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I would think moral philosophy is the inquiry into what is right or wrong (not good) from the perspective we find ourselves in at the time. Defining t...

The relationship between them is the difference between the ontic and the ontological. Whether that's logical or not hardly matters. My position would...

Sure it does Willow. It describes Dasein's life. And Dasein is always my Dasein. That's true for you too. But if you don't think it is, then don't exa...

By using science!

Hard to see how this claim would survive even cursory scrutiny, and the examples already given seem to do that. But in any case it is yours to defend....

Conflating "what is better" with what is moral is another mistake, among many, that you are making

QM is not only science, it's one of our best scientific theories. Science is simply the social practice of using methodological naturalism to explain ...

I think I've been clear: it is our human condition that most people will do anything necessary to stop somebody from torturing them or killing them or...

Sorry, Agustino, it's just special pleading - complying with a robber under threat of death isn't abetting a robbery but complying with a murderer und...

Special pleading won't save your contradictory moral claims.

I'm not confusing them at all, Sapientia. I'm distinguishing them for the reasons stated. You haven't responded to that but I'll give you one more cha...

Living well is not the same as a life worth living. For a person to live a life worth living, it has to be worth living for that person, not for some ...

It is for the person, and that's the sense that counts. A "third party" conclusion that a life is meaningful isn't relevant to whether my life is wort...

It makes no sense to believe in, much less worship, a God that clearly doesn't exist and who would be monstrous if he did. God can't be empirical and ...

Well, we have found the root of our disagreement. I assert unapologetically that it is part of the human condition that the unexamined life is not wor...

So if a robber holds a gun to your head and you give him the money, you're committing the immoral act of abetting a robbery? Oh the absurdity of impos...

I think I have. Regard narcissists like Trump or Lindsey Lohan. They are childish boring fools, and don't even know it. The unexamined life is not wor...

My feelings exactly. Either there is no empirical God, or if there is one, he's a monster. To believe in an empirical God, biblical or otherwise, requ...

Yeah, well, there we have it. If your moral system can't tell the difference between a Nazi and a Jewish victim struggling to survive the horrors of N...

You're like Ben Carson blaming the victims of mass shootings for not "rushing" the gun man. You have no idea what you would do when your life is threa...

This ^

You're either trolling or you simply not given to moral introspection. Take your pick

I think I've made clear that I don't begrudge people pursuing their self-interest. I've simply pointed out that putting others self-interest ahead of ...

Nothing wrong with using google for factual matters, but for a philosophical discussion, it's lacking. Altruism is a moral system. I think I've made c...

I think it is true at all times for all people; it's just not possible when competition for resources is such that people struggle to survive. I don't...

I'm glad you agree we should disabuse the rich of their comfort for their own good.

My view isn't traditional at all and I'm not invoking any traditional moral view. I don't think that putting the interests of others is noble, or altr...

Thank you Mr. Pastoral Romantic. I'm glad you've arranged your life to struggle for food. Wait, you haven't.

You mean you've read Aristotle! That is such a rare scholarly achievement. I'll have to look up this Aristotle fellow.

No, it's a practice. Altruism is a belief.

I'm not arguing that putting the interests of others ahead of one's own is noble or altruistic. I am saying it's a better way to live. It generates ca...

The claim of special knowledge unavailable to others, and a knowledge that privileges the knower in a self-serving way. A classic rightwing meme

It's not immoral, it's just an unpleasant way to live. Narcissists tend to be miserable unhappy people. Giving really is better than receiving. Puttin...

Because you denied they were rightwing, and you keep promoting a typical vapid rightwing agenda

Pretending your views aren't rightwing won't help you here, boy.

I'd almost conclude that Agustino is trolling, but Poe's Law makes it impossible to tell

Maybe in The Handmaiden's Tale, which I suspect you would consider utopia. It must be some solace to you that ISIS and the Taliban are on your side. I...

That's why we have divorce laws - so adults can end relationships and go forward in life. Criminalizing personal relationships is about as dumb an ide...

Nostalgia and politics is always a toxic brew, especially when it's calling upon purported Uebermenschen from the past (that never was). Why am I not ...

No it's not. The legislation of morality is a leftover from an earlier age. Modern legal theory is that the purpose of law is to prevent people from h...

If you're so intellectually lazy you can't even read a Wikipedia entry on how socialism's origins predate Marxism, and how it would obviously be more ...

This level of knownothingism really can't get much lower.

And so this makes him a socialist? Jesus man. Words mean nothing to conservatives

Once you expose the rightwing memes, the next gambit is this: "You're mean on me" I'm going to keep exposing your memes regardless, making you look li...

I'm not aware of any "leftist" who does this but me, regrettably. It's the only way to deal with conservatives and block their bizarre and dishonest w...

And we have Godwin liftoff. Agustino - you've got the memo!

Fancy lingo all in the service of combating "leftists" from stopping persecution of gays. A noble cause indeed.

The back track meme. Conservatives post a statement, then contradict it, and when pointed out, say they never said it. Even though it's sitting there ...

Straight from the Breitbart meme machine. Now you're reduced to the reverso-meme, talking the hard right ideology of Nazism, and pretending it's crypt...

My bad.