Is this thread still active? I want to bounce this off you. It's my suspicion that either "good" doesn't mean anything i.e. it's meaningless or "good"...
Amazing insight! :up: :clap: Indeed, the definition of good and bad itself can be said to be good or bad (in a moral sense). That means the definition...
Oh! It first looked like you were taking us down the path of the Socratic examined life but what you actually want to say is that the quest to discove...
@"Wayfarer" I've already touched upon the gist of this post in recent posts addressed to you in other threads but you might've missed them so I reiter...
I want to run something by you if you don't mind. It's got to do with an obvious fact viz. that there are two worlds - the physical and the mental - t...
It is supported by observation. That's why the atheist is making this claim. To avoid more confusion, by "observation", the atheist is actually referr...
I'm not equivocating. To the extent that I'm aware I haven't made an argument in which I switch the meaning of "reason" from purpose/function to somet...
I don't quite get what you mean by rationalizing. To my knowledge, that term carries a negative connotation viz. the tendency to attribute one's actio...
This statement reflects a disregard for an obvious fact. While the matter of whether the universe and life have any purpose or whether there's a reaso...
Yes but the question the OP's asking isn't about causes. The OP wants to know if there's a reason why we should have children i.e. in what way does be...
I suppose you're right. Most of those who make up the human tribe will manage to live relatively happy lives but an unlucky few will have to face the ...
This approach to good & bad, morality in general, is promising for it seems to focus, rightly so, on the basics - the desired quality of life would in...
I don't know where I heard this but it's said that there are two important facts that each and every one of has to realize viz. there are things we ca...
Is all that worth the pain the child will have to go through in life? The way things are going - prevailing values which put money and power first - t...
This would be the wrong way to assess knowledge levels of people. It's too narrow a window to get a clear view of how aware people are of facts. The w...
We're nature's, life's, only hope of extricating itself from being at the mercy of chance. With our brains, excuse the hyperbole if one feels there's ...
To reiterate myself, Carl Jung seems to have been unable to tell whether his feelings about god pointed to something real and objective outside instea...
I agree that the matter is far more complex than I've made it out to be. Nevertheless, I noticed something viz. the identical nature of the two with r...
You're absolutely right of course. I only meant to draw your attention to the fact that both atheism and theism claim to know what the truth is but, t...
Do both sides, even as belligerently opposed as they are, not claim to be right, to know the truth? They're indistinguishable in that sense. The two, ...
Truth be told, you're asking the wrong person. My suggestion is that you read up on morality from a good source like :point: The Definition Of Moralit...
Very utilitarian in flavor. Even the moral conundrums in your moral theory resemble those of utilitarianism. I suggest you don't waste time reinventin...
If it's the monetary aspects of vaccines - the profit motive - that's disconcerting to you, I suggest you follow the money so to speak and you might b...
A couple of things to consider. Suppose Mr. X claims P. He can't do that without an argument i.e. Mr. X must have an argument that proves P. If Ms. Y ...
I guess that boils down to Carl Jung being, like some of us, unsure whether god is real or a figment of his/our imagination. This inability to disting...
Another way to make sense of Agrippa's argument is by rejecting Agrippa's trilemma as something that doesn't matter. When we do that, all that Agrippa...
Since you made the first move with a justification, I followed suit with my own justification. On the whole though you're right on target - I'm not ju...
Ok. Let me try a different approach. Given a vaild argument form and true premises (a sound argument), the conclusion has to be true. This is logic 10...
Agrippa justifies that A = There are no justified beliefs. His argument's premises are Agrippa's trilemma which everyone's familiar with. Thus, Agripp...
Agrippa's conclusion, A = There are no justified beliefs. If A itself were a justified belief, that would contradict A. Ergo, A must be unjustified bu...
I don't mean to be rude or anything like that but I'd like to refer you to the reasons why your argument "...does show that Agrippa's argument doesn't...
How did you arrive at this conclusion? To what do you owe this insight to if not thinking? What I mean by "everything supervenes on thinking" is that ...
Agrippa's Trilemma Argument 1. X = Every argument must have one of the following formats: a) It must be circular i.e. the conclusion is part of the pr...
Thinking well. Given everythjng else supervenes on this one skill, it would stand us in good stead if each and everyone of us honed it to perfection, ...
Others have objected to Agrippa's trilemma as flawed for the following reason. However, first impressions may be deceiving. Agrippa's argument's concl...
I'd say there's nothing wrong with profit motive. It's a sentiment that defines life itself - we need to a get a little more out of something than you...
:up: :ok: Suppose John fantasizes about being the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He is then offered a VR in which he can be Sherlock Holme...
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