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Quo Vadis? - OpEdNews
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OpEdNews Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was inarguably one of the two or three most important philosophers of the Nineteenth Century. He was also a man whose philosophy ...

Prop. 8 ruling ignores precedent, evidence and common sense - Washington Post
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Washington Post It ignores the writings of legal giant William Blackstone and philosophers John Locke and Bertrand Russell. It even refused to address the fact that ...

What philosophers have epistemologies that don't allow their metaphysics?
Q. Not all philosophers "out" their pictures, so often you have to look for an implicit metaphysics.
Asked by Elvis Fan - Mon May 25 18:54:37 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Are you asking which philosophers are both epistemologist and anti-metaphysical? Rudolf Carnap, and the entire school of Logical Positivism
Answered by 'Always Ask Why' - Mon May 25 19:03:18 2009

How do Calvinist philosophers handle the problem of evil?
Q. The Free Will Defense is the most common defense against the problem of evil. I've never heard of any other compelling defense. So my question is, how do Calvinist philosophers defend against the problem of evil? If there are no Calvinist philosophers who offer good defenses against the problem of evil, do you think this shows that Calvinism is untenable?
Asked by enarchay - Fri May 29 02:46:00 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Why is evil a problem again? From what I understand Calvinism is a dead religion based on Lutheranism. So that established evil is impotent made useless by the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
Answered by Scott - Mon Jun 1 01:33:14 2009

What did famous philosophers do for living?
Q. Among the philosophers you know, what was their main occupation.How could they survive to write their philosophy book? Give examples, please.
Asked by Mirza - Sat Jan 30 06:39:56 2010 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It varies from person to person. Most were born into money and didn't really need to work while writing. Descartes was very wealthy and spent a great amount of time sitting around smoking cannabis and writing his thoughts. Similarly Wittgenstein's father was one of the wealthiest men in Austria and so he had no need to work. Despite this he worked as an engineer, schoolteacher and lecturer. The only work of his published in ihis lifetime was written in the trenches in WWI. Schopenhauer inhereted a family business and worked there during his early life before entering academia, where it appears his main source of income was as a university lecturer. In fact, the majority of modern phlosophers (over the last two hundred years, say) were… [cont.]
Answered by pencilman - Sat Jan 30 06:54:50 2010