No I don't. Instead, I'm saying it would be reasonable for a benevolent God to value courage, fortitude, and adventure. Since pain and danger are nece...
Actually, I take "worldview" literally: a way to view the world. Here's Walt Whitman on the "scientific worldview": If we see the universe in only mea...
In that case, it is not a "worldview". Science cannot tell us how to view the world; where to find beauty, where to find love, how to behave. These ar...
Well, that would be the religious worldview. Because God created the world, it is good. I'm not religious myself, but I'm not prepared to believe that...
How about all those self-flagellating monks? They thought they were "sanctifying harm". Actually, nobody (including some whacky monks) chooses harm, u...
Christians are commanded to "Love you enemies, do good to those who hate you." (Luke: 6:27) This kind of love (agape) is more than a mere emotion; it ...
It may not contradict a "scientific worldview", but it expands upon it. Science cannot create moral authority. WE must look to something else. In fact...
Your endless rant naively promotes all of my objections to your OP. Here are some examples: Of course if "reality" comprises the physical world, physi...
This is from your OP. Science is a technique, not a philosophy. It does not constitute a "worldview". Nor can science inform us about those matters wh...
If God is omniscient, he surely knew what was going to happen at the creation. By the way, I posted about some of those ideas in the thread comparing ...
What is a "scientific worldview"? A "worldview" is "a way of thinking about the world." If we think about the world "scientifically", we ignore (or at...
Maybe by that time the independent nation of Cascadia will emerge, comprising Oregon (my home state) Washington and British Columbia. We will not let ...
I think we should invade Vancouver Island. The 70 or 80 miles that are south of the 49th parallel are rightfully ours. We'll give up that section of M...
"Principles" and "notions" (or intuitions, or feelings) are not identical. Maybe chimps have religions -- maybe ants and bees do. There's no way of kn...
I understand it perfectly. As I wrote earlier, good manners are a trivial form of proper morality. I believe in freedom of speech. But rude speech is ...
Chimps have behaviors. We cannot tell if they have "principles". Eusocial (haplodiplontic) insects practice altruistic behaviors, too. Are these based...
That depends on what you mean by "morality". Obviously, all female mammals (and many non-mammals) care for their children and give them scarce resourc...
Man makes himself (as V. Gordon Childe once wrote). Based on the evidence of skulls, once language developed the lobes of the human brain devoted to l...
In Tilney's day, "nice" expressed "neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement." He deplored a word with a specific meaning morphing into one which e...
Yes it does prove they are right in terms of the definition of "man" and "woman". That's how lexicographers define words. Words often change from the ...
Both influence behavior. Only the negative connotations surrounding "propaganda" make the word apply to one kind of influence and not the other. Those...
Well, I and most educated people in the U.S. disagree. The definitions are changing, as Jamal has clearly pointed out. It's reasonable to modify defin...
When you've written a widely syndicated column on manners for 40 years, let me know. "Woman" can refer to an image of a prototypical woman, just like ...
Of course I do. But "love your neighbor as yourself" is "propaganda" just as much as "kill the witch" is. I'm the one who is arguing that morals are c...
That's correct. Some linguists think language is "structural", others that it is more "analogical" (this latter would involve the "prototypes" you men...
That's my point, not yours. Morality is culturally constituted. It is "manipulated" by laws, mores, religions, philosophies, novels, poetry and other ...
Well, you asked for an authority on manners, and I offered one. You don't have to accept her advice, but based on Miss Maner's definition of "rude" su...
Explaining the Holocaust as the result of one deviant individual is unpersuasive. Hitler was elected, and he didn't personally kill any Jews. Hundreds...
Kees was a poet, a novelist, a musician and film maker. His car was found by the Golden Gate Bridge, and it was assumed he committed suicide -- but he...
By the way, here's a quote from the afore mentioned Miss Manners: “The emphasis on suiting pronouns to identity has to do with tolerance and acceptanc...
Here's one for a philosophy forum. Crime Club by Weldon Kees No butler, no second maid, no blood upon the stair. No eccentric aunt, no gardener, no fa...
If you mean the culture "evolves", anyone might agree. If you mean morality is influenced by biological evolution, fine. If, however, you mean that mo...
Everything has failed to create a better world. The world is as it is. However, there is no point of comparison. We don't know if the world without ph...
Plenty of people go by a name that is neither their birth name nor their legal name. A woman I know named "Kathleen" prefers to go by "Kathy". I suppo...
What does "legally" have to do with it? Why should that matter? Good manners suggest that we should refer to people by the name they request us to use...
Neither do I. But the story was probably first told during the transition from small, hunting and gathering societies (represented as "Eden") to civil...
Maybe. Maybe not. "Thou shalt not steal", for example, depends on a theory of property rights that did not exist in many simple societies. So the mora...
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (well known in anthropology) states, "Language has a tyranny on thought." The idea was that Inuits, who have 22 words for s...
IN his book Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches Marvin Harris (a neo-Marxist anthropologist) offers economic "explanations" for the taboos on eating pigs and...
If that's true, why do we need moral rules? Of course all female mammals are altruistic toward their children. If they weren't, the children wouldn't ...
And I gave you an example where almost all native English speakers would say, "I saw a woman walking in the woods." Are you going to insist on asking,...
If the same person saw a person with long hair, breasts, wearing a dress walking in the woods, he or she might say, "I saw a woman walking in the wood...
Nonsense. The definition is changing, or has changed. Why else would it be commonplace for people to list their "pronouns". The use of "she" and "her"...
This begs the questions of policy. Should a "transman" use the men's or women's toilets? Should a transwoman play women's sports? It also ignores pron...
I don't buy it. I doubt many trans people want to "pass" so they can date. If you know someone well enough to "date" (have sex with), you would probab...
By insisting that gender identity develops in utero, you suggest that it is biological, like sex. But gender is culturally determined. So attempting t...
It is obvious that transgender individuals are "less connected to their bodies". WE don't need studies of fetal development to figure that out. Of cou...
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