For me it ties into my issues with procrastination. It's the kind of procrastination borne out of a desire for perfection. If I don't know exactly wha...
Your basic assumption is wrong, resources are not finite. We are not restricted to earth. It's perfectly possible even with current technology to star...
Nietzsche believed in the will to power as underlying all human motivation, and so also the will to truth. He described philosophy somewhere as being ...
Without the concept of ownership, there is no theft. You are not depriving someone else of it, because he has no inherent right to it. Without people ...
Philosophy only speaks to the rational part of man, and since man is not only rational it will not be convincing to a lot of people. Religion, histori...
And on a more general note, historically philosophy has spawned off more and more sciences as methods and technological development became more advanc...
As you alluded to, it has, and is been extensively looked at in context of the Fermi Paradox, and SETI. The reasoning is that given the vast number of...
The thing is I don't think locking people up for life is any less barbaric. You are essentially taking their life away just the same. The difference i...
Justice is institutionalised revenge. We as individuals gave the monopoly to punish to the state to prevent constant bloodfeuds and the disordering ef...
Deterrence and costs don't seem like really substantial arguments for or against the death penalty, in comparison to life imprisonment. The possibilit...
The death penalty needs to be measured against it's alternative, life imprisonment. It's hypocritical moralism to evaluate the death penalty negativel...
I don't think life imprisonment is necessarily more humane. Develloped societies now typically see life as the highest value, and obviously there are ...
Not a general ranking applicable to everybody, but individual rankings of values, yes. You probably also do find some things more important than other...
Your core values. These don't change that much, certainly not once you pass a certain age, but possibly never since they seem to be biologically deter...
Depends on what you would call thoughts it seems to me. Are emotions thoughts? Nietzsche doesn't seem to think so, otherwise he wouldn't set them apar...
Hi Jake, as i allready suggested in the other thread, philosophy is not politics nor activism... and it better not be. I don't think there are a lot o...
He did believe that even truth is allways a falsification to some extend. I'd recomment to read "on truth and lies in an extra-moral sense" to underst...
Athenian society imploded, and gave rise to doubt which undermined greek tragedy... but was that a feature of Greek tragedy itself, or was it rather a...
You say it's not attainable to go beyond pessimistic philosophy, or at least not sustainable... but isn't the existence of Greek tragedy evidence that...
Conflicting desires absolutely, but that doesn't necessarily imply a natural hierarchy or a seperate desire to resolve conflicts. Love can conquer add...
Yeah, i don't think i agree that it's that intuitively clear. I think you need to replace the desire for getting a fix with some other desire. 'Just a...
Higher order desire, or just another desire would seem to be the question. Doesn't every desire want to rule the other desires, and so is also a desir...
To this part i'd say my first response is still relevant. Science is doing a lot more than making mere provisional theories about simple particulars l...
Ah ok thanks for the clarification. My guess would be that ordinary language is only making claims about empirical verifiability. Ultimately it's abou...
Maybe it doesn't entail the entire correspondence theory of truth, as a metaphysical understanding of truth. I mean, does mere correspondence (in the ...
The difference between a scientific statement and a statement in ordinary language is that the latter is only making a claim about a particular. Scien...
I don't think a lot of people, me included, think having nukes arround is a good idea in itself. Problem is that there are soevereign competing nation...
Not sure what decartes meant, but Nietzsche took issue with the idea that the 'rational I' (or the conscious I), was the cause of our thoughts. Maybe ...
It's insane from some kind of moral point of view, from a view that has an idea about how the world should be. It's not something we would say about s...
No see, it's not black or white. We are limiting the powers available to human beings. The president of the US is the only one who can push the button...
No, i'm not a politician or activist, I'm a philosopher. I'm interested in good arguments and thinking well, not in changing the world. My goal in thi...
No. The "knowledge explosion keeps rolling on" is just a metaphore, not an actual thing happening, but a vague abstraction of different processes. The...
Here's another perspective on the whole thing: Innovation, and therefor the quest for more knowledge is likely to decrease anyway. Innovation is the g...
Jake, the problem with the theory is, as has been said a number of times, that its to general or on a too high level of abstraction, making it only pa...
Jake, I'm basicly suggesting that there is a third possibility, namely that you thesis might be right AND that there still will not be done a whole lo...
I do think there is a gap, certainly at the moment of acquisition of the theoretical knowledge. Governments are constantly trying to find ways to clos...
Generally no, I don't think so, mostly for practical reasons. But I would accept exceptions if there are really good arguments to do so. The principal...
I don't really agree with this, at least in part. In theory democracy is supposed to work this way, but in practice that doesn't seem to be the way it...
I'll list my objections to the argument in a more organised manner : 1. I don't think the analogy with food works. With food our relationship to it is...
I agree with the objections raised by other posters. The quoted part is a generalisation that you don't really provide an argument for. That some know...
My guess is that a lot of people hate politicians, because they all lie to the people. And Trump is a poor politician, so that maybe makes him better ...
I will not go into the enviromental problems themselves, i do think there are serious problems, but say something about the strategy to do something a...
Fundamentally, what is wrong in my opinion is that there is identification with static things, when it should be clear that the world and human beings...
Logic does not strictly speaking 'find truth', it's truth-preserving. It's about making good arguments that preserve the truth value of the premises. ...
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