Cool. I'm pro-medication! Though I want to push back a little and say that's not the only true rational solution. I don't know if the solution is exac...
Hrm! I'd separate those rather than saying they are the same. (EDIT: meaning here "desire" and "difference") Stopping-willing is like pulling a tree o...
I'm a person with clinical depression. And anxiety! It's a fun time. There are people with these symptoms who are spiritual. Ergo, It's not a spiritua...
There I'd disagree. I'm not sure how to put it though, other than Camus' essay -- a kind of defiance and rebellion against the bleak future, a rolling...
If a person is to maximize experience, then we have to have a way of measuring experience. How do you accomplish that? If the measure is whatever the ...
Thanks for sharing. Have you considered putting this on a radio program? I enjoyed listening because you gave a fair presentation of ideas with a pass...
My "congregations" were theatre troupes, and I have no regrets. @"unenlightened" said the right things. If you connect then that's a good promise, tho...
Thanks :). No need for total mutual accord, at least I don't demand it. It's pretty hard with the greats. And don't be shy -- say wherever and however...
That's interesting. I had never put together that freedom could act as a kind of limit to practical reason, just as metaphysics is a limit for theoret...
Oh it wouldn't be the first time ;). And it wouldn't surprise me that my memories are off -- I through this in the lounge for that reason. I didn't fe...
Seems a bit goofy to me. You could get around all this notion of suffering simply by noting, or adhereing to, a duty to preserve life, suffering or no...
Could just be a turn of phrase, because I don't disagree with what you wrote. By "individuals" I was more thinking with respect to "everyone should" S...
Right -- but the "mere" part is what mitigates the choice. And in any case, while AN isn't self-contradictory, if you're to respect the autonomy of ot...
Nothing super direct comes to mind, other than "treating them as an end unto themselves" and noting how individual freedom is central -- as in a categ...
heh, then we're getting into the nitty-gritty, cuz the question becomes more of when the 2nd formulation applies. In one sense treating others to beco...
Well, I'd say so, yeah. I don't believe in arranged marriages or pre-destined roles for children, because I believe autonomy is more important than th...
Something that came to mind here: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The quote that came to mind is about a scientifically designed society which create...
I have no tips for partners. Love is a queer thing, which some say is its attraction. But for intellectually substantive long-term relationships: I ca...
M'kay. One thing that comes to mind is that I think of it as not merely using people. The pietism makes sense of this distinction: when, in your heart...
Only if we must always have a maxim in order to make a decision -- but given that Kant believes we usually follow our inclination, rather than a moral...
How's that? Suppose the maxim "Feed the hungry" -- sounds like a positive duty in that it's not limiting what one should do but is a maxim a person fe...
Sure. Not want to, it's your duty too -- even in misery, you have a duty to not commit suicide, by kant. So even if the anti-natalist demonstrates tha...
What would stop it from being universalizable? Surely if everyone follows the maxim "Be an asshole" that doesn't lead to self-contradiction as much as...
True. I poke fun at Kant's lying example, but @"unenlightened" has made the point many times over, and it is also true, that if we all adopt the maxim...
In a more general sense: I think everyone has a line somewhere where you simply don't cross because it's the wrong thing to do. (or some follow rules ...
Well.. sort of -- but no, because social conflict is usually about competing groups -- two different actions or maxims or something. Here still in the...
Kant had no problem with choosing "Lying" as an example. In a plain-language sense, it seems to me that as long as someone's principle they're enactin...
Oh, for sure. I mostly just wanted to show that he says some stuff about that somewhere -- and that's the first place I thought of to look. My inclina...
From his Critique of Practical Reason: That's the bit I mean, though I think he means to use legal terms in philosophical ways (similar to the way he ...
Yeh, I'm of the opinion that the three formulations are not "really the same" as Kant claims. The first one provides an abstract foundation that any m...
That's true. Though the same can be said for Christianity as a whole, too. The protestant bits are what's already been highlighted, and comes more fro...
I'd push back here a bit. Self-interest is definitely a Hobbessian point, and to some extent Locke, but Rousseau -- by my understanding -- is more a r...
. The SEP article I linked states the following: Which seems to indicate that Kant's religion is Lutheran, and Pietist. Do I know it now, or is this n...
In looking at the ideas and their descent/influences/etc., I have no interest in trivializing any thinker. What would the point be? I like to see as m...
Also I don't think there's an English equivelent to estar/ser, which is very interesting. (EDIT: On that note, it'd be interesting to read a Spanish t...
Oh yeah? Where? It's always nice to find agreement. Not quite, in my estimation. I'd prefer to say that he argues that there is more than one legitima...
"Leader" isn't a character trait, but a social position. Leaders have followers. But what are they following, and how do you tell who is leading? Woul...
Pietism is a member of the set "Protestant", because it's Lutheran, and all Lutherans are Protestants. I'm still hesitant, and starting to see how thi...
Comments