TheMadFool

I think I get it now. Humans have a choice to be what they want to be. There is no predetermined nature we are slaves to. That also makes us responsib...

I think essence is a categorical term i.e. applies to classes or categories. An individual can't have an essence, the way I see it. What I find strang...

S = all statements are false S' = all statements but S is false AND S is false -----------------------------------------------------------------------...

The only way I can make sense of Rolf Landauer's claim is through the necessity of the physical for information storage, manipulation or its transmiss...

So you see my point. There simply is no other way to make psychology scientific or is there? Assuming, of course, that all things science must be quan...

Atheists don't have to prove anything. They just have to disprove theism. At least that's how it looks to me. As I said, the first move was theism and...

I may be wrong but how else can we quantify psychology? Can we measure thoughts or emotions in any a way other than how I described it?

I don't know. What do you expect to find? More life? And how does that help arguments for God?

Ok. What would count as a good question of inquiry in psychology?

The universe is awesome in what sense? We're alive but life exists on only one planet and that too confined to certain areas on the globe. Could it be...

Well, it seems that we have to slide the viewing window back to the origin of the issue. We can then see that the first move in this game was made by ...

What if I said 90% of people with a college education don't believe in God. Can I rephrase 90% as ''most''? So, psychology is a science then, right?

It makes sense to us assuming God exists and that's what we want to prove isn't it?

Even Buddhism holds to this belief - ignorance is evil. According to Buddhism, ignorance of facts, e.g. not knowing the ephemeral nature of all things...

I thought the same too. However, look at what you're comparing the rocket to? It's ok to compare the rocket to a car or a house. This comparison seems...

Most religious people are against abortion: This is a quantitative assessment isn't it? Psychology has to depend on statistics, no?

I don't know but I'd expect there to be intense heat and perhaps that could light a spark or two. Sound doesn't travel in vacuum. I feel like I'm miss...

Can't it be both? Perhaps neither? Forgiveness is an act of a victim. Do you feel victimized? Do you feel a wrong was done to you? Or did you realize ...

It appears that we have to justify that if there's design then there's a designer (a conscious agency) since we make that claim and arguments such as ...

It depends on the questions asked? If the inquiry is quantified then the answer too can be mathematically rigorous, akin to the hard sciences. I think...

I tried this argument and people said: If then is true but the converse: If then isn't true. What's your response to this?

That's my point. There is no single moral theory. Each has its own flaws - the ''broken compass''. Given that, no one can even dream of finding the pa...

I think I understand now. It's not about happiness or survivial per se. We don't bend truth (we can't) to achieve happiness. We change ourselves (our ...

Ultimately. A little bit of science will help to clarify my view. Entropy, disorder, is always increasing. Order is necessary for any moral system. So...

A virtuous man, to me, should hold morality as the highest goal. So, predictably, such a man will continue along the path of goodness, however ill def...

I think you're right on this one. First you have preferences and then you find the philosophy that fits them. It could also be that there are too many...

That's a fundamental question nobody knows the answer to. I was just pointing out the error in supposing "the highest common interests of all sentient...

It's a bit of a puzzle to me how you can ''say anything you want''. This hasn't been the case in my life and, I suppose, this is true for all people. ...

That formula assumes that ''the highest common interest of all sentient beings'' will be good. Is this a good assumption? Slavery was once thought to ...

You pointed out two flaws: 1. Question begging 2. Imagining x can make x exist

From the rest of your post, it seems that Kant was aware of the gist of my solution. One more thing... Interpreted this way, Kant's moral theory, if a...

These are good questions. Perhaps an analogy will help. A mother loves her child. She wants her child to be the best - a good person, excel in all fie...

What you're saying is that there can't be a greatest being, mathematically. There are an infinite number of infinities, each bigger than the other. So...

I suppose a vague reply is a possible solution to the problem but isn't it a weak response? I mean a vague reply is simply trying to save Kantian mora...

This is one flaw you've pointed out and one that I can understand. Are there any other problems with the argument? It's a non sequitur basically. The ...

How about if we look at it from another angle. The categorical imperative is a moral imperative i.e. it's supposed to be applied universally - moralit...

Thanks for your comments. What do you think of my post just above?

Perhaps he ''failed'' to see the full power of the categorical imperative. Applied universally, it precludes any conflict of duty. I mean, as per the ...

What's the problem with ''greater''? Take power, knowledge and benevolence and maximize them into omnipotence, omnscience and omnibenevolence. It does...

:D You have a point. Let's go with your ''greatest being'' then. Surely you agree that this particular being, that which can't even be described, is t...

Consider language. We have letters: a, b, c,...,x, y, z. These letters represent sound and are the fundamental stuff of language. Consider this level ...

How would we formulate determinism or fate without causation? If I say determinism is true then I am presupposing causation of some kind. Of course, c...

Isn't this a contradiction? For me repentance requires empathy. One must be able to put oneself in the other's shoes. Feel and experience, to the same...

Am I correct to say that your basing yourself on nature of some kind? A generality that unites and guides us, our thoughts and actions? Value isn't so...

My view on this is simple. Do we complain about water or air being tasteless? We don't because these are unmodifiable properties of air and water. I t...

Yes, the perfect observer doesn't exist. We give and we take - it's an exchange, always.

We could see it that way I suppose. Truth, I think, has many faces and stages. The mystical and the scientific are different faces of truth. There are...

I agree. That existence is better than nonexistence is questionable. How about if we look at this from the perspective of life as a whole. It's surely...

What does philosophy, or even science, have to say about causation? In the simplest of terms, every event has an influence on what follows downstream ...

You asked the right question. For me, truth is about propositions. Of course, the propositions themselves aren't the actual stuff the propositions are...