AmadeusD

Nichomachean Ethics. Anyone got pointers or a particularly interesting reader?

Islamaphobia is obviously made up. Scruton has obviously done nothing wrong here. It's a social media symptom. That's all. Outrage, outrage, outrage. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent) and is wrong. Nevertheless, yes, time to move on. I support the social media ban in the sense that...

Appreciate it - But i'm a white belt :P I've just gotten lucky (and unlucky - my inability to get graded is a timing issue).

Yeah, i'm not very good hahahaa. That said, I held me own against Kendall Reusing, which is, while a total cheat, a decent feeling against a multiple-...

Alas - he already has. LOL

The problem is people tend to think it's not a joke, and that somehow they have a clear, complete view of an entire continent. Australia is nothing li...

Would you delineate between this and "existing"? The phrase "there is gold in them hills" might not be open to the truth/false issue but if there are ...

Ethics requires intent. Evolution has intent the way ethics requires. I can't see my way to thinking this could be even a reasonable starting point. A...

I am unsure what wasn't 'precise' in this? You can statistically predict anything, even if it's arbitrary. I think what you're trying to get into the ...

I think at this stage I would be entirely justified in saying "please, stop, for your own sake". I literally said it is not Dan's problem. If you coul...

You're beginning to come across genuinely incapable of having this type exchange - the amount of genuinely unreasonable statements you're making is qu...

b-b-b-bingo.

I have responded to this as presented in several of your posts in this thread. Not the bare quote which I used to represent it. That bare quote would,...

I really can't figure out what you're getting at. I don't quite grant your premise, anyway. The differences across cultures and times make it quite ob...

None of this is true. No idea where you're getting this from. I literally quoted you and responded to it. My comment is in line with all of your respo...

I don't care what you find interesting. The study (non-replicated - extremely good reason to be sceptical) doesn't give us any empirical facts at all....

Lets grant the proposition. How would that connect with any extrinsic facts? That people have opinions has nothing to do with fact-finding, or definin...

It clearly, patently isn't, and you're just digging your feet in. That's not Dan's problem. He's being an absolute gentleman trying to walk you throug...

This is tautological. This is unhelpful. This is not an answer to any of the questions. What's good is *insert definition* is the correct form of this...

I define good as that which elicits feelings of contentment within me. That's an extremely broad, and changing concept. That's why it works (for me). ...

I use my phone for plenty - but Unless there is already something to use it for (i.e as a tool) why would I pick it up? There is hay to be made.

This is, I think, a pretty clear indicator you're either not connecting with what's being said, or are simply avoiding it. Your analogy is entirely in...

Surely you can see the circularity? No further seems to clarify this. It seems to me, the biggest reason ethical thinking is so muddled and hard to re...

This isn't particularly convincing... I've had a look at the lit on this several times. I was wondering whether you had an answer beyond relying on th...

This isn't really challenge (though, i probably would choose to challenge the use of innate here) but do you propose a reason many (significant number...

I own a phone (smart phone), but I have this same experience. I chuckle constantly to and from the bus in my city watching for people walking into thi...

Sure, and I understand (roughly) how Ethics is taught. But this literally foregoes any meaningful answer to the question, and returns to circularity. ...

Bit of editing to do, but yep.

It seems this is a hang up in the last couple of pages. Fwiw, this (Dan's description) is patently true. Reducing "the way X is" to only ever apply to...

I can't understand hte question, really. If something is Good, it's because you have personally understood/decided it is good. You couldn't support th...

I am a legal professional. You will not be policing my 'style'. I am not going to engage further, because the underlined is utterly ridiculous. The bo...

understood - thanks mate

@"Baden" If, hypothetically, I were to delete a post from a personal Blog on which a piece appeared, would that clear this up? Generally, a personal b...

Oh piss, I see. Sorry, definitely misapprehended. Nb: is that a. R. Fripp reference or something else I'm not aware of?

You're not seriously suggesting this is an actual position are you? This is tautological and unworkable.

You've responded in bad faith. That's to an extremely unfair version of what I've done/said. I pointed out to you that I see a need to communicate in ...

Sure, but there is no tie-breaker so that makes it very hard to come to any other statement about it. It seems, on the facts, wrong. I can't understan...

Would this mean (this question is out of the blue. I have no thoughts on it) that an anti-realist is in some sense committed to foregoing any truly di...

I see him doing this elsewhere too, so I assume that's the case. Makes for some strange reading..

I don't really think there is a question of obligation or 'owe' at play. I think if you brought this down to a specific issue, liek telling a child th...

I am sorry if this comes off rude, but It feels like I have to explain this like you're a child (i really do not feel that you are, I just can't figur...

The implosion continues.

Two people. But again, this would come down to personhood. It seems completely, and patently wrong to equivocate between a mother and her fetus. That ...

I really don't, though. You have an argument which, on my view, does not support your point. You're asking me to 'prove a negative' as it were. That w...

This isn't my problem. If you utter something in defense of a position, and it does nothing for hte position, I have naught to do but point that out, ...

BUt this is a mere assertion. It is not 'a case' other than a case to be discussed, not a case for the outcome you posit. I have made a case for why t...

I think his point is that if the only option is incest, you might. I disagree, and think you'd be obliged not to. But htere we go.. I think two steril...

I think you've misunderstood what I've said. But I would also say no you didn't. You made some assertions, none of which seem borne out. This was the ...

Then you understand how the concepts of space and time being absent would cause this? I....didn't....affirm this? I actively gave the potential that a...