Yep. I'm basically the only open anarchist that I know of in real life, if you don't count family members influenced by my ideas. I've met others onli...
What are the necessary traits for some X to be "a value"? If ethical freedom is really freedom, the answer is "none". No one can say that X cannot be ...
Ethical freedom is the freedom to pick your own hierarchy of values. This is what I'm talking about -- it is a freedom that prisoners in a dungeon, or...
Yes, because it is the foundation of any value. The freedom to murder is a value just as existence, rationality, agency, are values. Without these rea...
In my hierarchy, democracy is not a good, and therefore the question becomes unanswerable. I don't think it is even a necessary evil -- in my appraisa...
In your scenario, by the way, if some agency has the power to decide that an election can be postponed for some undemocratic reason, it is doubtful to...
This depends on a hierarchy of values, which was not presented in the reasoning, and cannot be deduced by an interlocutor. It is easy to see this if y...
Nope, killing (a human) is intrinsically wrong inasmuch as it deprives him of his freedom. This is inescapable, regardless of the juridical gradations...
Nope. By the way, @"Wayfarer", I`m familiar with Feser`s site and argument about the death penalty. I agree with it (namely, that it is not opposed, i...
Luke 22:36 - Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath not, let him sell his coat,...
Your claim was, and I quote (again): Take, for example, Christ's teaching of non-resistance to evil by violence, or resistance to evil by non-violence...
That was from a catechism from the Catholic Church. You italicized mainstream. Is your point that the Catholic Church is not a mainstream church? Inci...
Naive monism is a great expression. But let me parse this sentence of yours: "... people in general neither saw a distinction between the two, nor did...
.... if used to describe what I'm suggesting to you. To interpret that sentence as meaning "any and all reasoning, in every conceivable circumstance, ...
I'm struggling to imagine a reading of my last post that reaches this conclusion. That question of yours is being "laid back"? Ok. Have fun. I've sugg...
I'm resistant to use a term that does not describe reality. I already presented the reasoning: 1. There is a whole family of pairs of concepts, which ...
Well, you should care because philosophers care to know about stuff they don't know, particularly when it is stuff that encompasses the entirety of re...
The next step in symbolization, you mean. To insist on a reasoning before we straighten that out would skip the important steps. How would one name th...
Yes, though it is also important that these experiences are human. It is important for our communication, but not for the exploration of matter:spirit...
But you were wrong. When a pair of polarized concepts (north:south, natural:artificial, spirit:matter, etc.) is developed out of our still-compact exp...
I have never experienced matter without spirit, and neither have you. I have never experienced spirit without matter, and neither have you. What we ca...
A conceptual polarity is not an indication of ontological dualism. On the contrary, a polarity pretty much eliminates the possibility of dualism (e.g....
Spirituality cannot be "defined" in the absence of its counterpart (materiality), and the same goes for materiality. There are many kinds of polar con...
"Laws of nature" is a metaphor. It is good to keep that in mind, and to retrace the birth of the metaphor. For example, watch Francis Bacon trying to ...
It depends on how one is using the word "existent". Mathematical proofs refer to non-existent relationships, if we are using "existent" to mean "perce...
They beg the question as much as any argument that intends to prove the existence of X (rather than the possibility of X, the necessity of X, or the i...
Determinism and free will are not opposites. They are polar complementaries. One does not make sense without the other. Free will requires predictabil...
Appeals to authority and proofs by assertion belong to a typology of arguments, and therefore are not invoked in the activity of "supporting a paradig...
People don't believe in God based on arguments, because arguments are not the proper tools to establish the existence of anything. Arguments only unpa...
The confusion between one's country and one's government -- a confusion which is actively promoted by the government, of course -- is at the root of p...
Debates are quite useful, but not for approaching discursive truth :D. They are useful for teaching humility and tolerance. They are useful for teachi...
The diversity of ideas reflects (1) the diversity of experiences and (2) the development of consciousness (both individually and as a species). The bi...
A good illustration of the entire point of our conversation. Expression and interpretation diverging, based on the different experiences of speaker an...
That may be a trivial claim, but it is far from being a trivial fact. That we are beings capable of experience, and of experience of a given kind (for...
@"Srap Tasmaner" There comes a point in which the territory is the territory, i.e., it is not a map. With beings like us, this point is experience. Ex...
Yes. Remember my comment about private, unexpressed notions? Why should I try to guess what is important to you? It's much better that you ask about y...
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