by Jason Stotts Okay, boys and girls, here’s another important distinction that you should make when you speak or write. “I feel” means that you are telling someone about your feelings or sensations…the next words out of your mouth had better be “happy”, “sad”, “cold”, “tired” or some other such feeling or sensation. “I think” [...]
by Jason Stotts Today boys and girls, we are going to talk about a “naughty” subject: ménage-a-trois. The other day I had an interesting discussion with one of my friends about our respective pasts and he raised the issue of three-somes (3S’s). Naturally, being philosophically inclined, I was inclined to raise the question: “Are three-somes [...]
by Jason Stotts I often hear people make a silly and obvious equivocation between two terms that mean drastically different things: namely Intelligence and Knowledge. I think though, that we must do as The Philosopher suggests, and start with that which is first. Intelligence is a capacity (potentiality) for thinking and reasoning, analogous to a [...]
by Jason Stotts Life, we say is the highest value, Eudaimonia our moral purpose, and Excellence is our way. Borne of this though is something else, something which makes our life and our happiness more worthy: that thing is Honor or Pride. We would think a man poor, who thought himself happy without virtue. We [...]
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by Jason Stotts Recently on the news I saw a bunch of “bunny-huggers” gathered somewhere protesting the “unethical treatment of animals” because these animals were being used to test pharmaceutical products to make sure they were safe for human use. Now, this seems to me to be 1) an evil inversion of Morality, 2) ridiculous [...]
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by Jason Stotts I think sex is a necessary condition of an intimate relationship. Personally, I think that the Platonic/christian relationship is inherently deficient for true love: true love should involve a person’s entire being and we are of course creatures of mind and body – to neglect one or the other is to have an [...]
by Jason Stotts While in the Houston Airport (which was a great time by the way, to be in Texas for 5 hours on a lay-over!) I was sitting in the airport I saw a lot of “different” people. One of these was a, well let us say, “portly gentleman” (i.e. a fat bastard). Anyway, [...]
by Jason Stotts So I keep getting criticisms about my blog (not a single word of praise yet…) about 1) my writing style, 2) the level of philisophical analysis, and 3) my topic selection. I’d like to take a moment to respond to some of the criticisms so you’ll stop your bitching. 1) I try [...]
