I don't define objectivity by what just anyone thinks, but by what the relevant people think. For example scientific objectivity depends on a consensu...
Good point. Yes it would. BUT there would be relevant people (the people who determine the particular kind of objectivity) and irrelevant people (the ...
Ok I will jump through your hoop. What would count for objectivity? My claim would be others in agreement. It all depends on this. A philosophical ter...
If morality was merely one's subjective preference then there would be nothing normative in it. What makes morality significant is the fact that it ha...
Sure no problem. By derivative I mean that preference is not original, or at least not more original than morality. In other words, morality is someth...
But I never said it wasn't a preference! All I said was that the preference was derivative rather than grounding! Do you understand the word 'derivati...
I understand what you're getting at. But I think you go too far when you reduce morality to "subjective preferences". True, it is my personal preferen...
In The Gay Science Nietzsche criticises his former pessimistic idols; he calls Schopenhauer's and Wagner's pessimism, a romantic pessimism. Romantic p...
In Marx's view machines don't create new value like human labour power. Machines (that were all originally created through human labour power, and thu...
I'm saying this from a Marxist perspective. If everything you said is true then it follows that the difference between Marxism and mainstream economic...
It's probably easiest to explain through a caricature. Think of it like Nietzsche's metaphysics is pessimist, for example he takes on board a lot of t...
I think this, and the rest of what you said, says more about how you find yourself to be attuned to the world or to "life in itself" than it does abou...
Would you consider yourself a Marxist economist? Are you saying that economists disagree with Marx on an ideological ground? I.e. they don't want to s...
did Adam Smith say that value was determined by Labour? I thoughttween that was a specifically Marxist idea... I see a lot of people using the term va...
Maybe there is conceptual belief and doubt of the Cartesian kind. And maybe there is an existential belief and or doubt that is more basic than its co...
Life is beyond good and evil. Also giving someone a burden creates in them a sense of purpose. How is this intrinsically bad? There are no intrinsic v...
The opposite of mattering is not suicide, it's not mattering. Actually that is not quite correct. Heidegger says (using different terms) that even not...
I don't think work has anything much to do with maintenance, only at a superficial level. Rather than maintenance it's more like the will to power. Pe...
This statement is ambiguous. We don't experience concepts if that is what you mean? We articulate our understanding of experience using concepts. Do y...
I think that if we were to move through it then context would have to be something external to us. What I mean by saying we are in it is not 'in' in a...
Good point. Perhaps one meaning of the present is just experience as you say. This seems like an ontological present which would, as ontology, involve...
Im not sure... it seems that the presents i mentioned are a few of the different ways that this division between the past and future is intelligible. ...
Very interesting... You want to distinguish between context and present. I would probably disagree but I would struggle to argue for it... At the root...
Buddhists have a doctrine of non-self. The idea being that there is no experience of a permanent unchanging thing that we could call an essence or sel...
I don't think I've read much McDowell but I have read Foot and Hursthouse.. I would say Heidegger would be very useful in this context. He wasn't inte...
The workers create the value. They are not paid all that they create. Thus exploitation is necessary. Exploitation is not a moral term, but an economi...
How else do capitalists make a profit? Where does value come from if not the labour power used to make commodities? The computer you are reading this ...
Labour is the source of value. In capitalism labour is exploited so the capitalist can make a surplus. In one sense the self-employed programmer is pr...
So Aristotle examines morality, the natural world, rational deliberation, and probably many other things, in terms of a teleology or an end at which t...
That the knife didn't make itself is so irrelevant. Neither did the human.That we can only understand each on the basis of their purpose is the analog...
So it's an argument from analogy. The analogy is that a piece of equipment is only intelligible on the basis of its purpose or 'in-order-to'; similarl...
A knife's purpose is to cut. To cut knifes ought to be sharp. That knifes ought to be sharp is part of the is. If you don't include the purpose then t...
No of course I don't. That statement doesn't suggest anything about my character. I was only trying to show that morality changes, which is something ...
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