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I agree that a philosophy section would be nice. Most of the threads that I have thought of starting and have started do not really belong in "current events" or regular political discourse. I started a thread about deontology, utilitarianism and virtue ethics a while ago and I didn't know where to put it. Where does one go to debate about determinism, free will, ethical objectivism, moral relativity, rationalism, empiricism, egoism, altruism, holism, collectivism, individualism, logical positivism, existentialism, deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deconstructionism, post-modernism, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and so on? It certainly doesn't belong in political issues (although it has implications for politics), yet neither does it belong in religion.
I despise the attitude that philosophy is useless. Philosophy is arguably the most important and relevant topic for your life, and is a pretext to even science (I.E. science requires a "philosophy of science" in order to function).
Last edited by Brainpolice; 12-26-2007 at 03:53 PM.
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