Heiko

Not at the same time. See Quantum Mechanics. Yes and no. The house you see through the window is hit by photons if you look there or not. If you shoot...

To tell the truth is a moral obligation. Seeking for audience to do so is a virtue.

Will is free a-priori. It cannot depend on preference, personal properties or external factors, as those aren't chosen. In fact, if it would depend on...

So you draw the distinction at the absence of positive laws/rights?

The direkt link to emotion maybe original. But we live in modern times. The objective meaning has to reproduce itself in a much more abstract way over...

This is not exactly a necessity. The "good" has to be what can reproduce itself as the good. As such it is a predicate that names what is beneficial f...

A modern myth. Not even animals live without hierarchical structures.

Why would one need the concept concept of free will then to blame someone? This can only be done on rational grounds. The manifestation of free will i...

To open up a dilemma: The technicians being on duty in Chernobyl during the meltdown were really just technicians. They were trained for normal operat...

So, what makes you think a rational decision could be different all circumstances being the same? Is rationality arbitrary?

I would not call the idea a thing. It is not me who postulates there must be something beyond the rational decision... The question then is just if yo...

Paradox as it may seem: I am not into philosophy either. I like music.

I am not into religion. Sorry.

The problem I see here, is, that a rational decision must be based on thoughts. If a decision is required to think a particular way that decision cann...

If you attribute some doing to anything else but the rational decision, there is no choice and hence no freedom. You cannot be free in doing other tha...

An anecdote from F.Brook in "Myth of the man-month" In the 70s IBM was developing an Operating System for their new line of mainframes. Brooks estimat...

But that is exactly the point why it has to be "the good". This is simply a question of intension and extension. You can always mistake a fungus for a...

Do I smell resentment?

The good, of course :grin:

Why not? I think this was an ingenious answer.

You think an analysis must lead to conclusions?

"such-and-such" is pretty universal, but: You do not really want the act in itself but you want what the act achieves.

The subject is not a model of human action, but the question of free will. "Will" denotes an intent not an action. If you act without any intent what ...

You are surely right that when talking about observed events the explanation follows them. The explanation makes them understandable. But here we are ...

Free will is the determination of ends(purposes) by reason in and for itself. - A mere bodily reaction (perceived as such by the subject in question) ...

If this is true, what is the difference between free will and free choice then? Would you say all choices are made freely or that none are? I do not b...

Simple: You are not in the world as you are not there.

Modern times need answers to modern problems. The scope of decisions is different. Take the trolley problem: The question in modern times is not about...

You mean stop talking to you? Now it seems tempting

I know.

They do not not say anything about the things. Reality is negative.

By their nature, of course. You are very correct, the laws are derived from their behaviours. Of course there is Modus Ponens in play and of course th...

And nontheless you know it is unique? If we were looking at the same letter the problem is quite obvious. The development of their spatio-temporal rel...

That is not really my issue. You say a letter is unique but the letter is not a letter, but a brain-state. This makes me headaches...

What is unique? The ink or the brain-state?

So there goes the identity. Ideally a letter is some kind of sign. Now I don't quite know what you want to hear. Their nature is expressed by the laws...

Answer my question and maybe I'll follow.

An idea as such can hardly be matter as it is an idea. Talking identities. A letter as such is a letter and not some ink. Of course it is hardly anyth...

Do you mean their nature?

Hegel can help again: One of the more critical points: A good example of "Consciousness determines Being" vs "Being determines consciousness"

Heidegger indirectly recognized death as the quintessence of reality, since in it the self-referentiality of existing being finds its negation: "When ...

This, again, is talking about different things. The deed either is bad or it is not. If it is excusable, justifyable or not is another story. Everyone...

Oh, if it is inevitable the question is a different one. You cannot know - that's difference. You do know it when he died. But maybe it is you and he ...

This does not, however, have any influence on the moral character of the deed.

I disagree. The court was right in it's decision. The men should have waited for Parker to die if they were so sure he would. This does not, however, ...

That's a problem. You not knowing it was wrong would not make it right. Also it's quite possible you would be rescued just some hours after the killin...

The problem with you question is that you are assuming one measure of morality and then applying another. If your question really is, if different eth...

It cannot. Either it is an evil act or it is not.

Fascinating.

A reason as such.