Astrophel

Depends on what is at issue. More to the point is when what we observe overwhelms what we believe. Language brings the world to heel with pass the sal...

If the history is IN the occurrent ethical issue then I follow the epoche down to the wire: I call the history incidental, Hume's facts, along with ev...

But it is not up to me, I mean, I don't decide what is delicious, disgusting, joyful, wretched and so on. I may choose among things, but choices all p...

I don't follow.

I ask then, what is in an attraction or repulsion? Sorry about this elentic method of going about this. My argument is not popular, so I am not going ...

Odd here: You speak of innate moral intuitions, then deride ethical Realism with a capital R. At any rate, no it's not naïve at all. In fact, the idea...

If there is a foundation that reveals itself in the inspection of the phenomenon of ethics, then what would that be?

I don't wish to discuss reason beyond saying, with Hume, that reason is just a vessel (and Kant did analyze reason, calling it a synthetic principle, ...

But you know what I'm going to say already, I suspect. In what I have read of Husserl and his intuitive foundation as a bedrock of philosophical analy...

Not much in the way of speculation is called for. Merely description. When we want to philosophically analyze ethical issues, we generally look to the...

You said, "Meh. Ethical actions tend to betray rationality more often then not, I'd think." I take this to mean you think talk about ethics is reducib...

What is non reciprocal helping? I, mean, someone is not reciprocating in their .....help?

I'll read one. Then I'll get back to you.

But you already know how this goes. One doesn't do until one know what lies before one. And further: the question cares nothing about what to do. It a...

But then, it is certainly a different matter using a conditional logical form to talk about the weather, on the one hand, and talking about assaulting...

Well, this just a tad general, don't you think? Reason could be here substituted for ethics and it would still be true. What kind of doctrine would an...

Keep in mind, there are metaethical answers to this question that vary wildly.

Why, metaethics? Whatever cold you mean by this?

Note how the definition is supposed to identify " the target of moral theorizing. So, social theory, e.g., finds this target and then can organize its...

What you describe is a structured event whereby "inborn" feelings of fairness and justice are taken up in fixed systems of thought. I am sure this is ...

Of course. But oughts are about normativity and they are everywhere. One ought to put on socks before shoes. But all oughts have their terms of engage...

It is not the definition of moral theory I am after. Note how this "definition" puts the burden of analysis on the "target", then proceeds to defer to...

Saved by irony? Is this truly the best we can do? Does "the world" really hand this to us as its essential bottom line? Art in literature and history ...

I don't see how this can be disagreed with. Experience is not a thing of discreet parts; rather, parts are in the analysis. There is no pure reason an...

My thoughts are a work in progress. In play is the indefeasibility of affectivity (this being a general term for a classification of existentials like...

I was thinking of an ontological indeterminacy. I mean, if I deconstruct my cat, and the arbitrariness of the signifier cannot be made non arbitrary i...

That is where it ends up, I think. Happiness, unhappiness and everything you can think of that fit into these (which is everything in experience, for ...

I have Violence and Metaphysics here. Let me read it and se if I understand it.

Before talk about evolution, let's talk about the structure of a perceptual act, the apperceptive nature of the encounter, the analysis of the knowled...

But you see, I wonder if sense can be made at all out of guilt. What makes a person guilty? We are always led to decisions made that cause some pain t...

Can't say I follow, Boagie. Can you elaborate?

Innocence and guilt make no sense to me at all. I think when we refer to a child's innocence, we are really referring to her purity and uncluttered ex...

But doesn't the "difference" make indeterminate any spoken utterance at the level of the most basic analysis? I do see that undecidability is preferre...

We want to have our cake and eat it, too. But these militate against each other, don't they. The more you return to innocence, the more you have to fo...

How close this is to Heidegger's problem. Our pragmatism gets us out of trouble and scrapes in the world, but then it creates a false sense of existen...

Did I say generational?? I meant 'generative'.

Yeah, quite so. But am I...myself, if I am not aware at some second order of thinking? Odd to ask such a thing. I look back at childhood, see the flui...

Isn't this the obvious truth? When I am IN a good experience, a really good one, I am not aware of anything else. Its "dependence" only comes into pla...

Ain't it? It's like being in love. Once there, you don't want to talk about it because talk takes, if you will, the ready-to-hand out of the whole aff...

I read it. A fascinating engagement, but then, I can't give a technical response since that would take a lot of rereading of texts and putting things ...

This thought experiment here is ill conceived because causality is NOT derived from physics. It is presupposed by physics. The principle of least acti...

The hard part is to ground intrinsicness. Language itself, the defining and contextualizing, gives whatever it takes up a form that can be controlled,...

Oh. I get the point. Intrinsic value is useless, it has no utility, not good for something else.....I was a bit slow on this. I thought you had no use...

No, no. I mean, you say intrinsic value is useless. Yet the notion of instrumentality implies something that is not useless, something that is for wha...

Useful instrumentality begs the question: instrumental for what? This will no doubt point to something else that bears the same question, until someth...

But you have to see that conscious subject ARE the world. There is nothing localized about a person at the broadly conceived totality. I am what the w...

I think you are close, or, closer than anyone I have come across. But you don't quite say what intrinsic value IS. The having it as something on the v...

I'd have to read about it. I found The Embodied Mind, revised edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Varela, Thompson and Rosch. Is this a...

First, calling something physical, material, is, in itself, simply vacuous. When scientists and everyday talk refer to some material object, it is jus...

As I see it: If conscious events are reducible to physical events (Dennett), and physical events are only accessible in conscious observations, then p...