Arguably, yes. As you say, whether a duty exists is part of the problem. The fact that the problem does not explicitly mention duties does not mean th...
This argument has already been addressed: Specifically, here is your argument: Nothing which is intended can come about by omission. Suppose the death...
It obviously is. Yes, it is. Just as you can be culpable for an omission, so too can you effect some outcome via an omission. Your claim that because ...
The trolley problem says, "If you didn't know anything about the individuals, what would you do?" This is not decontextualized from reality given the ...
To not-pull-the-lever is an omission. This is what you have left out of consideration. Whether such an omission is wrong will depend on the analysis. ...
Yep. :up: To appeal to arithmetic is to fall prey to the counterexample. To withdraw the arithmetical justification is to withdraw the only justificat...
- :up: Essential to the trolley problem is the possible distinction between an act and an omission, and excluded that distinction from the problem. Re...
:ok: I waffled a bit when I wrote "and oppose(s) naturalism." I think it is clear that Vervaeke is a Platonist, but his relationship with naturalism s...
That's possible, but I understand Wayfarer's implicit source (John Vervaeke) to be using "transjectivity" to uphold Platonism and oppose naturalism. G...
Yes, that's a fair point. The five points converge on anti-naturalism. I don't know too much about Vervaeke, but I don't think he would see it this wa...
- Wittgenstein criticizes in order to propose an alternative. He does not criticize in order to continue in the same general direction, with a slight ...
Anything can be used as a tool. Philosophy is no exception. It is also rife with those who pretend that what they represent is more than a camp. @"sch...
The point that I have been making over and over again is that the one making the criticism of philosophy is intending to step outside philosophy. This...
- If the critique is only a critique of a particular epoch or school of philosophy, and not a critique of philosophy tout court, then my point is moot...
Yes, I edited my post to include this idea. I don't think it changes my point. A statement about a question, "I have claimed the primary focus in the ...
I agree, and an interesting subtopic regards the distinction between the kind of philosophy which constructively builds on what has come before, versu...
I am glad that this part of the human lexicon is still intelligent at this point in history, and I am pleasantly surprised that the argument does not ...
Yes, and this is particularly true in the case where one is distancing themselves from philosophy. One could raise the question without leaving the ph...
No one is questioning the idea that traditional healthcare includes prenatal care. You are missing the point. I am explaining why some people are moti...
Diseases are cured or prevented, not carried to term. You are here speaking about accepting pregnancy and carrying it to term, which is incompatible w...
- Yes, and if X is a disease then its treatment must, ceteris paribus, be legal, insurance-provided, and an interest of medical research. Further, doc...
Those who want to construe things like abortion and contraception as forms of traditional healthcare are eventually forced to claim that pregnancy is ...
- "To examine why philosophy wants X," is to intentionally step outside of philosophy and into psychology (or else anthropology). It is to say, "I am ...
Yes, good point. It seems to me that Gerson is not assuming a unity in what he opposes. I have understood your critique to be different, namely the cl...
"Had there been more he wouldn't have spent as much time in perplexity and reinventing wheels" (Gregory Sadler). The way Wittgenstein leads with Augus...
I think Vervaeke's work is worthwhile and important, and represents a much-needed juncture between praxis and theoria. As with Peterson, I often feel ...
- Okay, well I would be interested in the expansion. I think Aristotle had often been read against Plato, and I think Gerson is in part trying to corr...
I think my point holds. A preacher also has an interlocutor, for instance. Well, I admit that I was being a bit hyperbolic in the face of Nickles' per...
Right: the absolute does not exclude the relative but the relative does exclude the absolute. I have been wanting to read more Schindler. I think this...
- What are the arguments against the idea that Aristotle was an anti-naturalist or anti-materialist, on Gerson's definitions? (Cf. "Platonism versus N...
Plato's dialogues don't just "say something," they provide questions for you to work out, to change you. Wittgenstein's monologues are comparatively b...
You may have seen the paper that I was quoting from in the other thread, "The Nature and Origin of Ideas: The Controversy over Innate Ideas Reconsider...
Sure, and I agree, but my concern is that Wittgenstein is falling off the other side of the mean, and that this has implications for the topic of the ...
- If it could be sufficiently proved that such a sentence follows upon embracing Wittgenstein's philosophy, then the title of schopenhauer1's recent t...
If you follow my reply a bit closer, I built up to what you were talking about and implied that the lesser forms are related to inquiries about "secon...
This is interesting. On many forms of realism predication is an attribution of existence, and if this is right then all discussions involve existence ...
If De León is right then "Smugglers are just bad" is false and "Smugglers aren't just good or bad" is true. That's what he's doing, he's arguing for a...
I think the beliefs of someone who is an adherent of a philosopher will be indebted to that philosopher, and therefore the philosopher will be to some...
Lol, okay. Well, you've already argued against contextless truth, so I don't know what to make of this. I am the one who took your bait, and now it se...
Thanks for your comments in the thread. I find them helpful. I think 's thesis is in the process of being refined, so that it does not fall into 's “h...
Right: there is a criterion of "verifiability." If the answers to a question cannot be straightforwardly verified, then SE deems the question "opinion...
It seems to me that this is already duplex veritas; it is already a premise of quantifier variance. Hence it is part of the controversy, and someone l...
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