Nothing that can't be detected or measured i.e. perceived is real in science. Natural law, if meant here as the laws of nature, can be observed. It is...
This is interesting. I was wondering if there is a rationale behind the moral oughts taken as expressions of people's wishes/desires. Clearly, the peo...
Firstly, as this "someone near him" reveals, there must be someone to whom color is perceivable. Secondly, the fact that you say "seen by some but not...
The idea of the physical is intimately tied to the senses. What is physical is exactly that which can be sensed; the converse, however, is false for t...
Is there a giant Noah's Ark in America? I saw a short documentary on it. It's supposed to be a Ken Ham project in Kentucky and there's a scene in whic...
I just wish I could be there when people in the far future will open the pages of a "modern" book, look upon the words so carefully crafted by the wri...
If you ask me, there's a slight discrepancy in pointing the finger at culture for disease outbreaks. Culture is passed down from generation to generat...
:chin: Well, there's another issue I want to run by you. There's the thing that everyone does - plan ahead; most of our plans, as far as I can tell, i...
How about if I get at this from another angle. Firstly, what is morality? It seems to me a product of dissatisfaction not with anything but with the w...
Imagine this: There's a world of balls of a variety of colors. You don't like this world all that much which corresponds to our dissatisfaction with t...
Sorry if I come off as dick and also for the bullshit in my posts wherever present; both aren't intentional. Indeed, since causes must precede their e...
1. To be morally responsible we need to be free. 2. Moral theories (at least those I'm familiar with) are in the business of making moral injunctions ...
This point is moot because in my reply I mentioned that moral choices aren't random for they're based on oughts that express desires/wishes of the peo...
Yes, but that means those options available to you are, in your eyes, equal in value. Had it been that some options were more valuable than others, th...
Ok but once you have a frame of reference it becomes relative velocity right? I mean the speed has to be relative to something. Thanks but if we apply...
I agree that I haven't read many of the works and philisophers you mention and I also must confess that my OP is not as well thought out as I would've...
While Sorry for losing track of the discussion. I seem to have zoned out back there. I don't differentiate between imagined and real pleasure. Where t...
Thank you very much. Perhaps the confusion arises because they're so similar. Randomness essentially doesn't favor any option among those available an...
Well, in the case of wonderful Mrs un, she derives pleasure both from you actually drinking the tea, when that happens, and also before you actually d...
Well, have a look at the decalogue - as everyone knows it lists some do's and don't's and it only takes a moment to notice the don't's outnumber the d...
Judging, as an aspect of morality, makes sense only if we're free and thus can be held accountable. That said, paradoxically, the self-refuting charac...
Good question. If you value something only for the happiness you derive from it, then that's a hedonistic value. No other value either exists or count...
A great question for me. Thanks for asking. Speaking geometrically, only circles, spheres and probably higher dimensional equivalents have centers, th...
I've been waiting to, in fact am dying to, know what non-hedonistic values would look like? What could be so valuable that happiness doesn't matter? W...
The pain is worth the gain. In other words masochism passes the hedonism test.I believe there are limits to the pain even a masochist will/can endure....
A most profound observation in my humble opinion. While you seem to have attempted to dissolve boundaries, I've come upon the possibility of more boun...
Firstly, neither you nor anyone else has fulfilled my request to present a non-hedonistic value. I tried but every value I could think of couldn't esc...
You're begging the question by assuming that the aliens are being inconsistent and we've discovered the inconsistency. I'm only asking you to consider...
Good question. I don't wish to disrespect, belittle or downplay such noble acts of self-sacrifice. However, to be honest, the question that pops into ...
Thanks for your wish to emphasize the conflict. The mere existence of a conflict between hedonistic value and non-hedonistic values is enough to prove...
Firstly, what you say seems to fit well with hedonism - the pain devaluing whatever it is that has non-hedonistic value and the pleasure doing the sam...
What do you mean? There is a sense in which doing is different from liking but does one ever find onself doing without some form of thinking beforehan...
Fantastic point. The Heraclitean maxim panta rhei will probably never lose its relevance. As you so correctly remarked, the axiom I'm using in my argu...
Imagine if we come into contact with super-intelligent aliens who've mastered intergalactic space travel. If in a conversation with them, you notice w...
You can't go to church if you're not Christian. You can't be a Christian if you don't go to church. To go to church you have to be Christian. To be Ch...
Here's a short argument: 1. God is all good (goodness which we're familiar with) 2. The holy books are god's words 3. if the holy books are god's word...
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