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I especially enjoy the arguement by Camus in The Rebel against capital punishment and killing for political reasons. It is so weak that he attempts to resolve it by having a rebel then commit suicide. I relate to the issue since I received official CO status after 10 mos in Viet-Nam. I was a medic but I carried a gun nearly all the time. I never had to use it. Plato's forms are easily stretched to have being, whatever that is...being. Decartes' "I think therefore I am " needs major qualification. The great Socrates probably deserved the hemlock...see "The Greeks" by Kitto. These guys create their own private language and we are supposed to somehow relate that to the real world and to ordinary language...the translations usually don't work. By translation I don't mean from foreign language to English...I mean from the individual philosopher's private language to our ordinary lived(though imperfect) language.
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