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Moral autonomy.......absolutely. But then....the kind of choices moral autonomy is responsible for, depends on one’s philosophical leanings that can o...
September 26, 2019 at 19:03
Nope. As I said, make your decisions.....read your signs....any way you like. Do I think it irrational? Maybe. Do I think you should think it irration...
September 26, 2019 at 14:18
What’s irrational is seeking or expecting a verifiable objective account of a decision making process by that which is not, and can never be, a first-...
September 26, 2019 at 14:08
No, actually, they are not. Not quite. (To be defined).....is to be conceived, which is always the primary ground..... Those are my words. Please reco...
September 26, 2019 at 12:53
“....General logic, then, resolves the whole formal business of understanding and reason into its elements, and exhibits them as principles of all log...
September 25, 2019 at 12:30
I didn’t say definitions were required, you did: Me: to define is to conceive You: What does that take? Me: self-consciousness and a rational methodol...
September 25, 2019 at 11:10
I’m more or less agreeing with you with respect to the claim as stated. Even if I hadn’t read a substantial catalog of moral philosophy, in which ther...
September 24, 2019 at 16:28
How so?
September 24, 2019 at 16:15
The particulars of the dialogue itself, probably not the foundation of subjectivist condemnation. The dialectical form of the conversation may very we...
September 24, 2019 at 16:04
Mind taking a little side trip with me? What is the you are skeptical of, and, in what way are you skeptical of it?
September 24, 2019 at 14:48
Reason doesn’t give a hoot how old you are; the day you die you’ve got the same brain you were born with....albeit more developed and rather more well...
September 24, 2019 at 10:53
For humans, self-consciousness and a rational methodology.
September 23, 2019 at 16:23
Yes, definitions are sufficient to value, for to be defined is to be conceived, which is always the primary ground for some immediate and subsequent m...
September 23, 2019 at 14:32
According to our definitions, which is immediately sufficient for any valuings so determined, to be merely empirically grounded, re: from experience a...
September 22, 2019 at 13:30
Question....just because: Given herein that the principle of necessity makes explicit that for which contingency is impossible. What is it for any rat...
September 21, 2019 at 19:26
Yes, I am. And yes, I know. Not all things are default wrong, but one of the things you claimed as a default wrong, isn’t, the rebuttal sustained by t...
September 14, 2019 at 01:09
Yeah, Mother Nature has deemed it good to imbue us with a sensory overload protection mechanism on the one hand, and an internal trash collecting mech...
September 13, 2019 at 12:33
......is “default wrong”: everything from birthday presents to battlefield dressings to....EGAD!!! Sending us to school without seeking our permission...
September 13, 2019 at 11:24
Yeah, I know. The blah blah blah is due to the lack of consent from the unborn person, and such is quite frightful to Kantian deontology because it de...
September 13, 2019 at 01:54
You might be right. But I’m correcting what you think Kant means, using Kant’s words for what he means, and they are not the same.
September 13, 2019 at 01:18
Yes, it is, because what you said he said, or what you think he means by what he said, is wrong. I don’t care about your procreation foolishness; I ca...
September 13, 2019 at 01:01
Yes, I read that, and after looking up the terms because I had no experience with them, pretty much agreed with you. There is certainly an inner and a...
September 13, 2019 at 00:46
Thesis: A.) “....Kant is all about respect - respecting that which has value, rather than 'promoting' that which has value. For example, Kant is all a...
September 13, 2019 at 00:37
The dreaded, cursed, Cartesian theater!!! BOOOO!!!! I turned him on to that, but he missed it. Page 4. An otherwise normal human knows his thought as ...
September 12, 2019 at 23:54
I argue the the propositions and conditions in support of the definition given. You know......Socratic dialectics. Philosophy done right.
September 12, 2019 at 23:44
I think the definition of introspection is whatever any decent English dictionary says it is, but I’ve never looked it up. But here, I’m using Clark’s...
September 12, 2019 at 23:21
Exactly. Nothing whatsoever happens between the ears that doesn’t rise to the self as pure thought, which, ironically enough, serves as a good definit...
September 12, 2019 at 22:25
I didn’t change your definition of introspection; I substituted an different conception of it. ——————- Generally, pure thought; specifically, as a com...
September 12, 2019 at 21:05
No, you didn’t. I embellished what the idea of introspection represents to me
September 12, 2019 at 20:56
They could. All they gotta do is think about it. ——————- And I will admit that people are liable to have blind spots in their understandings. ——————- ...
September 12, 2019 at 20:50
I reject the idea of introspection as the most obvious, most readily available, most commonly accessed, means for self-observation. ———————— I’m not u...
September 12, 2019 at 20:28
Awww.....does that mean I don’t get a Christmas card?
September 12, 2019 at 20:25
I don’t even deny introspection exists. I reject that the idea of introspection is sufficient to justify what you say it does. But if you do think it ...
September 12, 2019 at 20:14
What?!!? Hell, no. I got no right to reject anything of the sort. If someone said they were rejecting my experiences, I’d give ‘em a funny look and ju...
September 12, 2019 at 20:12
What....did I over-simplify? You accused me of being arrogant in rejecting some collective experience, when all I’m rejecting is an idea. (Sigh)
September 12, 2019 at 20:03
Generally speaking, they damn well should be. One’s interpretations, cognitive biases, prejudices form the spectrum of judgements he is going to make ...
September 12, 2019 at 19:55
I don’t like e.g., the Dallas Cowboys, but I wouldn’t disallow a friend from coming in my house because he’s wearing one of their t-shirts.
September 12, 2019 at 19:35
Can’t help ya. Sounds about right though.
September 12, 2019 at 18:04
I never said, nor even hinted, that I reject your collective experiences of introspection. But don’t worry....I won’t judge you for misunderstanding m...
September 12, 2019 at 17:23
While that conforms to general consensus, nevertheless, with respect to Kantian deontology, it is freedom that makes one lawful. ———— Here though, aga...
September 12, 2019 at 15:21
I explained my rejection of the very idea of introspection primarily because it is only rationality anyway, and secondary to that, it is redundant to ...
September 12, 2019 at 14:13
It being the very idea of introspection. Sorry for the lack of clarity.
September 12, 2019 at 13:37
“...We have finally reduced the definite conception of morality to the idea of freedom. This latter, however, we could not prove to be actually a prop...
September 12, 2019 at 13:31
Nahhhh....I got respect enough for your comments here to never mock them. I’m partly agreeing, insofar as I acknowledge your belief in introspection, ...
September 12, 2019 at 11:40
Fine. No problem. I shall have to trust your belief in the explanatory power of anthropology and empirical psychology. But seriously, I do understand ...
September 12, 2019 at 11:29
Pretty much what I’ve been saying all along. One’s personal philosophy manifests as the summation of his experience in relation to his conscience. One...
September 12, 2019 at 11:11
If no one existed in sec 1, how would they do anything in sec 1? Doesn’t matter. You’re perfectly entitled to think what you like, interpret Kant any ...
September 12, 2019 at 00:15
Kantian moral philosophy relates to present rational beings endowed with a will, and nothing else. “.... rational beings, on the contrary, are called ...
September 12, 2019 at 00:07
Introspection is a source of information that shows..... .....how I am, absolutely: .....how other people are, I can’t accept. Well, introspection sho...
September 11, 2019 at 22:27
Thanks, and, don’t be too sorry; I can get.....er.....obscure, shall we say?
September 11, 2019 at 22:15