Altieri is a graduate student focusing on Augustinian philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He received his bachelor of philosophy degree in 1998 and expects to earn his licentiate of philosophy degree soon. His Ph.D. candidacy was requested in January. Rezendes lives in Boston and is a lawyer and amateur philosopher who received his bachelor of arts in philosophy in 1978. That experience is probably typical for anyone who is sincere.
Many people go to philosophy sites just to engage in verbal guerrilla warfare.
That just misses the point. The best citizens in a democratic society are the critical thinkers, whose votes actually represent reasoned choice. Altieri said Plato distrusted the written word. Altieri said he thinks emerging technology such as the Internet forces people to evaluate what a dialectic is and how it develops. It is this, the severity with which people approach our site, that separates it from the other media of discourse.