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Wrong question.. Rather, when is it ok to ever assume someone else needs to experience X bad experiences because you have a notion for them of what on...

Bingo. Life itself can be said to be immoral from the start.

I mean, I have no problem with your theory of constraints.. As far as I know that's not too controversial.. Maybe a bit beyond the physics to a sort o...

So how was I not agreeing here in different wording? Anyways, now we are just talking past each other. You are trying to describe the emergence of deg...

Humans get bored --> Lonely.. That can be a general observation. Most of the time we prefer to be around others. Sex feels good. We like to feel we ha...

Traditional practicing Jainists reason to die of starvation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallekhana So yeah people can even "reason" to starve thems...

Yes, I said as much that it has to do with language in my OP.

Of course, and you are making straw men of what I am saying. And actually, there are people who are extreme ascetics, etc. And I actually agree with y...

I’ve said some things you might disagree with. Basically that because we have reasons, and because perhaps of ours Enlightenment customs, there is not...

Not sure how you came to that conclusion based on what I said. In that quote I just said how there is an iteration of individual and society which imp...

Yeshua, the apocalyptic reformer becomes Jesus, Son of God whose death and resurrection "saves" you under Paul. That's it in a nutshell. My speculatio...

But humans are a form of life and are not Life (whatever abstraction you are using here). That is to say, there is no necessity in what we value.. The...

False dichotomy and contradicts yourself. If the burden of reasons falls on the individual as an "allegiance to Enlightenment" then it cannot be exter...

Don’t get what you’re asking.

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Do you see a distinction between a cause and a reason?

This is incredibly ignorant as it gives into the apologists tendency to de-contextualize the historical figure and simply accept the caricature that i...

Can you elaborate more on your theory here? Are you thinking of a specific study? Does anyone in a tribal society act simply because they wanted to, o...

The difference being the difference between syntax and semantics.

I'm sorry, get over yourself. I don't even want to fathom the reasons causes for your smugness be they personality disorder, inflated sense of self-im...

A powerful philosophical statement.

According to yourself, you have no reason for this.

I think this makes sense only in a neuroscience kind of way.. The neurons fired before the decision was made.. or maybe a "free will" versus "determin...

As stated to apokrisis: You seem to be on the "social formulas" idea. Post hoc fiction seems a bit much. I can tell you why I decided to go to the par...

Ooof.. is that a slight against any tribal society that doesn't have "civilization"? You save it by adding "socialized" though. That seems like a fals...

Very Schopenhauerian of you.. But when you go to the fridge to get food, or you decide to pick up a book, or you decide to get this and not that produ...

Maybe but that's where we have to do comparisons. What does it mean to have a reason to do something? I would think it requires linguistic use.

Yes, I agree with you about language and its centrality in reasons versus cause/effect. There is something that is different between the statements "M...

Way to not get the point :meh:.

No. So imagine a world where you didn't have reasons, but everything was purely done from instinctual drives. You didn't "have a reason".. you didn't ...

So this is the hill you stand on... Ok, so maybe all animals have reasons since we don't "really" know. Either way, it's more the implications, not th...

Is intentionality the same as "reasons" though? That's tricky, but I think they are two different things. A dog certainly has intentions (to get food,...

Don’t know if it is possible unless sleepwalking or in a trance.

I guess what I mean by this is that it seems like C.S. Lewis did not at all mention the modern understanding of the Bible at least since Spinoza, whic...

Why was C.S. Lewis so anti-historical in his analysis of the Gospels? The problem with ancient writers is they wrote fan fiction and people were and s...

I think Kant’s use of noumenal vs thing-in-itself is notoriously convoluted. Is there a difference that makes a difference? My crack at it is noumenal...

I have to go so can't spend much time on this right now, but are you looking for the specific term "nominal" in his writings? Or rather, are you simpl...

Indeed you might.

Yeah cause that’s it. I’ve never presented any of my own thoughts :roll:. I’m just answering misconceptions on his philosophy of suicide.

Schopenhauer was saying that suicide shouldn't be condemned or made illegal (if they survive?). That's people's right. But he was actually not a stron...

I love how some posters think their moral claim against antinatalists is tell them to kill themselves (not talking about you, but one adjacent in this...

Even worse than simple profiteerism is the sort of mythology of the economic Nietzschean ubermensch via Ayn Randian type libertarianism. That's either...

Natalism is militaristic as well... One person's enthusiasm becomes another person's burden.. And the post-facto excuses abound for this misguided not...

But this isn't Schopenhaurian but perhaps more Kantian. There is no "will-for-us" or "tree-for-us" or whathaveyou. Rather, there is representation, wh...

Well, now we are parsing out analyses and interpretations, but it can be derived from things like this: But you are parsing out Will into its various ...

So I think here you are demonstrating a misunderstanding of how Schopenhauer is using "Will". It is NOT just a psychological aspect. It is a metaphysi...

But it wasn't an aspect of mind.. It was simply the foundational principle that he named "will" for good or bad. It was to denote that the root of exi...

Because space, time, and causation are not just space-for-us, time-for-us, causation-for-us. It is rather space/time/causality are but conditions of t...

Well yeah, that's obvious. You've heard of analogies right? It doesn't have to be exact fits. Of course I know that Schopenhauer is explicitly atheist...

Yep. This very much goes with my analogy earlier.