What makes a human right a human right? I had to think about this for a while. I am therefore grateful for this question. I think human rights are human attributes that preserve or make possible our humanity (REASON #1). As a result, there is only one, but...
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Why do forms of politics appear to confuse truth with lies or intentionally hide the truth? Reason is developmental. See the answer below the fold. As people mature, they encounter situations that they desire to go one way, but fate deems go another. This now likely unhappy...
Read MoreOriginal Quora question: Can someone refute Aquinas's arguments, especially his argument of necessity or contingency? - Brian Kenner If one accepts the linked definition of reason: here on LearningFramework or here on Quora, then … It is NOT possible to, as absolutely true, (#1) disprove St Thomas Aquinas’ arguments. However, it is...
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Why do several people say that Marx was an idiot or inept? I don’t think either Marx or Engels were idiots. They were irrational. Marx and Engels could not reason. Irrational people choose solutions for emotional reasons, not because the solution survives scientific method testing and thus...
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Quora question: How are we even sure that our definition of good and bad is actually correct? I am grateful for this question. Thanks. No. We are not. There is absolute truth, and we, by various means, are left to discover it. Ways of finding truth (and morality...
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How is epistemology applicable today? To philosophers? I don’t know. To me? It is not. Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues. Wikipedia Epistemology is required because philosophers had difficulty establishing the truth of things. To know, i.e., to have knowledge, means...
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Quora Question: If every claim in science is open for change, does that mean that none of them are true? Yes. Amazingly. Science is the search for absolute truth. No one can know it absolutely, though (i.e., proven). Even the faithful of religions do not know the...
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