Yes, disproving an unfalsifiable claim does not generally fly. So your unfalsifiable claim is secure. It will not be disproved. When you make "overall...
By all means feel free to amend the argument if you think it can be improved. I was simply using your own language as a starting point. Let's look at ...
Like I said, you're the one who coined the term, initially in <this post> and then more definitively in <this post>. If "tout court inferior" doesn't ...
- A misunderstanding on that score would be understandable. A subtle argument was being offered wherein one attempts to justify an approach that looks...
Eristic is something like fighting because one likes to fight, or arguing because one likes to argue. It usually connotes a desire to win for the sake...
For those who are interested, in the philosophical literature this form of argument is called a "perverted faculty argument." A contemporary philosoph...
- I suppose you would have to figure out how to justify exporting your cultural values to a culture where they are foreign. If you only think X is wro...
- I read a good portion of it many years ago when I had access to a theological library. I found it pretty interesting. As I told , I think it would m...
Moral solidarity is directly contradictory to the sort of cultural relativism you just espoused. If one opposes harm only "because doing so reflects t...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I don't think rights are a function of the Enlightenment. For example, Aristotelian approaches to justice involve ...
Okay, but on this approach you are committed to the conclusion that the society which favors harm is no better or worse than the society which reduces...
Again, this is not a principled response if you refuse to tell your interlocutor what would entail tout court inferiority. And this is what you refuse...
The problem with these sorts of arguments is that they amount to the following: <If we cannot know the truth with certainty, then we should try to kno...
That's fair. I actually think we could get a lot of mileage out of ' point about Aquinas' view on prostitution. I think a lot of fast assumptions are ...
If someone cannot weigh the meta-thesis that you are proposing, then yes, they must see me as nitpicking when I object to that meta-thesis. But if som...
The point is that if someone is free to choose contrary to the "fundamental purpose," then your claim that the fundamental purpose is common to all is...
I think that is the danger that MacIntyre was forced to take more seriously in his later work. Also, the fact that MacIntyre was not always sufficient...
I think the point goes rather deep. Substantive moral argumentation has dried up in the West. This is why, for example, some dismissed @"Bob Ross" by ...
- If you think there is a different human right at stake, feel free to set it out. I simply took the one that you yourself provided at the outset of y...
Why doesn't it fly? 1. Supposition: It is bigotry to call an entire class of people mentally ill 2. Mental illnesses are categories based on classes o...
Is the opposed view "purely philosophical"? This is one of the double standards at play in such issues, and like the slavery question in my thread, "B...
I think you are basically right, but I also think that, "Trans rights are human rights," is a rhetorical way of implying that trans people are being d...
One of the reasons I wouldn't phrase things in quite the same way that @"Count Timothy von Icarus" does is because I think the relativistic model is s...
Good. You are describing teleological reasoning. Right, but the opponent of teleological reasoning will claim that they have no reason to adopt the fu...
I think this is insightful. :up: There are Aristotelian progressives, such as Michael Sandel of Harvard, who go the exact route that you prescribe her...
Yes, and you still haven't addressed the problems with your view. "X should be chosen because X is worthy (or worthwhile)," is simply not a tautology....
I actually think Simone de Beauvoir is perceptive in her general technological diagnosis, and that the whole phenomenon of contemporary sexual ethics ...
But that looks to be an invalid argument: 1. "Individuals can act in ways contrary to how groups as a whole behave." 2. Therefore, "Group tendencies i...
:up: Aquinas: The nub is whether predicates like "good" and "better" are truth-apt or can be "factual." What you've rightly pointed out is that, regar...
- No worries. There are many extremely antagonistic posters in this thread, so I am trying to write heavily syllogistic posts and then stick to what I...
No worries. The thread considers gender in terms of social roles, and one of the theses I explicitly opposed in the post you responded to is the thesi...
Right, and as I already pointed out, I have no idea how your response is supposed to be a response to the quote you quoted. It's as if you were respon...
- I would suggest trying to find a thesis that I actually defend within the post you want to respond to, quote that thesis, and then respond to that t...
That's fair. Although I see a lot of Orthodox picking up de Lubac's thesis nowadays, it is still primarily Catholics. True. I am familiar with Ungurea...
One would not be so desperate to get a thread shut down if they thought they possessed rationally persuasive arguments against the positions with whic...
I would have preferred to leave such tangential topics to the side, but given that @"Banno" has jumped on the tangent, I will say something. What I fi...
But if the urge for men to procreate with women is found more in men, and is not merely a result of gender norms, then how can you claim that "group t...
But that's not true at all, is it? A post within this thread that you've failed to respond to is not an external source. Your claim that I have pointe...
Okay, but look at what you understand even yourself about the logical conclusions: "Traces of that vitality." An approach that attempts to relativize ...
At no point have you been in danger of presenting too much. Pointing to external sources is not engaging in argument. You simply haven't engaged in ar...
You misrepresent because if you failed to do that, it would be more plainly seen how little you have to offer. This is what I said: - From where do th...
There are people of good faith who hold traditional positions when it comes to sexual morality. Refusing to accept this is a form of bigotry. There ar...
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