God forbid! Ligotti is not pushing for any particular agenda. How dare you! Are you implying that being a pessimist is in any way more genuine or “gro...
Must be pretty bad friends. But regardless all that quote establishes is that pessimistic attitudes will be "phased out" by natural selection so to sp...
Notice “generally”. I don’t think anyone thinks murder and theft are ok. And we have been consolidating ethical views in general throughout time. Fair...
The scientific method is based on people agreeing on observations and coming up with theories based on the agreement. Does that make Einstein’s laws a...
Because “objectivity” is booked by religions to refer to things that are the case regardless of what anyone perceives or thinks. A consensus relies on...
Ha! Case in point, I tend to think that the more difficult thing to believe is the case. I miss sarcasm often (because taking it seriously is the more...
That's the more useful definition. To avoid confusion I just spell out "Inter subjective" though. Don't want people assuming I'm referring to "objecti...
Yea that's what I call "intersubjective" Because the term "Objective" seems to have been booked by religions to denote something that is right to do r...
Something CAN be intersubjective and also objective. Not in this case, I don't think. You think morality is objective. I don't know if you think it is...
How so? I find that unlikely since I'm the one that introduced it. Intersubjective just means everyone agrees on it. Morality is something (almost) ev...
No because I think morality is ONLY intersubjective. It is only based on agreement. It is not "out in the world" like a rock is. It's not written in s...
Which definition of objective though? Why aren't you answering? But that doesn't apply in this case. Propose that the "Objective moral code" was "Kill...
First, which definition? If everyone agrees that something is moral does that make it objective? Or is it a bit more than just agreement? Is it possib...
You have argued that we generally tend to agree on what is good and bad. And we generally tend to agree on what hurts (starvation, depravation, etc). ...
It really depends on what you mean by objective. If objective just means everyone agrees on it, then yes your statement above would apply. However if ...
This would only argue that we have common intuitions about morality. Is that the same thing as having an objective morality? And what of the cases whe...
This would be a meta ethical question. Would be the sort of things moral realists would disagree with you on. I’m not one, so I don’t know how one wou...
That the more difficult something is to believe the more “genuine” or “correct” it is. A morphing from “Truth can hurt” to “What hurts is the truth”. ...
What is happening is that I have. And you are incapable or unwilling to recognize that I have. And I have done so enough that I can sleep easily knowi...
I have explained it before. Can be afforded for the purposes of survival. Why do you make it sound like that's the only form an argument can be expres...
can you read? Sure I’ll make it simpler for your comprehension. 1- If a difference between an intuition and reality cannot be afforded we have good re...
I have. False. I can and I have. Your inability or unwillingness to recognize it is not my issue. I’ll go over it again one last time. Your premise 2 ...
Then we have as good evidence as we will ever have that uncaused causers don’t exist. If looking for something and not finding it is evidence then unc...
Which is? It makes no sense to say you have empirical evidence something doesn’t exist. You can only have a lack of evidence that something exists. If...
There is no empirical evidence that unicorns don’t exist either. But that’s not what I’m arguing. I’m arguing which is more reasonable to believe. An ...
In which premise is the conclusion assumed? Now you’re applying epistemology to itself. “When can you reasonably believe that you can reasonably belie...
Question begging is assuming the conclusion in your premises. Which conclusion have I assumed in which premise? I want to establish is that we have go...
But we have empirical reasons to doubt them. If an argument relies on unicorns existing you can’t say “It is metaphysically possible for unicorns to e...
But there is plenty to think it isn’t. And Strawson accepts that he has burden of proof and seeks to discharge it. He does this (in the same way antin...
I understand. Ok. How do you then get premise 2? Because And it also applies to having children. First leg, and something I think anyone can agree on:...
“Epistemology is a field of study not a way of thinking so wtf are you saying. And ways of thinking are not correct or incorrect, statements are corre...
What you did was show that it is sufficient. But then since the only other alternative is impossible it becomes necessary. As I said: Charitably? Sadi...
So... all you argue is that we are uncreated things? You don’t actually argue about whether or not we are morally responsible? That’s just a given? Wh...
Is question begging no? Not for the purposes of proving that we are uncreated or whatever, but for the purposes of proving that we are morally respons...
But I didn’t attack you personally did I? And aren’t you an object of that kind? Your parents, and whatever factors influenced their decision to have ...
First off, what exactly does it mean to you for an object to be "uncaused". You argue that: I assumed this meant "uncaused" as in "nothing caused its ...
Agreed. That's not what Strawson is doing though. He is arguing that we do not, in fact, have any moral responsibility. He is not arguing that we have...
Correct. But first notice this form of the argument. It ends with "We are justified in believing that we are morally responsible". I already said: You...
Why is that? Because we have the intuition that we are therefore it is reasonable to believe it? But we also have the intuition that every effect has ...
He calls it “The great lesson the depressive learns”. Not “What things seem like to the depressive”. “The great lesson” seems prescriptive. Maybe he i...
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