Metaphysician Undercover

I think you need to take what Plato said in context. He says that those who claim pleasure is good, in the most general sense, would have to admit tha...

Let me clarify what I believe that Plato did. He did not argue that pleasure is unrelated to pain, some pleasures very much seem to be related to pain...

Due to the nature of trade secrets, and the matter of keeping them secret, I'd say that's probably a pretense. I agree, I think that's where the need ...

You'd have to talk to the software developers to learn that. But right now I would expect that there is a lot of trade secrets which would not be read...

This is a very good point. In many, probably most of our actions, we really do not know why we do what we do. If asked, afterwards, why did you do tha...

This was a significant issue for Plato, and it represents the thrust of his attacks against the sophists who claimed to be teaching virtue. They insis...

Pleasure is definitely related to aesthetics. The question is how these two are related to ethics. The two extremes would be, one, that they are compl...

This is a good example. If you ask a highly trained AI what it is thinking, it may provide you with an answer because it is trained to consider what i...

There is a metaphysical distinction, sometimes made, between aesthetics and ethics. The principal difference is that "the good" of ethics is always so...

:party: Woohoo! Let's go wild and lay ruin to this thread! That's what I call "doing philosophy".

Lying on your back, on pavement is actually very comfortable, if you have a pillow. I would not lie on a bed of nails though. True ztory.

I don't know, that pool looks sparkling clean to me.

I don't think so. At the end of the quoted passage he is dismissing claims that Hegel's dialectics can properly be called "negative". And, at the begi...

The point is that the true agency within the person is at the subconscious level. Like I said, we assign agency to the consciousness, but that is a si...

That was Molly Malone! I assume she was singing: "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh."

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That's an unjustified and unwarranted qualification of my statement. "Material" is purely conceptual, and no observations of active change support the...

The op distinguishes between lying and bullshit. The thread is about bullshitting, the title is about lying.

I think I sufficiently indicated that I have concern about those who will do harm, because they do harm. I don't have concern about the act of spying ...

I'd say there's at least four Hanovorians still at it. (Joke rather than personal attack. If you can't laugh with me laugh at me, or whatever.) Where ...

You are changing the goal posts. I am fine with the basic principle as stated "strangers tracking my children". I believe that is a natural, unavoidab...

It's a buck dancer's choice, my friend Better take my advice You know all the rules by now And the fire from the ice The answer to where does the time...

But this doesn't work, because "the person" is understood as the conscious self, yet much of the brain's activity is not conscious. Therefore the agen...

I think my interpretation is very similar to yours. Possibility blocks the path to utopia, and the realized is opposed to this. That implies good. The...

It's quite likely happening already, and also completely legal. Why should I worry about something I can't do anything about? That just makes a person...

I don't even know what this could mean. As Derrida argued, repetition cannot be unchanged, it always involves difference, There is no such thing as "r...

I agree with this, that for Adorno the immediacy of the self is fake. And it makes sense to me because I put this into a temporal context, as a sort o...

This question, I believe, holds the key to understanding the mystery of morality. Moral decisions cannot be codified into a list, because each and eve...

Yes, now do you see how this attitude relates to the statement about Horkheimer posted by Punshhh above? "This marks the “eclipse” of reason—the point...

The important point is the ending, "pre-established patterns". Doesn't that imply "past information" to you? Any form of repetition implies past infor...

What I find is that Galileo's turn toward relativity marked a changed attitude in the discipline of physics, which removed the goal of truth. With his...

Whatever "prospective habit" is actually supposed to mean, aren't all sorts of habit based in past information?

What? Interactions make decisions about what is good?

Reading ahead in the next section, I've found evidence that we are both, in a way correct in our interpretations. I interpreted "the thing" as the thi...

I think that's somewhat consistent with what I said, depending on how one would understand "independently". If things can exist independently of each ...

Even the best laid plans...

Sure, why would I not be fine with it? It's just a natural and acceptable part of our society. It's sometimes required and useful for identifying wron...

Other than checking the whereabouts of my kids on the phone app, I don't get the urge to spy. However, I accept it as a reasonable and legitimate way ...

I'm substance dualist, by the principles i just explained. Substance dualism is only made to appear incoherent through the strawman representation. I ...

I think what you are describing is the strawman representation of dualism, designed by monists to make dualism look incoherent. You define the two sub...

Why is everyone around here so strongly against spying? Have you succumbed to paranoia? If you want to find out what someone is up to, you spy on them...

Would you make the same declaration about saying that something is green? That this is not to discover a property of the thing, but to adopt an attitu...

But that's just a matter of ruling out the possibility of time-invariant natural rights by means of definition, which would be begging the question. M...

Platonic dialectics looks at different ways in which the same word is used, in an attempt to determine the true referent. Compare this to what Adorno ...

How is it consistent to argue that there are laws of nature, but no natural rights? Doesn't the very same principle of realism, which makes the laws o...

"The good" is the way that Plato brings ideas from being understood as inert and passive, into being understood as playing an active role in causation...

Holy shit man. I would not come within a kilometre of that thing. Who took the picture?

No, objects are separate from the substrate, and the interactions of objects are sometimes described by laws. But the two are definitely very distinct...

Yes, I deny it because I understand the philosophy well. And, I know that Plato solved the so-called interaction problem more than two thousand years ...

Read your physics handbook. The gravity field is not a law, it is a property of spacetime. This is the inversion brought about by the Einsteinian revo...