Niggardly.

Powerlessness to accomplish a thing and powerlessness to resist are two very different things. The Mary McCarthy quotation is explicit on this point. What can any person force you to do something if even pointing a gun at you and demanding obedience is only tempting you? The answer is, even if you'...

I've avoided reading the other comments in any detail. So, if somebody has already offered a solution to the problems I've encountered, I beg forgiveness. On the whole, I found the essay confusing, and I suspect this is because Arendt's argument is confused. She quotes Mary McCarthy who claims If so...

I have come to the conclusion that Turkey is the single weirdest country on this planet.

A few days ago, Booktalk had a large number of people online at the same time. Does anyone know why that was?

I was thinking that if it was possible, it might be a good idea if people could post threads to different sub-forums and/or threads. So say a discussion of intuitive morality could crop up in the Religion and Philosophy, The Lucifer Effect and Responsibility and Judgment at the same time. So if some...

I have the book, and I'm about half way through. I was kind of planning to begin discussing once I'd finished it. I'm actually surprised at how well this book goes with the Zimbardo selection. So on topic, I don't think that there's really a problem so much as the people who have the book seem a lit...

Yeah, I've wondered about this. Personally, I think that the strong science advocacy among prominent atheists stems from the same bias that leads researchers to overestimate the importance of the subject they study and the method they use to study it. The functional assumption made by those operatin...

Not enough participants and not enough time. There is a pretty large temporal gap between interactions so I don't think it'd work.

A nice idea though. I think you'll find a handful of examples out there on the net of this already. Though they aren't really experiments.

Nice job Chris! Come hell or high water, I intend to be there.