It’s a good question I mean it’s like asking whether a Utopian society is possible. I don’t know, it may be but I bet it would be boring. Every citize...
Think of this analogy, rain (a bad thing) is required for plants to grow. Without rain the plants would wither and die. Joy then would not really be j...
How would you know the concept of joy without suffering? How would you know what sunshine is without the rain, justice without injustice. These things...
Perhaps there’s a reason to earthly suffering and is as it should be. Of course we cannot discern any more motive in his creation as we are creatures ...
If god cannot create perfect humans then he is not god. In the bible it said that he created man in his image therefore perfect. Yet we have children ...
Determinism seems flawed in that regard because it looks backwards to the present and says the sum of all my choices lead to me having or not having m...
The world is not fair and just because some people are unfair and unjust hence why we have a justice system for serious breaches of injustice. Fairnes...
But that’s not free will. Free will is simply the ability to choose between different courses of action or inaction. Let’s say I have two brainstates ...
Theists would however argue that their belief in a god is a matter of faith and not proof and therefore under no obligation to provide such proof. On ...
Atheism is logical because it requires proof in order to believe the premise that God exists. Theism is unable to provide proofs other than faith whic...
Because consciousness is embodied in matter,(our brains) which questions its own existence must be duly given not just a definition but an explanation...
He’s talking about certain things being transcendal, namely value. I can’t make much of it but it appears to be an exception to his obsession with lan...
I do not think it’s possible to minimise suffering on global or personal level. Life is meant to be hard so there’s gonna be some suffering in it. How...
I’m unclear on what you mean. What other interpretations of Wittgenstein’s philosophy are there apart from language, linguistics and language games? I...
Well Wittgenstein claimed that the things that could be talked about could be talked about clearly and things which couldn’t we couldn’t talk about at...
Imo his whole philosophy is a linguistic sidetrack. But calling it a sidetrack I don’t mean to devalue his contribution at all. His focus on philosoph...
Doing philosophy shouldn’t be about defining terms alone. A dictionary is a good starting point in this regard. Wittengstteins philosophy appears to b...
Maybe Wittgenstein dodged the big philosophical questions by implying that we’re all taking part in philosophical games rather than addressing the que...
The solution to this problem is to posit that something has always existed since nothing is impossible. That’s the only conclusion to be drawn from it...
Ghosts were probably popularised by popular culture and become easier to be accepted through various passed down fictive accounts of what happens afte...
Faith can be confidence in something coming true as in the expression “I have faith in my team winning for example.” The other type of faith like you ...
An example would be any piece of equipment that is more than adequate to its intended purpose such as a chair. Now you might want to question how can ...
Beauty is such a tricky concept to adequately measure objectively because everyone’s standards are different. The question is whether the object itsel...
If perfection is the description of a mere functional goal then that doesn’t say much as the definition in this case appears more restrictive then the...
As the often quoted saying goes “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” would imply that perfection is subjective. On the other hand natures organisms ...
Thanks that clarifies things for sure, so to describe something as perfect is to take into account subjectivity, as in the perfect woman example (open...
Metaphysics can be fun speculation and because it’s an arena where there are no right or wrong answers simply because those answers are unable to be p...
Is goodness defined by the actions it is able to perform as part of its inherent design or evolution ? Or can it be ascribed to any mundane objects su...
Just want to pick on this first point. It’s interesting that you’ve somehow linked morality with happiness. And perhaps there is truth in it because d...
It can be philosophical perspective or just a perspective of life too. Whether the viewpoint is selected from various other viewpoints is the personal...
Despair can be a psychological temperament albeit not a very useful one. Self-empowerment would be a more beneficial trait to have allowing for one’s ...
Hope is a powerful tool in overcoming despair. Hopelessness and despair are quite similar in nature and are somewhat fatalistic in outlook. Hope is th...
Interesting points. As human beings our ability to use language be it verbally or non-verbally to communicate and impact the overall thought of our sp...
I would equate life being conscious with being aware of its surroundings and environment and its ability to adapt to environmental changes. The issue ...
I’d prefer a harsh reality or truth rather than a comforting lie which is why I voted against living in such a simulation. One of the enjoyable aspect...
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