One can’t know whether or not there is something between them and the rock. The only way to know that would be to take a view from nowhere, which is i...
Alright then. But I think it's the concepts being unclear which makes them more universal than other concepts and as such more useful for understandin...
Actually, I think I chose the wrong words to express the issue. The word "internal" implies that there is some "external", and vice versa. So perhaps ...
:up: I agree that those concepts are quite unclear, but I do not understand what do you mean by them being rough, local and limited. Also, what does i...
I’m not quite sure of what to think of the last sentence. The way I see it, the fact that science, which assumes materialism, has itself proved that t...
That's a question to discuss for another time I believe. So, If I understand well, idealism is the view that the nature of reality as we know it is al...
I can’t help but resist the temptation to play the skeptic’s game and ask: How can we know that certain fossils come from dinosaurs? How can we know t...
Indeed, it doesn’t actually refute materialism. It only makes idealism more intuitive by making the existence of a mind the only 100% sure fact. If th...
And virtue may best be defined as excellence of character. So giving a list of virtues implies giving a list of characteristics our character must hav...
Looking back on the thread, I realize that the two questions of the OP are actually linked to each other in such a way that answering one leads to ans...
I agree. Either there is some higher power setting moral standards, or we are all left to live by our own standards in a world full of other people li...
You say he is such a great thinker, yet you say he is still centuries ahead of us. How could you evaluate his thinking and find out he is great if you...
As others have already said, they don’t differ much from what we could call the old atheists. What’s different about them is that they actively attemp...
Adults have developed brains, so it wouldn't make them insensitive to actual sex acts to minors. However teens with brains that are still developing i...
Then if someone makes some material sacrifice, it is almost always the case that they do so only because doing so brings them more comfort and/or happ...
It’s also possible that my friend does value me, but does not value me more than having a roof over their head. Values are not either/or, they come in...
What if one considers one’s rent as important, but at the same time also considers their friends’ wellbeing as more important? It is still a sacrifice...
What about when we perceive some action as a general good for another person while we wouldn’t see it that way for ourselves? For example, a person wh...
If I understand well, your claim is that a benefit to a collective of individuals also constitutes a benefit to the members of the collective ? Also, ...
I guess my objections to your premises have been properly addressed with this definition then. A skeptic could answer by saying that though morality i...
Let us assume that consciousness is not private. It is very much possible for one person A to observe the consciousness of person B without having the...
Humans have other means of survival, such as cooperation. But I do not know whether you are implying that logic, rationality and conceptual activity a...
It seems to me that we must first distinguish between the two ways in which we determine the so-called default state of an object. The first one is th...
when examining yourself and your goals you realize that wealth and power are not as good as you thought, they are merely tools that can be used for an...
A few people owning most of the things is not necessarily a problem. It can be a good thing if those people use their resources for improving the welf...
it’s not empathy for our moral worth, it’s moral worth from empathy. Basically, as you understand that you are more alike than different from other pe...
Altruism is when you act with the interests of everyone in mind. Everyone votes for some decision or group because they believe that they will benefit...
It seems to me it is possible. But the meaning of 'equal' changes. If you say that we are all equal because we all must conform to God's will, then we...
When we say that humans are equal, it seems that it means that humans deserve equal moral consideration. So do human beings deserve equal moral consid...
It seems to me the concept behind the word is quite useful as it corresponds to something that actually exists (the subjective properties of an experi...
(Re)posting this here because I don't know how exactly how merging a discussion works I propose that we should first make a distinction between perfec...
No it cannot be considered incitement. I agree with the claim that incitement can become our purpose, but not with the claim that it always is our pur...
Hunger incites you to eat, but you don't necessarily eat afterwards. That's why intermittent fasting exists. It does help us make our decisions, but w...
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