L'éléphant

:sweat: lol. Believe me, there are uptight introverts whose sex acts match their own personality. Are you a quiet personality and don't interact much?...

The study of human anatomy is where to start. If you're missing an appendix since birth, that's not normal. But getting your appendix removed later on...

It would be hard for me to take a societal diagnostic seriously when it's coming from a corrupted view. Pardon me if the juxtaposition is unintentiona...

I get your OP. But I sense a dread and weariness in you, like a solo traveler in a jungle of information and online presence. Your example 1-6 are goo...

If we follow Plato's good pleasure, then the bad ones are the vices -- where pleasure is mixed with pain, compulsion, deception, or obsession. The pop...

If we are judging "evil" by the size of suffering, then we ourselves are misguided. The means to an end is what we judge as morally reprehensible or m...

That someone is disrespectful. Black is for mourning. At least among my people.

You do not need to undermine your own reasoning if you follow Aristotle's method of deliberation. You do not even need to sacrifice your moral princip...

Because of the operation of the mind -- thoughts are modes of thinking. If a thought can cause you another thought, are you not removing the mind from...

It's not causation. It's memory retrieval. With unfamiliar people or territory, however, imagination is the source of continued thoughts. Causation is...

Correct. The article is suggesting that a targeted environmental policy would be the promising solution rather than looking at the link between wealth...

Okay, good conclusion. Not all of us will be thinkers. Solitude and thinking is a predisposition. That's why philosophy is always misunderstood. Yes, ...

There is actually a marked time when the Christmas tradition was commercialized and that's around mid-1800. That said, no one is saying that give-givi...

@"ChatteringMonkey" So true. This is a good specific aspect of economic growth. I found this article to support the sentiment regarding environmental ...

Christmas used to be good. The spirit and the season were different. Then retail stores took over the tradition and now Christmas is about spending.

Economic analysts and researchers have something to say about perpetual economic growth. But since this is a big topic, which requires analysis, name ...

This is presumption. I have not actually accepted the premise that evolutionary game theory is the explanation for morality. Remember, religion was th...

Sorry, but these are both rubbish definitions. Science does not require proof of it's findings. It is enough that a systematic process of observation ...

And if we only had one choice at the time, then yes, the answer is no. But I have no idea why determinism works here. I actually do not understand the...

Actually I was referring to the evolutionary game theory you mentioned when I said VOI could counter it. I'm still not quite sold on morality as coope...

First, congratulations on your submission. Not an easy thing to write for publication. Not all. Tyrannical moral laws were part of the past (and prese...

No special name except it's " choice overload". But the psychologist Barry Schwartz wrote about the paradox of choice. There is the danger of paralysi...

Your olive tree looks amazing!

Good, ranty post! No. What Chalmers meant by this, which you point out correctly is the gist of the whole endeavor, is that the brain, which is physic...

Many countries have no social security like the US or Europe. The dynamics of aging and surviving do not rely solely on 'artificially' formed social s...

Well said.

Yes, that is actually the consequence. I don't think anyone has been jailed for offensive gestures and language. Unless it is an assault or murder. I ...

There are situations where loss does not have to be experienced to appreciate the value of life itself. Blissful ignorance is one. There were isolated...

Yes, here you can find them. If you don't find it here, I think that either you haven't spent enough time here to find those conversations that engage...

:grin: I don't remember who that thinker was who commented on this behavior against other philosophers who seemed to have been doing it in their writi...

Being a "Philosopher" is usually someone who does it for a living such as educators, scholars, and thinkers who publish books critiqued by peers. Time...

Lol. Though cannibalism happened, there were some evidence that some tribes did it against enemies. As a victorious behavior. At the same time, there ...

I would think not crazy but prone to generalization and using arguments by jumping to conclusions, unsupported claims like like everyone is a philosop...

The use of the word "maturing" here is suspect. It is because according to historical accounts, maturity of the mind, similar to the conception of "mo...

This is a very astute observation, which reminds me it is at the back of my mind, though I was not coherently aware of what's happening with the use o...

There's a gap in his argument regarding 'man's search for meaning is the man's purpose'. I am also not satisfied with that. What I find is that, "purp...

This news was 3 months ago, during which I was also gone from the forum. So I'm just now posting this. So sad to find out she had passed away. She was...

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Acknowledging that we have a moral obligation -- which in itself is restriction, but not oppressive -- is what a moral agent is.

Haha! :grin: Bizzare indeed. You witnessed the power of shared craving. :up: Supercute pic! Looks like it was a successful hunt.

Subjectivity will always occupy an important place in philosophy. Note that I emphasized errors in thinking, not the depravity of subjectivity. In fac...

Weird. Two days ago I bought a jar of kalamata olives with the intention of eating them with cheese.

Angelo, I like your posts. You should have started a new thread with that kind of thinking. They are well written. My criticism to what you said about...

What you're saying is maybe good on paper. But, let me go back to the concept of individualism. Your vision of a society is one that's organized and s...

Tom's post is eerily true. No mass revolts on the street against tobacco and cigarette when the surgeon general put the warning on the cigarette.

@"Wolfy48" Free speech, as conceived by the writers of the law, is never absolute. Nothing is absolute in any given society. Your conception of free s...

Not quite. A society that values 'individualism' will have its share of unintended consequences. Think of people who do not make an effort to contribu...

Medical researchers work nonstop. Even while the world sleeps. She is a super granny!

The philosophical justification for punishment desert. I did not invent this.

Good to know you're out of it and doing well. It hit people differently. Many did not show obvious symptoms that they have covid.