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OK I think I got a handle on your distinction now. It didn't pop out for me in reading your OP, so thanks. I think your first argument is question beg...

What is it to act in a first-order moral way, and how does that differ from the second-order moral way?

I'm not familiar with the distinction between first- and second- order moral agents.

It's hard to diagnose any sort of mental illness anyway, much more so through what limited amount we are able to share via a text-message board. So it...

o. i thought you had posted it in the wrong thread.

sweet game. ;)

Honestly, I save more money spending money on games than going out to see people. :D It's part of the reason I play games (aside from the fact that I ...

All such tests would be so. Categorizing political opinions is, itself, value-laden by the very values it seeks to categorize. In some way by putting ...

There were two books that helped me navigate the question of a post-bacceulerette career: From Student to Scholar Getting What You Came For I didn't a...

Your question is the sort of question no one can answer but you. I don't mean that in some kind of "people should find themselves" way, or something. ...

The Sea Will Claim Everything If you had to pick a genre, then the above would qualify as an adventure game. You find items with which you complete pu...

Three things immediately come to mind, one of which you've already alluded to with "figure/background". Sound may be "around a corner", but sound is a...

I get about the same results there: Your scores are: Care 97.2% Fairness 86.1% Loyalty 25% Authority 19.4% Purity 22.2% Liberty 27.8% Your strongest m...

Nothing terribly surprising in my results. Economic Left/Right: -9.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.85 And the other stated "solid liberal"

I'd be interested in hearing more from you. What's the story in this transition? It doesn't have to be personal -- at the meat I'm most interested in ...

Yes. I could even classify some as "before" -- as if they put the word in my mouth but I can't articulate it -- and "after" -- as if they finally gave...

I agree. While I don't agree with Slavoj answer to the "punching question", I actually thought most of that interview was quite insightful -- and my d...

That, becoming politically active, or: "The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books" Trigger warning...

https://rimworldgame.com/ Has been my recent game. I finished 1 play through, but since it's a colony simulator, and the game is modder friendly there...

To perceive, I would say, we do rely upon language -- though not in the sense that one must have a language in order to perceive. Rather, that percept...

Why should they, do you think? Not saying they shouldn't, I'm just curious what drew out this line of thinking. Indeed, I'm not seeing how it follows,...

https://youtu.be/rqLtOjENz-Q?t=2m15s :D Though I think the duck-rabbit is elucidating "seeing as", rather than the duck-rabbit being insightful unto i...

I think that's the question to answer, right there, for the article to have merit. Seems like something you couldn't say, though, yeah? Though I don't...

I feel some uncertainty about the claims between W. and freedom, but merely uncertainty. I agree that this seems to set W. on the outside doing someth...

That's not what I gathered from the article, at least. Honestly, I think the article was using the idea of obtaining freedom through this analysis of ...

Well, take the beginning of the PI, for example. He uses Augustine as an example of what seems to be a fairly common way of thinking about language as...

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/trump-administration-purges-all-information-about-climate-change-from-the-epa-website/ Not quite post-truth in the sen...

There are two words -- "significant" and "great" -- which sort of favor whoever is saying the statement, whether it be in the affirmative or the negat...

Yes, true. And perhaps I have behaved poorly in choosing to engage. The statement you made and the response just seemed to represent something to me, ...

You said "Why Democracy?" -- I gave a reason for why Democracy. What I did not give a reason for was "Why is Democracy better than Constitutional Mona...

We shouldn't, of course, not question Democracy. In fact, in a Democracy, one is both given the tools and the rights with which to question not just t...

Risking a cross-post here: I tend to associate the phrase "beyond good and evil" with a kind of morality which comes after good and evil which N seems...

For me, personally? There's an interpretation of Nietzsche that I feel is applicable here, actually. In Thus Spoke... the section titled On the Three ...

It's hard to say whether I'd qualify as a self-anti-realist, so it's difficult to say much more than I've already said to the OP. I am skeptic-lite ab...

One thing to note is that no particular action is representative of master or slave morality. A master is not one who notes what are the masterly acti...

The sort of "left hand" of commodification is that since anything can be commodified it also does not matter what real-world value said commodity migh...

I visited a middle school which ran on the the John Dewey system back when I was in school. Granted, I didn't actually look into her data or do the st...

I guess the way I'd put it is that critical thinking is a normative enterprise, and therefore to teach critical thinking is to indoctrinate people to ...

Indoctrination is, so I'd say, an inevitable aspect of education. Since classes establish norms for their own functioning, people follow those norms b...

I think that Tertullian perfectly captures Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment. And I'd say Tertullian is not alone.

I think this is only one contemporary attitude towards the mentally ill. But I would express uncertainty, at least, that this attitude -- though conte...

If that be the case then I'd say that yes, indeed, the practice of operating on people -- whether it be operating on ourselves or others -- is quite p...

No worries. I often speak off the cuff myself :). Do you mean, then, to disown the first if/then that you wrote? I'm only asking because it seems what...

That rings true for me. In particular, though I am prejudiced to think in this manner, at the workplace -- there are roles one wishes to fit into in o...

Would you mind expanding on that? I don't think I understand what a pre/post Fall view is, or how that relates to the consequent in the above.

One of my initial attractions to Kantian ethics -- as with many folks who set out to defend deontology -- is his second formulation of the CI: Which, ...

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I think that "sex in the west" varies. Not overly surprising unto itself, but it should be noted because our views of sex -- especially when it comes ...

I think that what is most striking in difference between religion and philosophy is in the approach to faith. Faith, like the two aforementioned terms...

I would maintain there is a distinction between beliefs and experiences. We are mistaken when we believe false statements. So if we believe a false st...