Yes, Singer's view is not very widely held although much admired. People give to charity because they want a better world. They don't reckon they owe ...
Singer argues that because it is matter of justice (however rough), then it's a duty to give not just a matter of charity. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics...
True. The motive for charitable giving in this instance would be simply redistribution of income from the better off to the worse off in order to incr...
Ok, but still it's hard to stand completely aside from slavery and exploitation. When Naomi Klein spoke to US audiences about her 'No Logo' book and t...
I think it's obvious when you buy a t-shirt for £2.50 that you are complicit in an exploitative low wage economy if not actual slavery. How could it b...
The holy texts are expressions of conscience and our consciences tend to speak loudly if not always very effectively. The authority doesn't come from ...
I can see that the lands where Jumblies live would be *few*, sieves being so unbuoyant, but how did they make it *far*? Oh, perhaps they set out from ...
"I don't think the mere passing of time would prevent us from understanding what a civilization is like in the future. Do you know of something that w...
...the point of Anslem' ontology is that which is ultimately a perfect being cannot be thought that it cannot even be thought of as not existing. If w...
Sure. We were being invited to entertain the contradictory of the obvious; so to point out the obvious was the best reply. You wrote:"Surely there is ...
Surely there is a logic behind St. Anselm' “that than which no greater can be conceived.” The existence of something and our capacity to conceive it a...
"God exists. Get over it." OK, I'm over it. Now someone else tells me that God doesn't exist and to get over it. OK, so now I'm over that, too. So I'm...
"Why do you insist that it's nonsense to compare things which are not within your experience? This appears to be an assumption which is totally unwarr...
Andrew4Handel: "Imagining what it's like to be" heterosexual is different from having heterosexual feelings. I think you can probably do the first eve...
What you have described is how Plato's Socrates might approach the question - x is true, y is true, z is true - what is this 'truth' that all true thi...
"Foundation of almost all modern thought" only if you ignore Wittgenstein and many others, e.g. Searle. First, there are lots of meaningful sentences ...
I am tempted by a theory that defines as 'not real' all of my debts, responsibilities, pangs of conscience and regrets. But I don't think it's altoget...
But to a person on the receiving end of the evil the theological justification can start to look a little shakey. I've never heard someone say - "I wa...
It's a way of misreading Scripture. You take a bunch of Biblical references from various authors spread over several centuries and with very different...
David Crystal gives some interesting examples of words that were once shortened and have now been lengthened. 'Waistcoat' was 'weskit'; and 'forehead'...
"jolt of adrenaline" - OMG "the cingulate kicks in with the rote expletives" - WTF "curious behavior e.g. hysterical laughter" - LOL It would make a g...
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