I'm not talking about hedonism or egoism (there are strong arguments both are functionally incoherent as ethical systems) at all. Someone is not actin...
I'm not much of a fan of Whitehead. His process philosophy is too vague and consciousness centric. It dismisses the presence of many concrete states u...
I'm saying, in the case of the masochist, what you are calling "bodily pain" does not involve "ethical pain." Their body might hurt, but they do not e...
Indeed... but Dennett clearly isn't just doing that, for he also talks about the presence of our experiences. "Illusion" is clearly trying to get at s...
That's actually a pretty good description the mistake everyone is making. If we know about consciousness, then our tool is not flawed, at least for th...
I know... but he also insists people have experiences. The "illusion" he's talking about is really the notion of consciousness in a separate realm, ra...
I'm throwing out the distinction. Any "mental" pain involves a body that hurts, a body that responses to the environment. When the body hurts, "mental...
Only if you are equating the (physical/mental) pain/joy of ethics with that of a an act which injures or puts force upon the body. In the case of the ...
Of those list positions Searle would probably be the closest. Thought Dennett is close too, if you pay attention not what he’s talking about rather th...
In the sense you would most probably use interact, probably sort of yes and no. You would probably use interact to mean something along the lines of “...
Not only do we "know" objects though subjectivity, but objects only have significance in subjectivity. Any object is in relation with all others, no m...
I'd say the opposite is true: the maschoist feels pleasure upon harming themselves. There's nothing abstract about. It's a physical response of their ...
Things "independent of cognition" aren't posed to be outside of the meaning of experience though. The direct realist takes orthodox Kant and extends i...
No they aren't, John. We have those words for exactly this situation: pointing out something which is not an existing state, something the passage of ...
It's in the section I quoted: God is supposedly the thing which undergirds existence. Here he's still treating like the presence of absence of evidenc...
Apologies, I transposed letters. For sure, that's my problem with your argument. You still treat God as "something," as a force of the "beyond." You s...
Not in our world, for sure. But both yourself and Walhon still treat God as it is something which might or might not be, a presence to "believe" in so...
Exactly, so called "universals" do not exist, but they are true. Wayfarer still treats God as an existing being, like the fundamentalist theist or ath...
I've never been impressed with Nawaz's approach because he treats it as if change in Muslim culture is to be driven by what Westerners say and demand ...
That's the very reason to say God does not exist. Or rather cannot exist. The significance of such value is the infinite, something beyond the whim an...
The Left in the sense of the political force which has the lives of working class at its heart. Nowadays the Left appeals to the rich/elite/comfortabl...
Pretty much. Sartre's philosophy is a reaction against essentialism. The motivation is to attack the idea people are "naturally" anything, such they a...
I'm neither a Heidegger expert nor a fan (I think he worships the idea of human experience and certain traditions associated with it, rather than resp...
Sartre is, like Schopenhauer, interested in the reason for being more so than states of the world. Human freedom is a measure of how logic cannot defi...
I am always myself. Where I do these begin or end? We can't really say where. One does not live to experience their conception. Nor does one experienc...
I don't miss Kant's point about the thing-in-itself verses the world as representation, I'm pointing out is a grave error. One of the biggest in Weste...
The problem with using a priori is it takes an empirical state (us, in the world, in each moment) and tries to turn it into the infinite. Will is idle...
I don't think there is much ambiguity at all. All those words are really just saying: "and then was thing" in a manner which does little more than the...
I'm not sure if it ever reaches the level of a dilemma. To me it seems like the Epicureans are engaged in some wistful imagination. In their "wisdom" ...
Well, it's effective insofar as pleasure becomes present. The Epicureans are aiming to produce pleasure through the value and significance of the past...
I think it's wrong though. Pessimism as described there is just another example of "finding meaning in the large." A case of saying "there is no perfe...
I don't think he does per se. He's too close to the rhetoric of reductive materialism. For him it's a matter of clearly asserting the non-existence of...
I don't think it's insight into the female soul, more like a rant against being connected and responsible to anyone. TGW is right about the social exp...
I don't think we can, at least not in this sense it's proponents want. "Qualia" is more a less a placeholder for living the moment of consciousness. S...
I'd speculate (and it is only that) so for a lot of animals, if only because they don't talk in terms of sex. If someone doesn't use the category of s...
A pitiful response. You are factually wrong here. Someone's body is not language used to talk to them. A baby being born is not a statement of their s...
You can't possibly know that. The requirement of hearing animal thoughts is impossible. "Denial of nature" is entirely a lingistical. It's about what ...
No-one is born with any sex. It's a category of language we use, we apply to someone with a body. People are no doubt born with biology, with a body w...
He's committed statistic sorcery by catergoy error. Here he is treating transition (biological) as if it were THE answer to all of a person's dissatis...
That's a lie, Agustino. The point about the "good" (sub specie aeternitatis) of the serial killer is that the state expresses an infinite meaning, in ...
That's still metaphysics though, just those of ethics, namely that there is never an excuse for immorality. It's always committed for no reason at all...
In ethics, there is no "try." One does or does not. We can't strive to perfection if we fail. That's just an excuse: "But I tried not to commit adulte...
Agustino is mutilating Spinoza here. Sub specie aeternitas refers to the infinite, that which is eternally true (or rather: that which is true regardl...
The statement of someone who lacks conviction and is still looking towards philosophy and myth to provide it. Virtue cannot be taught, only enacted. N...
That's not what I mean by "anti-traditionalist." The point is Hume denies the "sacred," whether conservative or progressive in ethics. He considers th...
Bleh, it' just making my insides sag and knot. It's the stubborn offenders too; I can't be bothered to object to their nonsense. They'll just put thei...
That's never been the issue. Hume's philosophy is what we might term "anti-traditionalist." With respect to epistemology, Hume's philosophy denies not...
I am the one imagining the monster am I not? Others are imagining the monster near me. I am the one in the room when any such monster is seeking to ea...
I'm not sure about that. Is possibility of something is same as its existence? Does the squirrel need to be there when he looks down for it to be true...
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