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And if we change the wording from social animals to social mammals would that make it clearer for you?

Aristotle s causes are a bit different. Hume doesn't deny causation as a concept he just denies we can know anything more about it that constant conju...

but surely you see that there is a chain of events?

So are you saying that causation is multiple simultaneous causes? How does that work if the cause must come before the effect?

Democracy is rule by popularity, our species faces some very hard decisions about our survival. This will not be popular with anyone and so democracy ...

Could you please elaborate?

Democracy is on the way out. I actually think that only a totalitarian world government can save our civilization.

I can see too many exceptions to your rules. Culling the sick to ensure the survival of the species would be a reason for killing. Being jealous of th...

I also think that there is a physical side to the Forms.

Hume says it is constant conjunction. The mental relationship that happens when you see something always happening in the same way.

Exactly the point, multiple causes. Where is 'the cause'?

I think that when we talk about causation we are talking about some force existing in objects not just 'a cause' but 'the cause'. The one and only thi...

Ideas are mental states caused by something outside of us. That something must have causal power which material objects do not have. What ever it is o...

In my opinion morals are relative and subjective although seeking the greater good does appear to be altruistic and altruism does happen in nature. I ...

So the first ball hitting it is only a part of a chain of causation that ultimately traces back to the big bang. In which case the first ball hitting ...

Hume doesn't deny the existence of reason only that it plays a back seat role in our moral decisions. Emotion is not reason.

And what caused the first ball to strike it?

Committing an evil act cannot be moral in my ontology.

. But is morality a product of reason or emotion?

How would you then define good and evil? Surely Good is right and evil is wrong by definition?

You do realize the contradiction in that statement don't you? Evil is evil, if being evil can lead to a good result then morality is not about good.

I believe that the deciding factor that swayed the court was the defendants lack of remorse over the act.

The case of Richard Parker is one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens There are many dilemmas in the real world faced by many profe...

What would you say is the cause of the second billiard ball moving?

So killing one innocent person in order to save one hundred can never be moral in your opinion?

University of London

It shows :)

You are analytic I presume?

Just arguing with you from Berkeley's position has been a great help.One needs to talk philosophy in order to really get it. I am 50 and retired, I le...

I need to write an essay on the subject for university and will have to face a question in the exams on it for my degree. That is why it interests me,...

Yes until we can rid ourselves of 'cave mentality' the artists only help reinforce the allure of the cave.

That is fine and I respect that but the point of this thread was to discuss the arguments presented by Locke and Berkeley both for and against matter ...

According to Berkeley matter is an incoherent idea that we arrive at by an abuse of language. Ideas are by definition non material unless you follow D...

That's great but can we leave your personal position aside and focus on the argument between Berkeley and Locke?

How is it any less coherent than the idea of matter? What is matter? Atoms? Quarks? Higgs-Bosun's? Dark matter? Is light a particle or a wave? What th...

I stopped reading at 'If Christianity is true'. Can religions have truth values? Not all Christian belief is about transgender issues, Christianity co...

God doesn't need to predict, he already knows what will happen but knowing and causing are different things.

The problem is that mental disorders tend to be underlying just waiting to get out. It is very possible that even if you had a perfect time as a stude...

https://youtu.be/-T7VOrdWVPc?list=PLBHxLhKiPKxDVZ1QyWMRyaJC6vRhU2qSU

There is a special relationship between man and God in regards to freewill. The story of Genesis shows it perfectly. God gives Adam freewill and tells...

http://woozapooza.tumblr.com/post/65858615349/betterbooktitles-immanuel-kant-critique-of This was the original title.

Apparently it is just as hard in German. He sent the manuscript to his best friend who begged him to be allowed to stop reading it. By the first half ...

Our ideas are impressions of external-to-me physical stuff. Forget about identical, ideas cannot even be similar that stuff, ideas can only be similar...

Physics is the only science.

No evidence really just inference from induction which is the same with science. Starting from the first person inquiry can only be justified by sayin...

I am no scientist but I am aware of the fact that several scientific paradoxes exist. Science has no actual equation for gravity, not what it does but...

That is what Locke proposed, the separation of matter from substratum, primary qualities from secondary and that is what Berkeley objected to. Science...

In philosophy we need to be amazed by all of our ideas. The vulgar take matter to be properties in its self, as philosophers we want to know why this ...

Solipsism is the risk that Descartes also ran, but Berkeley is firm on their being other minds.

wonderful post. I wasn't asking whether immaerialism succeeds in undermining materialism though. You say that Berkeley provides an instrumentally bett...