of the biological basis of compassion. If such a basis exists, we should be wired up, so to speak, to respond to others in need. Recent evidence supports this point convincingly. University of Wisconsin psychologist Jack Nitschke found in an experiment that when mothers looked at pictures of their babies, they not only reported feeling more compassionate love than when they saw other babies; they also demonstrated unique activity in a region of their brains associated with the positive emotions. Nitschke's finding suggests that this region of the brain is attuned to the first objects of our compassion—our offspring. P - But this compassionate instinct isn't limited to parents' brains. In a different set of studies, Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen of Princeton University found that when subjects contemplated harm being done to others, a similar network of regions in their brains lit up. Our children and victims of violence—two very different subjects, yet united by the similar neurological reactions they provoke. This consistency strongly suggests that compassion isn"t simply a fickle or irrational emotion, but rather an innate human response embedded into the folds of our brains. Jan., 2010 -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=46100998...the search...
What Would Plato Have Thought Of Donald Trump? – Analysis P - While Plato is indeed correct in his insight that the inherent weakness of democracy lies in its potential to collapse into tyranny, he has failed to recognise that this weakness can be minimised. Even in the alarmingly plausible scenario of Donald Trump being elected the 45th President of the United States, it would still be an open question whether this event will see the collapse of American democracy into a Trumpian tyranny, or whether the beleaguered American political system will be robust enough to contain the damage. May, 2016 -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122352431...the search...
There would be heaps more. Every year, i'd guess. Enough here now though lol -- ;-)
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