Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-05-15]: Gadhafi said in a radio broadcast that no matter how much effort NATO puts into killing him, it won't do so because “even if they kill his body, his soul will live in the hearts of millions ”. Can that actually happen? Back in the old days people accepted a simple fact: that life does not end with natural death. Now we have “learned” that we are simple “bags of bones and blood”. Progress? Or regression? More often however, the first opinion one has for a subject is the most adogmatic, clear and “true” than any other he will “discover” afterwards…(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
