I don't think the SC will necessarily do what the GOP wants. But if there was unambiguous support for Trump's claims from the party leadership, togeth...
The nice thing about appointments for life is that once someone is on the SC, they effectively have their own powerbase and are independent from whoev...
The perverse thing here is that via the logic that fulfilling your contractual obligations is moral, the CEO can put morality on it's head by simply r...
We could have started doing any of those things at any time, and of course plenty of people do try to do their part. However many of the issues you na...
Space exploration isn't really something that requires a continual rise though. In a way, it would actually benefit from a shift away from continual g...
Lazors! We have humans traveling in space right now, so I don't really understand the argument that it's impossible. It'd take very long to get to any...
That depends on what you refer to as causes and effects. If you're talking about events as they're understood in everyday language, then yes, a single...
Your phrasing here already assumes that consciousness and the ability to perceive aren't physical, hence they need to he created by the physical. But ...
This is slightly tangential, but the laws that humans make are not like the laws of nature. The laws of nature do not "constrain the universe". They d...
But whence the web? That is, we'd have to suppose that mutually observing observers just are, without any temporal process. But this isn't true for an...
What about the perceiver themselves? If everything is physical and If to be physical is to be perceived by something, how is there something to percei...
What seems to be missing from your view is that - at least according to a materialistic view - what you describe as "intelligence", be it in a virus o...
Why not? Clearly we can predict how viruses act generally to for medical purposes. From a physical perspective, a virus is of course very complex, but...
What all definitions do is define things in a certain context. That's why you'll generally find multiple meanings for a given word in a dictionary. De...
Why would I do this if I have no purpose in mind? I don't see how the result could be useful. But by adding excess kinetic energy, you obviously chang...
It would be useful to first know why you want to define free will. That is, for what kind of consideration is it necessary to establish whether or not...
The question I'd ask is whether this still is a market. Common definitions of markets are very vague and generalised, but they're usually distinguishe...
Stats for which country? That the middle class is, broadly speaking "in trouble" has been a common theme for years. Whether or not the middle class is...
But that doesn't seem related to the freedom of the market. Or, rather, since I don't really know in what sense a market could be free, the proper sta...
I think the mobility issue now is less that people cannot move upwards from middle class, but that you're more likely to move down than up and, once d...
Well, what I argue is that it's problematic to make the distinction between yourself and others in this way. Neither the sentence "others must be more...
No, I am referring to the general idea of thinking about human interactions as governed by opposing, atomistic intentions such as self-interest vs. al...
The whole idea of "absolute altruism" or "true selfishness" is somewhat strange. It seems to presuppose an atomistic view of both persons and their in...
The question is why you'd think freedom, in a social sense, is the absence of rules. For one, the very nature of a rule is that it assumes you're free...
Freedom is rather central to our moral systems though, so I'd argue more than just commerce is at stake. Is it? Doing nothing is already a value judge...
This usual conception is bourgeois in origin though, and it shows in the way it frames social relations in commercial terms. That is as a system where...
I recognise this is tongue-in-cheek, but I think this isn't entirely absurd. Or rather, it hints at a real problem with defining freedom as the absenc...
Kant doesn't talk about benefits or disbenefits when establishing the groundwork for the CI. And it's also important to consider that the CI is not a ...
In that case, you have found a contradiction. The maxim that everyone should marry who they choose, including children, includes a contradiction becau...
But an ideology never actually has complete control over your thoughts. Ideologies don't permanently turn people into zombies. The abstract ability to...
The German authorities could just arrest the King, apparently he likes Bavaria a lot. Could imprison him in Neuschwanstein until he repents, or drown ...
The core idea behind the CI is to dissolve the boundary between yourself and "others" by imagining yourself to simultaneously be every other person. O...
It's sounds a bit paradoxical, true. But the relation between the categorical imperative and freedom is not a means - ends relationship as with hypoth...
But acting in accordance with the CI is something you do, for yourself. It's not framed as a divine mandate you have to follow. Kant invites you to us...
Yes, but only you know what your maxims actually are, and you must decide for yourself what is and is not the right decision. There is no higher autho...
The categorical imperative does not account for cultural differences. It's fundamentally a personal stabdard, it's supposed to help you make your own ...
The categorical imperative deals with maxims, not individual choices. The most obvious maxim to satisfy the categorical imperative seems to be that, b...
The usage of the word illusion in this context strikes me as strange. What is it an illusion of? If the experience is "real" but doesn't involve any q...
I don't see these similarities. Where are the brown shirts, where is the blood and soil rhetoric? Who are the people singled out as aliens for their e...
Well, I think the strategy that I think is faulty is outlined in this paragraph here: For one, while accurate for the US, several European countries h...
As much as @"StreetlightX" striding around on the world's highest horse to berate everyone annoys me, I think he has a point here. You're correct when...
I don't see why this is the only way to resolve the conflict. One might simply accept that there is no "absolute" authority on moral question, because...
That depends of course on just what you consider the popular notion of morality to be. Two observations I'd make in that regard are: a) morality usual...
Why should this prediction be believed this time around, after it has failed so many times before? The presumed population "explosion" has in fact alr...
Letters are a much later step. Language developed as spoken language first, and that's what you're thinking in. First of all pictures are abstractions...
There is a type of word that has "inherent" meaning, onomatopoeia. Similarly, hieroglyphic writing has "inherent" meaning because you understand it us...
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