In Harvey Siegel's book Rationality Redeemed the critical thinker is defined as: "one who is appropriately moved by reason." I think this is spot on. ...
I don't understand why the pessimist has to project his own feelings about the world onto everyone else to the extent of being an antinatalist. If you...
That's the Jungian understanding of the phrase. I believe Regi is talking about the Buddhist sense of it. But, yes, in both senses you wouldn't have f...
I agree that to a certain extent it would be subjective. Like, for one person it may entail being a doctor, for another joining the Peace Corps, and f...
I haven't seen that. Could you cite a specific moment when men were demeaned or degraded? I, for my part, have tried to stick with facts about the pre...
Pending various conditional claims, yes, I believe it can be rational to have children. Those conditionals include (but are not limited to): If you ha...
No. Also, you're talking in circles. So I'll quote myself to answer that: Marginally. But that's because movies are made with the intention to cause t...
The definition of a paradox is: A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-cont...
As someone who teaches English lit, I think especially philosophy dealing with this sort of close attention to language should appeal to the literary-...
Just to clarify, is your "liberal" basically what we in America call "libertarian"? Here "liberals" are the ones in favor of social programs and helpi...
Yes! The whole system is rigged against the working class. Which is one of the main points of the articles I linked to :) For a more literary version ...
It's expensive to be poor in America. https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21663262-why-low-income-americans-often-have-pay-more-its-expensive...
I don't think that's quite true. And, honestly, if stopping 9 million people die for lack of food and adequate nutrition every year means I have to gi...
You're misusing the term paradox. It may be an interesting juxtaposition, but it is not paradoxical for two different people two have opposing worldvi...
So? One person laughing and the other crying isn't paradoxical. As Cavacava points out: That's just different word views and interpretations of the hu...
Must I though? Must I? Clearly not, because mine hasn't as of yet :lol: In part, I'm just not finding your arguments or your examples very convincing....
Yes, well, I've already agreed to that. But that's very different from making sense out of nonsense, or understanding nonsense. You seem to be avoidin...
Why would teaching people to talk coherently be negative? I mean... you could try to raise a kid without language and just let him garble at things in...
Mayhaps, but you should base your arguments on what you can most reasonably assume to be true. Your best bet is to go with what established science do...
I don't mean "merit" as in "it helps us think about x," but as in your claim that "paradoxes can make "sense" even if they are illogical." You don't s...
I concur. WHY is that the case? Mostly because we are large, hairless apes and apes are social animals, i.e., we evolved that way. If we had evolved f...
See my option #2--unsolvable through logic and that just means you're wrong and the paradox is wrong somehow. Giving up logic is illogical. And that's...
Yes, I think in the long run having goals is necessary for a fulfilling life. But I don't think your goals need to be static. My teenager goals are no...
Hard to choose between classical and jazz, but jazz has more innovation. Everything else...I like plenty of other genres just fine, but would have a p...
The gut feeling that there is a truth behind some apparent paradox seems to me to stem from either of two things:1) it's not actually a paradox, we ju...
Right. I'd add: The primary difference between Hegel and Marx being that the former was an idealist, while Marx spearheaded dialectic materialism. So ...
I think you need to clarify in which direction you're actually arguing. The way I see it, you're making two different, juxtaposed claims: 1. We should...
Suffering is not inherently meaningful. However, you may as well make the proverbial lemonade out of it if you are unlucky enough to be the recipient ...
I sort of figured we'd have to sort this part out at some point. Kind of explains why we've been talking passed each other this whole time. I'm not su...
Ahem, the modern human, please and thank you. I think the problems with our general alienation from production are both manifold and dire. Just a few ...
Yes. And not only because science originates in philosophy, and is (strictly speaking) a sub-discipline thereof. Well, for one, that a paradox cannot ...
Point taken--that wasn't a very precisely worded example on my part. But I hope you can still get the gist of what I was saying: cows don't want to be...
Eh, you know what? Since you self-admittedly just ignore the arguments you don't like, and since you're also admitting to not actually being intereste...
You cannot call my arguments red herrings if you haven't read them--either you lied previously, or you are committing an argumentum abusi fallacia (fa...
I don't know about him, but one of my phil profs from my undergrad program used to use that word in every class somehow. I remember classmates making ...
As a dual citizen of Germany and America, and therefore bilingual speaker of German and English: -Some German texts are actually easier to understand ...
This made me think about the Unending Conversation metaphor: Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long precede...
I've read G.E. Moore: he was not arguing against explaining types of wrong or good, he was arguing against reducing the good or the bad to one type of...
Yes, but evolution dictates that anything and everything we are innately capable of, other animals can do as well in varying degrees (some better, som...
People post pics and vids on this forum all the time--it's just prop material, get over it. "Evangelism," "proselytizing," "ideologues" etc, etc are a...
Getting so upset about what a stranger says on the internet in a philosophical debate, especially when they did not say anything personal to you, is a...
You're comparing apples and oranges: A doctor using medications that may have harmful side-effects, uses them because s/he believes the chances are gr...
The scientific models allows for scientists to avoid absolute "commitments" because they are working with hypotheses and theories. The (good) scientis...
So you think that all of the animals you will ever eat already exist? Or that the money you put into the meat industry by purchasing animal products d...
It isn't in their best interest. It would be best for them not to be brought into existence. How can a life of agony, which ends prematurely, be good ...
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