Obstacles to Wisdom

Participants: Billie Lagerwerff, John Tytus, Mike Grosso, Uriah J. Fields

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Limits to Knowledge

Participants: Derek Breen, John Tytus, Ken Thompson

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Suggested topics for next month are:
1. "Where does philosophy come from?"
2. "What are the paths to knowledge?"
3. "How much government is obscene?"
4. "What are the obstacles to wisdom?"
5. "What has happened to the sovereignty of reason in our democracy, and can it be fixed?"

How do we fool ourselves?

Participants: Billie Lagerwerff, David Rood, George Garrett, John Tytus, Mike Grosso

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Has Science Hit a Wall?

Participants: Billie Lagerwerff, John Tytus

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Power, Justice, and Morality

This is a special edition of Thinking Out Loud, which you might call Thinking Out Loud - One on One. Due to the threat of a winter storm, only one brave citizen philosopher showed up at the scheduled meeting time. I decided to postpone the scheduled topic, "How do we fool ourselves?", for next time when more could attend. While waiting to see if anyone else would show up this time, U.J. Fields and I just happened to start talking about power and justice. It sounded promising, so I turned on the microphone. Here is that conversation:

Participants: U.J. Fields

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Coming next month: "How do we fool ourselves?"

The Nature of Sacrifice

Participants: Billie Lagerwerff, Carole Abel, Jnanam MacIsaac, John Loy, John Tytus, Ken Thompson

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Coming next month: "How do we fool ourselves?"

Other suggested topics:
"Is the outer world just an extension of the inner world?"
"What are the limits of knowledge?"
"What is knowledge?"
"Can we reconcile science and mysticism?"

Suffering and Creativity

Participants: Billie Lagerwerff, Derek Breen, Jason Varsoke, John Tytus, Ken Thompson, Mike Grosso, Paul Beckert, U.J. Fields

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Coming next month: "What is the nature of sacrifice?"

Other suggested topics:
"What are the distinctions among the various forms of suffering?"
"What is the role of marriage and how is it changing?"
"What is the nature of myth?"
"What are the costs and benefits of social, cultural, and emotional deviance?"
"How has language been abused, coopted and commodified over time?"