Leontiskos

:up: Your proof for the thesis that curved lines are not composed of straight lines is concise:

x = 1 y = z So you would say that example (1) and example (2) are equally absolute and relative? The value of x and the value of y are equally absolut...

I don't think this claim is true according to mathematical calculus. In calculus if the infinitesimal rate of change is constant it can be represented...

Math is a good place to start: Absolute: x = 5 (The value of x is absolute) Relative: x = y * 3 (The value of x is relative to the value of y) There i...

But you are still presupposing that there is a single issue (you are still speaking of "the issue"). I am asking what that single issue is supposed to...

What about the argument is uniquely consequentialist? It seems like the argument will apply generally, and not only to consequentialists. This is a pr...

That sounds good to me. I will probably ask for a clarification in the future. It's just that I don't always like to bog down complex threads with cla...

Good point. It's interesting, though, that in Eastern Christianity the nature/grace and reason/faith distinctions are not as stark as they are in the ...

Sorry, I can see why that would be deeply confusing. :blush: My words are often intended to be applicable to multiple different contexts or layers, bu...

No worries. There was an ambiguity that I didn't quite understand, but I wrote my posts in such a way that they would apply both to personal outcomes ...

Me too, but we happen to be in the ethics sub-forum, and that's why I am talking about ethics. :wink:

Because we are talking about moral acts. If we want to define the act that someone has carried out for the purpose of moral evaluation, then the prima...

Yes, Milbank takes the thesis into new frontiers. My sense is that almost all Medievalists accept the thesis with qualifications, and modern philosoph...

Here I would want to distinguish between what is perceived to be fixable and what an agent is actually able to fix. The second important distinction i...

Because according to the two primary spheres in which we judge acts, law and morality, the assessment is first and foremost guided by what the agent b...

Blinking and breathing are not acts in the philosophical sense.

That's true, but at the same time Gerson is opening up the can of worms within his own discipline and therefore providing a stepping stone for someone...

Thanks for the clarification. That's what I figured--I just wanted to make sure. To be fair, Aristotle's metaphysical account of proximate matter alwa...

Thanks for the references. I just reread Phaedo last week so I will be curious to have a look at the thread. Fair enough. :smile: Okay, that is an int...

Interesting OP, @"Judaka"! I see two questions here: motivation and adequacy. The first concerns whether one is motivated to change; the second concer...

Okay, thanks for explaining that to me. I understand now. I agree about these "effects of morality in a social context." I found this comment interest...

Yes, I think that's right. And of course there are unreflective individuals who do seek pleasure in an undifferentiated fashion, but this would be 'he...

I agree wholeheartedly with this. I call it 'pejorification' (of a word). In fact, it seems to happen most frequently with the concept of morality, wh...

Indeed. Good post! True, but 'hedonism' as it is often used is more of a philosophical punching bag than something which anyone actually adheres to. H...

The first thing to remember is that intellection and ratiocination are intellectual acts, not sentences. When trying to understand intellection I thin...

Okay. I think this gets into definitions of coercion, and whether our relation to reason is heteronomous or autonomous. It is the question of whether ...

Okay, I just did a close read of the thread and I think I have a better grasp of what you are saying. Sorry, I should have done that earlier, but I fi...

The same question persists even if we want to talk about the PNC as the thing recognized rather than a recognition: If X is something we recognize, ca...

I claimed that the law of non-contradiction is a presupposition, and you have continually counter-claimed that it is a recognition, not a presuppositi...

(Permit me to ask for a quick clarification before responding to some of your points) Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding and clarifying your vi...

I'm not sure you are appreciating that the things that I am saying to you are responses to the things you have said. Hence, if you are right, and the ...

Right, but for Aristotle the principle of non-contradiction is not something that you can take or leave. It's not as though you can say, "Ah, I feel l...

@"Judaka", For context, you should know I have only read four of your OP's: "Personal Morality is Just Morality" "Morality is Coercive and Unrealistic...

Thanks, that was a very strong post. :up: I suppose my difficulty is that the only unflattering words in my post were, "have it both ways," and this p...

Okay, thanks. I don't at all doubt that this is the case. In fact my assumption is that the critique would involve the claim that Gerson is projecting...

Yes, but to @"Isaac"'s credit, what did the <post> that started this exchange have to do with unwanted meddling or moralizing? Why did @"Tzeentch" lau...

But the further corollary is that anyone who believes themselves to be coherent and consistent is presupposing the principle of non-contradiction. Tha...

May I ask for your precise critique of his argument as it relates to this thread? In a well-known argument Gerson claims that the immateriality of the...

Whereas I would say that insofar as one understands a religion one will be capable of understanding many things about adherents of that religion, and ...

There is definitely a resemblance. Aristotle's rationale was that syllogistic reasoning is not self-supporting, and requires non-syllogistic first pri...

Indeed. As I said earlier, definitions are important when dealing with such an ambiguous term. @"Darkneos" seems to be under the impression that by "i...

If you understand the context, we were considering the separation involved in personal morality. Judaka proposed the idea that the separation is parti...

That's right, and I tend to think that personal morality denies a common human nature, by denying that things which are intrinsically applicable to on...

Perhaps! But I don't delve into religion too often on philosophy forums. I only gave my religious leanings so that others may better understand what s...

Thanks! It is working fine now. I probably made a reading mistake when I received a barrage of notifications.

You can obviously do a great deal more with Stylebot if you so desire. I enjoy the simplicity of the default styles for this website, but I did add a ...

Okay, so this is my first learning moment. BC quoted me without mentioning me, and I did not receive a notification. This presumably means that quotes...

I had to make it through the door first! :sweat: I don't really know what it means either. I suppose it means that I am a contradiction. :naughty: Mor...

Hello, my name is Leontiskos, after the ancient Greek wrestler. It made a great deal of sense to me when I learned that wrestling and philosophy went ...

Intuition is a notoriously ambiguous term in philosophy, and in this case definitions will become especially important. BonJour calls it "rational ins...