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Darwinism and Morality

Carl Flygt — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:06:19 -0700

"Ethical individualism is the crowning feature of that edifice which Darwin and Haeckel have striven to build for natural science.

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Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom

Carl Flygt — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:42:53 -0600

Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom was written around 1893 as part of his project to reconcile an innate and developing clairvoyant capacity with the Kantian philosophy dominating German thou

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The Rights Life

Carl Flygt — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:31:58 -0600

The life of Rights is the Middle Sphere of the Threefold Social Organism. It's the section that regulates the tendencies that come from the other two spheres.

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The Principle of Tolerance

Carl Flygt — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:27:48 -0600

Without tolerance, a healthy diversity in conversation cannot be expected to develop. Diversity is needed for social strength and the overall effectiveness of any social organization.

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Plato

Carl Flygt — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:22:01 -0600

Plato (427-347 B.C.E.) is the ancient writer "to whom all of Western philosophy is merely a footnote" (Whitehead).

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The Principle of the Weakest Link

Carl Flygt — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:25:35 -0600

In a real Goethean conversation, where people are treating the occasion simultaneously as an artistic performance and as an exercise of the understanding, the field phenomenon that arises depe

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Wittgenstein

Carl Flygt — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:02:34 -0600

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is known for his contributions to philosophical logic and the interpretation of truth tables, and for the use theory of linguistic meaning.

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The Economic Life

Carl Flygt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:00:00 -0600

The economic life is made up of promises and actions. Contracts are promises; money is a promise.

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Commissives

Carl Flygt — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:03:29 -0600

Of the five types of speech act possible for a human being to make, the commissive is most fundamental to the social contract, and to the idea of conversation.

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Hume

Carl Flygt — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:14:43 -0600

David Hume (1711-1776) is regarded as the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, and the third in the triumvirate of the classical British empiricists which include Locke and Berkeley.

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The Principle of Self-Control

Carl Flygt — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:10:20 -0600

A priori it seems clear that without self-control exercised by the individuals participating in conversation, conversation is impossible. In general, conversations do not occur among the inmates of Bedlam, or other houses of the insane.