Philosophy

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1. "Thinker" As a Social Role

   By Phuein, January 29, 2014   

   • occupation
   • society
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     • occupation
     • society
     • equality
     • philosophers
     • duty
     • ignorance
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   • dsayers
   • January 31, 2014

2. The Bronze Rule?

   By Mike Larson, April 7, 2016   

   • Philosophy
   • Social Interaction
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     • Philosophy
     • Social Interaction
     • civility
     • Virtue
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   • Sima
   • April 8, 2016

3. Everybody is Normal Until You Get to Know Them

   By MysterionMuffles, December 13, 2013
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   • MysterionMuffles
   • December 24, 2013

4. Animal Abuse

   By Philosphorous, March 20, 2014
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   • PatrickC
   • April 17, 2014

5. What is manipulative language?

   By Jot, February 2, 2016
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   • Bipedal Primate
   • February 5, 2016

6. UPB and positive virtue

   By SamuelS, July 13, 2014   

   • upb
   • virtue
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   • TDB
   • July 16, 2014

7. The concept of Alphas and Betas in humans AND wolves is incorrect.

   By NameName, August 30, 2014
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   • luxfelix
   • September 6, 2014

8. NAP vs moral dilemma solved?

   By Daniel Unplugged, February 21, 2014
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   • ProfessionalTeabagger
   • February 24, 2014

9. What do you think comes after this life?

   By Grizwald, July 20, 2014
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   • J. D. Stembal
   • July 23, 2014

10. Emotions

    By Gar, October 10, 2013
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    • Pepin
    • December 30, 2013

11. How to introduce philosophy to kids?

    By MayJud, May 15, 2014   

    • kids
    • philosophy
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    • MysterionMuffles
    • June 26, 2014

12. Drowning Child Example

    By LovePrevails, September 19, 2016
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    • Boss
    • October 15, 2016

13. How to deal with Name Calling

    By mjdsharks, May 20, 2014
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    • PatrickC
    • May 22, 2014

14. The falsifiability of Respect

    By FriendlyHacker, January 5, 2015
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    • endostate
    • January 9, 2015

15. What is the "Standard of Value" for UPB?

    By John Sambrook, May 25, 2016
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    • John Sambrook
    • May 30, 2016

16. What is a philosopher?

    By NigelW, July 26, 2014
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    • NigelW
    • July 29, 2014

17. Entertainment in a free society

    By Nick Coons, January 12, 2015   

    • entertainment
    • 9 replies
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    • Matt Zeeie
    • February 7, 2015

18. Is equality actually a good thing?

    By Daniel Unplugged, January 21, 2014   

    • equality
    • 8 replies
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    • y2k1
    • January 23, 2014

19. Moral Relativism question

    By orgone, June 10, 2017   

    • morality
    • moral
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      • morality
      • moral
      • relativism
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    • orgone
    • June 14, 2017

20. Superiority/Inferiority?

    By Siegfried von Walheim, October 27, 2017   

    • logic
    • superior
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    • ShindouHikaru
    • November 8, 2017

21. morality of how we treat the dead.

    By cab21, July 21, 2015
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    • cab21
    • July 24, 2015

22. The Dark Idiocy of The Zeitgeist Movement

    By Rick Horton, February 8, 2013
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    • empyblessing
    • February 11, 2013

23. Purpose of life / Meaning of life

    By TheDutchLibertarian, July 12, 2014   

    • Life
    • Purpose
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      • Life
      • Purpose
      • Meaning
      • Question
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    • Culain
    • July 12, 2014

24. Humour and Quantum Mechanics

    By Doug G, December 29, 2014   

    • comedy
    • quantum mechanics
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      • comedy
      • quantum mechanics
      • first principles
      • sophistry
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    • Doug G
    • December 31, 2014

25. An Alternate UPB

    By bugzysegal, October 22, 2015   

    • Choice
    • Voluntarism
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      • Choice
      • Voluntarism
      • Consciousness
      • Ethics
      • Titty sprinkles
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    • bugzysegal
    • October 26, 2015

26. The Non-Aggression Principle is a Subjective Preference

    By masonman, June 28, 2013
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    • RestoringGuy
    • July 3, 2013

27. Refute my statement

    By Mark Carolus, November 19, 2013
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    • Livemike
    • December 2, 2013

28. Validity of IQ

    By Alice Amell, March 25, 2015
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    • thelion
    • March 30, 2015

29. NAP vs. Golden Rule

    By Nick Coons, August 19, 2013
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    • gfullmer
    • December 31, 2014

30. A short guide to Objectivist metaphysics

    By GYre0ePJhZ, December 31, 2014   

    • metaphysics
    • upb
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      • metaphysics
      • upb
      • objectivism
      • ayn rand
      • rand
      • axioms
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    • shirgall
    • December 31, 2014

31. Symbols

    By BaylorPRSer, July 2, 2015
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    • utopian
    • August 10, 2015

32. Is my concise explanation of UPB accurate?

    By rhanson, May 13, 2013
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    • ribuck
    • May 20, 2013

33. Thought experiment recarding voluntarism

    By Kikker, June 4, 2016
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    • Kikker
    • June 19, 2016

34. Socrates

    By Wayne, February 21, 2013
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    • Shagrath
    • April 26, 2013

35. Potential rights and abortion

    By tiepolo, April 28, 2014
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    • DanielB
    • May 9, 2014

36. Why do so many people live life in lies?

    By utopian, October 11, 2015
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    • dsayers
    • October 17, 2015

37. The Sanctioning of Victimhood

    By vco, April 27, 2014   

    • victimhood
    • self-esteem
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      • victimhood
      • self-esteem
      • philosophy
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    • vco
    • April 27, 2014

38. Critique my logic on free will, for paper due

    By LovePrevails, March 2, 2014
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    • LovePrevails
    • March 3, 2014

39. Morality of Eternal Life?

    By abcqwerty123, June 27, 2014
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    • Bradford26
    • July 24, 2014

40. Existence

    By TonyG666, March 16, 2014
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    • Mike Fleming
    • March 23, 2014

41. My current thoughts on morality

    By Nick900, March 29, 2016
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    • Nick900
    • March 31, 2016

42. Ethical self defense

    By EricBaker.Linux, July 9, 2014
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    • shirgall
    • August 23, 2014

43. All actions aim at the Good?

    By RichardY, April 25, 2018   

    • aristotle
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    • ofd
    • June 25, 2018

44. Alphas and Betas

    By Josh F, December 3, 2013
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    • Josh F
    • December 16, 2013

45. The accuracy of the senses

    By rosencrantz, July 11, 2016
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    • thebeardslastcall
    • July 14, 2016

46. The ethics of bribing third world country officials

    By Marco, September 9, 2017   

    • bribery
    • ethics
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      • ethics
      • corruption
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    • barn
    • December 3, 2017

47. Wow, the paranormal was so cool, then I got introduced to philosophy..

    By jovian, May 30, 2014   

    • logic
    • paranormal
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      • logic
      • paranormal
      • belief
      • philosophy
      • objectivism
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    • jovian
    • June 5, 2014

48. I see dead people (who can't think)

    By J-William, April 9, 2014
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    • Phuein
    • April 22, 2014

49. Why BLM and ideas like "white privilege" are inherently bigoted.

    By Worlok, July 15, 2016
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    • Drew.
    • August 14, 2016

50. Bible "out of context"

    By carlip, May 29, 2013
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    • Brandon Buck _BB_
    • June 6, 2013