This is an interesting conversation, providing a different way into morality. If I put the pieces on the table separately: 1. State of affairs in need...
I would agree that there is conservation of energy/matter, but that empirical observation is not proven beyond doubt (see QM). But there is no reason ...
Why would I want that from you? Why would I think you had anything to say about Nietzsche that I didn’t already know? So hard no. I wasn’t “interpreti...
No, and that is an important fulcrum for all ethics. An evil ideology is only as evil as the acts and the actors that support that ideology. I think i...
Teacher’s Pet award? Look, you say lots of insightful things. I don’t really want to go for awards either. If you don’t think I sound like I know Niet...
First of all, you are an excellent writer. I have a tiny idea you might find useful. You look out the window and Naturalism focuses on the “out there”...
I thought you were going to go to the part of the Bible that Nietzsche quotes in Twilight, something like: “what need is there of laws to sons of God....
You skipped all the good parts. Like I am doing with Nietzsche. “Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are the meek. Turn the other cheek. Not my wi...
1. I have to interpret what you mean by “physical is not aware” because that’s not normal English. I assume you are trying to note that rocks are not ...
Admittedly so. I approach Nietzsche as I approach all philosophy, with gaiety. Screw any deeper understanding of a mankind who has no progress to spea...
I have no issue seeing that. You said energy is a concept. So then matter is energy and therefore matter is a concept. So is Whitehead interchangeable...
MoK, You have a captive audience. We disagree that your arguments work. You can either judge we are all too simple-minded to comprehend you (which by ...
Thanks for the time savers. That's what seems the case here - confusion mounting on confusion. The bottom line for me, just like Descartes, Whitehead,...
I am going back and looking at some more Whitehead so I might be better able to talk the whitehead talk here. But I will admit, my general approach to...
So you are assuming “the experience the change in time” is both not physical, and is necessary to cause changes in the physical. What causes changes i...
If someone could concisely define “process philosophy” and show it to be essentially (yes essentially, which is my first point here) different than “p...
Ok good. So this should be a moment of agreement where we can continue a conversation. We both basically seem to think the same thing: policing and ba...
Nietzsche makes it exciting to rethink everything. He was a necessary correction to the rigidity of human aspirations. He took the table that propped ...
Basically what I said, only with your typical pith. And we probably disagree with each other 75% of the time, which proves the rule that this forum do...
If someone tries to say something that denies reality, like “unicorns are shy”, there is a simple solution - ignore it. No need to respond about unico...
At no point in any discussion (or act of thinking) will we ever not refer to substance undergoing process. “There” means “it” and “it” means “is”, onc...
That sums up where many posts on this forum end up. Shame on all of us who claim to seek clarity about our thinking, about being human. Interconnected...
Even in your exit you leave us with with a philosophical dilemma to ponder - the self-determined command defining your own identity, versus some other...
True, but I don’t see magnetism as a good example of more going on. It’s perceptible. So Arcane’s argument supporting the assertion that there is more...
It maybe too simplistic for me to say "all we ever see is light" as an observation of optics, so point taken. But my general point is that, just like ...
I was going to say the same thing. But I've already been reported for trolling and for assuming ill-intent. Welcome to the club! I disagree that "Magn...
I like it, but I still don’t see how P2 necessarily follows from P1. God exists, and created things only exist after God creates them, but how does it...
I am sort of Nietzschean when it comes to the God of the philosopher - everyone sort of makes up their own placeholders when they mean "God" in a phil...
But then, space is also no-thing, empty of things that could be said to exist. Things that take up space are the best approximation of "space exists"....
I keep trying to be respectful anyway. (Really a “virtual shit”?) If God exists, God is….Y. God exists. So God is….Y. As I am trying to say, how does ...
A choice is what I call the result of choosing. Not any result of a calculating process. Choosing, if it exists, entails an agent who makes a free, de...
Thanks for announcing that on your thread. My first post looks snarky to me now. Sorry it came off that way. Was honestly trying to prompt you to rest...
I’ve answered your questions. I’ve given you plenty of content to address that you would rather just dismiss. I’ve ignored your attitude to respond to...
That is the question. I have those genes, environments, etc. So is it the same question to ask myself “given all that has preceded me, would I do anyt...
No one can clearly state what they are doing when they claim to make a choice - it’s a few thousand year old debate. So how can anyone say this yet to...
I see space like time - they are like measurements and measuring sticks at once. They are bound up with each other, as well as mass. You have a mass, ...
You keep talking about something other than your own argument. If God exists….…so Jesus is God. And you then you say you reject the premise you assert...
I meant persuaded, since you are being so precise. Is it logic’s business to persuade? Because the fact that God is all perfect and a possible God is ...
Why is that a problem? For anyone who believes in God? Why would a Christian philosopher who believed they could prove the existence of God fall short...
I never think we can clarify a human behavior at issue, like choosing, by analogizing this behavior with some other type of entity’s behavior (like a ...
If I “cannot make a different choice” then there is no choice. A choice, by definition, has to involve multiple variables and a deliberative agent who...
Cool. Honest question. Honest answer. I don’t like any of the arguments for the existence of God. They all hit me as if they are rigging the conclusio...
Me too. You made your argument, then you say you deny the second premise because you are atheist. So, in summation, you are saying if God exists, God ...
If we couldn’t ever have made a different choice in the past, we didn’t ever make any choice at all. So because of the semantics of the question, the ...
So you are saying if we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs. Got it. If you want to talk about logical form, why bring up such a distr...
Are you talking to tell me we have enough apples to feed five people who want apples to eat, or are you demonstrating math? If math, you don’t need to...
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