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-I agree with that statement...this is why we are discussing it. -"Why make the choice to privilege wellbeing? Let's look again at your examples. kill...
April 11, 2022 at 07:08
because we are talking about a "job" called reason and wisdom.?
April 11, 2022 at 06:43
A moral system do not offer predictions. It offers evaluations based on contemporary knowledge on the implications specific acts have on well being. -...
April 11, 2022 at 06:43
so an interesting philosophical question would be why they don't do it?
April 11, 2022 at 06:09
those qualities do not demand special skills...anyone can do it.
April 11, 2022 at 06:01
-Those are steps of the Philosophical method, and all major branches of Philosophy are included! Aristotle presupposed Logic as a tool necessary to do...
April 11, 2022 at 05:27
take any act that you could accept as moral. From helping small kids cross the street to killing a terrorist before blowing up a school. You will find...
April 11, 2022 at 05:20
-so this statement raises on important question....what went wrong with you?lol It might be. I can recall people struggling with such concepts. The im...
April 11, 2022 at 05:04
No tools thus mathetmatics aren't metaphysical. Metaphysical views on ideas produced by mathematics (like abstract mathematical objects) ....are metap...
April 11, 2022 at 04:37
So are you willing to support your objections with objective facts?
April 11, 2022 at 04:21
You do not look like you are here to question assumptions. You just declare them assumptions when they are descriptions. All I ask is for you is to ch...
April 11, 2022 at 04:14
questioned??? with hot air? This is not philosophy. This is pseudo philosophy. I am the one putting my framework to the test...but you just tap dance ...
April 11, 2022 at 04:12
any acknowledgments or objections? Feedback including objective evidence is essential in a discussion
April 11, 2022 at 04:08
you didn't bother to answer any of my questions when you were the one who objected to my claims....and now you demand an answer to an irrelevant quest...
April 11, 2022 at 04:06
You are posting an abstract that is irrelevant to a specific method I am describing. Whether we ought to follow the outcome of the system in question ...
April 11, 2022 at 04:00
not better....more rational and I accept the rules of the game.
April 11, 2022 at 03:49
NO sir! The difference is that Newton's idea is still established KNOWLEDGE with technical applications while in philosophy you will find pseudo philo...
April 11, 2022 at 03:48
the difference is that I have acknowledged the beating I suffered by that metal sign and I gave up my comforting beliefs.
April 11, 2022 at 03:39
This is a really cheap excuse sir. The goal of ethics is to define these oughts! So you confuse subjective unfounded declarations with objective moral...
April 11, 2022 at 03:34
What I mean , do you see a "god" in my system?..And don't be confused, Moral pronouncements are NOT the same with moral evaluations based on Objective...
April 11, 2022 at 03:32
Again....chronicling is NOT philosophy. That is one of the ten problems in modern Philosophy identified by Bunge in his book "Philosophy in crisis". N...
April 11, 2022 at 03:26
This makes me really happy to hear. Most individuals in here stick to their guns even when facts hit them in the face with a big metal sign with bold ...
April 11, 2022 at 03:21
Sure....but looking the holes will never allow ''you" to see what we know. His actual statement was that: ...when he can easily visit a neuroscience d...
April 11, 2022 at 03:18
maybe you are right and I can see cases where chronicling is not only helpful but also insightful. But in this case we are all posting opinions on a t...
April 11, 2022 at 03:07
And not only that.....the available epistemology during their time was not enough to assist them in their work.
April 11, 2022 at 03:03
You understand why up-voting his claim is an objectively wrong thing to do ...right?
April 11, 2022 at 03:01
Did you check the data base I sent you? You will keep denying facts? Let me provide the definition of Pseudo philosophy. "What is pseudo-philosophy? P...
April 11, 2022 at 02:59
-Interacting with you makes me tired and sad.
April 11, 2022 at 02:50
Chronicling is NOT Philosophy. Kant or any other great philosopher of the past didn't have access to the epistemology available to us today....so its ...
April 11, 2022 at 02:44
No it isn't a logical error...ITS just irrelevant to the subject in question. The mistake is to assume jumps.....when I describe the tools I use and y...
April 11, 2022 at 02:38
-No I don't really have to assume anything. I only observe the objective facts provide by our epistemology and I use the Null Hypothesis to identify t...
April 11, 2022 at 02:34
Forget that part...we are NOT THERE YET! Whether we MUST follow an objective moral judgments is irrelevant. Pls Focus on my question and try to weight...
April 11, 2022 at 02:09
April 11, 2022 at 01:55
Life is the emergence of specific biological process. Meaning is a quality that emerges in specific biological functions (brain functions). Organisms ...
April 11, 2022 at 01:53
-"A morality that does not tell us what to do is not a morality." -lol what are you talking about???? Morality is an abstract concept...it tell us not...
April 11, 2022 at 01:43
April 11, 2022 at 01:18
-I never told you what you ought to do. I am pointing out a common characteristic in all moral evaluations. Acts that are accepted as moral appear to ...
April 11, 2022 at 01:16
Such a perspective is Unnecessary and Insufficient plus we have zero epistemic foundations to make that assumption rendering it a pseudo philosophical...
April 11, 2022 at 00:42
I am not sure you understand the premises made by Secular Morality. You view morality as being about " what one ought to do". So you assume that my po...
April 11, 2022 at 00:29
First of all you seem to ignore the definition of scientism. I am the first to reject the basic premises of Scientistm (1.Science is the only source o...
April 10, 2022 at 23:51
You wont find an "ought" in my statements. I never claims what we "ought to do". I only pointed out that what we understand as a morality refers to th...
April 10, 2022 at 23:43
btw we don't "ought" to behave in a specific way!(promote our well being). We descent from individuals who for thousands of years survived through org...
April 10, 2022 at 22:55
April 10, 2022 at 22:43
-Ok I c you get which process enables the need of moral evaluations. So what exactly is you objection? Maybe I misunderstood your argument.
April 10, 2022 at 22:39
Its a Pragmatic Necessity, no a fallacy. There is a huge difference there. -"Why ought we promote the wellbeing of society?" - Societies that do well ...
April 10, 2022 at 22:36
April 10, 2022 at 21:42
- I am not here to promote my moral framework as flawless or absolutely true. I do appreciate your reasonable doubts and questions and I am far from s...
April 10, 2022 at 20:01
since both aspects are not your a game...how would you know? lol
April 10, 2022 at 17:21
Yes, its easy for an ignorant individual to believe this statement.....
April 10, 2022 at 14:30
Well Pleasure doesn't equate to Happiness and Happiness is an essential metric for our well being. The Denial of a Pleasurable moment or activity is n...
April 10, 2022 at 14:10