Well, that's kind of what I (and @"Galuchat") have been saying, I don't think the evidence is on your side there. It's doubtful that anyone has such a...
Not sure I follow you. If I hold a theory that it is morally good to murder my wife on the basis of the perceived consequences, then I am making two c...
Yes. The idea that moral decision-making is anything other than a fairly tangled mess of highly context-specific techniques is just wishful thinking. ...
But all creatures like us are embedded in a culture, so how would you know that angry behaviour isn't also the product of culture, learned during chil...
But primates spend the vast majority of their time not-angry too, so why make anything other than the presumption that they too suppress one potential...
I see. Wouldn't you say that seeing as acting civilly despite our emotional state is the thing which we do most often, that has most prima facae justi...
Sure. I was trying to clarify your use of 'tendency'. I've always used it to mean 'a typical or repeated habit, action or belief' so to have it associ...
Well, if we have a tendency to anger then we'd be angry most of the time. That's what tendency means. Otherwise we'd have a tendency to non-anger woul...
@"csalisbury" Just wanted to say thanks for posting these. I haven't got anything insightful to say about them, I just don't have an artistic bone in ...
And this is exactly why we need psychology if morality is going to be discussed in these terms. This is pseudo-scientific myth-making. I'm not saying ...
What would ""for" ourselves" even mean in this context? Being 'for' something is about objectives, but you're not talking about objectives here (you a...
True, but with the Orion and duck/rabbit examples we are able to talk in the meta-language about the matter from which they're constructed. That's wha...
And sometimes for "that has been checked by methods we both approve of", and sometimes for "I really, really believe that", and sometimes for "I reall...
1. Schools are little better than Stalinist boot camps and all of them should be abolished immediately. Children neither need nor benefit from a forma...
I'm not getting anything out of the Tarski I'm reading, I'm afraid. All I'm coming across is that chasm between formal languages that Tarski was talki...
Yeah, I trust your logic. I obviously can't accept the excluded middle though, following any language-based analysis of 'true' and 'false'. Not(true) ...
There'd be no one to say anything of "there are dinosaurs", so I don't think it would be false. It just wouldn't be labelled either way. To say "the c...
OK. I have had a look at T-sentence stuff before and couldn't make the jump from formal languages to real languages, but I'm prepared give it another ...
It was Cambodia, not Vietnam, and the man already had land (the most expensive bit of that whole system in our country) without which the whole interv...
Right. We're probably approaching this problem differently then. I'm quite a strong "meaning is use" person. I gathered from some of your previous pos...
I'm (semi-)retired now, but I used to do research in social psychology. My wife's a child psychologist though, which is where my annoyance came from a...
Did I once ask you what the rules say? I asked you why you chose to err on the side of doing as little as you can get away with. I didn't ask you how ...
So, if any conclusion is premature at this point, why have you opted to err on the side of doing as little as possible for your fellow man? Is that wh...
Still not answering the question then. I'm not going to ask again, I think it's now quite clear to all that you're just using your religion as post ho...
Why would I forward the question to someone who is used to working on jurisprudential advisories? I'm not remotely interested in the answer. As I've s...
I didn't ask for a list (endless or not), and I didn't ask what Islam actually has to say on the matter. I'm asking about your personal justification ...
Right. I'm just asking for the scriptual support for that statement. That's all. You keep saying how you follow written systems where you don't just m...
So explain to me the logic of your argument from the disputed post. You said Clearly implying that I didn't already have it in my 'overheated mind'. Y...
You're missing the quotations marks (the issue which I stated with. I probably should be putting this in some sort of notation which will make it clea...
We would say it was false for them, they wouldn't. Its what "we in the trade" call wrong, not what "they at the time" call wrong. Note, I'm not going ...
Yes, but not by us, nit by the ones for whom "the sun is the centre of the cosmos" is false. We would never say that (and mean it), and it is us for w...
So you don't even know what the instruction means? How do you know how to treat your neighbours, the needy etc if you don't even know what "do good" m...
I didn't ask you about charity. I asked you about the clear instruction to "do good". Are you saying that the sum total of what the Quran considers co...
Where's you're scriptural support for opposing the general instruction to "do good" which is not so curtailed in that section? I've literally just cit...
Allah (SWT) says in the Quran: “ do good to parents, and to relatives and orphans, and the needy, and the near neighbour and the distant neighbour and...
1. Anthropologists Paul Aspelin and David Price tried to replicate Lévi-Strauss's findings on the Nabikwara and found that he hadn't identified their ...
Cheers. I thought that was the case. I knew she was responsible for my copy of Philosophical Investigations and so must have had some close ties, but ...
It's not the autonomy that's in question. It's what is 'moral'. The references to Wittgenstein are - for me - suffused through the whole thing. The wa...
It's not an 'exploration/ though, is it? It's a manifesto. An exploration takes evidence and reason from both sides to try and draw conclusions. You'r...
I wasn't asking for evidence that politics and life were not in a good state. I was asking for evidence that watered-down policies make no 'progress'....
I'm pretty sure it doesn't say. I agree with what @"Banno" has already hinted at, that Anscombe assumed a good deal of Wittgenstein in the paper witho...
Yeah, seconded. It's really annoying - I though it was just me. She says (and I would quote if I wasn't too lazy to write it out), that the list is no...
You've just introduced the word 'natural' there without any warrant at all. Show me the evidence that the tendencies the millennium development goals ...
You've missed/dodged the actual issue. If you're claiming we have free-will, then something within us must cause us to choose to act according to 'evi...
OK, so the first thing you'd need is some evidence of this. What is the 'progress' you'd like to see (what is the real-world measure of it) and why ar...
I didn't say they were, I'm only asking how you would justify such a theory of truth. You said a proposition is 'true' IIF {that proposition}, "A" is ...
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