If I was to ask Chomsky a question it would relate to beer and philosophical discussion. It’s a common misconception that necessity is the mother of i...
It is of course never justified. As the wording itself says personal development rather than interpersonal development. Despite pushy parenting or goo...
Bad is someone smacking you in the face rather than giving you a 20 dollar bill. Would you be happy to define good or bad in terms of such actions? Ba...
Not sure how to answer your query on oughts let alone imperative oughts. Actually I’m not even sure what you’re asking. Moral behaviour is defined as ...
We’re very far off from understanding our own consciousness or even the conflicting accounts of what free will really is. Mimicry, especially the ling...
They’re not concepts at all and I’m afraid you’re mistaken here, there’s no grey area in the hypothetical situations I’ve just outlined. It’s becoming...
Political philosophy relates to how society should be organised to maximise human happiness, avoid needless suffering and uphold human values such as ...
A lot of questions there Vera Mont, for the sake of brevity let me pose a slightly different question… You’re walking down the road one day and a stra...
Then you’d have to bring the matter of intent into at as @"Metaphysician Undercover" pointed out. This obviously deranged individual, had some prior i...
It’s not as complicated as that, if say you’re in a mall and someone starts shooting randomly because of some mental derangement and you get shot in t...
I don’t understand the point of this response nor am I aware of being intentionally biased towards either side of human nature. My personal view as th...
This makes sense. They have the capacity for both good and bad. Take toddlers for example, occasionally one of them will take the others toy away. If ...
You got lost in the detail and missed the wood for the trees so to speak and are no closer to giving the answer to the question in the thread. See OP ...
Who could argue against the fact that fish are the greatest metaphysicians of all time, pondering the deepest of the deep questions such as what is be...
Hmm if fish have indeed the capacity to go to space then it’s also not a long stretch that they can also philosophise, or would that just be sophishtr...
The question then remains @"Jamal" of natural aptitude, it could be argued in one sense that cats have an innate curiosity for exploration whereas fis...
it would be an outright conspiracy to believe that fish went to space or even the moon before us. I am sceptical however as I have yet to see hard evi...
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/804283 The below image is photoshopped don’t fall for their propaganda, fish never went to space /up...
There are of course many examples of pure evil in history Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Charles Manson, and a few serial killers that I can’t remember the ...
It’s not necessarily a supposition that we’re better than animals, although we are in most aspects, a fish just can’t build a rocket and go to the moo...
Also not interested in the mechanics of evolution for the sake of the question posed , though my responses might have used such terms evolution/creati...
Is that response denying the fact that humans are peak of nature/evolution? @"180 Proof" As I stated in my last post, we’re capable of transcending ou...
@"Vera Mont" @"180 Proof" The apex of creation was followed by “evolutionary scale” if you two bothered to read that paragraph properly. No theologica...
Comparing the animal kingdom in terms of human behaviour is to misunderstand the role of man as the apex of creation, knowledge and reason still creat...
The concept of charity such as feeding the hungry gets neglected by a billionaires escapism for wanting to go to Mars. It is true that there is immeas...
It would not be comprehensible in that sense, as comprehension is something only done be a comprehensive entity, mind, consciousness etc. But you will...
Some religions then, mostly the Abrahamic, keep forgetting about the fringe religions out there. There’s Scientology too if anyone’s interested, you’d...
Your point to this line of questioning? Time exists regardless of rational agents, otherwise you’d claim nothing exists without rational conscious age...
Science tells you how the world works to the extent it can explain it. Religion offers no such explanations to natural phenomena apart from the claim ...
So you want to know if everything is fundamental? Cats for example are not, energy would be … Tractors are not fundamental, fish are not fundamental e...
If space is everything that exists, then it would be meaningless to speak of time outside of it as there is no outside of everything that is. So time ...
On the question of whether consciousness is emergent or fundamental. By fundamental you’d grant it the eternalism aspect that you’d grant the stuff th...
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