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Free will is not just the ability to make choices. If thats how you define it then even computers have free will, as choices are made by machines all ...
July 10, 2024 at 19:38
If you are coming to ethics with a collectivist mindset then you most likely have different issues you think ethics concerns. However, anything outsid...
July 10, 2024 at 17:36
Im making no claim about the existence of other beings, but about perspective. I believe the universe exists outside of yourself, however you only hav...
July 09, 2024 at 08:34
I completely disagree. First I have to state my belief that all values are equivalent, there is no difference between a moral or aesthetic value. From...
July 08, 2024 at 19:59
Im not sure what you mean by natural conditions. However, I will attempt to flesh out my belief further. All labels are an attempt to categorise the w...
July 08, 2024 at 19:54
In regards to objective or collective morals, none. In regards to individual action, everything. All actions are committed by indviduals. There is no ...
July 08, 2024 at 19:45
Experience is valued on a scale of preference. There is no reduction to principles but instead value is imbued within each experience by the individua...
July 08, 2024 at 19:31
Morality/Ethics is the study of the relationship between an agents values and actions. This is probably the most simplistic definition I can give. Dec...
July 01, 2024 at 12:07
We are born with value imbedded into our experiences. From the beauty of a desolate environment in rain to the misery of a sharp electric pain in ones...
June 29, 2024 at 06:59
There exists an issue with language that I think needs addressing to tackle the question of collective action. Scoring a goal is considered both an in...
June 28, 2024 at 19:50
I believe that there is no ethically relevent distinction between omission and commission. "ethically relevent", meaning that such a distinction shoul...
June 28, 2024 at 19:19
Ethics is fundamentally concerned with the movement between different experiences. Now in this topic we must talk about death, so that word loses so m...
June 24, 2024 at 19:26
I've made my posts perfect and you've barely responded to them. It's clear to anyone sensible that you read the first line I wrote and responded befor...
June 24, 2024 at 17:51
I don't believe I have a responsibility to help others. I am an ethical egoist. If you dont understand what that means then read up on it or read what...
June 24, 2024 at 17:47
Just read what I wrote. You havent justified why the distinction has weight. Aka, why it has influence over ones actions.
June 24, 2024 at 17:44
I am an ethical egoist, I believe an action is good if it supports my self-interest. I value my own entertainment above people I have no connection to...
June 24, 2024 at 17:39
No, and such a question proves you havent read my response.
June 24, 2024 at 17:36
The discussion is about ethics, not legality. Clearly you cannot force everyone to give all their money to charity as the economy would collapse, but ...
June 24, 2024 at 17:36
Our individual action is the only factor we get to influence, hence this is the sole cause. Any cause outside of us is essentially already determined ...
June 24, 2024 at 16:13
The answer is clearly to pull the lever, if you value all humans equally. The idea of killing vs letting die is a silly distinction, the value of our ...
June 24, 2024 at 14:54
Scoring a goal is the result of many simulatenous and cooperative individual actions. Do you agree that people only have control over their own action...
June 24, 2024 at 11:31
We agree that ethics is concerned with action, however this means it is individualististic. You refer to cooperative actions that require multiple ind...
June 23, 2024 at 23:24
I think its just a semantic difference then. My idea of the term ethics is formed through how I concieve others using it, which is essentially describ...
June 23, 2024 at 18:09
Premise 3 does not accurately portray moral subjectivism. Moral subjectivists have moral preferences, not beliefs. Morality concerns these preferences...
June 23, 2024 at 05:33
I dont believe there is a difference fundamentally between aesthetics and ethics, as in the preference for orange juice is equivalent to a serial kill...
June 23, 2024 at 02:40
They entirely could construct their values to match their individual benefit, this is called ethical egoism and its the ethical philosophy I follow an...
June 22, 2024 at 20:34
A flaw in your reasoning is that it involves other people. Functionally, morality is individualistic since action happens on the level of individuals,...
June 22, 2024 at 20:28
Under that definition I think the base idea's we're presenting are similar. I personally use the word "experience" as it gets across an idea that we h...
June 22, 2024 at 19:20
I think any values we hold are preferences of equivalent type. Prefering rock music and prefering no murder are fundamentally the same process in term...
June 20, 2024 at 04:04
I think thats merely redefining principle. If someone can steal and improve their already good life then to do so in a way that allows them to avoid p...
June 20, 2024 at 03:59
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say with choosing to like something over another or the idea of a choice not being true. Morality can ...
June 20, 2024 at 03:56
I do not think psychology or social factors are irrelevent to ethics but that for the purpose of my specific argument I think construing it as a model...
June 19, 2024 at 17:52