This is forced circumstances of interaction. If people need to be forced through work to socialize and find meaning, perhaps the Human Project has mor...
As far as life is expressed by the work we do.. I don't know, that's a pretty romantic vision of work. It seems like an ad hoc justification for a for...
So let's reframe this.. You did not choose to be born.. that is an impossibility. Whether you choose to leave a country or not, that really does not c...
True, specific situations might matter. I guess the question is a bit broader then. Whether circumstances are favorable or not, in principle, do we ow...
You are asking a metaphysics question about the origins of mental activity. This question is about the ethical argument in regards to the individual i...
Ah yes.. so conditioning approved by the Village Green Preservation Society's standards of what counts as "the world's" fault and "your fault".. Like ...
So who makes the decision about the "faultily" part? The majority? Apokrisis? Enlightenment thinking? I don't know whether to point out that people ha...
Yes, I also was reminded of Socrates' reasoning.. If the state is what reared you, and you decide to live under its conditions, you should then respec...
There might be narcissists that think highly of their own importance, but I think most people are aware on some level how they are are simply part of ...
Related to this post, perhaps the concepts in the OP are supposed to show different levels of abstraction. At what point are abstractions real? Are be...
I like this one.. What is the underlying message here? The basic dichotomy between human experience and the "thing-in-itself"? That truth cannot be co...
Some may say bread is a technology..yeast, baking and all. Also, it is composed of physical properties and chemical molecules.. So you indeed did eat ...
Ok, I guess I should say the concepts themselves and not the parts of speech they belong to, though that is correct. Add in any adjectives you want in...
The project of life makes no sense when looked at as a whole. You have to focus on micro-goals and all the benchmarks on the way.. Getting lost in goa...
Well, let's see what we have against the individual: 1) Individual people's wills and group's will.. Constant jockeying for power plays on when, what,...
I will quote myself from earlier in this thread: The optimist has to contend with the idea that disturbing the "peacefulness of nonexistence" (TOTALLY...
I wrote this a while ago in a similar thread I started: "Is "mind is an illusion" a legitimate position in Philosophy of Mind?" Here is what I wrote: ...
He said we are manifestations of Will and can diminish it by being a pure observer of forms in art/music, lessening our own egos with empathy with the...
And you with faux "big-pants" adult to admonish :-} for rhetorical points? Can perhaps the overlooking of actual human emotion for calculus of group-o...
Two things- We can feel harm without language, and even if we need language to feel introspective harm, how is this even addressing my point in the fa...
Life is inherently stressful for the individual. It contains undeniable harms and in unknown quantities. To what extent we need to exist in order to m...
Yes exactly.. I just brought this point up in my previous post.. he has a glaring oversight in the actual feeling of the individual. He is so caught u...
The problem is that unlike non-feeling/thinking things, humans (at the least) have subjective "what it's like" minds. The fact is, when we are born, w...
You try so hard to do somersaults around the naturalistic fallacy but you commit it quite squarely here: This to me amounts to a naturalistic fallacy....
Here's the naturalistic fallacy again..And what is balance? Survival? Why is that most paramount? It's simply a self-fulfilling argument. Clearly, you...
I think I hit the point clearly on the head about contingencies creating new outcomes that change the projected trend and thus open up new counterfact...
Again, just because it is resistant to change, does not mean it cannot be overcome. For example, in American history, the British had a relatively han...
Ok, so this is exactly what I said but using your particular preference for lingo like "global/local" and "variety/constraint". It still amounts to ad...
But my point refutes what you seem to be saying in regards to the idea that new ideas of morals cannot work if it is not something in the repertoire o...
In order for there to be survival, there does not just have to be conservation of what has worked, but outliers that lead to a better survival equilib...
I think you misread what I was trying to say. I'm saying that you tend to use the appeal to majority as a way to substantiate your point- because it m...
But just as antinatalism does not sound appealing to some, telling people that they are here to keep the group going would probably not get much fanfa...
I'd just like to comment that the fact that you focused on one sentence from a very large summary and criticism of your views is pretty illustrative o...
Indeed.. Romanticism vs. Enlightenment is another of his themes mixed in with Naturalism and Semiotics.. It's like a jigsaw that you have to put toget...
I guess you have to ask what makes poetry Nobel worthy versus just perfectly fine poetry. I am partial to his lyrics here: My eyes collide head-on wit...
I had similar objections as well. It seems a bit robotic to have a given set of aims that are supposed to be optimal. But, apokrisis seems to claim th...
Well that is my main objection as well.. This is all hypothetical imperative.. First we must justify why the goals of positive psychology should be a ...
Yeah I guess it is.. So I guess it would be stated: 1) If happiness is inherently valuable 2) Happiness is achieved via positive psychology therapies ...
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