Yes I think you, and I am too for that matter, are viewing it from a humanist perspective, which has grown out of the western judeo-christian traditio...
I think the meaning people generally seek, is feeling part of some greater (cosmic) plan. If God created the universe, then you have such a plan becau...
This is an angle I hadn't exactly in mind, but sure. I think all that is needed that people believe in him, so he needs to be believable for it to wor...
Does he really don't understand though, or is it exactly his intention, I can't decide. His video almost seemed like as explicit an invitation to carr...
This was an example to illustrate that intention doesn't always matter. Maybe you intent to drive while drunk, but you don't intent to harm somebody. ...
There definitely have been in soccer, and in other sports like cycling too I think. Consent typically doesn't overrule criminal law if lack of consent...
Yes, I think it also depends on the circumstances what will be considered and what not, which is not saying much, I know... but it is complex and prob...
I kinda figured you wouldn't let it go that easily :-). I think I disagree, but i'm not entirely sure which is why I tried to avoid it. Logic pertains...
I thought he meant that we judge something on what the intended or desired outcome was, not on the actual outcome. And while that seems to be the case...
I think people, in Europe, generally would think that that action was evil... if they knew his intentions at least, which often isn't the case. But to...
I agree, but nonetheless some cultures apparently don't see agency as a central concept in morality. It's a descriptive claim, not necessarily rationa...
Generally, or in western culture at least, we would say that intentions matter for determining what is a good action or not. So by that logic it would...
You just build in meaning from the get go, by fusing purpose into what the simulation 'is'. There is only a problem of creating meaning because we kil...
It certainly is unprecedented and unique, but then again it's not like there's a script history has to follow. Is it psychologically healthy and susta...
I can agree more or less with the moral sceptic part, when it comes to truth value of moral claims at least. I do think however that evaluating morali...
Yes I didn't mean to imply that you can derive them from biology. There would just be agreement, convention as a basis for some values and consequent ...
Yes I agree people view morality that way, the question is if this is necessarily so, like I said in my comment above? Also since some things rely on ...
That is the question indeed. Historically it didn't seem enough, which is one of the reasons they felt the need to invent God I think, to infuse moral...
Under the guise that they are lawful, or truthful? While I agree that morality is constructed and historically has been sold as something that is obje...
Following 180proof, I'd want to say that maybe we should question the assumption that looking inside, inner space, introspection etc... is even a way ...
Well they will follow from values, but there will be contradictions and they will overlap to some extend is the perhaps unsatisfactory answer. How you...
I've always presumed, maybe incorrectly, that states were a consequence of increase of population size and density, and the need for specialisation th...
I know what you mean, but I not sure if that's a qualitative difference, or just two conflicting desires with differing intensities... i.e. a shortter...
If you're asking necessarily in principle, I'd say no. Why would you think so? But off course in practice it's actually very hard, if not practically ...
If you are talking about addictions I would agree, but do you think that is what is meant with attachments here? Maybe, I'd need to think about it som...
Meh, I don't think they are things at all... just two symbols pointing at different degrees of what is essential one psychological process. It seems a...
No I think that is quite right, because what separates living for non-living things, is that living things have purposes. Purpose meaning here to desi...
I don't disagree with this, but I also think a lot of it was the consequence of the structural changes in agriculture societies. Agriculture relies on...
I didn't read it, I puzzled this view together over the years from a lot different sources I guess. I do have a persistent interest in this, I guess t...
Yes, in part, culture is an ongoing dialogue where language and reason (but also rhetoric) is used to come to certain values... but ultimately there w...
No I can see how I wasn't exactly clear there. So I think moral arguments come in the form of "If 'we' value X, 'then' Y moral/rule follows" Value X i...
Yeah that is why I described myself in the first place as social contractarian. Values are not arbitrary as mere personal opinions, but we get educate...
Well I'm not a big fan of Singer because he seems to want to do away with the emotional or instinctive component of morality. For instance I think one...
I think they are measured against values, a plurality of values. We have no absolute grounding in the descriptive for those values, and people do disa...
No actually I'd say I'm most consequentialist if anything, I think ideally morals should serve a purpose, or better purposes. The problem with consequ...
Politics does precede and transcend the law, because it decides what the laws are going to be. Typically a political body like parliament votes and de...
Well I guess you're right to to some extend that I don't subscribe to any particular normative ethics, they can all have their uses in different insta...
But there is nothing that makes moral actions right or wrong if you don't already subscribe to some value, even outside of social contract theory... y...
Yeah ok, maybe language isn't strictly necessary for culture, depends on what you would want to call culture. It's a matter of degree, not an absolute...
Okay I'm not sure I totally understand where you're coming from... But first off, just to be clear, I think everything is a natural process, or maybe ...
I think an evolutionary view of human nature will show that certain things like morality were offloaded from genes to culture precisely because we dev...
I'm of the opinion that making claims about the world in general isn't very philosophical, but then I usually tend to side with what one might call an...
I want to stress that i'm not necessarily endorsing a metaphysical version of physicalism that makes definite claims about the basic substance of the ...
Yeah ok maybe at the very bottom. But I think what reality ultimately is at bottom is a separate question from how reality at our scale operates. So f...
Yeah, brains are objects, minds and ideas are not. I think the basic difference is between information/ideas and physical stuff. The physical is that ...
This is Nietzsche 101 basically. It's not language that fails, it's that you have nothing 'out there', nothing concrete to test your ideas to. And if ...
I'd be fine with that. The whole idea of reducing all of reality to a single substance has been somewhat of a misguided quest in philosophy no doubt. ...
That's also a matter of perspective, isn't it? If you consider that the sciences are built on materialism, then they have given us a lot of stuff that...
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