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I was playing with the idea of whether there are things that have no effect in re free will. Is it possible that all the things that the universe thro...
May 28, 2020 at 05:30
What's your definition of free will?
May 28, 2020 at 05:10
What's the proof that convinced you?
May 28, 2020 at 05:09
How? Determinism: everything, including our decisions, is an effect of prior states. Free will: Our decisions are not effects of prior states.
May 27, 2020 at 19:46
I don't know to what extent this matters but I believe a fundamental moral principle is ought implies can which I take it means if one can't act in a ...
May 27, 2020 at 19:26
That makes you a compatibilist. Can you tell me how that's possible?
May 27, 2020 at 19:04
It seems that I don't have the right to post pictures in this forum. :lol: The idea of rights seems to originate from admixing the heart and the brain...
May 27, 2020 at 12:27
Are you in any way insinuating that stoics are sociopaths on the basis of being emotionally blunted? :chin:
May 27, 2020 at 12:21
Why? Why hasn't the existence/nonexistence of free will been proven? This is a question I've asked many times and no one till date has fielded a satis...
May 27, 2020 at 09:19
Indeed. Employing reason doesn't amount to losing one's freedom.
May 27, 2020 at 07:08
Yes, as I mentioned in my discussion with Pantagruel, the stoic's aim is to be in harmony with nature; in other words, to obey its laws and that inclu...
May 27, 2020 at 06:27
What are these "other causes"?
May 26, 2020 at 18:31
Could be but why desire that?
May 26, 2020 at 18:12
Indeed, nevertheless a very palpable difference in a person before and after tasting the stoic pie. What gives? A reduction in the potency of causes p...
May 26, 2020 at 18:10
Mainstream christianity seems to treat Judas as a traitor, that's for sure. I don't see how anyone could defend Judas with all the evidence stacked ag...
May 26, 2020 at 17:54
In my humble opinion, where philosophy, inclusive of any other logically rigorous field, and programming overlap in a very significant way is language...
May 26, 2020 at 15:09
What bothers me is that the stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium is known to have said "follow where reason leads" and, assuming he did what he advised ot...
May 26, 2020 at 12:25
:up: :ok:
May 26, 2020 at 11:29
:up: On a side note, I've always been doubtful about the popular image most folks have of so-called "sages" - hermits most often, living an austere li...
May 26, 2020 at 11:28
How do you explain the "stoic calm", an allegedly possible state, even in the eye of a storm, in the midst of causally potent chaos? There are express...
May 26, 2020 at 08:19
Can you expand on the words in bold? What constitutes this "necessity" and why is "coexistence" relevant to your thesis?
May 26, 2020 at 08:14
Isn't this like asking who Rama is after having finished reading the Ramayana?
May 25, 2020 at 21:35
The general opinion on what a mind is seems to be that which thinks and thinking is at all times about something. Granted that thinking under most cir...
May 25, 2020 at 18:17
If a reputable philosopher like Dennett is a zombie then I'm afraid some of us must be zombies with severe head trauma - dead zombies as paradoxical a...
May 25, 2020 at 17:55
I thought people already passed that waypoint; after all the difficulty seems to be not the definition of "purpose" but actually that it (purpose) is ...
May 25, 2020 at 17:50
The existence of the state is owed to the mistrust we have of each other - no one can be depended upon with 100% certainty and, need I mention, this i...
May 25, 2020 at 12:26
Kant, if my reasoning is anywhere sound enough, would disapprove of humans having a purpose, a purpose understood as a means to an end, especially if ...
May 25, 2020 at 12:13
You're on the money regarding history being riddled with struggles between the state and the individual but what you seem to be missing is the fact th...
May 25, 2020 at 12:03
To answer your question directly, we do. That said, what I would like to draw your attention to is the way you've made a distinction between the state...
May 25, 2020 at 08:24
It is surprising that we have an antonym for "purpose" viz. "purposeless" - and yet we are baffled by our own lack of purpose. Surely, that we have th...
May 25, 2020 at 08:10
Life is beautiful but only to some. Others have to make do with the living in the seedier side of town where even mothers are for sale.
May 25, 2020 at 07:10
Well, you seem to be of the opinion that depression is a sickness, an illness that we need to cure. Yet, when you spoke of schizophrenia you seem to c...
May 25, 2020 at 05:32
I agree that there are occasions when individual interests come in conflict with the state interests. However these are simply times when the notion o...
May 25, 2020 at 05:12
I'm just wondering about the implications of the OP's title: Depression is a luxury of the time. I sense in it a decidedly negative evaluation of peop...
May 24, 2020 at 13:52
Ideal citizens - the infected especially - would choose to remain under lockdown. The state assumes that to be the case and acts accordingly. Too, the...
May 24, 2020 at 12:53
To my knowledge, an attack on a person - his character, associations, beliefs, attitudes, etc. - is not an ad hominem if and only if these attributes ...
May 24, 2020 at 11:54
Do you mind elaborating?
May 24, 2020 at 11:30
I don't see how COVID-19 has changed anything with regard to the relationship betwixt the individual and the state. None of the measures put in place ...
May 24, 2020 at 10:32
The two excerpts above from your post don't square with each other. On one hand you claim individual perceptual testimonies are evidentially sound and...
May 24, 2020 at 10:23
Every individual knows or has an idea of what an individual should be like - we all have an image of, let's call it, the ideal citizen. The state prom...
May 24, 2020 at 07:33
How would you know if the compass is fixed?
May 24, 2020 at 07:09
Well, we are discussing the difference between hallucinations and reality. For a perception to be "real", the object of perception must be outside the...
May 24, 2020 at 06:20
What's the difference between being in the wilderness without a compass and being in the wilderness with a broken compass?
May 24, 2020 at 06:12
Can you give me a link to a short video that could explain your misgivings regarding my claims?
May 23, 2020 at 20:04
I'm not completely sure about this but I do get the feeling that every religion has a low opinion of other religions; quite a natural state of affairs...
May 23, 2020 at 10:46
How is it that while one individual's testimony has zero credibility, a group of people, composed of individuals as it were, enjoy a special status as...
May 23, 2020 at 10:20
I guess it's a question of how one uses the word "real". I meant to distinguish between hallucinations and its opposite, reality.
May 23, 2020 at 08:18
I remember seeing a young boy, I think fourish, dressed in dirty rags, barefoot, matted hair, his faced covered in grime, dried snot around his nose, ...
May 21, 2020 at 13:59
The perception, what is perceived, isn't the issue. People may agree on that. What we don't know is if that perception is real or not.
May 21, 2020 at 13:36
To be honest, I hope, for our sake, there are good people out there if only to compensate for all the morally-challenged members of the human family. ...
May 20, 2020 at 18:49