OK, I guess. I’m not happy with tautological truths myself, but ehhhh.....I’ll never be famous. Agreed on harmonious community, if one thinks of moral...
You’re right, it’s not impossible, if something new is available. But in the case at hand, there was posited a non-compliance, an offset of the norm, ...
Tim used “ownership of my life is absolute”, and I used that as a condition for the argument. So no, in this case the alluded truth was a reduction to...
We’re even then. I wasn’t clear on why you brought up physical phenomena when what you were responding to was mental preference. So I just ran with it...
Of course. Anything can be found problematic if one tries hard enough. In any speculative philosophy with syllogistic arguments, the author can only a...
Correct. It is not true that physical phenomena are reference-frame relative. It’s an isotopic universe which means there is no preferred reference fr...
Careful. If this is indubitably the case, you’d have to either find or assume something different in order for the doubt necessary to counter the soci...
I’m ok with everything after the dot dot dot. Six of one, half dozen of the other? —————— Agreed, unequivocally. Opinion has no logical validity, and ...
If it be granted scientific truths, not as such but in themselves, are empirical, and moral truths, not as such but in themselves, are thought, we arr...
Agreed. I’ve yet to experience ontological conditionals as anything but complicating, rather than clarifying. I mean...whatever I’m talking about must...
This, in conjunction with your “my ownership of my life is absolute”, is the proof of the law serving the fundamental ground of moral interest. Murder...
Cool. From real world observation to the a priori reduction to a principle, hence the possibility of a law, is only good for something else, just as i...
Dan Akroyd to Jane Curtan, the news desk, SNL, 1975. The rejoinder is, ”Dan, you pompous ass....” Gilda Radnor as special correspondent “Roseanne Rosa...
Yes, the keyword being affections, which Hume specifically names as “...perceptions of the mind...”. Thus, if reason cannot tell us of affections, it ...
I really do hate to rain on your parade, but there’s nothing in your post that passes a Kantian test. Never mind all the morality issues, because........
For government, see “The Science of Right”, 1790, trans: A. Hastie, Berlin For individual situations, see “Fundamental Principles for the Metaphysics ...
Not only the ownership, or possession of it, but included is the principle of its preservation. If we have a truth the negation of which is impossible...
It seems to me, when Hume said.... “Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions” .....he should have realized his own words suggest morals ...
Good. Although I’ve been burned by commenting to people to whom I’ve erroneously attributed philosophical maturity, I feel I’m on solid ground here. I...
How would a rational system so hopelessly circular ever get us anywhere? ————————- If this is the case, and given the choice of deciding whether or no...
Good point, and in keeping with ....it may do well to understand just what a passion, Hume style, really is: “As all the perceptions of the mind may b...
All the good ones do that, to be sure, and we shouldn’t chastise them for wishing the integrity of their respective philosophies be maintained. Both H...
Sure, but only to the extent of patience, re: when barking at the moon and Wiki have equal dialectical authority, I find myself with nothing to say. —...
Unless you bring it with you, other than my brief and scattered remarks, and perhaps not even then, you won’t find what you’re after here. People are ...
Philosophy well done. Put it out there, avail it to proper critique. The general theme of your series of comments seems to focus on the pre-rational o...
Because “...at the end...” is one terminus, I think it fair to say “at conception...” is the other, rather than conception as a position in the though...
As I said, I don’t hold with moral propositions per se, but rather with propositions expressing moral implications, and of a particular construction. ...
No, I didn’t distinguish argument, imperative, or proposition as such, from each other, anyway. These certainly can be distinguished, depending on the...
Not to correct, but to suggest........ ......there are not moral propositions; there are propositions that determine, or are the expression of, morali...
Simplest: conditions themselves are merely states of affairs; Technical Point: conditions themselves are non-entities; Technically Finer point: condit...
Exactly. Morality never was a “thing”, but always the condition of a thing, and, therefore, what morality is good for, is defining itself as a conditi...
Which has been the bane of the modern relativisitic paradigm, as opposed to......dare I say.......Enlightenment moral subjectivism, the judgements of ...
A disinterested person can certainly observe, but if he doesn’t care about the observation, he would have no reason to judge it. The equality of the r...
No, I think there are truth statements we can make about slavery. It’s true there was a time when slavery was prevalent, it’s true slavery is not now ...
Do you think perhaps your adamancy over the wrongness of slavery is because you’ve never had the first hand experience of knowing differently? If you ...
Nice catch; it is indeed a tautology. And tautologies are the simplest versions of logical truth. If there is truth required in morality, a binding of...
#4. The morality or immorality of any situation is a product of individual judgement, and all individual moral judgements are equally valid, iff confi...
I agree with several of your responses to others, sometimes in total, sometimes in part. I’m not sure the position you’re arguing from differs remarka...
Either that, or condense it into subjective relative truth. That way, truth meets its logical criterion of a sound conclusion but with different premi...
“....For the metaphysic of morals has to examine the idea and the principles of a possible pure will, and not the acts and conditions of human volitio...
I wanna play!!!! Yes, I hold 2 + 2 = 4 is absolutely true. As a matter of reason. No, not as a matter of opinion, psychology, and whether others hold ...
True, there is no truth value in opinion. Nevertheless, maybe it’s no more a problem than disconnecting moral dilemma from aesthetics. Choice of ice c...
Agreed. The statement has a truth value. There is a truth *about* any empirical concept which doesn’t concern the concept itself, but simply the origi...
(Raising hand from back of the room) Hellloooo!!! see page 17. I said, “Morality, one of two fundamental human conditions, the other being reason....”...
I personally prefer the Enlightenment era Continental Idealism, particularly the Kantian variety, even if I wouldn’t bet the family farm on it. But it...
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