What of the argument that ethics presupposes morality? Don’t the legitimizing standards properly belong to moral philosophy? And if that is the case, ...
No. It is a rhetorical comment on your series of questions that are unreasonably proposed, thereby drawing attention away from the project at hand. I ...
“....To know what questions we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong evidence of sagacity and intelligence. For if a question be in itself absu...
For every question, absolutely, certainly with respect to that which occurs naturally in the world of things. Those things we ourselves invent or crea...
Tip of the pointy hat to .....made me flash on something: Are you saying the value of a thing is its purpose? That which has purpose has value, and th...
I have no reservations, no, but the vocabulary is reserved for representing the conceptions of speculative metaphysics, in order to separate value as ...
Same-page construct (?): Affectivity...that from which a change in a given system is possible. Structure of affectivity, then, is that by which the ch...
Agreed. People love the cake they are given, but don’t bother considering its ingredients. That ethics manifests as a relation between humans is given...
“.....In our times indeed this might perhaps be necessary; for if we collected votes whether pure rational knowledge separated from everything empiric...
All good. Yes, he did, and that’s an excellent reading. Nonetheless, Kant’s noumena pertains to the understanding thinking objects for itself, without...
Ahhh....so she’s showing the non-believers how foolish they are. I can dig that. Sometimes I’m too literal for my own good. Comes from being a virgoya...
Absolutely. The law is the law, Everyone wishes to be protected by law, and everyone accepts that the world operates according to law, so why not make...
Yes, I would agree with all that, considering your disposition towards consequentialism. On the other hand, from another disposition rather than yours...
That a tough one, right there. Typical Kant....says something here, says something there that makes the here one confusing. Not only that, but he’s go...
The relative texts in Kant’s corpus make clear to lie is always an affront to a good will, from which is derived to lie is never a moral practical obj...
Sure it is, but so was the question to which it referred. To ask “what IS reason, you mean? Otherwise, I don’t understand the question. Anyway, not so...
“....(a) I am only bound then to sacrifice to others a part of my welfare without hope of recompense: because it is my duty, and it is impossible to a...
Good post, well articulated. On this..... ....I might rather have substituted the reverence for freedom, which autonomy presupposes, but......minor po...
Understood. Perhaps nothing but a distinction between your doctrine of normative teleological ethics with respect to rule-based community, and my doct...
The point being, the rightness or wrongness of an act is never a thought of mine, but only the act’s felt moral integrity. To lie is to be intentional...
A regular dude would answer by how he thinks, a pure moral deontologist would answer by how he feels. The former may answer yes or no, the latter woul...
No, that’s a wrongful interpretation. A deontologist makes a discursive judgement on a behavior not his own by his cognitive criteria, which is an exp...
This might exemplify an inconsistency in Kolakowski‘s interpretation of Kant's c.i.: a consequential moralist makes judgements on others predicated on...
I sincerely hope it is not a consequentialist that finds me after my car accident, if he shoots me because he thinks it best I do not suffer. (Actuall...
“....we may especially remark that all in our cognition that belongs to intuition contains nothing more than mere relations. (The feelings of pain and...
Yes, absolutely. No one can tell anyone else what to do, except in cases of instructions for, or in the pursuit of, a skill. Generally, Kant promoted ...
The c.i. doesn’t have a truth value; it is a “command of reason”. The c.i., because it is a command, is a “shall”, not a “should”. Should, or ought, d...
I find it worse than that. The idea by which moral certainty is possible is given in CPR 1781. The ground for moral certainty is given in F.P.M.M.,178...
Which is not what the question asks, as pre-conditioned by what you shouldn’t do. ————- You could invent a logic but couldn’t imagine whiteness? ————-...
If I speak to you, say, “what do you think of “whiteness”, in which case the word appears in the world as a sound to your ears just as it appears to y...
Apparently, we aren’t ending, and we certainly aren’t agreeing, insofar as your “indeed” here has missed the point, and is not supported by what you’v...
Categorically false. Sufficiently true: you and many people out there have similar experiences of Thai food because all of the individual qualitative ...
————— Sorry. I figured there was no loss of truth value in my configuration of the statements as opposed to yours. Didn’t intend to flagrantly misinte...
Sorry for the delay. OK...fine. I totally missed this. My bad, because it was worth a response. Doubt is a negative truth claim, but is it a knowledge...
It is usually enough to say I am that which these two different things have in common. Until it is asked what those two different things are, what mak...
———- Better. You still have to prove that thoughts and feelings are equally experienced, in order to affirm that I am only my subjective experiences. ...
Yet you’ve preface every one of those examples with “I”, the feeling of excitement, fond memory of the restaurant, more knowledge on the job. All of t...
I think that closer to the case, yes. I am the unity of all my representations. Something along those lines. Yes, another iteration of a Platonic dual...
Which stance are we talking about here? His, or mine? You quoted me, so supposing my stance, that we are not only our thoughts, your comment that we d...
Hmmmm. “In the world” implies spatial location, and because experience is not in the world, I would go with “grounded by the world”. This removes the ...
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