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Right, or they should move on to the next category. If they don't understand how to handle a hypothetical then ethics will elude them altogether. Besi...

- Yes, good points. Thank you. Clearly what is occurring in this thread is that some are refusing to answer for one reason or another because they do ...

Here is what you said: The idea is, "Rather than something leaving the body, the body stops doing stuff it once did." Hence my <post>, noting the fals...

I think that's basically right, but it does get complicated. Speaking plainly, for the Aristotelian the soul is the principle that accounts for the di...

Yes, I think that's right. Your first point is about a "reason to believe," and I would point you to what I said about argument in my last post. These...

I take it that this is a typo and you are asking for advice regarding hotboxing. --- - That sounds great. I've contemplated it, but never committed.

Yes, indeed. But I prefer to drop two over-easy eggs on my buttered toast, along with shredded cheese, pepper and Tabasco. But that's about as complex...

But does anyone disagree and claim that the body keeps working the same way after death? An appeal to a soul is an appeal to a reason why a body "stop...

You will end up asking, "What do you mean by that term?," at which point a definition will emerge from below the surface, where it was always waiting....

A libertarian is simply one who rejects compatibilism and determinism. The specific varieties differ. According to SEP a libertarian is simply one who...

Not everyone can afford it, therefore...? Why do they feel cheated? My thought is that there is nothing wrong with it. Issues only arise when no subst...

Do you suppose there are a lot of children hanging out at armament factories during the night?

I would say that the brave person confronts fear, but the fearless person has no fear to confront. Yet the fearless person is irrational, for some thi...

But this is false. Not every action taken against a justified cause is immoral, much less punishable. I agree that one can retaliate (in due proportio...

I feel like you are making a category error with respect to 'final cause'. What do you mean by that term and why does your 'initial cause' make that m...

Of course not. Intentional and unintentional killing are not morally equivalent. (I didn't understand the substance of the question until I saw the so...

Okay thanks, that's interesting. You're right that Buddhism is a rather different question. I think Yog?c?ra could subscribe to something approximatin...

Okay. :up: Okay, you are right that this is a second issue. I think it will be best to avoid it within this thread. Yes, agreed. Would it be right to ...

I think there are two basic philosophical questions at stake in this. The first is how to account for error and false opinion. The second is how to ac...

I'm not sure I understand your question. Let's take an example: the final cause of an acorn is an oak tree. Presumably you are positing that there is ...

I actually stumbled upon something that fills the historical gap. The sort of Occasionalism you are tending towards does have a premodern patrimony, b...

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I had the same thought, but when I re-read the OP I realized it doesn't commit itself to this. With the exception of p5, the OP is entirely negative: ...

- But does "whole 'nother" mean "significantly better"? Sometimes, but in a more basic sense I think it means, "Wholly other," or, "Belonging to an en...

Geographical or cultural pride is becoming an altogether opaque notion, and this is unfortunate. I am not from the South but I have no quarrel with "S...

I think you are mixing up sufficient and necessary conditions. This is how I read the OP: If A is existentially dependent upon B, then B is a necessar...

This is just another quibble. When someone says, "Science pursues X," they are not claiming that science exists apart from scientists. The problem is ...

But "necessary intersubjective agreement" is also different from "intersubjective agreement," so the difference persists. Some intersubjective agreeme...

Well to say that "there is no room for disagreement" is different from saying "there is intersubjective agreement." My conclusion that they are contra...

- Unfortunately my time is a bit short, so I am going to try to move the conversation towards our main disagreement as I see it: "Ends are not a prope...

Okay, that is helpful. :up: What's interesting here is that your theory of truth seems bound up with intersubjective agreement, which is nothing more ...

The OP seems fairly obvious. I think you need to follow through on this: What was the more interesting/compelling application you had in mind?

I think so too. Unlike a degree, a point connotes a limit. In my experience the phrase is used in the U.S. It may be used more in Britain, but I would...

- Yes. :up: --- Science pursues truth. It does not pursue expediency, or the promotion of special interests, or the winning of the arms race, etc. (an...

I've grown fond of that bricklayer analogy given in the post above. The problem comes up in so many different areas nowadays, with relative value bein...

Here is something I jotted down last night after shutting off my computer: Public demonstrability is not an end in itself. For this reason, the person...

- But it's more belief than sight. "I believe things are valuable," not, "I see/construe things as valuable." That's why we act: because we believe th...

I think that's a good description of the problem. :up: Right, there is a disagreement about human nature occurring here. Granted, Aristotle does not t...

Okay, I sort of see what you are saying, but I have never experienced this problem. Granted, there are so-called "philosophers" who try very hard to m...

Sure. A reductive hedonist might say that only pleasure is sought and all pleasure is commensurable. My point here isn't to get into that debate, but ...

Science pursues truth, namely scientific truth. It does not pursue non-scientific truth, such as philosophical or political truths.

Statesmen can and do motivate action among citizens, both good and, yes, bad. (Have you ever noticed that you sometimes end up on the exact same topic...

Right. :up: This gets into Liberalism debates, such as Peter L. P. Simpson's "Political Illiberalism." It is similar to 's point about political philo...

I've never understood the idea that, "You can't legislate morality." Mostly, you can. Especially when we conceive of societal problems in terms of agg...

A relatively weak argument, not a fallacy. This is a rather important distinction, even though the argument from authority has little to do with the t...

Okay, so that's where I think we would end up disagreeing. I don't think that phenomenon is absent from religion, but I don't think it explains all me...

"Not only that" in the sense that good is not man-made. For example, food is good for man, and this truth is not man-made. But I realize you disagree ...

I agree with this. Are you not also saying that the altered states are primary or prior, and the metaphysical beliefs are derivative or posterior? I g...

Yes, but this is an argument about what is good, and presupposes a desire for the good in both parties. You are saying to the divine command theorist,...