Well this might happen More often than you think. Governments often make many moral decisions on behalf of their constituency: gay marriage, voting ri...
Unfortunately this subject gets caught in a very tight gap between those who take a firm view on presentism and those who don’t. Of course like so man...
This was moved from “Why do you think the US is going into war with Iran.” in regard to it being necessary for a President to come up through the rank...
I’ve just been reading about the intellectual wars during the fifties over Communism and McCarthyism: the blacklisting of people, the breakup of frien...
I’m confused by the position you hold here about death, or appear to hold to me, and the position you hold with @"TheMadFool" on “The Simplest Thing” ...
I would agree with this. If activists do discuss philosophy it seems to be at a fundamental level and usually extends to a broad and vague idea of Mar...
It thinks it’s more true to say there’s only a small vein of culture that’s interested in experimentation. Which is why you find it hard to find a pub...
I’ve put up thus quote and source because I know you prefer to see arguments put into a form you value. Hopefully this does. I myself find it hard to ...
I think this has gone off the rails a bit from what I meant in my post. What I was getting at was the charges against a Trump that he was ignorant and...
Yes, and to remind us about how exciting life can be, especially in a consumer, conformist society. But it’s harder to do this on an intellectual leve...
Art is risky and exciting, as it should be. Which is why the whole moral aspect mentioned in the OP is a problem; “ Autonomism is impermissible; Moral...
But the problem was the photos were made public in exhibitions and books. Edit: however, they had faith in their mother and father and as far as I kno...
Sally Mann us another interesting example of morals and art. She took photos of her young children, most of them naked because they were taken swimmin...
The general consensus here seems to be no. Edit: but what’s a capable politician, one that can win the Democratic nomination or one that serves his co...
I tend to agree with you. Everything’s pretty much set in stone. I don’t come here expecting much except to play with a few thoughts that occur to me....
I understand that maths is a description of reality. But the reality interpreted by maths existed before us and apart from us. It’s something we have ...
An artist can create a piece that’s about art, ways of looking at the world, or he can create a piece about the subject. Sometimes the subject is not ...
I hadn't realised that controversy was the point of being here. Nor did I make a claim, I asked a question. I was alluding to the idea of past, presen...
This is a problem, isn’t it? Things of the imagination are not real. Real things are temporal. Only unreal things can exist externally and because the...
It was the word I was unaware of, not the practice. Radical autonomism holds that it makes no sense to evaluate artworks ethically. It is rejected by ...
I’ve never heard of the Autonomism either. But the idea that art need have no morality is probably related to statements made by artists in the past. ...
If passenger ‘B’ (trackside) sees the light pulse on the left hit before the light pulse on the right does that mean the pulse on the left is the pres...
Of course. But does that mean you never reach a point where you think the conclusions you’ve made are correct and you’ll act on them. Or do we sit aro...
That was a mistake of mine to begin with Socrates and has created a false idea of where I was going. I had meant that everything already exists, like ...
I had contemplated the idea of things that exist and always have, and things we invent. It seems to me that when we invent we apply the knowledge we h...
I don’t necessarily see fate as deterministic. By that I mean I don’t think our life is already set up for us with an intention or objective. When I s...
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