But if you are speaking from a single context, and that single context does not encompass all contexts, then you are not permitted to make claims abou...
Okay, and is there a particular ethical system you hold to in this? Am I correct in recalling that you are an Emotivist? Okay, but let's probe your cl...
Sometime in the next week I hope to begin a reading group on the first chapter of Peter Simpson's Goodness and Nature: A Defence of Ethical Naturalism...
I want to say that anyone who holds that there is a "grand scheme" will tend to see reason as bound up in that grand scheme. Stoicism is a clear examp...
I think this is soothing contemporary boilerplate. As you say, it is what resonates with contemporary intuitions. It is also the overcorrection from E...
Agreed. When I was thinking of making a forum I wanted to have it so that each user gets X points per day, and points can only be spent on upvotes and...
Sure, but when I say that as someone who watched a few minutes of his clips or read an article that pulled a few paragraphs out of a single episode, h...
So would you say that some things are not merely misguided but truly evil, and that thoughts can be one of those things? ...The trick here is that I b...
That's fair, and I think Discourse databases are extremely portable, so switching around should be easy if it comes down to that. I have heard that Di...
Okay, fair. Mostly because I've watched more than 5 hours of video and I don't know who Fuentes is (including the Tucker interview, Fuentes' recap, an...
The whole "free speech" angle strikes me as a red herring on this topic. Tucker is of course able to platform Fuentes according to the first amendment...
Yes, and a deeper look can be seen by looking at Simpson's comments on Hume's historical importance (cf. Goodness and Nature: Supplement on Historical...
Peter L. P. Simpson wrote a book named Goodness and Nature: A Defence of Ethical Naturalism and a Critique of its Opponents. He also wrote a supplemen...
I want to say it will be better, and will more properly distinguish the chat from the forum. It's also worth noting that once web pages and forums bec...
This is good timing given the way that Chrome Manifest V3 has killed 's extension (which is nevertheless still temporarily available in Brave, Edge, V...
Congratulations on the move, . :up: Out of curiosity, why did you opt out of your former idea of going with Communiteq hosting? --- Also, "form and co...
The relevant word in question is aret? (?????). You're engaged in an equivocation between what is eristic and what is falsely believed to be eristic. ...
This looks like a strawman coming from a contrarian position, and you seem to have been on a contrarian streak of late. There is a sense in which comp...
- This is a very cogent and well-marshalled post. :up: Quite right. The objection that is sometimes directed to the Aristotelian position which says, ...
:up: I don't remember him getting into that. Here is his concluding paragraph, which might shed some light: Yes, this is a great point. I am going to ...
Sure. :up: And I should say that there is no reason to believe that Aristotle sees this as an overly programmatic or even conscious process. He seems ...
Yes, great stuff. :up: So we could draw this back to the OP a bit (which is quite good): We could reasonably think of Descartes' legacy as truncating ...
(Moral) virtue is for practical life. For Aristotle the philosopher is not as much in need of moral virtue because he is less engaged in practical lif...
Yeah. Peter Simpson sees this as a kind of epistemic reversal, where instead of reasoning from virtues (with Aristotle), one reasons from happiness. C...
The question of "systems" is a subtle one. On my view it can be summed up more simply. A systematic thinker is someone who tends to think always in th...
Yeah, it would be hard to overestimate how true this is. Factionalism breeds extremism. When we misrepresent another position in order to make it appe...
That's true, but the tenured professor is less beholden to the institution than a non-tenured professor. The whole concept of tenure is in part meant ...
Right, and yet I think it is key to understand that societal values and managerial interests are somewhat different. I want to say that such people ar...
Yeah. Granted, I think a society does value citizens who care about truth, but I don't think care for truth is incentivized in overtly material ways, ...
BBC director general (Tim Davie) and the chief executive of BBC news (Deborah Turness) have both resigned over a debacle relating to misleading editin...
The problem could be seen by understanding that no one is paid to, "push back the frontiers of ignorance." Modern research along with the modern resea...
A government could implement a robot tax, but the person responsible for paying such a tax is the robot's owner, not the robot (just as the property t...
But you've answered a different question, namely the question, "Why would anyone want to pay you to do things that do not benefit them in a selfish, m...
Right. I would suggest that should think about why anyone would want to pay him to study simply for the sake of studying, whether that payment occurs ...
Yeah, I think the substantive discussion is largely behind us. :up: I think Bob has done a good job defending his name. At this point the thread doesn...
- Fair enough. Realize though how this post from earlier was meant to assuage the large number of doubts regarding the question of whether in-private ...
It's a good question. And so we learn that Banno is sending PMs to try to drum up sentiment for the notion that Bob is a bigot, behind his back. This ...
Here's the TL;DR that you seem to require: "I was on an international philosophy forum and I encountered someone who holds fundamentally different bel...
Okay, fine. But as has been pointed out, there are lots of LGBT individuals who agree with Bob, and who would find many who oppose him within this thr...
I'll take that as a "yes," which contradicts what you just said. You say no one is personally attacking Bob and then you continue to personally attack...
I don't mean to be too hard on you. As , you have engaged in substantive argument against the OP (or something vaguely related to the OP) more than an...
Er, but that has been a huge part of this thread, namely personal attacks and accusations on Bob. You yourself are arguing that someone who says what ...
Sure, and the interesting question arises: If evil is privative, why does our culture find it so fascinating? Presumably value is being found in the d...
And I'm growing weary of your fallacious approach and your inability to engage arguments. Again: Your approach is apparently to claim that all of thos...
That's right. Both parties came to the table to engage in earnest dialogue. Those who refuse to do even this do not allow themselves the opportunity t...
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