I don't know how this bears on the issue you raise here but there's a very basic problem with morality seen as a system of oughts and it is such a sys...
This doesn't sound right once you take an essential component of morality, empathy, into account. Empathy is the ability to sense other people's wellb...
Perhaps I'm being naively optimistic, even dumb beyond redemption but a Buddhist perspective seems to be in order. It shouldn't sadden us that we're u...
I don't think morality, Christianity as part of it, and stoicism make good bedfellows. The former is about oughts, changing the world into something o...
I thought the class of dictators and the class of the ethical don't have an overlap zone i.e. the concept of an ethical dictator has an empty extensio...
An interesting take on the issue of suicide - relating the intent to end one's own life to one's perceived (and actual) utility. Reminds me of my coll...
It seems that to do work, we need to subtract from the total amount of energy in a system and if that system depends on the total amount of energy in ...
This is the curved-space explanation I was referring to - has to do with non-Euclidean geometry. So the force observed from another frame of reference...
Regarding perpetual motion machines, my understanding is that the biggest obstacle in constructing such machines is friction - the engineer's arch adv...
Thanks. It appears that there actually is no force being applied to the Earth - it's just travelling at a constant speed through space curved by the S...
I suppose you're right. Let's be realistic about the whole god thing. Assuming your position that it is, in fact, the creator we're ultimately seeking...
Nociception Pain appears to be intrinsically a good thing. If a threat is undetectable, then we become vulnerable to that threat - think stealth techn...
How is the question of God's existence important? What will change once we know whether there's a God or not? Take a close look at God's role in our l...
How? What's this "morality of all" and "morality on Earth" you refer to? As far as I'm concerned, the one thing that's intriguing and, perhaps importa...
Knowing that would end the debate wouldn't it? If you ask me, aligning myself with the OP's line of inquiry, one could ask the question: does a though...
:smile: Stay safe. I hope you aren't anywhere near a coronavirus hot zone. Coming back to the question of mind and whether or not it occupies space, I...
Well, what you say is correct - morality is, at its core, about harmony - but I see harmony of two kinds if that's even the right way to look at it. F...
I'm reminded of a common leitmotif in folk tales - there's this mysterious castle and the main protagonist in the story is welcomed in by the owner, a...
Yeah, I know. The problem is we had to make an adjustment to a simple theory of a normal sequence of events and change it into something involving a m...
Please don't take offense to what I'm going to say. I remember very vaguely being told a story of three donkeys and it so transpired that they had to ...
Speaking from the standopint of the principle of uniformity of nature - the foundation of laws/rules that restrict, confine, limit, coerce, shackle, c...
If you ask me, the end goal is an utopia or heaven if you're the religious type. I haven't done research into it but I have a feeling carnivory is dec...
I hesitate to second the motion despite knowing that, sometimes but not always, participating as a subject in an experiment would be way better than i...
I don't think time is real in the sense it exists outside of our minds. Assume time has a beginning, call it point X. We can always ask for any point ...
How about if we look at this from the point of view of induction. First, according to the inductive principle of the uniformity of nature, people shou...
I think realism means something specific in philosophy, something that isn't related to pessimism/optimism. I don't know about pragmatism. I feel like...
Well, for starters and also as the main course, you must've surely noticed that mother nature herself is the greatest doctor, engineer, mathematician,...
The word "chair" can't mean chair leg, or chair back because those are more primitive ostensive definitions. Definitions, in my humble opinion, build ...
Ok. There's a sense in which there's no end in sight to splitting particles - there always is a smaller particle to be cleaved off of a larger one - b...
The paradox becomes more complex when we consider your comments in the context of Camus' Sisyphus. Sisyphus is Sisyphus precisely because he's neither...
The esteemed Quine is correct but not as correct as he should be to make his point. Ostensive definitions occur in stages. If I point to a metal and p...
Photons? How do we decide whether two objects A and B occupy space? Well, they can't be placed in the same location at the same time - one must be rem...
There are two kinds of words in any language: 1. Syntactic e.g. "the", "a", etc. whose purpose is to give some form of structure to language 2. Non-sy...
The great magician Penn/Teller (I'm not sure) said something very precious in one of his countless interviews: the more you want to believe something,...
An impractical solution is to create different types of money with restricted domain of use. My money would be valueless to you and your money would h...
Well, it's an interesting line of inquiry because it uncouples the two essential qualities of matter - mass & volume. Is it possible for something to ...
There seems to be a very positive view of freedom, born perhaps from how much we had to struggle for it - oppression seems to have been the normal sta...
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