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Bob Ross

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That’s a big problem, though; because you are arguing that the PSR applies in degrees. If you can’t give any example of it or the reasons why you beli...
January 02, 2025 at 16:20
I wasn't able to track the conversation between you two in the thread: can you provide a summary?
January 02, 2025 at 15:27
I just do it to be kind and considerate: for our discussion, it is duly noted that we do not need to do that. I will refrain (: You too! Common sense ...
January 01, 2025 at 23:09
This is good: you are making me think about this more. I would like to think it is Aristotelian; but let’s find out. I think I agree that Justice—like...
January 01, 2025 at 22:46
That’s fine, but I think it is still worth noting that the problem being addressed in the OP is due to the ambiguity in what it describes…remove that ...
December 31, 2024 at 23:50
Yes, and I agree. I don’t have a problem with this view, but I am surprised you don’t. This definition is also not found in the Webster dictionary, wh...
December 31, 2024 at 15:24
What you are. The fact and the explanation for why what factually happened happened are separate things. The proposition “You were born in 1985” is tr...
December 31, 2024 at 15:09
Well, I wasn’t commenting on which version, if any, of the PSR one should accept: I was noting that in the OP you referenced a plethora of facts which...
December 31, 2024 at 01:24
This OP seems littered with opaque concepts. Dare I say, I think you will find answers for yourself if you disambiguate your questions. If you want to...
December 30, 2024 at 22:08
I got those from After Virtue by MacIntyre: – (After Virtue, Ch. 17 “Justice as Virtue: Changing Conceptions”, p. 246) I find it plausible that justic...
December 30, 2024 at 01:38
Yes, in the most violent of displays of peace—viz., in the most radical and extreme methods of peaceful protest ever concocted. I was merely pointing ...
December 29, 2024 at 14:14
We will just have to agree to disagree then :wink: .
December 29, 2024 at 14:00
For our discussion, I am just focusing on one: the implausibility of the sex being an external representation of the disassociation of a mind. Don't t...
December 29, 2024 at 01:48
I am not saying vices are virtues; but the vast majority of the major historical progressions were so rich, rapid, and monumental because of the sheer...
December 29, 2024 at 01:41
I don’t see how this contradicts what I said: the bloodiest and most gruesome of human events require all those traits you mentioned within the in-gro...
December 29, 2024 at 01:30
Interesting: so it sounds like you are a bit of an Aristotelian too. How would you define Justice? Do you see any solution to the A and B conceptions ...
December 28, 2024 at 15:06
Here's what I am thinking. Justice is about, fundamentally, respecting other members of the community (or social structure in which one is a member, s...
December 28, 2024 at 14:58
This is an astute observation that most people don't seem to acknowledge anymore. Nietzsche pointed this out, correctly, that all good things in human...
December 28, 2024 at 14:28
Unfortunately, I don't see what part of my analysis is incorrect. Kastrup believes that a dissociated alter is akin to an alter in a person with a mul...
December 28, 2024 at 14:26
:up: I will think about it and get back to you.
December 25, 2024 at 01:20
No worries at all: I don't expect you to read the entire thread (: I read that comment you linked, but I am, unfortunately, not following. How am I co...
December 25, 2024 at 01:20
But how does that work? How is sex an external representation of a mind disassociating with itself?
December 25, 2024 at 01:14
Your response was good; and I need to think about it more and get back to you. There's two particularly challenging problems I haven't thought about m...
December 24, 2024 at 16:06
I am aware of Kastrup's view, but his solution seems utterly implausible to me. According to his logic, people conceiving a baby is somehow an instanc...
December 24, 2024 at 15:52
I would say epistemic idealism is any metaphysical theory which posits primacy to the mind insofar as how we understand reality; whereas ontological i...
December 22, 2024 at 14:39
I was going to ask you about your response to the decomposition problem, but, in re-reading the OP, it doesn't sound like your view is a form of ontol...
December 22, 2024 at 01:11
Correct; but war is the last resort. One of the central points of the OP was that it is a resort. I am merely elaborating that diplomacy and other tac...
December 19, 2024 at 14:33
That’s not true: there are many people on this forum that have changed my mind about things. In fact, I used to advocate for moral anti-realism on her...
December 17, 2024 at 23:08
Let’s parse this argument. You are saying: P1: If moral facts exist then societies could not turn to killing people indiscriminately. P2: Societies ha...
December 17, 2024 at 14:19
What is 'moral might'? I don't recognize any such conception.
December 17, 2024 at 14:01
Yes, as I noted in my post. I did not follow how anything you said was relevant to it.
December 17, 2024 at 14:00
What do you think an ‘moral absolutist’ is? It didn’t in Nazi Germany; and if it weren’t for the Allies winning, then most of the world would be just ...
December 16, 2024 at 22:56
I am sorry Mww, I still have no clue why you believe that the will is good :sad: It seems like you are taking the position that nothing is objectively...
December 16, 2024 at 22:13
The moral facts. I don't know what you are looking for here. I certainly am not going to try to enumerate all the moral facts to you. The point was th...
December 16, 2024 at 18:56
I am not just speaking about war, but also diplomacy. I agree. I think we have a duty to help humans qua Justice. Our rational capacities mark us out,...
December 16, 2024 at 18:52
The nation is only justified relative to the moral facts: not their own inter-subjective dispositions.
December 16, 2024 at 14:11
Because it enables us to enact what is actually good; and anyone who doesn’t want to enact what is good must be either evil, ignorant, or a lunatic. D...
December 16, 2024 at 14:05
You too, my friend! The key here is that you are not merely noting that there is moral disagreement: you are noting that there is no disagreement what...
December 15, 2024 at 19:32
I would say it is a conflation between ontology and epistemology but I realized this is just begging the question in our case; because you deny this d...
December 15, 2024 at 19:20
I see what you are saying, but if Aquinas is just noting that no man can punish another who is not in their jurisdiction (to do so) but that they can ...
December 15, 2024 at 15:52
But according to you we don’t agree that it is actually better: we just subjectively like it more, whereas the masters subjectively liked their societ...
December 14, 2024 at 16:58
I see. Let’s put it into a syllogism: P1: What determines what is good grounds what is good. P2: Agents determine what is good. C: Agents are the grou...
December 14, 2024 at 16:49
Nothing about this explained why the will is good, am I missing something? You went from the will can be good to saying it cannot be determined what m...
December 13, 2024 at 21:57
To whom? To the slaves? To the masters? According to you, it isn't actually wrong, e.g., to own slaves. All society is doing, is deciding that they do...
December 13, 2024 at 21:47
1. Then, you are a moral anti-realist; and no one should take your view seriously; because all you are saying is that what is right or wrong is stance...
December 13, 2024 at 14:03
According to your posts, Aquinas says: And: I am doing some interpretation work here, but here’s the two key points: 1. One cannot reprimand a person ...
December 13, 2024 at 13:56
Our conversation became so spectacular, that they couldn’t help themselves but join in (; I understand that you are claiming that being worthy of happ...
December 13, 2024 at 13:12
No I am not. Cultural relativism is a (family of) moral realist theory(ies) that posits, fundamentally, that objective goods are internal (i.e., relat...
December 11, 2024 at 18:48
This didn't answer my question though: under your view, how does one evaluate what is a good or bad will? And why is the will the only thing that is t...
December 11, 2024 at 13:24
Just look at the species. There are objectively better and worse ways for, e.g., a lion to be happy because we can observe how they are designed and r...
December 11, 2024 at 13:21