So I think the issue of solispsism arises when mistake the way we exist, as some sort of Cartesian ego uncertain of the external world. When in realit...
A mental construct of what? Don't we then need to say we behold a 'mental construct' of a chair, of a chair 'out there'. But what does a 'chair out th...
My explanation is simply that people can universalize their moral standards of behavior all they like. But there's nothing at all irrational in me per...
Why? You are taking 'universal standards for moral behaviour' as an axiom (as in, what's wrong for you is wrong for me), whereas I am not. Why is the ...
At the risk of being condescending, I am going to say that I think it's probable that most people drastically overvalue the degree to which they actua...
This 'rule' always strikes me as nothing more than an intuition pump, that only people with conventional ethical standards would already be inclined t...
I feel like your philosophy doesn't go far enough. Death is not bad for the one who dies. Because it ceases the thing (you) that it would be bad for. ...
How does future humans who may or may not come into existence and have to work affect you? It seems like your motivation to make this argument is not ...
I think part of what causes this splitting of the world into object (that may or may not exist), and ones private perception of an object is this part...
So if I am on LSD, and my friend isn't, and we both look at a tree over there, is it the same tree we are looking at, even though our visual perceptio...
Wait what? So the world around us is the result of a perceptual process, the process itself being part of world around us (our bodies, brains, etc - k...
I recently made a thread along these lines: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2241/is-the-world-around-me-really-public#Item_4 Anyway, we defi...
Instrumentality vs. Suicide I mean, suicide is always an option right. Over a million people do it every year. That's between 2500 and 3000 people jus...
But you only ask these types of questions because you are not enjoying yourself. "What is the point?" "What is the end?" These questions only arise be...
This strikes me as totally anhedonic. In my experience people only turn to hope when they suffer. Hope arises from suffering, a sense of 'there's a re...
My own judgment is the source of moral fact. If your moral opinions do not align with mine then you are wrong. If I judge an action to be wrong then i...
But that's not what people mean when they talk about scientific objectivity, including within this thread. When people talk about the Big Bang, they t...
What does it even mean to talk about the world and the way it existed before human experience, language, and concepts? This scientific view of the wor...
I share this opinion up to a certain point. But fantasy is also something that one does, and is therefore up to be judged. I can't, for example, not j...
In the morning when I awake, I come to already understanding myself as a human, with it's own personal history/narrative, itself a small part of a wid...
So is this just a development over time in the way we speak? Or rather, is this language over time better corresponding itself to a world? Is language...
You already are. Your 'preferences' also include your 'moral vision' for the world. Moral imposition is not just authority imposing itself upon you - ...
If I am understanding correctly, the closer something is examined, the more global the level is? Quarks are the local level for the physicists gaze an...
Not sure there's a 'mind-independent' mood or view of reality that these personal values would correspond with. A happy person sees life as generally ...
I think there is a difference here, and a case can be made for 'special pleading'. We experience the world around us as a public space, in principle a...
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