It's not just the way the debate has been shaped; It's also about who people are. To say: "the two genders have different but complementary roles that...
No, it doesn't. Discrimination is not dependent of what's behaviourally normative. It's an act of denying someone value or power (sometimes there are ...
Those are bigoted. In each case, the heterosexual relationship is given superior value which makes it deserving marriage. Unlike those deficient gay p...
Indeed. And they are exactly right. This is not merely political rhetoric. It's description of social relations to our policies, ideologies and values...
For sure... but I was talking about the values and policy which oppose same-sex marriage. The point being that there is judgment and discrimination wi...
More than that: to oppose is to actively call for gay relationships to be considered lesser. This is what is considered inhuman. The issue is not mere...
That's a good encapsulation of dualism's inability to take the existence of experience seriously. The notion that experiences and thoughts exist, not ...
Such a description contains expectation that a monad is an account of everything else. Here the point a monad is distinct from the divisible. It's its...
In terms of how "mind" and "matter" are are often used in philosophical discussions, Spinoza's Substance is neither. Those terms are, respectively, us...
That’s doesn’t resolve anything. Turning John into the police and getting your money back doesn’t take away his betrayal or your inability to control ...
The reason might be "why" you tend to the source of the pain, but it is not the act of tending to it. It's only a story. You say you were destined to ...
The preference itself is the choice. No doubt we can have no control over our choices in this sense. That would entail predetermining what we do. Free...
Acfions initiated by mental states and preferences sounds suspiciously like choices. You seem to want gave control of choice itself, as if we were fre...
That's an outright lie. The fact he took your money and has used it make a purchase, which he is now rubbing in your face, is exactly what matters. It...
So you don't desire that John be someone else than a person who steals your money? What I'm saying doesn't just hold for a romantic context. So says t...
Which is why I have no qualm about saying jealousy is perhaps worse than envy. If envy is wanting yourself to be something you aren't, jealousy is wan...
That's still ownership, Agustino. If someone or the world takes it away, it seen as a violation of what someone's property. The anti-thesis of intimac...
I can only be quick because I have to go out, but there is the "ownership" inherent within you postion. In someone sleeping with another, what is supp...
Entirely incoherent. If the world is different, my experience aren't illusionary-- I still experience a tree in front of my house-- there's simply mor...
You said it. Love is meant to be eternal-- defined and true regardless of what's happening in the world. A story of ownership, where people considered...
Far more than no guts to think otherwise: doing so is unethical. An image of another regardless of themselves, to a point where they are considered ou...
Ones concerned with relationships between people (finite beings) rather than ownership and an imagined value of a possession. The honest ones. An eter...
The idea of "saving" oneself has a strong hold. To think one is taking action to prevent death or become meaningful is incredibly powerful. It has an ...
That's a pretty clearly falsehood. You don't merely hope for a continuation. I do that too-- despite being an hard atheist who doesn't think there is ...
On the contrary, to ask that is perfectly fine. The world left to future generations is an important question. Who will be and the environment which i...
It's worth pointing out that distance inevitably means time. Not a mediated travel (e.g. the sun travels 8 or so minutes through space to get to Earth...
Always, in the sense that anyone arguing a postion as wisdom or ethics is concerned with politics. They want to make the world into something, even if...
Agustino understands that to be the liberal dogma of the modern West. For him tradition is meant to instructive and dictatorial. It's meant to be the ...
Mysticism is more or less an attempt to put Being in experience. Not the symbolic representation of some part of the world or logic (e.g. nothingness,...
In a sense, yes. All states of existence are physical. I'm not a reductive physicalist. The world is more than any description of any state of existen...
Strictly speaking, the sorts of things he is talking about do not exist at all. Rather, the are logical expressions. Existence (the physical) means in...
It's deeper than that. We value people in the world, no matter their actions. Sin needs no forgiveness nor retribution (or as I would say, "Cannot be ...
Instrumentality is a conflict between the necessity of being and the contingency of the world. It runs deeper than being upset at having to make a par...
People's actions with their penises are most certainly relevant. The issue with "natural law" is it mistake things for ethics. For a penis just to exi...
Yet Heidegger still resists. He's not content to be anxious or present without anxiety over the changes in the world. Authenticity is amounts to getti...
I think it's understood as a duty though-- for your own damn sake, you will love your lovers and friends. You will rescue yourself from the ignominy o...
The trouble is we easily become obsessed with its power, to a point where "wisdom" becomes an exercise in just how much we can deny ourselves and thos...
Spinoza's point is exactly the opposite: we can understand unity. Rather than approached by understanding many things, it's a different instance of kn...
I view that as a leftover of the stories of transcendent myth. Under those traditions, and the ones Heidegger longs for, human projects are understood...
That's to miss Spinoza's major point: Substance doesn't have unity, it is unity. It's what cannot be captured by giving accounts different modes or st...
Cogitans was never considered part of causality. It's logical meaning: that which is true regardless of causality. He "privileges" extensa because log...
Spinoza removes the dualism of substances. For him human minds (i.e. our existing thoughts, feelings and experiences) are extensa. They are included w...
Spinoza only rejects libertarian free will. Causality is never pre-constrained to any particular outcome for Spinoza. Any state of the world might com...
"White supremacist patriarchy" is descriptive not causal. Certain gender and racial disparities themselves constitute "white supremacist patriarchy," ...
The emptiness of "who is a feminist" or "true feminism" also comes out in the conflicts over "man-hating", "extremists" or "TERFs." People want to say...
I'm not so sure. Any instance planning occurs in the present, so I'd say it would be encompassed with pathe. I think the planning paradox is an illusi...
You've misunderstood my point then. I agree people are trying to increase their own social status, either in terms of a social movement (e.g. trying t...
That's the classical liberal myth. A just society is, supposedly, found in when everyone is entirely equivalent: the "free everyman" without a face. T...
I use "masses" as a descriptive of the many, not as a reference to the lower classes. Many of the "classical liberals masses" are so called "elites." ...
Indeed, that's the point. Status is not, as you are imagining, something irrelevant to the question of social justice. You are treating like it's just...
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