Everything we know, Everything we think we know Retrace our steps, if back to the beginning we go Our journey will end When we meet the philosopher wh...
An eye-opener. Thanks for making me aware of other...less conventional...ways we could immortalize ourselves. A time will probably come when immortali...
How to change the world? A tough question to answer because though it may be tempting to think there's a one-size-fits-all answer, each of the myriad ...
Did you factor in exponential population growth? You need to be careful when you use math to make predictions. :point: Mars Climate Orbiter Once bitte...
Seems relevant although I don't know how you'll take it. Any ideas what the absurdist Camus meant? What's the difference really between someone who ta...
Precisely, Euthyphro's dilemma is about what constitutes good and bad. Is it Divine command or is it not? In my book, we can't have reached a normativ...
:up: However, the connection between transhumanism and natalism isn't quite as straightforward as one might think. Immortality is quite obviously goin...
My all-time best thought experiment: What if I "wake up" from a "dream" into the "real world" and then "wake up" to find myself in the "dream" that I ...
Which ethics is non-normative, may I ask? There would be no point in one, right? Divine command theory, as I understand it, is to quite literally put ...
Hard for me to say because virtue ethics is about character/identity of a person as stipulated, it seems, by culture i.e. as some have pointed out, vi...
I don't deny the exceptional utility of classical logics and its spinoffs (Aristotle, Frege, Peirce, et al) but, seriously, they fail to capture some ...
I mulled over the Euthyphro dilemma and here are the results: I find it odd that Socrates should think up Euthyphro's dilemma and also, at the same ti...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er4YU4iTHd4 :rofl: To the extent that I'm aware, the argument that DIllahunty is having with the gentlemen who appear ...
I was merely pointing to the fact that "beloved of God" is just another way of saying pious. Socrates' argument only works if that isn't the case. Tha...
Your concerns are well-founded. Using classical logic and its spin-off predicate logic, logics Dillahunty seems to be well-versed in, would mean think...
Perhaps there's a grain of truth in it. The expression, "my career ended before it even started" does make sense, right? The way I parse it is, that w...
Distributed middle term test: The middle term, the term missing in the conclusion ,the inferential link between the major and minor terms in the concl...
:clap: :rofl: Sorry for butting in but the dilemma dissolves once we realize the fact that, beloved of God = pious. So, the question, "is something pi...
Dillahunty's argument P1: All things X cares about are things that are logically objective P2: No things X cares about are things identical to Y Ergo,...
I have a feeling that you might want to look into, analyze thoroughly, an expression that seems to be, luckily or not, a stock phrase employed by thos...
When you're on a train, one sometimes feels the train on another track is moving while the truth is the train you're on is actually moving. It's relat...
My thoughts exactly but I fear some psychological disorder is at play in looking at pity in this fashion. My own take is there are two kinds of pity b...
Sometimes, a language, despite its immense capabilities, lacks the word that matches the feelings/ideas going through our hearts/minds and then, what ...
Indeed, it's true that Kant's categorical imperative is content independent. It's, let's just call it, a formula more general than, that's a big clue,...
If one considers adopting the personal maxim, "I shall steal", this maxim only provides benefits in a world in which stealing is a no-no! Now, if you ...
That's exactly what I meant - the point, if it is one, of morality is to cover all the bases i.e. any good moral theory must eventually pass the Kanti...
Gracias! I'm sure I'll get around to reading him one day. Let's hope I remember the pointers you gave me these past few days. :up: You hit the nail on...
Midgley means business! First impression is the last impression as far as I'm concerned. https://youtu.be/yLgMsqjsj58 Heeeelp! I thought lawyers were ...
A surgeon's keen scalpel can neatly cut out a tumor; taken to the jugular, it's a different story. :up: That said, science is the poster boy of the ra...
If God's the (only) reason that keeps you on the straight and narrow, then you'll have to answer one question, why? My best guess, from my own experie...
The answer: The number of lines in a plane - the number of lines in that plane that pass through that point = Infinity - Infinity. It's been a long dr...
Indeed, some wrinkles that need a hot iron. At best, all I can reasonably assert is, "Thinking is going on." Does that mean there's a thinker doing th...
:up: I've been giving this issue some CPU time as it were on my brain but the results are far from satisfactory. I've been thinking analogically about...
Bad analogy? May be, not sure. Is it correct to say my legs contain walking or that my fingers contain typing? Is the function of a dog's fur containe...
I guess so. The impression that I get is all moral theories till date has the fatal flaw of being unable to cover all the bases i.e. there are multipl...
Pros: You won't have to reinvent the wheel. Cons: You won't discover anything new. Pros: You might discover something new. Cons: You'll probably reinv...
I'm sure there's someone who must've already discovered this particularly interesting truth - its veracity, however, is cast into doubt by the existin...
I still can't wrap my head around M = {M} Assume M = {x} is the mind (M) is thinking about x Steps to self-awareness 1. The mind is thinking about fir...
:ok: :ok: I believe this is referred to as conflict of duties?! :lol: We're all confused in one way or another, right? You've raised an important issu...
Well, to be frank, it appears that Russell's paradox pops up in the weirdest of places. First thing that must happen is the mind "set" must contain so...
Right up my alley my dear Jack Cummins. I've been doing that my entire life and the results have been "amazing", if you know what I mean. :wink: :wink...
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