:up: :100: Here, with CRT, we have a sociological discussion. The role of the philosopher in this is not necessarily to evaluate the legal or sociolog...
Yes, I absolutely agree. I did not mean to suggest that these aspects of the mind produce morality, or that ethics depends thereupon. I only I donate ...
Religion, though, serves other purposes than provision of a moral code...communal purposes, ritual purposes, ontological purposes... On that we can ag...
:up: The fact that we are indeed able to concieve of wrong and right provides all the justification for moral behavior necessary. A true justification...
No. That is evolutionary behavior, naturally selected for behavior, which is probably reinforced by learning/imitation, not behavior based upon reason...
Murdering raping and pillaging are rather hyperbolic examples of it, but yes, our core nature directs us to: (a) survive, (b) attain a position of soc...
Do I dislike it when people purposely step on bugs? My answer is "that depends on the bug". My opinion regarding this is based upon a principle: that ...
Gibbon was a Roman Catholic for exactly a year and a half, after which a threatened disinheritance caused his immediate recapitulation back into Angli...
One Capitol Police officer was killed, and apparently four other people. The officer died the following day after, from injuries sustained while being...
Marxism was good as an indicator of injustice. In some parts of the world, it was needed, just as trade unions were needed in the early industrialized...
Trump was ineffective because he is such an asshole, in terms of personality, which alienated many, and because lacks the intelligence to employ polit...
Believe me, the battle, which is being called here in the States "the culture war", is raging, albeit at a low level of intensity. This country has ne...
Oh, we'll still have private business, alright...in order that the state may take all the profits as tax revenues available for "redistribution". Reme...
Actually, they are not marxists, but functionally the same as pertains to the inevitable results of their exertions: the state as intermediary of all ...
I had though that you premised the statement that "you are not your body" upon the "you" representing the subjective self, but apparently I was wrong....
Gibbon's work is a hallmark, required reading for the classicist, but one must be mindful of Gibbon's anti-religion bias, which has bled into the D&F....
Yes...objective evidence...nice catch! I think that this reflects the distinction that I draw between the objective homo sapiens which I am, and the s...
Scientific evidence. What I meant by including that clause in my post, is that we have no evidence for any part of the human being other than the body...
Say, Ennui, I just realized that Schwartz and I are "kindred spirits" of a type. I will be going with a friend later this morning to his church. I don...
The brain is part of, a component of, the body, just like a nose or any other body part. Based upon all the evidence that we have, the objective human...
Hmmm... I would say that the brain is part of the "real me", of my objective self, but something that is had by my subjective self, the subjective "I"...
Yes, but the subjectively reckoned "you", the "I" from your own perspective, is much more than just your body. It is the "I" which results from the co...
You are dealing with one of two basic definitions of the self, specifically the subjectively reckoned "I". The other self is the self of objective rea...
well, I rather think my consciousness is shaped by my being American, as well as by other things, more than it is by my ancestry, but yes, I do have S...
Haha, perhaps you are right...that would appear to be true! Thanks for the thought check! Even so, the physical mechanisms causing the thoughts and em...
All reason and emotion are the product of the intellectual and affective dimensions of my mind, respectively, and so all the product of bioelectrical ...
I admit to being highly influenced by logical positivism, but even if I weren't, I think that I would have tremendous difficulty with the panpsychic s...
In thinking about this thread this morning, I came to realize that the title thereof does not actually reflect the main question and thrust of the thr...
I am not convinced that you fully understand my meaning. Please indulge me while I explicate my assertion that no, consciousness indeed cannot survive...
he is absolutely the master of Latin prose. When I call his prose "labyrinthine", I mean that it is complicated, and one must be fully conversant in L...
I don't mean to imply that this phenomenon is a dream as we have in sleep, but rather a dreamlike experience or another phenomenon akin to a dream...i...
Thank you, Ciceronianus. I will revisit Seneca in English, and will look for copies of M. Aurelius and the others. Haha, I never got far enough along ...
This would seem to simplify the matter exponentially...sorry for reading into your thesis. If there is no incorporeal part in play, then it must be th...
Agreed, but I still maintain that the English wordstock fails us here. In order to have a precise philosophical discussion about this, it would seem t...
That depends on how one defines "death". True death is not the cessation of cardiac function, and the flat line on the EKG monitor; such hearts are re...
Simply the idea that I might pop in and out of existence so readily, for one thing. More significantly, that the objective reality of my existence sho...
I am not a person who dreams often or vividly (curiously, to myself). I most often remember nothing from whatever mental activity has occurred during ...
Then please, Ambrosia, desist with the emotionally charged language... I have seen dead people; indeed, I have killed people (combat veteran) in a hor...
no, I know nothing about "zero consciousness" as an English psychological, philosophical or scientific lemma. The same applies to "non-consciousness"....
I do not recall speaking of "zero consciousness", but rather remember "unconsciousness" and "semi-consciousness", both of which I have experienced oft...
Functionally, I cannot discern the difference between this and "soul", "spirit", "ghost", etc. (BTW, yom tov) I know only what I have experienced in t...
They do have something to lose, something very precious to them...their (apparent) delusions about living for ever and ever, and thus having to confro...
allow me to enunciate that which was suggested by my prior post, my belief about what is happening during a NDE. I believe that it is quite analogous ...
@"Sam26", please correct me if I misstate or oversimplify your argument. I believe you to suggest that if a person who had a NDE seemed to experience ...
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