I might add a minor correction, though I more or less agree, that I've heard the Kantian 'method' being to choose based on the best intention, which i...
I'm not saying your interpretation of Kant is wrong and I admit that I'm not sure where you got this line, is it a direct quote? Analyzing it, it is a...
I think the criticism is a common one, but at the end of the day Kant did not choose judgement and practice for subject matter, the aim seemed to be i...
You make a valid point. It was improper to present my idea as if it was valid outright that a continual limbo in adolescence was resistant to reproduc...
We can already observe a type of indirect attempt in humans in overdeveloped areas to mediate their own drive to reproduce. There is a growing fixatio...
In my view, value isn't solely in the subjective content of the person-object relation, but it is – partly – this subjective process itself in form. B...
In the mammalian world, we think of the sex organs as compensation for the destruction of the total organism. Machines are much less liable to become ...
I’m trying not to label or define anyone, though when we hold this discussion we gravitate into certain roles and this conversation is a long standing...
It is more interesting about how this discussion inevitable turns into a conflict for power between one who sees this long standing institution of the...
My personal inclination is to say that might vs right may be rational but it’s not reasonable. That’s based on thinking that for the subject it is per...
So here is the run-down of the ongoing whittling of the term 'weakness' that we have put this together so far. This is not so much a definition of wea...
This is hard to agree with, because we're talking about more than just human social weakness. You're right that weakness is a relative term. In fact, ...
Instead of the arrow, you're just not perfectly charming to the opposite sex. Some other people don't get along with you, and you meet with failure in...
We miss the mark. Shoot the arrow to the wrong place. We give the prey a chance to escape, because that's how we survive. And why should it not be the...
The same. When someone professes to have some all-encompassing ability to understand another's life experience it starts looking a lot like they are f...
Suppose that the better question than 'why should we be weak,' is 'why are we weak?' Our weakness is something we have somehow already conceded to. Lo...
Fair enough. percentage-wise, the technology affected roughly the same demographic, but it would reach more individuals and see more frequent usage. T...
I got the feeling after “laymen have a perspective on things that the more educated classes do not know,” that it was almost laughable. This is common...
In Europe perhaps less so because tuition fees are not as high as they are in North America. Here the technology gap has greatly increased the require...
The usual structure goes: individual -> particular particular -> universal individual -> universal You have replaced the universal in the second step ...
Interesting you would say this. In what ways are they different to you? Are you saying there is something clearly different between a human driving fo...
It would be sort of hypocritical to start to make prescriptions. But it makes me personally feel dead inside when the educated elite talk about human ...
I feel your pain. The university system to me seems to be instilling a sense of class separation and control through just the same phenomena; the prop...
I would agree about the enriching, and this I think is my (known) assumption: That knowledge does 'enrich' us with a certain authority; a certain powe...
Wow, then you're the perfect person to ask this question. Thanks for replying. I seem to have rubbed you the wrong way but that wasn't my intention. I...
No offense, but being a lawyer is not exactly what I meant by ‘academic.’ Yes, when you have a civil problem you go to a specialist in that field. But...
The academic may know a lot, but they don't know how to truly behave like a layman. They can never know how to not know what they know, and that is a ...
Wow, this brings me back, I was a different person then ;) The human mind is so much more interesting when viewed from this perspective of a 'collecti...
Well we appear to have reached some analysis that the original post about the equality of someone who fails that is unintelligent, not physically stro...
I'm not exactly sure, but from a value perspective it's like this frustrating feeling of like on the whole we are being given the option of this beaut...
I'm of the opinion that even though there's no clear dividing line between philosophy, sociology, and politics, it is usually a bad idea to have self-...
Bringing this back to the original topic, if when we consider all men and women to be equal in terms of civil liberty and simultaneously assent to an ...
I see it as irrelevant if Jefferson himself believed personally and individually in a G-d. The basis of the matter is there is nothing evidently bindi...
Yes thank you, and there is a good reason why one might think this way; in the 'equality' of others at the value level. It is not solely original to y...
...just because they used certain words is no reason to believe that they really meant them you mean? how are you proving that another completely diff...
This is a good point. I really want to stay off the topic of the 'Creator' ideology but I don't see any other option since you have now gone there. Th...
Oh ok, I hope this is PG-rated. I am glad you said this, because it points to exactly what we're discussing. Yes we can observe this to be the case, b...
Of course this makes perfect sense that there be social structures that favour certain occupations over others. I don't want to confine ourselves to j...
Regardless of whether we choose to be involved or not the individual pursuit of happiness will be limited by universal thought, just not the universal...
This sounds nice in ideality, but how can one remove all mediation from a universal rule in the way you suggest? Aren't we forgetting that our own con...
I meant the comparison to question if someone deserves spoils for exhibiting genius that was attributed partially to their ideological circumstances. ...
Not sure I fully understand. “Information is the value form of the 21st century because it is replacing labour as the locus of collective psychology.”...
Maybe it’s side-stepping, but it sounds as if your approach to this is somewhat libertarian in style. You take the circumstance of the individual as t...
This made me laugh. Well one need look no further than Marx’s Manifesto to see how just a few words can be more powerful than armies of hundreds of th...
It still seems like more explanation is needed to fully explore how information can become the equivalent of labour as a source of value. In labour, b...
Toil, wage slavery and exploitation are signifiers for income inequality between classes. It sounds as if your view is that processes becoming automat...
Can computer systems really create value on their own? I'm imagining all workers had made the transition to the so-called elite class with access to a...
I have recently been enjoying the word ‘ought.’ I like to think of love right now as something that ought to be in my life. I prefer love. Do you feel...
In my mind, there will always be good. Good and evil both imply an abstract entity and some quality with which it reveals something about itself in a ...
Wow, what a coincidence; I agree that his writing was superb. This happened to be the book that really acted as a gateway for me into Mathematics. It ...
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