That's not the same as "(A implies B) and (A implies not-B)" -- that'd be "(A implies (B and not-B)). A real world example is often hard to parse into...
I appreciated the Truth-Tables. I like this post because it's getting into why we might be tempted to say they contradict. I think, at least in philos...
If you neglect to discuss the. . . material conditions? :D I think the social setting is not an ethical bubble, I agree -- I think of societies as org...
Utopia's shmopeya's :D -- the no place will not be as far as I'm concerned. But I'll note that your commonsense solution runs into another commonsense...
What if they're not doing metaphysics, though? I'd situation "equality of..." within Liberal theory. "Equality" is understood within the thoughts of t...
They kind of are, until you start to get into the details it seems. They're kind of like "Freedom" -- everyone loves freedom, but wars are fought over...
I think the object is still being-for-itself. An object is already quite meaningful: even rocks are more meaningful than being-in-itself. The Being-in...
Oh definitely! That's how I'd have preferred to set it out, but then I saw it was just easier to type it out :D -- but I like truth-tables because the...
A contradiction is of the form "P ^ ~P" "A implies B" =/= "A implies not-B", and so the conjunction is "P ^ Q" rather than "P ^ ~P" -- the contradicti...
Ask not what use a person is, but how beautiful the uses being pursued are and whether or not we ought to change the uses we're pursing. There's the p...
In the context of a thread on TPF asking for a general reflection :) So, yes, I think you're right to say: Is the question posed, and even highlightin...
Let's try to answer the titular question with this in mind. It sounds to me like you'd have to say that the real world is fair and just, and that fair...
I can spell out what I think it means -- I don't think it's very deep. I think it's comparing two versions of equality -- the equality of opportunity ...
I agree with that too! Often I find myself in a kind of dialogue with the ideas, and sometimes the ideas are very confusing at first but then when it ...
Reflection, criticism, argument, and also storytelling. The best philosophy, in my opinion, changes the way you think as you read it. It untangles a t...
I think this expresses a good contradiction, and helps me understand between the two -- I really wasn't sure. My guess is we're all on board with the ...
Going over the exchange back to the OP I see I'm latching onto "maximize", which I generally associate with mathematics, and so utilitarianism, and so...
In terms of changing people, though -- calling them to action, effecting guilt to persuade them to change themselves, excising spiritual tumors -- I'd...
What I'm thinking, roughly, Against the Golden Rule: "Do unto others' as you would have them do unto you" is the version I'm thinking from. One thing,...
What part of the golden rule is dissatisfying, do you think? Asking since you said "perhaps" For myself I at least like a commitment to honesty with s...
Seems to me that the default is "requires consent" and so we have to justify why it is we are ignoring consent in some circumstance. No one when it co...
Doesn't that show how consent is important? We only operate when the person is not capable of consent, and so we should have some basis of judging for...
If I just know what is right and make observations and experience then where does asking questions for advice come in? Why deliberate about what is ri...
Sounds to me like there's no philosophy to be had at all in your view, then. Follow your heart and do your best between the competing desires until yo...
Well, that's a beginning. Sounds like following our heart can include limiting ourselves, then. We'll need a better reductio of following our heart as...
Also, this part always seems weird to me. If I'm antagonistically related to this or that ethical principle and am both at once then I'd prefer to eit...
I suppose the part I'm missing here is: where is the adult? We are influenced by what we grow up around. Sure. So, what ought we to do? Whatever our m...
Right. But so far all I've been given here the relationship to mothers as a kind of point of departure for thinking ethically, at least conceptually -...
Not bad motives -- just ignorance. I understand the concept; but even a surgeon asks permission before excising a tumor, right? Autonomy is an importa...
It's the part before that that's more important : "If I'm certain of this or that, then I'll interpret your acts (speech and otherwise) into my frame....
I don't know about all this. A life lived to please one's mother sounds alright enough, but does that strike anyone as ethical? Isn't ethical maturity...
That's where I get stuck a lot. Recently I've been thinking about this distinction by blending Sartre with Levinas -- Sartre has the "I", and Levinas ...
Yes! though I'm hesitant with "conflict" because, in some sense, we are all of these at once -- the contraries conflict with one another: I am guilty ...
Indeed. I think that's our first morality. We do what we want to do, more often than not. Sometime down the line we may want to care for others, thoug...
I'm not opposed to that conclusion. I think that the somatic response is meaningless, though it's also always connected to some cognitive judgment tha...
I think I'm tempted by a notion that how we feel can be given a name -- and so separated at least conceptually -- but that feeling can be attached to ...
I'm not so sure. Guilt need not be so narratively driven -- it can be triggered by any number of events and memories, and need not make any kind of se...
In terms of morals and talking about morals and ethics and talking about ethics -- I think Sartre provides a good ontology for us. And Levinas provide...
I ought say yes to be consistent, but I feel like saying no? Yes, our actions are what it's all about. But I somehow want to prioritize "listening" as...
If I'm certain of this or that, then I'll interpret your acts (speech and otherwise) into my frame. "Guilt" becomes a category I can assign to others,...
O my -- this is the first time I've seen the frog in your avi. I always saw it on the horse side before. I suppose my hope is that we could do it with...
Guilty as parenthetically charged ;) Virtuous rationality and freedom from superstition -- is this an innocent mistake? Or a guilty self-lie? **** At ...
In a sense I ought be guilty. I have my traditions I come from which would say I am guilty. They would say I am guilty because of this or that. So I w...
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