Artemis

Why are you ignoring what I said?

I think the only rational thing to do is adopt an optimistic attitude. Here's my calculation: If we're pessimistic about it, then we won't do anything...

That leads you to something as useless as "just do it" or worse, "do." Why should there be a limit? While, sure, the kitten principle is a more specif...

Why does it have to be exclusive to ethics? I don't understand that criterion. And I already stated a common ethical principle: avoid causing unnecess...

No. I'm not saying and have never said that there is one naive Kantian maxim by which all ethics function. You can stop strawpersoning me now. I have ...

I asked before and you evaded the question, but I'll ask again: how broad or narrow does an ethical principle have to be to fit your definition thereo...

In the end, when increasing ethical awareness, etc., you're going to be working on your awareness of ethical principles.

In ethics, increasing your awareness of the the specific shade of lipstick Mary Tyler Moore wears on the Dick Van Dyke Show seems fairly nonessential,...

As you might be aware of/be interested to learn, there are several contemporary capital-P-hilosophers taking on that very issue. I'm currently reading...

I will have to get back to you later about the video.

I agree with that. But what are you increasing your awareness, etc about? As for the kittens, you still haven't disproven the wrongness of drowning ki...

Probably depends on the department and who your profs are. My professors did that but also had us study texts of various sides of a debate on which ba...

Mine or the ape's?

Can I drown apes wearing sunglasses in burlap?

You think it's okay to drown kittens??? :scream:

Doesn't matter. Your definition of the word "inaccurate" should be applicable in both cases if it is to be... accurate (by both of our definitions of ...

Interesting choice of paraphrasing. I did not say "ultimate." I suggested that it is one example of an underlying principle that I believe to exist in...

If the human were Trump :rofl:

By your logic: 2+2=4 is inaccurate because it does not tell us that 3+5=8.

Correction, Simply put: ethics is more complicated than the naive early-Kantian maxims doctrine. Even Kant recognized that later in his career. Note t...

This just in: Social Justice Kitten posters. :rofl: https://liartownusa.tumblr.com/post/188397980565/announcing-the-2020-social-justice-kittens

Hey, look at that! More common ground :wink:

How broad or narrow does a principle have to be to fit your definition thereof? I think your definition of inaccurate is inaccurate. The wrongness of ...

I dunno about the associate's degrees (maybe those are just in general less common?) but I assume students of philosophy share at least one reason wit...

If they're rooted in genetics, two questions: 1. wouldn't that mean that we all probably have the same gut-level instincts ultimately with slight pref...

Interesting. Where do these gut-level things come from?

If I can't help how I feel, how can I purposefully change it through introspection?

I still don't see why someone with your view of the matter would bother. If my disposition at point t=0 is just as valid as at t=1, then it would all ...

I agree with @"Terrapin Station". I also think the investments we currently put into space travel are but a drop in the bucket compared to the obscene...

But why? What's the point?

Is that different from intuition?

But then you said there's nothing else available. Seems contradictory.

There has to be. Or else everyone would respond to all situations like a toddler. I'm not saying intuition doesn't play a role. But there are other el...

Nope.

So, if you're just having a particularly bad "body day" you might actually beat up the kid in the alley?

Seems to me you're contradicting yourself now. Your intuition must be based on something, or else it's just random and random actions won't do anyone ...

Seems to me you yourself still fall back on them, even if you're just doing it "intuitively." And I think you have to distinguish between a naive Kant...

I'm not sure yet either what word I'd use for my personal ethical.... Um, guidelines? But you get my drift. Okay, so then you must have some underlyin...

I don't really understand why something like "don't drown kittens in a burlap sack" would be either inaccurate or motivated by fear. And an ethics whe...

How do you differentiate that from essentially a moral code? Seems to me at least any intuition could be formally stated as a type of premise?

Are you considering things like (but not limited to) evolutionary ethics, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, or rights based ethics to fall under those tw...

Or they are the types, who for whatever reason reject the idea that formal training is important/beneficial for doing philosophy. (Fear of brainwashin...

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Wouldn't any positive statement imply a negative one?

I don't really understand the questions. If you see fire, water, or an oar, haven't you already used a physical sense to capture empirical information...

We're free! Free at last!

If you're looking for a good book, here's a cool flowchart: http://dailynous.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/roth-ben-philosophical-novels-and-stories....

So are you going to publish your book someday?

I'm not sure I understand how you can have an "ethics" of any sort without some principles you fall back on? Like, you previously stated something alo...

I don't know what you mean by "project onto the universe"?