Eh, I see that comment as unnecessary. There's no need to set that tone or create a clear divide between posters and mods. At the same time it's more ...
Well, if you have given up on this notion of morality, do you still have any moral inclinations? How do you describe/explain what is going on with tha...
Yeh I guess to make sense of morality (for me) somethings got to give. By thinking of it this way I can get past issues of moral motivation, or what a...
Well it's not the only criteria. Separation of power is great, but I don't think it's better to have a government that is impotent when it comes to th...
If Australia had a decent tyrant we'd get more done. Faster internet, better public transport, maybe even proper policies towards global warming. It's...
Sure and I don't think we should ignore differences. I was thinking about when meeting a new person, how if they are Muslim I will likely think more o...
Wow, I found this quite insightful and on point. Living in Melbourne (if I remember correctly that was also your location on old pf) when I speaking t...
Yeh I read the analog/digital talk as essentially a restatement of the Kantian view that it's not something out there which "holds objects together" (...
I hardly ever read posts from the politics section of the old forum, and most likely stayed out of political conversations over the years. Equally hap...
Any example of a law in Israel that is only applied to Jewish citizens that have not converted to another religion? There is plenty of discrimination ...
To be fair (because I take your statement as a bit of a dig at Israel), the law of return is for non-citizens, not a right reserved only for some citi...
Yeh this comes from the way you think about mathematics. It's easier rather then to view things as an arbitrary distinction, to try to see where Kant ...
It was claimed by charleton in this post: Yes I wouldn't define them based on religion. Most Jews would determine whether someone is Jewish based on c...
I don't really get what you are getting at in the examples. I do get why Kant thinks 7+5 = 12 is synthetic, whilst all bachelors are unmarried is anal...
What is the article/book he does that in? I'm a bit wary of psychological explanations especially when they're used to explain away positions that I d...
Also just had a look at the age ranges in the paper, only 9 of the philosophers interviewed were born after 1980. Which could be relevant if people wa...
Funny that this exact conversation occurred in 2 threads. Pretty sure the paper Throngil is talking about is this one: http://philpapers.org/archive/B...
& Yeh fair points. Anti realism comes much more naturally to me and most the people I speak to about ethics. I feel like moral realism takes a lot mor...
Personally philosophy has effected my views of ethics and some of the views I have towards dealing with others. If I don't include the time I spend th...
If you take seriously the Chalmers survey results: Meta-ethics: moral realism 56.4%; moral anti-realism 27.7%; other 15.9%. God: atheism 72.8%; theism...
So I get the argument that race 'doesn't exist' to speak loosely. The same arguments for race do not apply when speaking about Jews. The issue is noth...
I never thought I'd say this again, I've been making my way through the CPR. I've encountered too many Kant and Hegel references recently that I feel ...
Dunno, never been to a Prom. I walked past this in the local bookstore and thought of you. /uploads/files/1x/xws1dvifr13ygmwh.jpg Maybe for your next ...
As you are pointing out it is difficult for me to speak about this without falling back into what I am contesting. In the example I spoke about a mat ...
Not that it bears no relation but that it is a simplification. To turn this around a bit, we see the mat on the floor. Sometimes its covered in dirt, ...
The word "I" has a meaning, the concept of the ego as the always there experiencer is what I am denying exists. I actually don't think the cat of the ...
This idea of a transcendent identity doesn't make sense. That I am the same through time, it is time that I am smeared across. All my thoughts are tem...
Yeh I'm with the view about starting from subjectivity, I don't even really get the idea of taking moral language as the starting point. To me it's al...
Been sitting exams and I don't go on forums when in study mode so this is a little late. I agree, it would be nice if more conversations were seen as ...
Yeh its great. If you want to relive it a little, Daniel Coffeen has a half hour talk about it on his podcast. He's ridiculously into it so it makes f...
I'm only part way though, I've had to put it on hold for the last couple of months. I've got some time off in a couple of weeks and will hopefully fin...
Yeh that's a good example. There are many forms of anti-realism which have similar foundations to realist views, going along with them most of the way...
I've been meaning to have a look at it again, got through about 1/3rd five years ago but my attitude was wrong, too critical. I'd be interested in CPR...
Yeh reading groups seem good. I've never really taken part. For sure, forums have been great for me, especially as a bounce off for further reading or...
I am completely blind, I don't experience sight at all. But I can function just as well as someone who does see, in every way. If we hung out you woul...
Hey Apple, I think the reason why you come to the conclusion that there must be an 'end' point is that your thinking of infinity as a process. Pi - or...
We can't escape being. The entities that we are comport ourselves towards our being, in fact we deliver ourselves over to our own being. Our being wha...
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