Trump is not a supporter of sex offenses. He definitely engages in immoral sex with prostitutes, but that’s not a sex offense—unless you are suggestin...
If there is no ‘objective’ morality, then your ethical theory isn’t really useful. It doesn’t matter if you believe that they are doing something wron...
I am open-minded: give me some examples of countries which are officially Islamic that have freedom of religion. I can't think of a single one that ac...
I don't really disagree with your post here: I think we have to be careful when using violence to impose values on other people...but I am saying it i...
But do they surpass Western culture in the areas that really matter? I don't think so. A representative republic, with liberties and freedoms, where e...
I am not following the critique here: a thing-in-itself represents something real—it represent “that”. It doesn’t represent nothing. Ok, I was misunde...
Actually, Europeans usually have pretty good countries: I don’t know why you roped them into it. All my examples have been in the middle east and in A...
The in-group is more important than the out-group. Each group has to protect its own viability first and foremost. E.g., if I can only save my mother ...
I don't think it frequently works historically. I am not denying that most of the historical examples are catastrophic failures; but the OP is pointin...
Ehhh, then I submit to you that you should be amoral: don’t meddle into matters of right or wrong behavior—because you don’t think there is such a thi...
It sounds like you don’t believe in personifying the State; and I would just briefly note that in a representative republic you have to—the government...
There’s nothing about a representative republic that prevents this; nor why would it? What do you mean by “aggressive”—that’s a very vague term here. ...
Historically, as far as I can tell, it usually was either internally induced or an external government exerted brutality on them to get them in line—t...
The nationalism I was advocating for can sometimes be at the detriment of the interests of other nations but it is NOT necessarily so: countries behav...
You are absolutely right to note, in practicality, the consequences matter. Of course you can. That’s how ethics is done. What you are arguing for is ...
The US did not do anything remotely similar to what the Taliban is doing: am shocked you are trying to make that comparison. Perhaps I am misunderstan...
The reason I used those terms, is because it is true; and your terms do not accurately portray the point. For example, india doesn’t have just a probl...
I dream of a state of universal human flourishing; where each person, not just human, has equal, fundamental rights and liberties......or do you mean ...
Why is is inflammatory to say it with the proper words? This is yet another example of the effects of hyper-tolerance: we no longer can admit to ourse...
The UN is a joke: they don’t intervene in genocides because they lack the power to. The very countries which are doing genocide are members of the UN,...
Sort of. Kant was offering a solution, through the critique, between the rationalists (e.g., Wolf) and the empiricists (e.g., Hume): he sublated their...
That’s true, but despite the point. Really? If you could invade and conquer North Korea with no casualties nor with starting any other wars (with othe...
Correct, but that’s despite the point. I am saying that, in principle, you would have to reject the west invading the Nazis, or North Korea, or China,...
That’s your problem: you aren’t a moral realist. You didn’t answer the question; and provided, instead, a red herring. I will ask again but with more ...
I would like to hear your nuanced defense of the accusations I made to each of those three countries. I am open-minded; but I cannot envision such a d...
My OP is about Western values; not specifically the US. However, the US could wipe Mexico and Canada off the map—that’s not even a fair fight. You are...
This is a fair point; but don’t you think we have a duty to try? If I take your argument seriously, then we should stop the Nazis if they were to stay...
This must be a joke. China has concentration camps; harvests the organs of North Korean defectors for the black market; uses North Korean defector wom...
That’s literally the whole project of the CPR: you just denied the whole book here (: . Ok, now you are affirming the CPR (: . I wasn’t claiming that....
Not at all. I am evaluating the justifiability of imperialism via a moral realist theory: I am not saying that every country should just take each oth...
So, if the Nazis would have stayed in Germany, then you think no one would be warranted in stopping them? I don’t think there’s a particularly good tr...
I can foresee, as a possibility, a nation which comes up with a better economic system than capitalism; and if that happens then, yes, they should imp...
That's partially fair; but I would note that imposing important and vital political systems is good. E.g., if you are against imperialism completely, ...
There’s essentially three theses: 1. The western supremacy thesis: western values are objectively better than many, if not all, non-western values whi...
Enforcing, similarly to how we do in the West, the idea of liberties, rights, and equal representation. As a side note, most of the time; the people w...
It doesn’t matter: I’ve read many different versions; and there is a consensus that Kant did use the term ‘noumena’ at least in a double-sense in some...
It is unpopular because by "animal" a philosopher tends to mean much more than what a scientist means by it. You are uncontroversially an animal in th...
It has all the editions in it, as far as I understand, and it is translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn. I am not denying that. As I said, no one really know...
No they are not at all. The word “noumena” is used in a double-sense in the CPR, and Kant is very explicit about that. E.g.,: –– (CPR, p. 109) That’s ...
But, in terms of what we actually are, as opposed to what we appear to ourselves, we cannot say any of this is true…right? How can transcendental anal...
By senses, I just mean your faculties (or faculty) of sensibility; which is the power you have to be excited by things-in-themselves. Phenomenon, in t...
Very true. Very true. The only difference is that, I would say, cognitive science can't really get at the fundamental questions that Kant was trying t...
Two things needing to be mentioned here: 1. This “empirical” vs. “non-empirical” distinction you are making is NOT the same as my distinction between ...
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