You should have known something was amiss just from the grammar. Hebrew doesn't have a third person objective perspective (the depersonalized "thou," ...
The use of prior decisions does not require blind adherence to unnuanced rules, but it allows the opposite, where each prior decision can be considere...
It's common that we document prior decisions and use those decisions to form future opinions. It's the basis of Talmudic law and anglo-saxon based leg...
You're arguing self evidency or something. I really don't follow this. It's bad to kick puppies and if anyone disagrees it means they're a bad person ...
If I say the sun ought shine because the sun does shine, that's the is/ought fallacy If I say the sun ought shine because the book of morals says it o...
I have provided answers to your questions. Maybe not satisfying to you, but nevertheless responses. My reference to the moral elites was to point out ...
No, it's not. The naturalistic fallacy is to claim the world is X so it ought be X. I'm saying the morality which governs is Y, so if the world doesn'...
I don't know. It's your theory. I am arguing morality is discovered, not created. But my questions remain: Why can't a law be more moral than a moral ...
No, if morality arises from something other than the morally elite properly weighing the varying goods of others, it maintains that distinction, namel...
My thoughts on this is that you seem to bevcollapsing the distinction between morality and law. We accept the latter is arrived at by social negotiati...
That's pure subjectivism. If I get to decide and you get to decide then we're the definers of the good. The problem is that plenty of bad people do de...
Do you not take anti-realism to be assigning the good to social construction? But I don't mean to put words in your mouth. Why is the Trumpian express...
Vaccine avoidance isn't typically based upon religious objection, but upon a misunderstanding of science. That is, they think they are being scientifi...
I am. You'll have objectively measurable results to determine if you've met your subjective goals, which would not necessarily mean accepting truths (...
The Euthyphro dilemma. "Socrates asks whether the gods love the pious because it is the pious, or whether the pious is pious only because it is loved ...
It's an ancient piece of art hanging on the wall, subject to interpretation. I see the availability of a holy cleansing always present regardless of h...
A fable saddens you, thinking of all the people who couldn't board the ark, but relieved to know the horses, iguanas, frogs, and polar bears made it. ...
It's the basis for all social decisions we make. Why do we pass some laws and not others? Why do we build some buildings and not others? Your asking h...
His books were not generally banned due to concerns about limited literacy. They were officially and specifically banned for all readers because they ...
Maimonides attempted to offer a philosophicaly rational basis for specific religious revealed beliefs centuries earlier. Descartes' required a rationa...
You can't acknowledge an exception and say "always." The best you can say is "mostly , " but then you'll have to start counting. Maybe we can say "som...
Theistic (and deistic) bases exist as do secular ones. Human rights can exist without God and can transcend government. The question is of moral reali...
Rights are not granted by institutions. Institutions are obligated to protect rights you already have.. Rights are an inherent part of being human. Wh...
Yeah, that's not at all how Mill seperated the higher and lower pleasures. It had nothing (as in zero) to do with epistemic methods. Moral concern was...
On Passover, we would slaughter a lamb and pour its blood on the door so that Yahweh would pass over the homes of the Jews and only kill the Egyptian ...
More nostalgia for you. When I was probably 6 or 7, I would walk up to the gas station and convenience store about a mile from my house and buy candy....
I lost my key a long time ago and keep my garage door unlocked. It's been unlocked for years. Sometimes, like if a repair person needs to come over an...
When I was a kid, you'd drive up to the gas station and drive over this air hose and it would make a ding sound and a guy would run out to your car to...
I think the more generic the better, which would suggest "belief" be substituted for "religion," and then theism just being a specific example of reli...
Yes. Theism is not of the same category as science. The latter is but an empirical gathering tool, occasionally at odds with religious claims. The for...
So atheism is no belief, just an empty set? Assuming that's a correct bit of psychoanalysis, how does it change what I said? A belief is not to be mea...
It's possible that the better part of the life of the theist isn't spent fretting over the epistemological differences between scientism and the vario...
Two Types of Faith by Martin Buber. He describes the difference between the Christian concept of faith and the Jewish one. The topic of "what is faith...
My point was that your position is not tenable, evidenced by the fact that it is not held by anyone who has critically looked at the matter. It's just...
Ok. But I never disputed the distinction between bots and people. People have souls (or "being alive and mindful" if that's your preferred phrase). I ...
There are plenty of reasons not to engage a bot even if the bot fully passed the Turing test. Which major philosopher holds to the position that every...
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