Cultural attitudes: - Ten random ethical & philosophical statements.

[Cato]

That's true but I think the usage of the two terms are compatible.

True, but such a combining would not be true to classic stoicism. They were not vegetarians; the Cynics and the Epicureans (who also had something against beans) were, but not the Stoics.

[cactusflower]

Thanks for correcting the spelling - I suspected there was something wrong but I was rushing out of work at the time.

For me, the near failure of philosophy to produce accurate knowledge regarding the natural world (ie what we can now confirm or falsify) raises uncomfortable questions for philosophers. I'm not convinced logical statements can be strung together to produce 'truths'. Even the question 'What is truth?' can produce 20 different answers from 20 different philosophers. So I'm not sure a 'philosophical advnce that mirrors modern physics' is even possible.


Nietzsche - Beyond good and evil.

Marxist dialectics, so far as I have the hang of them, are materialist, so there is no sausage factory of truths coming out of thought, without reference to the natural world. Matter comes first, then thought which tries to understand it and practice that puts ideas into practice to change the material world, in a spiral kind of way.