Yeah but, but,... you are just assuming the golden rule there, when it's the thing that is being questioned. I don't value being rejected by a women, ...
Your argument is valid, but not sound because the first premise is not true :-). Empirical sciences work with language too, so i don't see how it foll...
People don't change their core-values, these are determined by biology. And ultimately this is the seed where the whole tree of their beliefsystem has...
Logic is about language only, and not about the world itself. Its justificiation lies in its use. It enables us to better understand the ramifications...
As i said before, truth is about statements, and nothing else. You will no doubt disagree with this, but data or feelings or whatever else are not the...
In poker theory betting to gain information is allways wrong. If we assume there are some things we want in life, and our time and resources are limit...
I think the fundamental difference between your view and mine is that i don't believe that 'true is what the majority of people think is true'. I thin...
Feelings can also be caused by things that are not real, like dreams or imagination. And imaginairy threads may also cause the same feelings in a larg...
We don't entirely know how the brain works, something with neural networks is the short of it... So we do things, information gets inputted in the bra...
Yeah well Posty McPostface that's the problem with framing these problems as logical problems in a vacuum. We start with a method allready build-in, o...
They are based on both. We can't really negate facts in the face of hard evidence (althought some do), but in the end we know to little facts to base ...
I just don't agree that "perceptions'' from feelings is of the same type as perceptions from the senses. There's no organ for feelings (like eyes or e...
Hi Vraj Yes, Nietzsche spoiled my taste. His writing style is great, and despite his reputation, he is also one of the best philosophers, technically....
You are really stretching the meaning of words there Samuel. We don't really 'percieve' something through feelings. And feelings are never that precis...
Metaphysician Undercover, No i don't agree that concepts or abstractions are metaphysical, if we only use them because they have utility, and don't be...
Metaphysician Undercover, Physical time is the concept time used in physics. Physics as an empirical science doesn't make metaphysical claims, but onl...
Sapienta, He was a virtue ethicist, yes, but that is a broad concept and there are many brands of virtue ethics... He was really only thinking of 'mor...
Both are not examples of perceptions, you are using 'percieve' in the case of the golden rule metaphorically, it has nothing to do with the senses. An...
Progress on individual moral issues maybe, as we do get better at arguments yes. But it's not some kind of liniair progression across the board. Also ...
What morality Heiko? There are many moralities. And 'equally far developed' implies that there is progression on some kind of ahistorical scale, the q...
What about slavery then, Samuel, the moral rule 'slavery is wrong' didn't exist objectively 2000 years ago, but it does now? You shifted your argument...
Heiko, I don't see how you got to that interpretation from what i've said in this thread. I said that morality is a group thing (social contract theor...
Sapienta, Nietzsche would disagree. He didn't view austerity, search for wisdom at the cost of all else (his family, his life as a part of society,......
Heiko, what i meant, and what i think i said, is that there is no one criterium... but many, and it depends on the situation what argument will be a g...
noAxioms, thank you very much, that was exactly the kind of info i was looking for. It helped me a lot to clarify my position on this. Not a lot of pe...
Samuel, there no one criteria for what would be a good argument, it's contextual. You could point to evidence of implications of a certain rule, or we...
noAxioms, I'm not an idealist, maybe i shouldn't have formulated it like that (eg what exist is what can be percieved). I do assume that there exist s...
noAxioms, there's a lot to consider in your posts, so let's start at the beginning. What is real to me is what can be percieved. I can see 'space', or...
We do and can not pause and reason before all thoughts and action. This is just not the case. There's so much actions and thoughts that happen habitua...
Yeah, but things refer to something that exists (that we can percieve), and not-'things' do not. If you don't make a difference between the two, you a...
Nice find, i knew there had to be one! We probably agree to a large extend. He was indeed criticising the idea of pure reason in the first place. I do...
Samuel, yes morality is the social norms of a certain time and a certain community, full stop. You can disagree, and argue with the norms of the times...
To be clear, I have no problem with abstractions or relations etc... they are usefull to be sure, as long as we don't forget they are abstractions. Wh...
Hi Preston, Thank you for your response. I want to figure out if the hypothesis that time is just the measurement of change is compatible with current...
Samuel, Argument by definition or tradition is not a viable argument in my book. There is no such thing as an unchanging morality divorced from societ...
Heiko, I think you basicly have the right idea. To be a bit more precise, in his view decadence is 'anarchy in the instincts' or 'drives not ordered p...
Heiko, Nietzsche was after 'pure reason', abstracted from societal context and human biology, an idea that started with Socrates and Plato, and propag...
Hello Samuel, I'd say where reason is applicable is precisely the question. I don't think it's that selfevident that reason is all that usefull for de...
There are also balls in tennis: .... i'm sure there is a great comeback arround the word balls, but i haven't found it yet Point is that reason has it...
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