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Objection 1: “Morality is nothing more than justice” There is a position which says that all interpersonal acts are justice acts, and morality pertain...

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I think this is a decent paragraph, and shows some improvement in your ideas and rhetoric. This is an interesting paragraph. A week ago Pope Francis r...

I think what something like Paley's Watchmaker attempts to show is that if only the substrate is ontologically basic then you never end up with watche...

I don't think this is parallel to the dominoes or language. In fact I think your example is somewhat similar to the idea of shape-meaning, for shape r...

Yes, that is the most important takeaway. When thinking specifically about Aristotle, he rejected Plato's notion of The Good and tended to see goodnes...

If one does not know it has negative consequences (and they cannot be expected to know) then they do not have volition vis-a-vis the harm in question....

- A sub-par translation of Dylan's "To make you feel my love"?

We're still waiting for you to give an argument that bears on Midgley's thesis. Sure, but what is at stake is not some bizarre or implausible interpre...

- :up:

The end of human life, the human good, is happiness.* But happiness is the human good; it is not goodness simpliciter. * Cf. Nicomachean Ethics I.iv; ...

It is shared by others, it is the fruit of a plain reading of his texts, and it is this received interpretation that has had its effect on the history...

- I can see that you are very fond of Descartes, but what does this have to do with Midgley? It is commonly recognized that Descartes helped occasion ...

I think some here are too preoccupied with defending Descartes to see Descartes' point. If someone wishes to engage in Descartes gnosticism, that is f...

It seems to me that the virtue ethicist and the consequentialist will agree that if volition is involved, then what is occurring may be immoral (and t...

- Paul addresses almost this exact issue in Romans 2, especially vv. 12-16. Obviously this idea gets developed by Christians in all sorts of direction...

- So you've managed to stumble upon the tautology that someone who does not believe in sin is not able to knowingly sin? Okay. :chin:

- You still require the distinction that I pointed out, and this is obvious given the way that you conceive of government epikeia as distinct from per...

- You seem to be tying yourself up in knots. A large part of the problem is that you are equivocating on the term immoral, between what-society-deems-...

I actually don't follow this argument at all. Why is it that the copy machine does not copy and produce the subvenient term? For reference here are so...

The moral judgment judges an act, and therefore your evasion fails. By being unable to specify the acts, you are automatically unable to specify the m...

- So your position is that when I wash my hands to remove germs I am addressing personal hygiene, but when I wash my hands to remove ebola germs I am ...

In responding to @"fdrake"’s claim I pointed to volition. Acts, intentions, and habits are all moral insofar as they are volitional. There is no exclu...

- The claim that self-defense is murder would seem to beg the question at hand.

Obviously, but again, what in the world does this have to do with the OP? He was right and you were wrong. They are hypocrites. It makes no difference...

Therefore...? I am imagining the parallel where we are having a discussion about whether one should eat unknown mushrooms, and then you come along and...

- Ebola, then. :roll:

- Maybe ask yourself the question of whether handwashing rose to the level of a "moral act" during COVID-19.

No. The moral status of self-defense is an age-old issue. It is not a de facto non-moral issue. Neither is it practically irrelevant, for there are pa...

"Whether the person you're killing did anything or not"? This sounds like the exact opposite of self-defense. Self-defense implies that the other pers...

We tend to use the word "moral" to identify that which surpasses an arbitrary degree of harm. Because personal hygiene usually only effects a negligib...

I would say that is correct. The OP is concerned with that which involves volition, i.e. things that people do. Alcoholism qua disease/illness does no...

No. If you don't want to be the kind of person that does X, then by definition you deem X immoral. The reason people in our culture resist this fact i...

- Yep, and “subjective” and “objective” are also better names. What is at stake is not externalization.

- It was, but not in toto. I do not object to therapy as merely one part of philosophy. The point is that it is not the whole.

For the most part I would respond the way Churchill is said to have responded after reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, "I have always believed th...

Either matter/form applies everywhere or else it doesn't. If matter/form does not apply to words (and meaning), then matter/form does not apply everyw...

No, but it is perhaps an instructive hour. We witnessed two individuals who are extremely confident and yet demonstrated that they do not understand e...

What has happened in this thread is a microcosm of what I warned about in your own thread. @"AmadeusD" put his trust in ChatGPT and because of this ca...

I was quoting this from your post: As I noted, this is false because it mistakenly calls a conditional statement a biconditional statement. It also ma...

So you would agree with the AI, and say that the falsity of the “first” half of a biconditional does not entail the falsity of the other half?

- What you have expressed is a different statement entirely, and yours is in fact biconditional.

It pleases me that the AI does not know what a biconditional is.

And your tacit conclusion is, “Therefore, riding a bike requires belief.” The question and ambiguity is this: did it merely require belief at some poi...

I know airplanes can fly. I believe airplanes can fly. I know how to ride a bike. I believe I can ride a bike. 1 -> 2 3 -> 4 Do (5) and (6) hold? (It ...

The original argument you gave had to do with “avoiding danger,” and because of this it was a good example of the invalidity of the inference from lea...

Yes, or in other words: denying the “antecedent” of a biconditional is not a fallacy. Yet denying the antecedent of a conditional is a well-known fall...

I think your general approach is correct here, but it would seem that you need to speak to the question of riding, not the question of learning. This ...

I would simply advise you to be present to the text, and to recognize that this is one of those texts that you can reread for the rest of your life. P...

Yes, I think I have understood what you are asking, but I think my last post to you illustrates where the strictly physical item is located. In one se...