This is a question about the role of education. I wonder how far is education away from institutionalization? Sometimes teachers think they are helping their students to gain the ability of being free, while in fact they are putting their students into prison by telling them what is the content of freedom. Hope this was not a vague question. And if I am very interested in this question, whose works you recommend to read?

Is happiness an absolute or a relative state?

What happens to a moment after it occurs?

Is it theoretically possible to disprove the existence of God? Could a future conceptual or scientific breakthrough ever really absolutely prove the non-existence of a higher power?

Can a group of people or a single person for that matter, be said to 'own' a particular set of behaviours? I'm thinking along the lines of sacred rituals of indigenous peoples, where parts of those rituals (specific actions as part of the ceremony, meant to be kept secret) are appropriated or copied exactly by others outside of the original group without permission.

Is there a moral imperative to strive for personal achievement? Said another way: If a genius allows hmself to be underemployed and lazy, is that laziness more of a severe wrong (or waste) than the laziness of an ordinary man?

I am contemplating having children, yet can think of no good reason to have them. That is, all reasons seem to be selfish reasons. It seems impossible to do something for a person that doesn't exist yet. Are there any good reasons to have children that aren't selfish?

Hello: Plato taught about a realm of ideas vs. a material realm, and the realm of ideas subsequently working as a basis for our ethics. Is this called "Gnosticism" or does Gnosticism build on Platonic thought? What is the platonian teaching called if not gnosticism? Also, do you have any references about links between buddhism and platonic thought? Thank you/ Tony

In the beginning of The Republic , Socrates demonstrates to Thrasymachus, I think, that his theory of justice, i.e., "do good to one's friends and evil to one's enemies", is false because it may be that one has evil friends and good enemies, or be mistaken about in fact who is our friend and who is our enemy. I wonder, though, about this: We are faced with three potential questions. One possible question is "who are our true friends and our true enemies?". Another possible question is "are our true friends good and our true enemies evil?". A third possible question is "what is justice, considered apart from irrelevancies like our friends?". It seems to me that we are much more likely to be right in our judgments about the first two questions than we are in our third. We might be wrong in all three, of course, but if asked to either 1) accurately identify one's friends and evaluate their worthiness or 2) create a theory of justice, I would suggest that the vast majority of people (perhaps why we...

Is it always the case that "two wrongs don't make a right"?