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We’ll never know whether Euthyphro‘s arguably inconclusive definitions of piety actually left ol’ Socrates defenseless, or whether Socrates was doomed...

Perhaps. Far be it from me to deny the possibility. Nevertheless, Herr Kant seems to have his own misgivings: “.....Here then we see philosophy brough...

Interesting. “A” for effort.

This is key, because Kantian deontological moral philosophy has to do with what IS morally significant, and not with the haphazard machinations of com...

Good stuff. Thanks.

Scribble 10 E=MC2 on yonder blackboard, go forth amongst the vulgar masses* and philosophize as you see fit. In your defense, I must say it is odd, an...

This is correct. The whole point being, of course.......don’t act on that maxim. The maxim could very well be agent A’s subjective principle formulati...

Dunno what to tell ya, bud. I figured the text would come across the screen consistently no matter the device, but maybe not. I’m on an iPad so my des...

On reading/studying: Gotta wonder, doncha?? ———————- My reference can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5682/5682-h/5682-h.htm#link2H_4_00...

OK...found it, read it. It appears we’re mingling your conflict of duties with my singular C.I. Yours comes from The Metaphysics of Morals, mine comes...

Hang on......... Wrong book. Mine is from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, sometimes called Groundwork, yes. Kant, and Abbott, cal...

Correct. The maxim tells what to do. The imperative is just the form what to do either should (hypothetically) or must (categorically) take.

Gutenberg has the Meiklejohn translation, downloadable to Kindle for IPad or PC, with click-able chapters and sections. Lots easier if one has an idea...

I’m using the Gutenberg online tenth Thomas Kingsmill Abbott edition, 1895, IPad reference pagination is 535 of 1265. Translations may differ, but the...

While this is indeed the case, without the Kantian context.....the theoretical background....for such a daring assertorial, you’re not gonna get much ...

Only categorical imperatives serve as conditions for moral dispositions, hypotheticals are confined to general, that is, ethical, applications; No uni...

.....like the plague!!! “And how does that make you feel?” is of absolutely no interest to me, but “And how did you come to think that” tells me every...

Exhaustive.....perhaps not; but the two options are certainly adequate for conceptualizing that particular problem. Unless one does not accept the cla...

Good. ————— Better. ————— Best. Existence: an absolutely necessary empirical condition for human experience, because its negation admits an impossibil...

You said you cannot do as reason instructs, which implies a disability. Given that reason will not instruct the impossible as a moral judgement, and g...

OK.

Under the presumption that a traditionalist stands for those practicing philosophy before pragmatists and post-modernists, who would you consider a cu...

Hey...... First....the phrase “free will” is a mischaracterization of a distinctly human condition. We don’t have “free will”; we have a will that det...

In support of that particular passage only: “....I adopt this method of assuming freedom merely as an idea which rational beings suppose in their acti...

If you enjoy positive experiences and endure negative experiences, mustn’t you have active rational agency, insofar as your faculty of judgement appea...

No, not as stated, although most any empirical situation is susceptible to manufactured moral/ethical implications, re: the various and sundry renditi...

Not really, and maintain rational integrity. Acceptance is analytic, insofar as that which is accepted is self-sufficient (accepted because it’s a fac...

If facts are acceptable as necessarily the case under a given set of conditions......who cares whether or not we ought to believe them? Acceptance gra...

What: ......the manifestation of pure practical reason in rational agents, employed as a faculty of choice under the auspices of the fundamental human...

Sure...as in Rorty’s non-representationalist attempt to overthrow Kantian epistemology. ———————— There was a time when “knowledge” was perfectly adequ...

Yes. Never been a fan of ontology in and of itself, so.....an inclination to agree. It contradicts experience in general to deny the existence of that...

The problem with philosophy in general these days is......how to cope with technology. When the learned can actually see parts of what the brain is do...

No prob.

Thanks. I guess. Dunno how anything religious got into my simple interrogative, but I do have a very comfortable, very old and well-worn, armchair, I ...

When did it die?

Pre-linguistic children are not mentioned in my particular library. I doubt there’s anything I could learn from them. You know......they being not all...

Aye. Methinks ‘tis a mighty fine line betwixt conditions for and causality of.

Half the world thinks causality is a construct of pure reason, half the world thinks causality is an intrinsic property or attribute of Nature thus “e...

Close enough.

Problem is......no experience or possible experience, from which that kind of knowledge arises or may arise, will ever connect the concept of cause wi...

Judgements of experience, or judgements with empirical content, are synthetic, yes, but they have nothing to do with experience if their content be a ...

1.)......is more self-regulation than self-legislation, because your example shows merely inclination to obey extant legalities in the public domain, ...

A couple pages ago you mentioned Kantian self-legislation. Given that self refers to the specifically human subjective condition and legislation refer...

I was looking for respect (for law qua law) as the condition which facilitates our “immediate compliance”. What is this “other” you’re referring to?

Perfect. Or at least close enough. Now all that’s needed is.......why should it be accepted that

Perhaps it’s enough to say, if it had been clear, we’d have agreed on some of it, disagreed on some of it.

In a dialogue where the context has to do with the consideration of duty as a notion or as a principle, these two statements don’t say the same thing....

Principles are usually grounds or necessary conditions for law, or at least some form of rule. If duty is considered a principle, than it follows laws...

If one accepts the will as a moral determinant, than duty may serve as the notion that justifies those determinations. It is useless to authorize the ...

Breaking law is usually related to civil or otherwise administrative conditions, and the law remains unaffected. The consequence of breaking civil law...