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Ok, if you say so. To me, it looks like the goalposts are now clear out in the parking lot.

Morality is subjective, the consequence of morality, which is not in itself morality, is objective. Dichotomy both absolutely necessary, and philosoph...

You know, Hume, 1740, insists our morality is based on emotion not reason. Slave of the passions and all that. Kant 1788, on the other hand....what el...

Then I revert to epistemic ignorance, with respect to what would be the case for objective reality or continuance of meaning if all humans were to dis...

I know people attribute their morality to what they believe. I know I have no such inclination, because belief, while subjectively sufficient, has no ...

I made a comment somewhere about moral feelings, because no one seems to attribute any important, or even relevance, to them. I’m not sure about reduc...

First you presented carne asada as the subject, beef as the predicate. Now you present beef as the subject and carne asada as the object, and treat it...

Bingo.

Carne Asada can be conceptually reducible no further than beef; morality can indeed be conceptually reduced further than mere belief. Acceptable/unacc...

Ok, I get it. Shoot an object into space, it goes on and on and on, ad infinitum, never interrupted, never examined. The meaning of it and all it’s pa...

I see an issue, in the construction of the argument. I don’t think belief has anything to do with morality to begin with. To say as much is to say a f...

Pretty much, yeah. ‘Course, you might have a syllogistic bombshell in your back pocket, just waiting and baiting for the right time, in which case I’l...

OK. S has got you by the short hairs.

Here I was, thinking we were moving on.

Ok, then I would answer the second question as the first: the meaning, in the sense I assume you are talking about, would be retained, because there i...

Half of it is epistemological, yes, in that there is present to our conscious attention a method known to be an artifact of communication with its int...

I would explain hieroglyphics by saying the author of them, even if a different culture, is still the same kind of intelligence as I am now. They rati...

Man, you’re asking for answers I think would be impossible to give. I’m a reductive epistemologist, insofar as there should still be a rock without in...

Part 1 is the problematic idealism of Descartes, which allows the empirical reality of physical objects, such as rocks. Part 2 is the dogmatic idealis...

Well said. Especially Aristotle’s contributions.

I don’t mind; everybody’s philosophy stands a good chance of being dubious or inscrutable to somebody. Morality involves either action a posteriori or...

Objective action is somewhat redundant, I know, but I used it in juxtaposition to the subjective principle. Sorry for the complication. In case you al...

If for some arbitrary rational agency, “Let X be do whatever it takes to acquire wealth” is a principle governing the determinate will, and then becom...

Pretty coherent to me, and quite acceptable. And there ya go. You’d probably find something to fill in the disparate behavioral blanks, to demonstrate...

It doesn’t miss the point; it is the point. Mine anyway. To say that the same behavior is both moral/immoral, and have instances wherein such behavior...

....is correct from the point of view of whomsoever should hold congruent judgement. This does nothing to explain or justify the morality of those in ...

Cool. I was hoping that was the case.

So..... Correct. They’re doing it objectively in the world, so it stands to reason they are being forced with wealth as the prize, equally objective, ...

Sure they are, as far as I’m concerned.

That sort of empirically predicated maxim of mine alone, could never suffice as ground for a categorical imperative, so....no. The rest of the world m...

Damned if I know. I don’t even know if the world would be a better place if I did X.

No, philosophy won’t tell you what to do, that’s not it’s job. The moral philosophy of meta-ethics does nonetheless enable understanding of and judgem...

Yeah, I guess I get that. Still, laws are founded on a necessity, which presupposes those making the laws cannot be immune to knowledge of their effec...

Then what notion of morality would be useful?

Oh, you can’t ask a Kantian what’s wrong with being a Kantian. You’ll get a answer laden with highly prejudicial bias and a hint of confusion. Persona...

Thanks. Got it. Rawls...A- because he’s obviously Kantian. Scanlon....D, because I think this is contradictory: “....So we have the contractualist for...

I might think the “veil of ignorance” is manifest in the American ideal, set out by a few guys sitting around a table in a very small part of a very h...

Oh hell, everybody and his Auntie Sue has had something to say about these dichotomies. Quine, 1951 on rejection of analyticity hence eviscerating the...

OK. Thanks. Was just wondering if you were going with the phenomenon/noumenon dualism, or the analytic/synthetic, the a priori/a posteriori, or even t...

Sorry to detract from Schelling and other post-Kantian German idealists, but how would you go about seeing Kant’s system as dual aspect theory without...

Or.......how to anthropomophize the bejesus out of otherwise perfectly reasonable stuff. (Sigh)

Sure was a messed-up time, wasn’t it? Kant had just set the world on fire, with half a century of paradigm-shifting speculative philosophy, and all th...

Easy stuff first: Morality is subjective, it is intersubjective in its employment, and moral philosophy does take into account all subjects in general...

It does not follow from the Universe being finite that we came from nothing. Even if finiteness is a necessary, perhaps even primary, condition for ex...

Wouldn’t it depend on what you mean by physics suggesting we are indeed in direct experiential contact with the world? Under what conditions would tha...

Dunno about a logical fallacy, because as soon as you won, it’s all moot anyway, the rationale for not winning becomes irrelevant.

I dunno, man. Everybody with a few of the right letters after his name, from at least Hume all the way up to nowadays, is likely to suggest “the way i...

A maxim is a subjective principle that justifies a volition of will, such as, e.g., the principle that my utterance of a known falsehood for personal ...

Consequence could just as well be self-conceit, or an over abundance of personal happiness, as self-destruction. The subjective moral maxim is thus re...

I think your basic idea is correct. A Kantian, because he considers himself, first, a deontologist, and second, affiliated with the moral, or categori...