Metaphysician Undercover

I suggest that your conclusion, "that consequentialism is the appropriate form a moral theory should take" restricts your ability to understand the tr...

I suggest you read more carefully. Ch. 5 discusses potency, then chapter 6, starts out with the following sentence: "Since we have treated of the kind...

@"Dan" My last post shows the two significant problems with your thesis, the faulty assumptions you work from. 1. You misrepresent "freedom". 2. You m...

You're working from a false assumption. It is not force which restricts freedom, it is impossibility which restricts freedom. We can find our way arou...

I think we have to be very careful in what it means to say that Socrates held so and so in high esteem. Socrates was very respectful of all his interl...

I used that example, as an extreme, to bring to your attention the complexity of human interactions with "property" as the medium. If you dismiss the ...

I don't understand what you are saying here. Parmenides is Eleatic. And then you say "Pretty darn Parmenidean", as if you are confirming that Parmenid...

I don't agree with your description of "choice", as I explained. I choose to take a walk in a specific place, the specific place is an essential part ...

No, I don't think your version is in error, more like incomplete. So I'll address specifically some aspects of your post with suggestions as to how I ...

I find that the way to resolve this apparent problem is to understand that in Aristotle there is two distinct senses of "form", just like there is "su...

I don't agree with this. I think choices are very specific, while desires may be more general. I believe the proper representation is that my desire i...

This makes no sense to me. Choosing to take a walk, is a choice of what to do with my own body, how does choosing a specific place to walk change this...

This makes no sense at all to me. How is it that choosing to amputate my arm is a choice of what to do with my own body, but choosing to take a walk i...

The idea of pure immutable power, is what Aristotle took issue with. Such a power would not have the capacity to actualize anything. If absolutely any...

But Plotinus' "One" is pure potency rather than pure act. This is the principal metaphysical difference between Aristotelianism and Neo-Platonism. Thi...

I really don't think I am understanding what you are saying, but maybe this is the key to why I am having difficulty. Are you proposing a third catego...

Notice I used the naming of "God" and "soul" as examples. I would propose something like "the immaterial". What do you mean about dropping the Platoni...

Git too drunk and the slide rule forgot how to follow you home?

In an engineering museum, on a table full of beers. This is what the boys used to do to pass their time, sit around the table with cases of beer, and ...

You're really losing me Dan. How can there be a choice which does not belong to me , and yet does not belong to someone else? Who's choice is it? What...

I think we all know, the "God" commonly referred to, is dead.

But it isn't morally bad to make another's choice. That's what we already went through. It is generally good to save a person's life, for example. Tha...

This is the word use issue I was discussing with Patterner. It doesn't make sense to talk about Intelligence outside of time, because "intelligence" a...

I don't think so, and that is the problem I've been describing to you in the inverse form, (separating the pure immaterial subjective agent, sometimes...

That's not a plow, it's a snow scoop. See the white on the ground? Some of the pioneers were not too happy with the white stuff, and decided it had to...

Generally speaking, yes that's about right. The "continuation" is commonly known as infinite regress. I do believe that understanding causes requires ...

Before, you were qualifying types of choices. The choice to steal your car was a choice which does not belong to me, and this judgement was made based...

You've lost me. Care to explain what you're asking? No, I do not agree. "Organized" is the outcome, the effect. It does not make sense to use the same...

Motivation is a large aspect of "one's mind". If it is not important to FC, then your principle, "one's own choice", defined by you as a choice concer...

You are not making sense. If the marbles are in a jar, and you are talking about whether or not there is an organizer who cause them to be in this pos...

That is what I meant. I don't see how we could assign any type of order to something which is completely immaterial. It's a difficult subject to discu...

I do not think that the "spatial/object-like", " temporal/process-like" distinction is very useful in this context. The issue is that "object" itself ...

That would have been Uncle Ben I suppose. He sure gave it a damn good try when he "converted" long grain rice.

"Organized" refers to material existents. The term therefore is not applicable to the cause of material existence which, being prior to material exist...

It's called "logic", from basic premises which are very well supported by empirical evidence.. Here, look at my first post on this thread, for a start...

I am demonstrating "being an asshole" by flagging this thread to be put in the lounge.

Your phrasing ("how non-living matter became living") betrays an underlying misunderstanding of the problem. Classical ontology premises immaterial Fo...

If it was an actual hypothesis, then those "natural processes" which account for the emergence of life from non-life would be named, and the hypothesi...

As far as I'm concerned, any hypothesis about the origin of life on earth is better than abiogenesis, because abiogenesis is really nothing other than...

Your principle, "one's own choice" states that the choice concerns one's own mind, body, and property. This implies that the motivation for the act, a...

In my understanding "woo-woo" means unscientific. A theory, such as abiogenesis, which is completely unsupported by any science, is, by that definitio...

When someone such as yourself claims that abiogenesis is how life came about, that is nothing but woo-woo. Then to add that it\s a scientific theory, ...

MO of the supreme sophist, Tones in the Deep Freeze.

Notice the paragraph says "aims", "attempts", and concludes with "Any successful theory of abiogenesis must explain the origins and interactions of th...

That's right, first we lost Aunt Jemima, now Uncle Ben. Who's the next member of the family to pass on?

It's not science. Science is supported by empirical evidence. It's just woo-woo magical thinking.

Actually, abiogenesis is what is best described as "woo-woo". You can make such statements all you want, but it doesn't resolve the problem. It just i...

We're very far apart on this. What I pointed out to you, is that to steal your car is a choice of what I want to do with my own body. That it is your ...

Here is another way of looking at the difference between subjective uniqueness, and objective uniqueness. Consider that we general distinguish between...

I don't see how this is relevant. There is no consensus amongst epistemologists as to what warrants anything as "knowledge". So this type of attack on...