I did say I am relieved of my moral obligation immediately upon discovery of false representation of the predicate under which the promissory proposit...
From deontological metaphysics, the key is understanding there is a freely determinant will that both prescribes a law and subjects itself to it. For ...
What counts as being moral is the tripartite correspondence between that which is freely determined as good in itself, the will which authorizes an ac...
True enough. But a thing has happened. Would you concur with my description, or conceptual itemization, of the existential dependency of the promise i...
Ok. Promise has it, sure. Promise is existentially dependent on some a priori abstract concepts the understanding thinks as belonging to it necessaril...
That has been the case since its inception, and the literature is abundant both pro and con. Skipping all the theoretics, the bottom line is.....the s...
Maybe not within the context of promise, but you’d argue that one ought to kee a promise if the context was about “ought”. I mean, one ought to keep h...
A promise, in and of itself, or any affirmative token with a moral interest, regardless of it’s object, implies something a whole lot more fundamental...
Yes, there ought to be a garden; that is all the consistency between a promise made and an obligation to it, by the same person, means. Whether or not...
Nope, it isn’t. It’s philosophy, which presents an inherently logical possibility, which experience will either confirm, deny or not address at all. —...
The first is true, the second theoretically true, depending on one’s metaphysical bent. But there’s also a third, in which Hume never said no ought ca...
You know...the human complement system: Yes, no; left, right; front, back; up,down.....mores, taboos. But you think of a taboo more as a negative more...
FYI, of purely general interest. This struck me most: “....a survey of 73 professors with a PhD in philosophy and primary area of specialization in et...
Excellent question, and well-thought. There are two kinds of interests. An interest which is the object of desire is an interest of empirical reason a...
I’m ok with that. Mores being a form of social etiquette, or an unwritten code of public conduct, as opposed to, say, taboos. The consequence of viola...
I go by the Lincoln-Douglas style. I take the first negative in opposition to whatever first positive I’m responding. The correct second positive repl...
I guess I’m a moral relativist in the sense you gave here. I’m pretty sure I have different moral interests than many others hereabouts, and we all ge...
The judicial system is an administrative code of conduct, in which rules or laws have a consequence associated with them. It works well to supervise p...
True, for the morality of the individual is already determined, so what is good for him is given. The differences in already determined moralities of ...
Superficially, man landing on the moon is empirically provable, carrying the implication of necessary truth in the statement. To say one should not mu...
No. I’m sure of what I think. I know I’m not self-contradictory, but I certainly could be just plain wrong because I’m missing some experience which w...
I would have left out right and wrong, but otherwise, well said. The sense of “good” already contains right or wrong in it for the moral agent, and on...
It always does, when opinions are the primary source in a dialectic. No conflicting statements implies subjective infallibility, but otherwise normal ...
An undeveloped albeit intrinsic quality present at birth. No. I’m saying I can Reason with respect to emotion when it’s called for. Feelings are not c...
Nahhh....I ain’t doin’ that. No matter how I did it, somebody could take exception. Especially you, methinks. It’s a fine line between truth being out...
Quickly....... Perception: real objects are passed through the senses in order that we understand we are being affected by something outside us; Apper...
Your irrelevancy is misplaced. I reject the thesis because reason doesn’t think. I do. I am the thinker. By means of reason, imbued in me as a conditi...
Your proclivity of conjoining disparate conceptions is off-putting. I understand thought, I understand belief. I understand thought is possible withou...
A judicial system can protect humanity from itself, as well. Can the judicial fully contain the moral, or does morality need to be a system of its own...
On reification: There’s as much distance between reason and instinct, as there is between apperception (by the mind) and perception (by the senses). I...
A theory predicated of internally consistent, non-contradictory tenets has truth as its possibility, regardless of its coherence. A theory can be perf...
Rationality belongs to a biological entity with the capacity to reason by means of conceptions, in accordance with logical laws of his own invention, ...
No. Pure reason is empty of empirical content. The bedroom is empirical but incidental to the color, which cannot be related to the physical paint bec...
Nope, not joking. Being or becoming is already present in transcendental reductive epistemology. Working with what is, beats working with how somethin...
Yep. Not to mention, coherence is not a condition of a valid theory. Just because it doesn’t make sense to someone, or even a group of someone’s, does...
The final words on Dr. Hook’s “Cover of the Rolling Stone”, the way it was said....fits that comment to a gold-plated tee: ahhh, that’s just beautiful...
You mean your philosophy is more right, right? A theory predicated on logic, internally consistent, and non-contradictory....can be wrong? —————— No, ...
Nor do I. Direct perception, sure. No apprehension of external things is direct. The external thing has to become a representation. Plus a whole bunch...
Our context is always restricted to thinking about things. What could possibly occur to us except as thought? Phenomena may very well exist regardless...
Out of bounds. What I said must relate to what you said. You spoke of sources relevant to human thinking which means my response has to be relevant to...
I think that’s how he uses the word, yes. But it works just as well for me, when I say it is a rigid designator which must refer to, or represents, on...
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