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I agree. Since this is more of an announcement, like "hey look at this", and not meant as a platform for debate, it should go in the Lounge.

I just thought it was relevant in the fact that what seems like an obscure, specifically philosophical position, has gotten a lot of attention recentl...

@"Banno" Oh that won't work as far as my definition of moral good getting passed the open argument.

I explained in the other thread that being used as a source of labor is a harm to the individual. All economic systems will eventually do this by de f...

Can good just be deflated a principle of "non-harm" and "helping others" on one hand and some sort of "happiness principle" on the other? For example,...

Actually @"Andrew4Handel" had some good explanations but the one's I listed were: Being used as a source of labor by society and if it is work an indi...

I don't believe in true romantic love. By keep I meant, that we sustain- as in a long-term relationship for many many years, not just a fling or a sho...

You either misinterpreted what I meant or you are creating a strawman, as I never mentioned genetics as a result of bad parenting situations and foste...

I think people should explore the stochastic nature of who gets love and who doesn't. One obvious way is how children can be born to parents that show...

Yes I noticed this. I think Moore’s big takeaway is that morality can never be explained by other terms as there is nothing that proves the goodness o...

Moore thought that the concept "good" could not be defined in a subject-predicate way. In other words, good itself could not be explained with other d...

Correct Correct Well, this is to deny that I mentioned that DE FACTO we must rely on the economic system, or to arbitrarily repeat the point? This wou...

Hello Bliss, it looks like you are new to posting in the forum. My take on this is to not have children. Do not throw more people into the economic sy...

Selfish in thinking that the world revolves around their needs only. I guess egoistic maybe. Impatience is a large component but it is also simply not...

Granted. Children can be empathetic, but on the whole their tendencies tend to be on the "me, now" scale. Patience, self-control, etc. has to be taugh...

Of course, my position is to spare children the drudgeries and punishment of existence by not having them in the first place, but that is a completely...

Children are the hardest population to work with because of underdeveloped social reasoning. They tend to be selfish little people. The parent and oth...

@"Bitter Crank" The first punishment was being born into existence. :gasp: But once born, what to do now? Certainly youth need some sort of consequenc...

Procreation is ultimately the arbiter of the existential pile, hence my focus on it. Everything else is stemming the damage done. Now comes this organ...

Well, I guess if Schopenhauer had his cherished poodle...

No doubt, giving to fellow humans out of pure compassion is something. Schopenhauer discussed it as the root of true morality. What you describe is al...

I like this. Well said. :up:

But that’s the attitude change. If it’s a choice, what does it mean to choose society’s need for production? At the end of the day that’s what I’m cho...

What am Insaving and why? The materialist conception seems to be the social reality. Charity is just one part of it if that’s what you’re referring to...

I just don't buy into the idea that the individual must change his/her attitude. The fact that one can even "choose" to do so means that this is not t...

@"Wallows"@"Bitter Crank"@"andrewk"@"Noah Te Stroete"@"unenlightened" What does one do when one is born but doesn't want to do what is required of bei...

I refer you to @"Banno".

This doesn't seem to answer the hard question of consciousness. We are always stuck with a thing leftover. Does a baby have raw experiences of qualia ...

Here is a large crux of the situation, perhaps. What is this 8 hour work day? Who does it really benefit? This is circular reasoning. We have simply d...

It is not a hindrance to philosophy. To the contrary, it helps inform it. As Camus stated, There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and th...

@"csalisbury" Why would there not just be a strict dualism then? This might be the way we are using language but if there is the One and there is illu...

Yes, but did Kant himself think that "one simple unity" was empirical? I think to him, numbers themselves and counting were all a priori, though possi...

Yes, I think this exercise is kind of proving that out. The fuzziness between what counts as analytic or synthetic in the definition of gold, for exam...

Yes, I didn't mean that Kant didn't think a priori to be necessary. I just meant that being necessary isn't a fully sufficient definition of a priori.

I think these are great questions and pretty much sums up this whole debate. In order for any of this to work we have to have some basic terms that we...

Kripke was concerned with names. That is the main point we must not forget with him. His question is, "How do proper names and natural kinds designate...

I guess the point is- what makes gold essentially gold? Is it its yellowness? But, I see where you are coming from using Kant's own theory of categori...

Emphasis on the S.

I meant this particular discussion to be more of a quick one-liner to Bitter Crank..but I see I now have to put my dukes up.. I'll try to put the effo...

No I don't. I certainly don't think that yellow is necessarily wrapped up in the meaning of gold, in the same way that bachelors is literally the defi...

To the contrary, the world is pretty darn complicated, based on many levels of socio-economic realities and parties. Your desires and wants cause othe...

Cool. Thank you. I think it was, especially keeping in mind the definition of analyticity and with Kripke's further critique using modal logic. Howeve...

One of the reasons being born is bad is that everyone is being used. It is the premise of life. Your pain is on top of the fact that your work is need...

@"Banno" I'd be willing to append my first statement above that they are incommensurable if, we consider that Kripke's project was more than grammatic...

I would agree with Kripke's assessment. But, I think Kant just missapplied gold when judging with this own theory. Gold being yellow is a posteriori, ...

I hate to smuggle in words where they were not explicitly stated but to get your point across to those who don't get Kripke and his idea of natural ki...

tim wood, queston: What do you suppose a statement is about gold that is synthetic a priori?

I'm going to let @"Banno" answer that since he brought it up in this thread and had the disagreement with @"tim wood". I just saw that there might nee...

Yes, and so is Kripke :smile: .

Same name, different identity, but the name is fixed to the identity in all possible worlds. Perhaps we cannot get the essential property of the other...