I do not think I'd disagree ncessarily, but is there a way to discern between preferences? Are the preferences of say a criminal gang of equal value a...
I do not really care about the exact relation. X ought to be done implies you ought to at least not hinder X being done. You should not oppose X, you ...
Purely trivial. It is synonymous with X ought to be done. First person plural or singluar does not matter at all. Yes, you should also strive to end w...
I do not claim they are the same thing. I just do not see how that matters. We are discussing 'ought' and 'good'. The distinction between 'I' and 'we'...
I do not see the distinction. You should end world poverty. The only problem is you cannot do it alone, so you need to find people to work with. One q...
Yes, that is what I said. Indeed, the same with ought. Without making it concrete it does not mean anything. I do not know if ought implies can. If it...
It is a simple analytic truth. What other option is there, that one ought to do what is bad? Or a certain action is good but one ought not to do it. S...
I do not understand you. I indeed think it is axiomatic, and so it is uninformative. If you ask me "What ought I to do?" and I tell you "That which is...
The problem is always in the definition of good. You ought to do good. It does not mean that you ought to do every good thing. That would of course be...
No, they are perfectly synonymous. Good is what one ought to do and what one ought to do is good. How can what one ought to do be bad and how are bad ...
Yes, but also these are not philosophical questions. Sure we can speculate about the consequences, but those remain idle conjecture because we probabl...
Ok, fair enough. Then I will also assume that for the sake of argument at least you also accept the images of a hothouse world, the disasters, drought...
That is a factual question, not a philosophical one. It is just as factual as whether water boils at 100.C. The question of what the ties that bind us...
Ohh, yes, I agree with you. There are philosophical questions related to climate change certainly. It needs a rephrasing of the question, or at least,...
Dear Moliere, I do not see how this is a philosophical topic. If you would like a scientific answer then this would be something for a science forum r...
Great article Mr. Count! I will respond when it is not the middle of the night, but in any case wanted to mention it. Thanks for your thoughtful comme...
Yes, th Pittsburgh Hegelians are indebted to Hegel. Hegel uses rational argumentation to that extent he is 'analytic'. I do think his concepts are ver...
Yes, I would think that is a good thing... I have some qualms with human rights from a legal theoretical perspective so I can sympathize with your cri...
It is more akin to a sociological claim. I do not think God is to be proved at all actually. Hegels point is not to prove or disprove the existence of...
No, there is not. Though it might be a line of argument to justify humanitarian intervention for instance. This route was more popular in the 90s thou...
Why 'subversive'? Why would one grant a nation powers to legislate contrary to human rights? Arguably they constitute basic freedoms and make sure the...
Well, that he is criticized a lot only attests to his importance. And, according to Hegel, it is exactly how the dialectic (aka thought) works. I do n...
Thank you for doing my work Banno ;) It is a jocular comment but I am really thankful. It is easy to just dismiss something and saying, 'huh, I do not...
Not that I know of. They have been researched by the sociologist Hofstede and there is a lot to find online. I am sure he has elaborated on them, but ...
No, not at all. He uses spirit in a similar way like he could use a concept like 'substance'. However with 'spirit' he indicates that substance is not...
Yes, Hegel goes beyond those limits. Somewhere, I believe in the Pheno, but perhaps in the Logik, he writes something along the lines of 'if you pull ...
If basically one half of humanity has been your biggest disappointment in life, that calls for reexamining your expectations from the world. Why do yo...
Reasoning is going on, but what reasoning is is itself a manifestation of spirit, the flow of the idea. There is also different reasoning going on, re...
It cannot be because that already presupposes terms, such as atom or world. For Hegel it is the 'movement of the concept' that creates such dualisms. ...
Well, I feel emotion does not have much of a place in rational discussion, but that is an old fashioned point of view, I know. I do not know how high ...
I disagree with you but there is no surprise there. I wonder though why you see my post as on sided. I tried looking at the problem from multiple angl...
I think this is a very perplexing situation actually. I can imagine why women would not want to do this stuff. It is very risky and does not pay parti...
You did not explain anything you just thought they were a waste of time because they are used to 'slap the most ridiculous generalizations on people'....
I wonder how stable they are. I try to base myself on at least a modicum of facts and figures and for this I do not have them at hand. I do know that ...
What I found interesting in that article is not so much the evolutionary psychology behind it, (but in this case it is nice it supports the point as m...
You will have to generalize when you do sociology. Sure everyone is different, great but that does not explain anything. Perhaps Hofstede is not a goo...
These are values culturally ascribed to men and women, in our western cultural context, at least according to Hofstede. They are ideal typical in the ...
I agree with you, but I think it is not that simple. I wish the far right really didn't worry about such issues. Yet the values far right parties have...
Actually I agree with you. I do not think calling it 'the problem of masculinity' says it all though, but maybe I should have been more clear. I think...
Well yes, I think it is a symptom, but a symptom of what? And what is the symptom exactly the emergence of the far right or the resentment of many you...
Possibly yes. I agree with you that social media is a factor, which should be taken on board in my analysis, but the post was long enough as it is. It...
Of course they did. They supported the dollar as world currency, they supported the US arms industry with billions in orders, their greatest scientist...
That list is peanuts. You also know that, please do not presume other people are silly This actually makes a lot of sense. Some political processes an...
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