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Hmm. I dunno. It seems to me that love isn't ineffable. Because it's not strictly propositional there is more to love than words, but we can sensibly ...

I'm not sure what you mean by "phenomenological nonsensical sense" -- care to expound? I don't know if it's unique. I think we know what we're talking...

But is that love? I'd concur with @"TimeLine" in saying that a transactional relationship, at least on the face of it, doesn't seem like love. Not eve...

What's the difference, then, between a lover and a business partner?

No worries. I'm not sure how to respond to your quote of Bourdieu. But I'm more than happy to hear your emerging view. What do you believe social prac...

I admit -- I don't know all of what you're getting at. But I like that music video and want to talk about it. There was also a good live performance o...

I picked up AB Dickerson's Kant on Representation and Objectivity -- it's an argument that Kant is a particular kind of representationalist that is un...

For me I think the television just serves as a strange setting to make the distinction between reality and imagination yet even more difficult to disc...

Your whole position seems to me to just be by fiat, in that case. Justice is objective, in your view, because it is not dependent on the subject. But ...

I feel like this thread must have split off from another conversation, but I like the question so I thought I'd have a go at it. I'm split a bit on wh...

I feel that I have but I'll try it again. I'll think upon the action at hand. I'll apply this or that moral calculus as an exercise. Then I'll make a ...

I don't wish to say that everything devolves into persuasion. I don't even wish to say this thread devolved, even. At most I was giving @"chatterbears...

I don't think that the entire vegan position boils down to missionary work. I don't think missionary work is even a bad thing -- especially in light o...

Every missionary has their bible and their conversion story. But without a passion for a value the reason and logic won't do the work that the mission...

:D Vegan apologetics spoken like a true believer. It reminds me of missionary work -- if the person you wish to convert believes this, then respond wi...

It seems to me that there is a fourth option available while discussing bootstrap problems: agreement. We can disagree with any assertion. But do we? ...

That's a great story. And I didn't see the ending until it was too late, too -- sort of like what the son went through. I thought the story was defini...

I don't think there is such a thing as a mechanism which justifies action as morally right or wrong. Differentiating between right and wrong takes jud...

I'd say this suffers from a impoverished view of happiness. Happiness is not so singular as this sort of view suggests. There are general enough trend...

I do not believe that humans have inalienable rights. They have legal rights, and that's it. As God does not exist so too with Inalienable rights -- t...

If that's what speciesism is then I don't think I'd qualify as a speciesist. How different are we from animals, really? Is there a difference that mak...

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here. It's up to us, and so we should? Or we have the power, whereas they do not, and so we should grant rig...

OK. I do not. I think rights are inadequate for addressing the needs of human beings. That doesn't mean I think that they should be violated, mind. It...

I don't think @"chatterbears" is intentionally setting up their argument to be deceptive or anything like that. I think chatterbears is very passionat...

Sure. I think there's an easily exploitable flaw in your trifecta, which is that you're relying upon empathy. And many of us don't have the emotional ...

But I didn't use intelligence. In fact I said intelligence is not a good basis for moral feeling. The difference between me and you and a cow is that ...

well, I double checked before saying that :D. But maybe I missed something. I thought that the timeline as presented vs. events actually reported was ...

Anecdotal experience is not evidence. I am merely telling you why I feel as I do, from a causal perspective. What is flawed, I think, is your moral tr...

Oh yeah! Something else I wanted to mention to hear what others thought... There's a number of times that the babysitter is either looking at a penis ...

I'd say that the story does say something about the nature of desire, though. Not that this is the whole take. I think you're right to point out that ...

I think that the reason it kept flipping into my mind while reading Cat Person was because of the subject of both was erotic desire, but in an unpleas...

I think the story is emotionally intense. It jumps from the erotic to the horrific and intermingles those two emotions throughout. There is a linear t...

I understand what you're trying to do here. Whatever trait I select is then applied to certain classes of human beings, and then... But I said most ex...

The OP does not say it includes sympathy with empathy. I'll wait to hear from him. And he's defining these terms in very specific ways that seems to m...

No. I wouldn't use intelligence as the basis. Intelligence is merely a tool, and to be better with a tool can inspire admiration for craftsmanship, bu...

I can empathize with a dog or a cat. But admittedly I do not feel much empathy for cows -- they strike me as stupid stinky brutes who are the way they...

I think that's a fair point. My original thinking was to read the story without the ending, but now that I'm rethinking that the story doesn't make as...

Ah, OK. I did misunderstand you because I was thinking you meant the second use. You meant the first. I pretty much adhere to the institutional theory...

A quick thought on the ending that I just had, though... I'm starting to second guess myself. The ending actually shows us why Margot may have been lo...

I mean, we can try and hash together his argument for you, but in the end if that is what you really want then you'll have to read him yourself. He do...

@"Baden" George Dickie makes a useful distinction between two uses of the word "art". There is "art" in the categorical sense, as in "All paintings in...

I'd put it differently. Truth is invariant of feelings. Action and choice aren't, but the truth is. Actions coupled with motivation are the bearers of...

Justice can be interpreted in this manner, but it doesn't need to be. What I refer to here is retributive justice -- an old form of justice, by all me...

Yeah, it makes sense. People are flawed, people have baggage, but The Date is meant to showcase yourself as a desirable object -- yet, in order for us...

Well, I'll give you my take to respond to yours, but I don't know if it'll actually persuade you :D. I thought the story was pretty good. I would say ...

I see some similarities between the two, but I felt the New Yorker short story was something that could happen, where the Oates story has this quasi-m...

But only because you care about not being injured. If you didn't care about that, slippers it would be.

Probably what struck me the most about the story was how much of it was a stream of conscious narrative -- like, the entire story basically takes plac...

Yeah, I felt like the texts at the end were over the top, too. It gave a nice cap to the story so that it was resolved, but I think it reads better wi...

I disagree. :D I think you believe in both justice and mercy, and so you attempt to reconcile the two. You also seem like a very sociable person, so y...