And the formulation of the PDE was occasioned by encountering new problems. The PDE is a result of that encounter. Do you mean algorithmic, or rationa...
- I was just trying to explain why I am not interested in donning her hermeneutic given the circumstances. Setting the taxonomic terms of a discussion...
You are equivocating on effort and outcome. Doing or trying one's best is a direct measure of effort, not a direct measure of outcome. Supposing two p...
Instead of trying to respond to the different arguments you give, I am going to opt for instead pointing out that I do not take Haslanger to be an aut...
The problem with "dreaming up convolute circumstances" is that the contrivance that has been dreamed up is superficial. Moral principles pertain to hu...
And there is no reason to strive to do our best when the circumstances don't require it. If we can do better then we are not doing our best, and we bo...
That's fine, but what you're describing is not the principle of double effect. The principle of double effect never obliges, because it determines whe...
- Right, although even the foreseen effects that are not part of the principal intention have some indirect relation to the intention of the agent, in...
Okay. Except when we do things like sleep, but putting effort in and putting maximal effort in are two different things. I do not do my best when I dr...
If you could do better are you doing your best? Is someone who is doing an adequate job doing the best job? See: In moral philosophy neglect is a fail...
It was nurtured in a Catholic context, but that is true of more philosophical concepts than you would care to know. The principle is common parlance i...
The more you talk about Aristotle the more convinced I am that you have never read him. Perhaps you should try to produce texts which you believe supp...
gave six different conditions and only one of them is consequence-based. For the consequentialist good consequences are sufficient to justify an act. ...
It sounds like you're asking Pat if he wants to be happy at the cost of naivete, and he says no. Naivete is for him a very pronounced form of unhappin...
The absurdly emotional tale that you told indicates otherwise. I’d say you’re about 300 miles off course. Underlying your thinking is the argument <Ev...
I am glad to see that you have revised your position on this. Truth be told, PDE is an unwieldy principle. There are cases (such as the hysterectomy) ...
You literally said: You asked what an English sentence means, and then you tried (and failed) to translate it into modal logic. ??xG(x) is false given...
You asked: You responded: And I pointed out, among other things, that: The implications of the natural English propositions and the implications of th...
- It seems that @"Banno" understands better than you what the word "God" means. Then the modal logic fails to translate, because <it is possible that ...
Right. Political nominees in the last 8 years would also be worth noting. I don't think these assessments of changes from 1995 to 2024 are really on p...
Good post, I agree in large part. :up: I think Aristotle's mean is very important. People think happiness is about chasing pleasures and avoiding pain...
I agree, but some have argued that Barrett has the better argument in her concurrence. See, for example, Jonathan Adler's piece over at The Volokh Con...
Yes, of course. Do you have a real argument against this or are you just going to appeal to the weird emotional stories you tell? Your theory is liter...
The argument you have been making has two parts: 1) If I am not allowed to do something then I am not allowed to do it even if it would be helpful or ...
I never said that the reason the preexistent person has no such right is because they do not exist, although that is also a perfectly good objection. ...
It's not a point of disagreement. I already said that, "I am among those who hold that a good end does not justify an evil means." If you have a right...
I understand, and again, my point is that the rights you are invoking do not exist. For example, we have no right to not be caused suffering. Again, t...
On my account the answer to that question is contingent, and rides on how she has actually practiced. Hence my point about contingent vs. necessary tr...
In adult surgeries, sure, but apart from that not really. There are lots of things that require consent and lots of things that don't. For example, I ...
I don't, and I think it's simply true. Okay, then we agree on this. I am among those who hold that a good end does not justify an evil means, but my p...
But the claim has to do with, "assumptions regarding the truth of such things as Forms and Recollection." I do not make any assumptions at all about F...
Where have I done that? Where have I done that? You seem to be capable of spinning anything to make it say whatever you like, and I'm sure this includ...
The problem is that the "negative ethics" being espoused are not true ethics at all (and of course this all relates obliquely to your antinatalism). W...
Fair enough, and perhaps you are right that Burnyeat was not sufficiently aware of this lineage. That's unfortunate. I wasn't around at the time. Fool...
Quite right, and I think there are also false dichotomies at play, such as the idea that either Plato espoused concrete doctrines, or else he held to ...
- Good post. Yes, I agree. Right. I would say that the criticizing of someone's decision or action is an important part of human and social life. The ...
I think this is right. @"apokrisis" seems to now be using "semiotics" to refer to an anthropological theory of cognition. Right. From what I understan...
Unfortunately I am not going to be able to respond to all of that. I found some of it accurate and some of it inaccurate, but these psychological theo...
It shows a way in which consent is important and it shows a way in which consent isn't important. If someone fully consents to a punishment then they ...
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