Well, I certainly have a lot of feelings, but I don't think you're talking about that flow of different feelings there, and if not, I'm not sure what ...
It's something that doesn't exist mind-independently. But it exists mind-dependently. And mind-dependently, it's a "bundle of concepts," and that's wh...
As I explained above, we say true things about the way that people imagine fictional things, about the way they write about them, or create films abou...
It's just the Euthyprho problem in that case, right? And he would ask, "So God isn't actually omnipotent? There is something (natural law, logical law...
The subjective/objective distinction has nothing to do with agreement or a lack of agreement. It's purely about whether we're talking about something ...
I'd say there actually IS a him; it's actually just a bundle of concepts in your mind. That doesn't imply that "there isn't actually a him," unless on...
It's long been differentiated. Science and philosophy are mostly looking at the same things, just with different methodological approaches and slightl...
If I were your friend I'd ask you to explain that, because it reads as if you're getting kind of word-salady and diverting to something irrelevant to ...
(a) Within the stories and (b) re how people think about him, catalyzed by the stories, for example. Again, (b) is about whether particular things fol...
Honestly? If I hear someone say that about someone else that I'm not familiar with, my first thought is typically along the lines of, "The person in q...
Easy example when lying is ethical: your wife asks you, "Do I look fat in this" and you think she does, but not unusually so. (In other words, when an...
What about art that's grotesque, disturbing, repulsive, harsh, etc.? Sometimes we use "attractive" in a broader sense, so that with art, we're talking...
We don't know with logical certainty, but I don't agree that that amounts to not knowing. Why would we worry about logical certainty (especially when ...
I don't at all have a different personality online than I do offline, by the way. That doesn't mean that I'm "just one way" all the time, but I'm not ...
This only makes sense if, for some unknown reason, you have a belief that people are "only one way." That's hard to even make any sense of conceptuall...
All you're really saying here is that if someone doesn't feel wronged by having a "goal" inhibited, you're not going to agree to calling it a goal, be...
They're not "empty names." They simply refer to something fictional and imagined rather than something that exists in the non-mental world (at least n...
I don't believe so, no. And I think that folks believing that that's the case wind up saying a lot of things that are (rather obviously) incorrect, so...
That could be, especially historically, but what philosophers have historically said about nonexistent things is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, because...
I decide by introspection --looking at how I feel about a particular scenario. I think that ethics/morality is purely a matter of subjective dispositi...
Depends on the act. I don't feel it's the same for everything. Most lying I don't have a problem with. I primarily think that lying is only a problem ...
I couldn't more strongly disagree with that. I believe that everyone lies, and that they do so rather frequently. I also believe that a significant pe...
A moral nihilist in the sense of being a subjectivist/rejecting objectivism, yes. Not sure why it seems like I'm "not convinced of the strength of my ...
What sort of great measures would you say we quickly take action towards? I hate the two-party dominance of our system, by the way, because I hate bot...
I agree with you that the Republic isn't a great place to start if someone is just getting interested in and starting to explore philosophy, but Arist...
I'm an atheist. I'm not an ethical objectivist. Everyone really grounds their morality in subjectivity--the way that they feel about interpersonal beh...
I've been doing this stuff for more than 40 years. What were the goal posts? You just chastised me about responding too quickly, and yet you seem to h...
For one, this seems to amount to a belief that "If P can not be demonstrated, then not-P." But why wouldn't you require that just as much for P="The p...
Maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain are only positive when someone feels that that's the best course of action. When someone doesn't feel that tha...
Well, but that only matters with respect to how the person feels about those things, though. In other words, S says he has goal x. Y inhibits goal x. ...
Again, my impression is that we were being asked about ethics/morality in this thread, not good/bad more generally than that. I don't recall why I had...
But then it's not offering help that's good, because in the first case, the person doesn't want help, and you're saying that it's wrong to offer help ...
If S doesn't approve of taking a shorter time to complete a task, S doesn't believe that it's recommendable, then in what sense is it better or more f...
The reason that people present fictional things is almost never "to explain how we can speak truthfully about such things." For example, A. Conan Doyl...
I think it seems that way, too, but what I'm saying by that is that there are things that I feel (sometimes very strongly) about interpersonal behavio...
It's like that in that the judgments are inherently subjective. I like Bob Dylan's singing a lot. I don't like Hegel and Heidegger's writing at all. Y...
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