ChatteringMonkey

As an atheist I didn't understand why the absence of divinity would necessarily lead to a world without righteousness. I do feel guilt and feel compel...

His anti-essentialist views follow from his Heraclitean 'metaphysics' (Panta rhei) and his views on language and 'truth'... from his perspectivism. Pe...

Competition and coöperation are no opposites, and can and do go together, if we compete in groups for example, as we usually do. I feel like what you ...

Yes it is very confusing. It occured to me after I posted the reply to Banno that we were talking about something different probably. I was talking mo...

I've never used an AI.

Ok I'm not entirely sure we can ascribe agency or a telos to life in general like that, but I maybe could get on board with it as a general descriptio...

Do you mean ontological necessity from the point of view of the organism, or from a more general point of view of all life? The latter seems hard to j...

You're welcome. He wouldn't see it as a logic exactly I don't think, but as a description maybe, because he doesn't see valuing as derived from or bas...

You seem to be one step removed from the will to power as a basic principle. Life doesn't seek to perserve itself, but to overcome itself into somethi...

I think you have it exactly backwards here. In Europe liberalism is more about less government intervention, more market freedom, less welfare state e...

I probably have a slightly different view of morality if you think it is only about figuring out cause and effect. I think we create morals, as a soci...

It's an attempt at overcoming a culture that has become nihilistic by creating a new shared nationalistic myth. Western culture has become nihilistic ...

It's not enough by itself. The top institutions, like the UN, aren't working or aren't adjusted to the times. Stopping the current path of militarizat...

Well at the moment it doesn't look to good, that's right. But you know often we need to really feel the consequences first before we act... when we do...

I would rather have there be a pond, any kind, otherwise we'd only have fried fish big or small.

I'm not advocating for a world government, just an agreement like we've had for many other things like the UN, WTO or more specific for the ozone laye...

Haven't we evolved in-group coöperation inclinations, and out-group conflict inclinations? If this is true, and I think it is, you would need somethin...

I do understand it. The prisoner's dilemma is set up so that the prisoners can't talk to each and don't know what the others choice is going to be whe...

I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at. My claim is that real wages of workers haven't changed that much since the seventies... that is in ...

The position of the US economy in the world now is nothing like is was after the world war, or the seventies. Comparatively its advantage has declined...

Yeah free trade is typically good for economies that have excess production and trade-surplus. That used to be the US, which is why they created the s...

Apparently we already made a zero to zero tariff proposal to the US on industrial goods, which has been refused before by Trump. He probably wants som...

I appreciate truthfulness.

I've been down the limits-to-growth rabbithole. It's doesn't pretend it's not so bad, that's right, but it does put itself diametrically opposed to (o...

I think we should talk to Trump. There is a lot of misunderstanding between Europe and the new US administration. They view our goverments basically a...

Sure, they would say the same of the liberal democratic perspective. Ones freedomfighter is anothers terrorist.

I think what they dislike is the liberal democratic leadership of Europe and the EU, they are surprisingly high on Europe itself as part of the Wester...

One thing that is not often discussed are the psychological effects of climate change on people and societies. The ecological view on climate change a...

The question of whether there is climate change is a purely scientific one, but I think the way we deal with it is a political question and so a quest...

But we already know that governments are not really moral actors don't we? When in history have they acted in the interest of the world as a whole pre...

The real danger long term is biodiversity-loss and ecological collapse. This could potentially mean that nobody can survive.

That's why I said enforcable. I don't think governements will do it out of their own volition, or can't because of the wrong incentives. Take Europe f...

It has little to do with me liking it or not, the argument just doesn't cut it for those that need to take the decisions that matter. Goverments are n...

The problem I have with the argument is that it is made from the perspective of the world, while economic decisions are made by countries and companie...

A few meters this century, and then the rest over centuries, I'm sure there are projections for this.

The most general discription I heard on the consequences of climate change is that it will be a multiplier on risks for human societies. Climate chang...

I never talked about unfairness, that's how Trumps administration would put it probably, but I don't agree with that. I think it is bad for a number o...

I don't see why that is a relevant question, because it is subordinate to the question of how you make the world-economy work. If you don't have an ec...

The imbalance being talked about is trade-surplus and trade-deficits. Those with a trade-surplus are producing more than what they can sell to their p...

Ok that makes sense yes. Thank you for the feedback.

Yes I also saw it as a metaphor for wisdom and for those that are awake... as opposed to night, asleep, dream. I wouldn't rule it out, but intuitively...

Upon further reading I think he may be using Zeus as a symbol for daylight, the other thing he commonly stands for. And daylight seems to refer to bei...

It doesn't logically entail it no, but Heraclitus seems to have thought otherwise. Dy?us seems to reference the sky-father/God. What that exactly mean...

I think it may have come from the transition of a predominantly oral tradition to writing. If something is written down it is not a person telling som...

Yes, and I think we need to go back even a bit further. In Heraclitian metaphysics, becoming is the only thing that 'is', or being is becoming. If bei...

Like becoming aware of the water we swim in... problem is the water turns out to be stale. It probably could have used a stirring and some fresh air a...

I don't disagree with you here, just saying there's probably more going on with the UK than Brexit alone. And you also had COVID, the energy crisis et...

You cannot always evaluate a decision like Brexit on the outcomes a few years later, as if that decision is the sole cause for how the future turned o...

I agree for the most part, although I do think all these things can't be neatly seperated from eachother. I don't think you would have the same stable...

Depends on what you understand "better off" to be, and who exactly is better off. Globalisation was to the benefit of some and to the detriment of oth...