That's a really good point. You convinced me! :D I'm down for Critique of Dialectical Reason as it's another one of those I haven't gotten to but have...
Eh, at the moment I just don't have that kind of time/energy to put into leading a group. But I'd probably read along with the thread. There are other...
I think I'd like to participate in this. I could use a little structure to my reading schedule -- giving me that extra "umph" that seems difficult to ...
I'd say yes. Mostly because the very disease already compromises what would normally be a violation against said person -- namely, it compromises thei...
Alright, cool. So I think that it would be better to focus on validity after reading your comments, then. I suppose my thought was that soundness was ...
Even so, it would depend upon the function which measures suffering. So we might say that the mode of the set of all sufferers is the final output rat...
You are right. Here's where I'm getting tripped up in talking about soundness. While validity does not rely upon soundness for its conceptual clarity,...
As far as what people generally think, I think @"MindForged" hit the nail on the head. I don't think it's a moral problem as much as a moralized emoti...
Is it? I don't see it as obvious. I like your idea of going piecemeal. So let me start with this. If the Global anti-natalist's proposal is carried th...
By that reasoning I could criticize literally anything from a purported position of knowledge as long as the position were written in English. :D Stat...
I'd say the negative utilitarian escapes this because it is only harm which is of concern -- so since there isn't anything positive on the ledger, we'...
I don't know how else, aside from agreeing with antinatalism right out, I could indicate to you that I understand the point of antinatalism. But to sp...
Yup. Not that I have a dog in this race. But that's pretty much how I read philosophy in my first brush -- and how I read Kant the some-odd 7 years ag...
Also, I might add @"khaled" that you haven't done much with being able to differentiate the morally significant difference between fictional entities ...
I stated the moral world before. Sure, the rock will exist without us. But the subjects which are part of our moral deliberations will not. It's this ...
Of course not. We treat those who are actual different than those who are not actual. The whole focus on harm, suffering, and pain here has more to do...
I don't see a potential person as being the same as an actual person. Harry Potter can never be harmed. And a potential person, if said potential pers...
Cool. Alright, so we're evaluating actions. In the case of murder you increase suffering because you are causing harm to someone who is actual. In the...
I understand that this is what the AN thinks, but this is the very point that I would say is the most unconvincing part for myself. The language of ha...
But as a consequence of not having a child there simply is no person that is either harmed or saved -- and that's my point. So what would be appropria...
In your scenario 1, though, there simply is no person to reason about. What's so different about a child you decided not to have and a fictional chara...
It's not the possibility of things that I'm attacking. In fact in the part you're quoting I even say that birth will result in a life that will includ...
P1 is confusing. I don't have the right to eat pizza everyday, but eating pizza everyday is not a bad just because I don't have a right to it. From th...
Does it? I can't remember the last time I used the term "substance" in the context of chemistry. If it does have one then it has one in an introductor...
There are several properties one could measure. One such oft-used property is the melting point or the boiling point of a substance, which is just the...
Heh. It's been a few years. :D EDIT: Just cuz it was bothering me. y = -e^(-x) + a That was the function I was thinking of. Superficially looks like a...
Others have already pointed this out, but I figure I'll throw my hat in with that lot and try to rephrase. . . I think the implication is false. @"Mar...
It may seem odd, given our recent disagreements, to say that I agree with the sentiments you present here. There is nothing glorious in war -- and esp...
I think people's interests are opposed fundamentally within our society. I think there are people committed to principles which cannot simultaneously ...
I tend to think that it's best to just treat each thinker separately -- I know that Hegel is responding to Kant, but then there is a multiplicity of i...
Well, sure -- but then, nothing is inherently better or worse than anything. Things are better or worse in relation to a judgment we make, not because...
There is a distinction I like to draw between ecstasy or elation and happiness. I like to draw the distinction because I think that we tend to focus, ...
Gotcha. I think I've been drawn to looking a politics through a sort of phenomenological lens -- hence my emphasis on the personal relationships I hav...
Hrmm, fair. I think you are right to say that polarization is found out there, and not in here. Alliances have solidified into mutually exclusive grou...
Fair point. I'm a bit off. I think on a one-on-one or group basis that it's possible, sure. I don't feel more or less polarized, myself, having discus...
I'd say that it is through trust and respect for you that makes me want to listen to you, even in disagreement -- so even if there is no debate I woul...
I think that it's a problematic example for eliminative materialism to deal with, at least of the sorts that tends to see the world as arising from th...
There comes a time when an issue is no longer debatable -- where there isn't some compromise that will satisfy everyone involved enough to keep on get...
Aren't the criteria multifarious? It seems so to me. We can divide knowledge, roughly, into know-that and know-how -- but it is a rough division when ...
Heh. I've read this thread a few times over and just couldn't think of a good response. Sorry posty. I know that my inclination is to say we know thin...
My initial thought is that these two lines of thought are so disparate in history that it's hard to compare them. Hume is something of an deacon of th...
Is it? How would one measure such a thing to make it evident? And from a political perspective, if politics is about power, and anger makes a "bandwag...
Politics is about power. There is power in moving people -- be it fear, patriotism, or outrage the political agent will speak to whatever is moving pe...
Everyone knows that you need to carry a torch into the dungeon to fight grues. We do have mood rings now which change between green and blue (and othe...
That kind of reminds me of Hegel's lectures on the history of philosophy. But that's not exactly what I meant by the historical methods -- Hegel is ki...
I am inclined to call this sort of thing knowledge. We gain knowledge by doing, by seeing, by exploring. And I was focusing on experience because it s...
I prefer the historical method. But maybe that's a bit misleading, because there are historical methods -- it's not an all-encompassing sort of discip...
Usually I find that if I reflect on who I am that I share in the faults I find frustrating, and it tempers my anger or frustration; we are only human,...
Transcendentalism is too based in the whole romantic movement, I'd say, to count. There's a certain admiration for simple living that both share, but ...
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