Leontiskos

- Eep, this thread is getting away from me. In truth it will probably be best to save this conversation for another day, but let me say one or two thi...

- I think there are plenty of forms of moral realism that do just fine without P2, but as an Aristotelian I am not averse to it. Now I barely have tim...

Yep, I think that's a useful revision of the argument. :up:

Sure. I would have to revisit our conversation on belief, but what I meant is that Moliere holds the proposition to be true. Thus in the following sen...

I'd say you need to think about yourself instead of displacing the question out onto others, such as astrologists. The claim is that, "there are state...

Okay, thanks. Honestly, my sense is that you are somewhat new to philosophy and/or logic, so I am trying to do little more than give you nudges in the...

- Interesting story at OpenAI! Yes, Aquinas is rather optimistic about the power of reason, so I haven't encountered this idea as much in my own relig...

The latter, obviously. Most of the replies haven't managed to hold "all things equal," and are evading the question.

Shit, I'm going to need to grab my wristband pretty soon. (link) (link)

Right. I sketched a thread related to this idea and used part of it in <this post>. Additionally, it is widely recognized that in epistemology there a...

This strikes me as an important point in these conversations. :lol: --- Sure, you should try to defend P2-A*1 if that is how you wish to defend P2-A. ...

- This is interesting but I sort of feel like it deserves its own thread. I mean, age-old questions at least deserve their own thread. :razz:

- Yes, that's exactly right. :up:

So this could have been summed up by, "I agree with Hume." Yet the forum is filled with critiques of Hume. I thought you were attempting to go beyond ...

I'm basically arguing for 's claim. I don't think it has anything to do with the OP (). Again, I think your arguments against the OP are sound. What I...

Let me clarify the post you were responding to. Consider the original proposition and two inferences: P2: T is a normative fact. I1: T is factual.* I2...

Okay, that is somewhat helpful, but the other problem is that you don't seem to present any arguments for your position in the OP. Your whole thesis r...

I was considering this possibility as well, but I decided not to run with it. I tend to think there is something subtly mistaken about it, but I canno...

- Yes, I very much agree. I think these ethical debates result in a great deal of tail-chasing that in the end substitutes highly reliable beliefs for...

Okay, but this would be an implication of the assertion of P2, not its primary sense. Getting away from the OP for a moment, consider two syllogisms. ...

Yes, but the claim of the OP is not that it is true, but rather that it is a normative fact, hence the ambiguity. This goes back to that tricky questi...

I think the OP meant something like this: All normative facts are Y. X is a normative fact. Therefore, X is Y. The middle term is meant to be descript...

I think there is a legitimate ambiguity here. "T is a normative fact," could be read as, "T is normatively binding," in which case Banno would be righ...

I think you are begging the question again, and, like in the past, you very much need to define what you mean by 'fact'. All of your arguments depend ...

- Yes, I think that's right.

I'm with @"Banno" on this one. Even if we accept that they are different in subtle ways, I don't think they are different vis-à-vis normativity. Edit:...

The classic Aristotelian definition of a definition is genus + specific difference. Namely, understanding something involves understanding both its li...

I am not familiar with that thesis, so I can't really comment one way or another, but it sounds interesting. Looking at the table of contents, the tra...

- Yes, indeed. Good points. :up:

For Aristotle and Aquinas, love (of friendship) involves 1) Willing another's good, for their own sake, and 2) Being in union with the other, via conc...

This seems like something I could get on board with. I actually think the general idea here is crucial if law and society are to (continue to) exist. ...

Well, I think what is going on is slightly different. For Aquinas faith is always related to a proposition. My understanding is that when he speaks ab...

- I think you missed the word "not".

- When you are feeling glum about your new leg, just recall how envious your situation would make Pinocchio. (For my part, as soon as posted the scien...

- A common thread in all of these positions is the idea that knowledge is not merely cerebral and abstract (e.g. the Hebrew, Indian, Platonic, and Chr...

I really enjoy Walker Percy, but it's been a few years since I've read him. Recently I have been reading Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Johann Georg Hamann:...

Quite right and well said! :up:

Well, I think the thread branches into those two conceptions: one where stupidity is conceived as inherently culpable and one where it is not. I think...

I tend to agree. In my opinion injustice creates a residual disorder in the individual and society, and this residual injustice is very hard to rectif...

I think this is a good sense of culpable stupidity. Is all stupidity culpable?

Yes, great point. This is why I prefer philosophers like Aristotle to philosophers like Kant. As others have noted, it is perhaps more common on philo...

It seems to me that the deeper idea here is not that ethical homogeneity produces harmony, but rather that injustice is a consequence of unhappiness, ...

- Yup. :up:

- Good post :up: Yes, but I think Islam and Protestantism were just precursors to the inevitable pluralistic religious setting we now find ourselves i...

Same here. I get the sense that Buddhism is parasitic on Hinduism, and that trying to attach oneself to Buddhism without the benefit of Hindu culture ...

This is how Epicurus relates pleasure to justice: So pleasure requires justice and justice requires pleasure, but there are other factors at play as w...

- :up:

Yes, good points. I think we need to keep shining light on that knot until it breaks down. Cultures are porous, and there has always been intercultura...

Moral relativism of both individual and cultural varieties is in vogue, and it happens to be incoherent in the way it is presented. If someone is an i...

Yes, that sounds like it would be an interesting comparison. The difference on Democritus is interesting. On the other hand, it is hard to say how Ari...