To begin with the question of justice, I'm not that convinced that there really is any univocal understanding of 'modern' justice. I say this insofar ...
Nietzsche at least, wasn't anxious about death per se: he was anxious about deaths that did not sanctify life: "Many die too late, and a few die too e...
Really? A quote taken from somewhere else entirely with no relevance to the discussion is a supposed to... have relevance to the discussion? Yeah, nah...
Funnily enough, for Aristotle, who had neither the word nor concept of 'machine', slaves were what he called 'animate instruments' (ktema ti empsychon...
Quick note: it’s worth considering those ethical moments which follow from necessity: “why did you save the child from drowning?” “I couldn’t do other...
There are lots of models of ethics and responsibility that make no use of free will. Ancient ethics, to take one example (internally differentiated, i...
Without having followed the thread, one quick remark on emotion and evolution: emotion may well have developed as adaptive feature of our psychic live...
Don't really think that imagery is helpful or useful. The point is that free-will responds to a very specific problematic, and marks a massive transfo...
Nope. Bunch of mistranslated bullshit. You won't find freedom articulated with the will in any of Cicero's writings - the liberum voluntatis or arbitr...
That's about right, but things are complex. Arendt, for instance, fudges a bit Paul's role in the whole thing. She cites Paul as having 'discovered th...
I super like the idea of 'free won't', which has the merit of being able to be made sense of, unlike a certain 'free will'. Still, while I think that ...
Bataille tried this already. In any case no. The only properly atheist response to God is: 'what's that? Never heard of it; doesn't sound very interes...
Why? What warrants any of this? We did perfectly fine with any concept of 'will' for hundreds of years. It's hardly some primal datum of human experie...
No, I couldn't care less about God. That free will was invented as a theological solution to a theological conumdrum is taint enough. The problem, by ...
I would not conflate the people of HK with the people of China. While I can only speak for Beijing - I've not been outside the capital - the Chinese c...
For good measure, here's one last one from Albrecht Dihle's 1982 The Theory of the Will in Classical Antiquity: "It is generally accepted in the study...
Yes I can see how citing and quoting four authors (six, really, if you count Gilson and Brown) somehow becomes 'one or two' authors, while simultaneou...
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/harrowing-video-that-shocked-hong-kong-shows-cycle-of-escalating-violence-20190901-p52mv9.html "Black clad special f...
In response I'm just gonna whine a little bit: "The great scholar of late antiquity Peter Brown... points out that Augustine has been called the “inve...
I like how sources are 'whiny rhetoric'. While I suppose your completely baseless claims in which free-will is both logical and something innate and u...
If not being ignorant is contentious then I'll concede it. Until then, I've cited my sources in previous posts here. I'm not convinced in the meantime...
It's not contentious. It's what any minimally competent understanding of philosophical and etymological history would provide. Free-will had to be inv...
Funny how an 'innate understanding' had to be invented by theologians a couple of hundred years ago before which it was nowhere to be found. Of course...
My point is simply that the entire point of protests - or at least certain ones, and especially the ones taking place in HK right now - is to challeng...
Protests are a means by which law - and what motivates law - is challanged. Those who would prefer that protests are carnivals may as well join the ci...
I hope they riot until Carrie Lam's head is on a stick. Or more probably, until she flees to the mainland licking the boots of her autocratic overlord...
A quick and dirty way to understand determination and freedom together is freedom as self-determination. They'd be a bit to unpack here but one upshot...
There's an interesting short-circuit here isn't there? An actual possibility. A possibility whose status is - actual. A possibility which is not merel...
Sure we can. There's lots out there that has. But humans are stupid for the most part and like sticking to the tried and tired ways. It would be nice ...
Were philosophy able to do away once and for all with the dualisms of form and matter, substance and accident, essence and existence, it would for onc...
You tell me. If you think these distinctions, drawn by Augustine in different contexts, have any relevance to our discussion, you can explain their re...
Wrong. You can trace plenty of conceptual innovations back to Christian philosophy, and as lots of authors agree, free will is precisely one of them. ...
Whether or not he meant to reject it or not, that's what he effectively did, and that's what we were addressing. William Connolly's The Augustinian Im...
Or to quote from another source: "By attributing to the human mind (and hence the human person) the character of voluntary self-control and self-origi...
This is an attractive and pastoral (Nietzscheian) just-so story, but it is also has the distinct disadvantage of being wrong, or at least wholly misle...
You're right I need to attribute it to hysteric Christians and hysteric late (unnamed, uncited) Platonists, each about a 100 or so years apart from ea...
Not at all. It follows freely from her explicit arguments that those who read either as employing a notion of 'free will' are imposing anarchronisms f...
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