That's exactly what I'm asking. A deformity would suggest that something caused it other than 'nature' or evolution, if it were natural we would call ...
Yes, because 'natural' is not really natural... nobody is expected to behave good as a baby. There's allways an education preceding the age where one ...
Yes, I think that quote is in line with what I said, usually Machiavelli is dismissed because of some moral evaluation, he is bad/immoral because of t...
She contrast Machiavelli to Montaigne, who were not that far apart, and to Montesquieu who live a bit later, but there she does make note of differenc...
Was it that European culture was especially unique in that regard, or that European culture just happened to be more technologically advanced at the t...
Interesting read, thanks. I'm not sure what to make of it yet. It's seems a plausible psychological account for what "putting cruelty first" would ent...
Yes that is true, it started as only a trade union and for that purpose it can do some foreign policy. And it has expanded a bit over the years since ...
I'd say the most important difference is that the EU lacks foreign policy and military competences, and an executive power that can represent the EU i...
Good analogy! It's interesting that a good analogy or metaphor can be more insightful, than trying to capture it in abstract categories like subjectiv...
Plato, Hume, Nietzsche and then straight to existentialist if that is your interest... i'd skip all the rest. Hume, "an inquiry concerning human under...
I'd think pointing at his speeches and his rethorics would be enough as proof for forging a populist movement... but that is not illegal I don't think...
I don't quite see it like that. There is certainly discontent among a certain percentage of the population with their lives and how the political syst...
My take on Trump is that he is kind of an exception to the rule in that he is both incompetent and malicious... which makes it hard to determine what ...
Yes, frequency would be an indicator I think. When someone makes what seems like a stupid decision, you might think it could be incompetence or ignora...
At first I was kind of surprised that you would come to conclude that moral realism follows from what I said about values, because I would conclude fr...
Can we just assume there has to be an essence? A lot of philosophy historically has been about trying to extract essences out of things, to its detrim...
If you have a persistent headache, focusing on it seems to make the pain worse. Or rather the pain is probably still there, you just don't notice it a...
Morality is not only about screaming pain is my point. In some extreme case it might be the only thing that matters, but it usually is not. And yes an...
I don't think "greater good" is entirely reducible to pain, value-qualia or something like a primordial actuality... it also has to do with the identi...
Parents don't 'create you' like they directly create a tool with a purpose. They only make it possible by having sex. For the rest they don't have any...
I forgot this one... I mostly agree with you here, that in practice it does have some of the same problems... but you do have revelation, and popes an...
It seems rather strange to me that you would make a distinction between Gods idea of morality and objectively correct moral opinions. God having creat...
First let me say, I'm not a theist and not necessarily committed to the idea that it is all that convincing. I can see some reasons though why it woul...
Because theism allows for a purposeful being having created the universe. And if you have that, you have meaning from the start, fused into the descri...
Sure, it was the mindscape podcast, with guess Joseph Henrich. He has written a few books on the topic I saw. The question then presumably is how much...
That's what I think a lot of atheist do to some extend, i.e. P1 is false because there is some other nebulous non-specified reason why moral realism i...
Yes, I agree that it would be more reasonable, but I don't think there is a moral obligation that they should. Because it's not merely about defending...
I'd call myself a moral constructivist, and I'd say the 'local universalism' comes from shared culture and shared values, more than any shared attribu...
I mostly agree with your analysis but... It may be more reasonable to reject moral realism, but I don't think it's about reason for most people. They ...
You derive the universality from a shared biology then? While I would agree that we have many more similarities than differences because of our shared...
Ok, I expected you to make a stronger claim to universality because of the next sentences you wrote : The idea that the rules we make and laws we vote...
Yeah I think he was, as far as we can be certain, but I don't know if I can do his argument justice here, it has been a while. I'd have to read it aga...
No I don't think so, chance pertains to how it was caused, not to what the cause was. I think Hume showed that the assumption of Causality with a big ...
Yes, the definition and use is ambiguous like I said, intention and cause are two different things. But that is often the case with common language wh...
Yes, not literally but figuratively. Note that 'by chance' is not the subject of the sentence in 'he scored that goal by chance'. It's not chance that...
I don't know why you are so hung up on this particular point, it's just a figure of speech, not literally a probability. People do say that a goal was...
Although, I'll grant you that it can also mean that that he did intent to score it, but that there was a very low probability to score. It's a bit amb...
There are lots of ways it can go horribly wrong, sure, but what I would want to question is if the upside is really there to begin with? Nietzsche, ag...
Ok, I think I agree with most of your points. Just to clarify though, you say I take it that you mean that, even though we choose individually, the pr...
Anyway, these discussion are all a bit besides the point I think. I don't think religions and Gods should be viewed literally or as accurate descripti...
Yes chance and probability are an expression of our epistemic uncertainty. In poker you put a probability or chance on you winning a hand because you ...
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