By this however you could only conclude that the part of the world with which we can interact is a complex of ideas, but not necessarily that the enti...
What is the term in your ''framework'' then, that represents what people choose and act based on? Say this term is "X''. Then here's my OP question re...
"In spite of" seems to be unnecessarily rebellious. It appears to suggest that we, as humans, should somehow rise in mutiny against this lack of meani...
An ever so slight problem may arise though, if the criminals happen to possess smuggled guns, which would leave the poor police fending them off with ...
That's a nice idea but it's in a way, a double-edged sword. One advantage I could think of, for keeping the names constant throughout the issues is th...
Well then you aren't answering the question posted in the OP. I gave the example of the car accident literally one line below. You seem to be overlook...
I agree that my OP statement excludes the possibility of happiness being a mental illness, but since you've said nothing to show that it is a mental i...
You've got to remember here that the point of the question is not to compare humans by means of some morality contest that judges their ''excellence''...
Would you not be equally satisfied with the knowledge that the perpetrators of ISIS are detained in maximum security prisons with no hope of escape, s...
All you need, in order to be a philosopher, is to be, in Descartes's words, ''a thinking being''. My own definition of philosophy (some might think th...
It would be a very sad day for humanity indeed if, as you say, a majority of people would feel good at seeing the suffering of another human being. It...
The sense in which I used the word ''happiness'' is described in paragraph three of the OP and it includes relaxation, comfort, etc. that you refer to...
Sure yeah,that could be the purpose of someone's life at some particular moment.But note that these desires change all the time. For an example you mi...
This just seems majestically misguided. Many would say that every damn thing is an element of the set of damn things that make up the universe.You see...
I don't see how you could disagree with the modern Indian practices of "slavery'' in view of the above quote. Lots of these people working as "slaves'...
This question could easily be given a satisfactory answer,namely, you both know what you are looking for and don't know what you are looking for,simul...
I'm pretty sure this sense in which the word ''hacking'' could be used is not the sense in which the OP poster uses it, since clearly,hacking in this ...
But surely,if you agree that life could be attributed with a subjective meaning,then how could you be an efilist in view of the fact that your life co...
I concur with what you say before the above quote,but this sentence I find hard to digest. When you say that they "subsist in a non-physical state'',i...
That phrase is far from being semantic garbage,but since I fear your mental faculties lack the acuity to comprehend its full meaning,here is the gist ...
Well it depends of course,on the potential philosopher's views on the importance of tradition. If the person in question takes historical traditions i...
The things you say before the above quote seem quite reasonable.It is at this point that unintelligible phrases start creeping in. For starters,why do...
"Search for meaning" is a rather weird phrase to use since you concede in your first paragraph that life doesn't have any meaning built into it. Thus ...
The recent kids movie "Inside Out'' shares this same idea of miniature ''people'' living inside our minds,and controlling the things we do,the decisio...
I'll only be answering your first question since Libet's experiments are unknown to me. The answer to the question depends a lot on what you mean by "...
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