But again you are using a definition of perfect which is effectively 'not like this Universe' when it is entirely possible that this Universe is as in...
Quis costodies custodiet? Who gets to decide what is perfect and by what authority? It is a huge assumption that suffering and pain form no part of a ...
I'm suspicious that this is a circular argument dependent on your initial definition of 'eternal' which of course will be the definition that most sui...
All you're describing here is an undecidable proposition which means that, by definition there is no such thing as wrong and right from the point of v...
Fellow feeling, of the "I understand where you're coming from" variety. The trap, as he indicates, is that understanding, getting yourself into the mi...
It has always seemed to me to be a huge mistake to believe that law has anything whatsoever to do with morality. There many acts that are considered i...
So Plato's Republic isn't an excoriating critique of 'power to the people' (democracy)? It seems to me that your argument is subject to death by a tho...
Isn't Aristotle pre-1800 then? Doesn't Plato have a book entirely concerned with the structure of society and the nature of rule? Isn't Augustine's Ci...
What? What do you imagine the Catholic Church was doing from 325 until the Reformation? What's the burning of heretics if not a concern to maintain po...
Except that it doesn't. Even the most arrogant scientist would not pretend that science gives us a complete understanding of the totality of the Unive...
I find it odd having finally dismissed the notion of a proof of God's existence that anybody should be replacing it with an argument towards proving t...
It's not a whole lot of differences. It's a list of examples of why pretty much everybody in neuroscience agrees that computers are not an imperfect a...
That isn't (though your previous expression of it was). It's just wrong. A list of properties of the human brain bears almost no points of similarity ...
Is that even possible? Surely belief cannot ever be separated from action. At the very least, belief must moderate behaviour or it's not a genuine bel...
I think you may need another option .. don't know! This is one very big can of worms you've opened setting all kinds of questions pinging round my bra...
I sincerely hope that that is not the case. There is no advantage to having AIs that are wrong as much as they're right, prone to abandoning logic and...
There is a common misconception that one is entitled to one's opinion: a misconception that has seen so many internet 'discussion' facilities turn int...
You do realise that you've just presented an entirely circular argument? Computers are the best analogue of human brains so we figure that human brain...
Post-revolution France Post-revoultion Russia Post-war Zionism Nazi-hunters The Reformation, the Counter Reformation, the Counter Counter Reformation ...
Not if your host country actively seeks to prevent you from doing so while espousing a 'charter' of human rights and religious freedom which as an EU ...
But that's already a generalisation that is neither true nor useful. It is arguable whether there was ever even a majority of Germans that could reaso...
I'm really not sure how computers doing what computers are good at validates any observations on human thinking and communication. Of course there are...
Huh? The same way that they have come to most other conclusions; by setting up their studies and reading the results in such a way as to confirm whate...
Yes, no and other. For starters you've got to decide what you mean by faith. If faith is voluntary then it proves the existence of some degree of free...
So let's look at it from the other way round. I have a new ethical system X which has as its sole purpose an increase in pleasure and happiness. How m...
I really don't see this as at all puzzling. If it ain't broke you don't fix it. If you're in a boat you don't need instructions on floating but on how...
This is clearly something that you need to believe for reasons no doubt far beyond my understanding but it simply isn't supported by any rational inve...
Ultimately determinism merely states that things are as they are because they could not be other than as they are. So, in a very real sense, the whole...
Under the current system each individual is registered as a voter for all elections and referendums. The proposed system would require that they be se...
Impractical because the politically inactive will always be politically inactive. They'll have no more interest in or make any more effort towards app...
What suggest to you that it is necessary that he does any such thing? It is the Platonic position, given its fullest expression by Neo-Platonist Chris...
I would simply challenge the very idea of an irrelevant issue. Whilst it might be possible to divide knowledge into discrete packages bounded by logic...
I would counter with the observation that there exists no human society that does not use spoken language which suggests that variations are in fact f...
Not according to Plato, the Neo-Platonist school (on which our forms of government and systems of justice are, after all, largely based), Augustine an...
On the contrary, I find the Greek concept just as open to the same criticisms. Being content with the way things are 'meant to be' and being the perso...
It seems a tad convenient that God apparently doesn't mind in the slightest ceding the decision on what is evil (if indeed such a thing even exists) a...
You exclude the very real possibility that happiness and dedication to its attainment is itself a mental illness, then? You certainly seem to be claim...
The problem here is that the effect you seek is demonstrably weak at best and non-existent in most cases. There is no historical evidence at all that ...
I think you need to be clear that placebo's do not cure mental illnesses which have physiological bases. But then nor do most (if not all) drugs used ...
The infinite universe may be theorised endlessly but it simply falls apart in science. If the Universe is infinite then there is no entropy. Barring a...
How can such an existence contain the logical possibility that there is no existence or that the instantiation of one logical possibility excludes the...
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