I know that, that's why I said notice the procession of action: systematizing, defending, and recommending. Those actions describe ethics as a branch ...
Invented or discovered isn't what the issue was. It was whether or not math is objective, which it isn't. It's a subjective system formulated by human...
I'm sure some people may debate it, but it's self-evident that numbers don't exist in reality, even if things are arranged in a mathematically consist...
No, behavior covers both public, as well as private human action. Neither are necessarily contingent upon one another across all circumstances. To ass...
False Dichotmomy. There may in fact be many other options, but your interlocutor is arbitraily limiting your options so as to have you percieve and in...
Right? As if Mother Teresa was anything short of a deluded holy fool who ended up getting a lot of people killed in very miserable fashion. My thing i...
Oh, of course not. I haven't made that argument. In fact, I have affirmed numerous times that each individual's values are informed by cultural achiev...
I guess you missed the portion of the passage I sent where he emphasizes the specific self-sufficiency he was talking about. He wasn't talking about i...
No, that's what Plato, Aristotle, and I have been arguing. You have been arguing this: "The realm of the virtue of being just is directed toward relat...
About time someone showed up with some sense. This was starting to get tiring. The glaringly bizarre thing about this thread is these people are asser...
Didn't say you were. What everyone here seems to be arguing, is that ethics are exclusively the domain of interpersonal relations. Whereas I am and ha...
Literally from the first paragraph onward. The entire essay is about how he formulates his ethics over the course of many works. What is predictaed up...
The Stanford essay clearly distills the gist of what is the predicate for any following ethical deliberations. That gist being first the pursuit of in...
The actual answer to this question is that people cannot be trusted with power. People even more cannot be trusted with power that is distinguished by...
Glad we're understanding. You wouldn't want me to think that you actually believe that you are the property of me and your other countrymen, would you...
Is this supposed to be an argument? Some people thought something was idiotic? Well, I think that people who predicate their ethics on benefiting othe...
Societies are inanimate concepts, they do not govern themselves. The country I live in was predicated upon the right of the people to not only govern ...
No, I understand it, it is irrelevant. It doesn't matter what has shaped my values. What matters is what I choose to do. My actions are solely the res...
The fact that there are forces in the world that can implement overwhelming force over me to steal my house and enslave my body, does not negate the f...
It's quite literally the basis of his ethics, expounded upon across multiple works. He doesn't decouple them, it's that the political aspect of ethics...
This is completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter how values are shaped or within what culture an individual lives. Each individual chooses to direct t...
I'm going to need you to read with a bit more attention to detail. I reiterate: this passage from The Republic above has nothing to do with Platonic o...
I get that it addresses what Socrates and the rest wanted to force the members of the Just City to do, but the Just City is itself secondary to Plato'...
I regret to inform you that these passages here are discussing two things specifically that have nothing to do with ethics: One being the Just City, w...
This is beautiful. Yes, now that you have elaborated on it, I see your question way clearer. I'm going to be honest, there isn't much that I could add...
No, what makes it right from the utilitarian perspective is that it increases utility. It isn't one dimensional as you put. The more the better, but a...
No, that is also not the case. Jeremy Bentham and Mills divised an ethical framework to cover both individual and interpersonal ethics (Utilitarianism...
No, not true. The idea that gave rise to the concept of ethics came from Socrates, which was to understand how to live the "good life," as he called i...
Yeah, no worries. Honestly, I think there is just too much being lost in written tex here. Plus, ethics is a pretty broad and deep topic with many, ma...
I'm not sure what you think it is that I have asserted is my position. I argued that there are multiple frameworks of ethics that encompass more than ...
Off the top of my head, I can only think of philosophers who actually pioneer new philosophies and epistemologies, like Ayn Rand, or Jeremy Benthem. I...
But, it's not. Morality encompassess the behaviors I engage in privately, as I have the power to impact my life in ways both beneficial and deleteriou...
Well, no. Not if the contribution was genuinely new. For example, both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace are both the original developers of evolutiona...
No, they would both still be philosophers, if they meet the criteria set out in quote two there. It isn't about drawing the same conclusions, or not. ...
Excellent question, exactly the direction I was hoping this would go naturally. Can one study philosophy without becoming a philosopher? Yes, in fact ...
No, you misunderstood, I said your assertion that morality ONLY applies to other people is not broadly accepted as even the most rudimentary of positi...
I agree here, Karl. And that elucidates me on some points your were making a while ago that didn't makes sense to me. I'm in complete accord with you....
100% with you. The Forms is a cool concept and there is something intuitively true about it, but it isn't very comprehensive. Logos is also important ...
That's an incredibly binary view of ethics. You are entirely disregarding individual morality. Morality applies to both individuals and interpersonal ...
and Are incompatible statements: The study of knowledge, reality, and existence is not belief in truth for the sake of it being understood, or obscure...
What an excellent response. I love your perspective. Mine differs slightly in a few regards only. One being that I have no problem regarding myself as...
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