Sure, each case has a number of differences from every other. That is why I think your procedure of singling out specific cases and claiming "morally ...
You can pray to anything, it need not be God, it's called idolatry. So one might believe, that if you simply pray, in general, to no specific divinity...
I think we need to consider "context" as the entire work, "The Republic". This is what I said earlier, we look at the whole, and try to see how the pa...
I would not attach too much specific importance to these words. These are generally emotion based concepts, and the words for feelings are used in a v...
The inverse fallacy is the perfect example of the need for skepticism. When we establish a cause/effect relationship between two types of events, A an...
The first premise is the product of an inversion fallacy which I explained on the first page of this thread. There is an assumed cause/effect relation...
OK, so now you accept that teaching someone something (providing the location in your example), actually is causal in a morally relevant way. I'm glad...
I believe we can take modern usage of "necessity", and divide it into two principal categories. We have on the one hand, what is said to be "necessary...
The point though, is that the order in which the souls get to choose, is dictated (necessitated) by the lottery, which as a lottery, appears as random...
We could take that route, but I think it would prove disastrous to consequentialism. Consider that if we maintain such principles, that there are nece...
I see what you mean. Your explanation shows the argument to be invalid though, because it puts a second instance of the same fallacy, in the second pa...
I think it actually is the same, just different names for the same problem. The quote I took from Wikipedia concerns what happens when the problem is ...
The myth is concerned with decision making and I think the big issue is the relation between possibility and necessity, and the role of each in the ar...
The premise states a conditional concerning "if God does not exist". We cannot proceed logically, from that premise to make any conclusions about what...
You might notice the basic principle of Aristotle's doctrine of the mean at 619a: "And we must always know how to choose the mean in such lives and ho...
Sorry, sloppy mistake, or a strange sort of typo, in my last post. The question was meant to be, how do you proceed from the premise "if God does not ...
How do you conclude "God exists" from this? Since the premise is "If God exists..", doesn't the conclusion of "God exists" involve an inversion fallac...
The myth is excellent for bringing out the juxtaposition of necessity and possibility, and ultimately how this relates to choice or selection. The ass...
OK, so the key phrase is "not wholly determined by preceding events". I would say that "determined" is the type of concept where we would say that an ...
I believe, that it is this way of looking at things which is what leads to confusion. Instead of looking at the work as one united fiction, parts tied...
Get used to it. You could make an interesting math problem, using some laws of statistics, to determine how many different ways you can say the exact ...
The entire proposal is imaginary, that's pretty clear. To say that one particular aspect is a fiction within a fiction is not really meaningful. You a...
Yes, that would be a good idea. I cannot follow what your saying now, so maybe a definition, or even a description of what you think free will is. You...
I think that's an important point. Plato was not advocating an all out ban on the creative arts. Music actually plays a very important role in his pro...
Right, I was trying to clarify Plato's argument. If you don't agree with it, maybe you could provide an argument for the other side, attempt to refute...
There's going to be a lot of them flying around, so watch out. Ever wonder where all that stuff that gets washed out to sea in these huge storms ends ...
That is because I want premises for the purpose of proceeding logically. If we allow the ambiguity of words meaning numerous different things, then we...
Being "inspired" does not equate with being able to represent the divine. The principal force of Plato's criticism of Homer is related to how Homer re...
I agree with this. What Plato's describes here is the logical procedure toward the separation between human ideas, and the separate or divine Forms, w...
OK, but since "freedom is restricted" is a blatant contradiction, and you seem to believe that "restricted" represents the truth in this matter, we ne...
I believe the best representation of this three-fold distinction is like this. The basic example consists of three beds, one made by God, one made by ...
When someone forces someone to do something, they are using the physical forces of the universe to their advantage. So from the perspective of the per...
That's human nature, people hold fast to the beliefs they have. Because of this, I think moral philosophy is the most difficult field You are not list...
Final cause is defined by Aristotle as that for the sake of which. The example given is that health is the final cause of the man walking. Why is he w...
I think the principle of plenitude actually is important to Aquinas' version of the cosmological argument. Basically, if all existence is contingent e...
I didn't see any need to comment on the Aquinas quote. He was explaining what you and I both agreed upon, that Aristotle said we understand the meanin...
We can take this as a true proposition, that the consequences of our actions are caused by our actions, and apply it as the foundation for a moral phi...
The old principle of plenitude, to the rescue. Given enough universes, one's got to produce intelligence. Given enough monkeys with typewriters... Typ...
OK, if I still have your attention Paine, I will continue. Right, this is the point I was making, the different senses of potentiality. That is what h...
You misunderstand what Wittgenstein was saying. It is not the case that philosophy is in need of therapy, it is the case that philosophy is the therap...
That's the trend, leave room for the prequel. Biologists should get themselves up to date with the modern trends, and instead of leading people toward...
Your interpretation of "sharply separates", when Aristotle is talking about the difference between a definition, and understanding by analogy, is a fa...
The point is, that in the chapter you quoted, Aristotle says we refer to analogy to understand the sense of "actual" which is implied in a particular ...
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