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It can happen at anytime to anyone however it is usually brought out in extreme situations where the agent is 'out of their depth' and can no-longer r...

You are describing a form of true freedom accomplished through strict discipline.You are free of the niggling voice of worry telling you that you stil...

We are part of the causal chain but the human mind is different than an inanimate object. Causality has influence over our thoughts but the mind has t...

Where do you live?

In Britain until the mid '80's it was free. University was free and students received a grant that was enough to scrape by on. I believe that it is fr...

I am not sure whether Descartes took the God continuation as seriously as we think. His achievement is the cogito. This can only be challenged by aski...

The agents involved behind the veil of ignorance are perfectly aware of necessity and how laws will effect society. They just don't know what their po...

That's what Rawls is trying to achieve with his original position. Complete ignorance of how we will be effected by the laws we make is supposed to pr...

And what's wrong with being a Kantian? Anyway with Scanlon I wonder how he accommodates for what we can accept as 'reasonable'. The criteria seem too ...

I like that opinion. The pdf's are for Theory of Justce by Rawls and Utilitarianism and Contractualism by Scanlon.

I think that the veil makes people think impartially, any weakening of it allows some form of personal bias to enter the equation.

Are you aware of the 'tolerance objection' by Williams? Cultural relativism isn't relativism before it meets another culture and after it meets anothe...

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This ...

Thanks, great post. Can you shed some light on the objection that such a society would have to run secretly? With only a few philosophers knowing of t...

Thanks for your great copy & paste skills there Tim. I have read the literature but can't get my head around it, I need someone to 'unpack' it for me.

Perhaps a form of 'original creativity', Perhaps a 'conscience'. The property of being Human is hard to define but cannot be ignored.

https://youtu.be/aejWas9R_0E

I agree that a lot of our learning is also just remembering symbols that we don't really understand in themselves, only in connection with other symbo...

Truth always suffers from too much analysis. (Frank Herbert)

Computers don't learn things they remember them, like a child memorizing a poem or a math formula or a rude word in a foreign language. I like your di...

By replacing them with knowledge. Beliefs can be manipulated, knowledge can't.

I wouldn't say that they are identical but they do all share the Cartesian super-premise and begin from the semi-solipsistic point that all we have ce...

Determinism of intelligent agents is a fallacy. We experience many so called deterministic events involving non-thinking substance but thinking, anima...

This is speculative knowledge. There are some traits of what we called morality in the natural world. What does it matter being first? The question is...

That seems strange because ideas of objects do have a temporal spatial real existence according to Berkeley in some of his writing. I cannot help but ...

But where does this mind reside? Where is my mind? Where is God's mind?

What is your 'charitable' opinion?

It does ;) But seriously morality considers your action with regards to others before yourself. If your pot smoking negatively effects others then the...

If determinism is meant to be the the future being caused by the past then yes it is self refuting. We can never know the future, certain elements we ...

i read it and was reminded of the story that when seen scientifically bee's can't fly. The caveat there was comparing bee's to airplanes dynamics assu...

Cut back on the weed bro.

A view that recognises it's origins are subjective and does as much as it can to isolate their own subjectivity from the view is about as objective as...

In almost all systems of morality justice is considered one of it's the most important foundations. Perhaps this is a mistake and justice has little t...

Causal determination doesn't mean that the effect is under the power of the cause. To say that a cause necessitates is to say that a cause causes. Eve...

Determinism seems to be proposing a tautology.

yes but Kant talks about lying promises, which are deliberate deceptions to the detriment of the person being deceived and to the advantage of the dec...

If the lie had been told only injured one person but saved the lives of many others would that make the lie moral?

So is choosing the lesser of two evils immoral?

I think this is because as adults we have an unspoken agreement that many of our questions are not expected to be answered with honesty. This is so mu...

. It is a hard one to get and I suppose you don't have to accept it either. Kant is saying (in my opinion) that making a lying promise (one you know t...

This is not what Kant is saying. He is saying that lying can never be moral for any reason, not that it is always immoral to lie. He does not directly...

Not by Kant, he is very specific that only when you have no other option than answering yes or no that you must not lie. This even gives scope for per...

That is not the point, Kant will tell you that the only thing in your view that is right is if everyone else made the same act things would not get wo...

Kant quite specifically does not tell us what is an immoral act or whether the act is good or bad in relation to practicality. He is specifically tell...

Churchill said two things highly relative to your point. Firstly that the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the avera...

The people that tell the truth would only believe people they can verify are most likely not to lie. This is kind of the current state of world affair...

So ultimately lying is self defeating. The murderer at the door comes at the end of Kant's Groundwerk as an answer to a question on his perfect duty t...

I think that simply not opening the door is the most obvious solution, don't you?

they lost their right to an opinion when they revolted!

Important to remember that Kant allows you not to always tell the truth. The murderer at the door is a good example. Firstly, when he asks if your fri...