This seems to put the OP in a box that isn’t needed though: why start with personal and social goods? Why not start with what it would mean for someth...
No, they absolutely do not. All ethicists talk fundamentally in terms of what is good, bad, immoral, moral, etc. What you seemed to do here, is migrat...
If by "veiled theology" you mean that a person might ad hoc rationalize their belief in (traditional) theism with libertarianism (in order to provide ...
Good luck, my friend! Ethics is an interesting topic indeed. If I could do it over again, then this is what I would advise my younger self (in this or...
I don't think it is just veiled theology: if there is no free will, then there is no moral responsibility at all. You can't blame people for murdering...
P2 is the most controversial premise. I don't see why free will is incompatible with causal determinism. As a compatibilist, I believe in a form of so...
But you were denying this before. So to clarify: you do, in fact, believe that the brain is the ontological grounding for reason? I agree that we do n...
I appreciate your response! Philosophy of mind is an intriguing topic indeed. The problem I am facing is that I think you are absolutely right to poin...
The connection between goodness and rightness is as follows: if X is good, then one ought to behave in such a manner so that X is the case. The proble...
I am saying, viz., that there are laws which exist that constrain and regulate the ontological groundings of those transcendental principles, judgment...
I can only give a priori representations of them—in the sense that we cannot understand reality other than by using our own modes of cognizing it—but ...
I didn’t follow this: that still sounds like they are the exact same thing… They are two sides of the same coin. This makes it sound like neuroscience...
Not quite. What you described is not the nature of a law but, rather, how we pragmatically determine what we think is a law. In the sense that it pert...
The OP is not arguing that reality has to be completely ordered; so that is a mute point. Further, like the OP mentioned, without any laws then it is ...
What’s the difference between the two in your view? The definition was not circular—e.g., the property of goodness is the property of being good. If y...
I didn’t follow this: what do you mean? I was thinking of natural laws which exist in reality as it were in-itself: what they would exactly be and why...
The OP is about a law which pertains to reality as it were in-itself—i.e., a transcendent law. A transcendental law would be a strict rule of conformi...
By “transcendent”, I mean that which completely transcends consciousness; whereas “transcendental”, I mean that which transcends but pertains solely t...
Admittedly, “transcendent reality” is a double positive; but a transcendent law is a law—viz., a rule of conformance with strict necessity—that is in ...
The justification for a law is not to be conflated with the law itself. A transcendent law, as opposed to a transcendental law, is just making a Kanti...
Exactly. Ah, just that the former is more generic, and encompasses fabrications (like hallucinations). Transcendent laws condition reality (viz., the ...
I don't see how this resolves anything: whatever 'thing', more loosely put, is being cognized is cognized as an idea; but Schopenhauer thinks that the...
If there is something that is metaphysically necessary, then not everything is contingent; which negates your original point, no? Are you just contend...
Yeah, S has a wildly different metaphysics to K even though he builds off of K. For S, causality is the only feature of our faculty of understanding—n...
I don’t think the universe is necessarily contingent, if by ‘nature’ that is what you are referring to, and it doesn’t help to cite a disanalogous exa...
If reality is completely random, then we would not expect our experience, even if it is fabricated into a coherent series, to be useful for survival; ...
It is also worth mentioning that it is entirely possible for a normal human to experience only in time given a drug, as it is apodictically true that ...
I am not meaning to imply that you agree with what I am saying: I am giving the logical consequences of your position, which you seem to be failing to...
I think something worth mentioning, is that incest is not per se immoral because of the incredible odds of causing severe harm to a potential, conceiv...
I think America underestimated the tactical advantages of their enemy fighting on home turf, with all-or-nothing mentality, and with gorilla-terror ta...
Well, I am just not following what exactly about an under-developed, human brain would allow it to cognize with different forms of sensibility: I get ...
If by “how”, you mean ontologically how it would work; then that is an irrelevant question. If by “how”, you mean why it is a necessary precondition f...
I think moral and legal standing are different: the latter is a practical attempt at justice for the community, whereas the former can surpass that sp...
We are not justified in going to nuclear war with North Korea, assuming both sides have working nukes, to save the people there. The nation firstly ha...
Justice—no? What do you mean? Yes. To punish the perpetrator and avenge the victim(s). Yes. Yes. Do you not believe that you have any duty to be just ...
True. What I would be saying, analogously, is that we have taken the "you-do-you while I-do-me" principle too far: if your friend decides to go out an...
Actual mattering is objective; hypothetically mattering is subjective. What you are noting is that something can "actual matter" to a person subjectiv...
Kant does not argue for space and time being a prior as a matter of being supernatural—quite the contrary. The fact that they move at all towards or a...
But that is besides the point: the babies conscious experience is still in space and time. They just don't understand that yet in thought. Thinking an...
Yes, but the thing is @"AmadeusD" is arguing that the baby that tries to put a square object in a round hold is not experiencing that square object an...
T Clark, all of the politicians that have been voted into the presidency have done wrong things. Biden has a history of racist remarks and policies (a...
Just as much as I can extrapolate from the circumstances which they brought up the charges, and what they benefited from it (if anything). What you do...
:up: If @"AmadeusD" believes that a baby does not experience in space and time, then they are positing that there is a part of human development which...
Yes, when you outlaw weapons (in general), you just make it harder for the good people to protect themselves. If I were in Great Britain, where they s...
It seems like you don't really want to have a productive dialogue; so I am going to respectfully remove my hat from the pile. If you ever want to have...
I don’t know what the difference is; and, full disclosure, I am not familiar with Scandinavia but I will do my best to elaborate. I am thinking of thi...
Criminals and to overthrow a tyrannical government. Absolutely. It takes a lot less training to use a gun for self-defense than melee fighting (like b...
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