Racism is an expression of an economic system which leaves particular racial or ethnic groups economically disposed. It is not cause of oppression, bu...
Yes. Here the point is being made against this form of gender (and sex category) discourse. The point is to remove the automatic assumption and prescr...
I'm not dealing in questions. I'm commenting on what both your accounts are missing and why you keep stumbling over questions of determinism and indet...
Such analysis is doomed to failure becasue you are treating moments as if they all together in one moment of a linear timeline. To this question there...
As stated here, I side with neither (or both), for they are both wrong (and right). The determinist is right because what ever happens in the future w...
TGW is smuggling in the future perspective there: he knows the artifact came into being in 1966, so he is aware that in 1955 it was true the artifact ...
For the realist, it is not the quantifiable time at stake, but rather the moment of the past. The states of the world, which we sometimes talk about, ...
You are confusing the causality of many of our thoughts with being logically derived. We have many ideas caused by our perceptions. Our body is that t...
More like ideas (meaning) are so regardless of perception (and existing states) and they do not exist. Plato's forms - that which is like existing thi...
You don't answer the question though. All you state is "happiness," "perfection" or "expanding ponential"." In your arguments you hardly ever talk abo...
It's your obsession with perfection and then it's supposed demonstration through your arguments. Hanover's point is you use your arguments to proclaim...
Indeed. Which is what makes your argument absurd. Hume's arguments about ethics do not rely on his radical scepticism at all. You are confusing an und...
Embarrassing, Agustino. Now you are saying that Hume's ethical position is a subset of of his radical skepticism, while trying to maintain that radica...
You are talking about a time "before the fall" though. The story itself does so too. Upon the eating form the Tree of Knowledge , humans and/or the wo...
I go even further than that: we are frequently in control of many external circumstances too, as the decisions we take affect the world. And this is w...
Which is constituted by various events as they occur. Do you not realise how this renders your "hypothetical" with the exact problem I described? How ...
I do think that question has much to do with original sin. In the face of the world we have limited control (i.e lacking the power to fix everything) ...
Then it would never of us, Agustino. We are not timeless. We begin, change and end. To say freedom is timeless is to put its expression outside humani...
That one. You treat it as if Hume takes a position a position we can't trust anything about ethics. This is not true. He merely identifies what is pre...
You claimed Hume's had radical scepticism towards ethical truths when he doesn't. More importantly, as you repeat now, you are treating ethical expres...
Which makes your responses in this discussion outright embarrassing. You misrepresented the relationship of Hume's thought to ethics, you committed th...
The ground of possibility assumes that something must come in an act as the foundation for the emergence of possibility. It takes possibility to be a ...
Don't let Agustino's incomplete analysis fool you. Reason is always involved in the question of ethics, namely, in thinking about and respecting the l...
The issue runs deeper than merely thinking that the infinite runs prior to the finite. It goes to the how of how much you respect God as real in (acos...
That's not what I said. The meaning of the body, it logical expression, is eternal. Spinoza shows the difference between meaning and existence, which ...
That's saying the infinite is present before the finite, Agustino. Finite terms. It's nonsense if you are talking about the infinite. For sure... but ...
I know that. My point is it an oxymoron. Logic is timeless. To say it is prior or afterwards is incoherent. you are applying finite terms to the infin...
That's nonsensical. God is timeless. The infinite cannot be prior or afterwards. It only IS. God doesn't exist, as God is not finite. Logic is not a p...
Careless, Agustino. I never said that we didn't feel infinite. We (well, some of us) do that all the time. I do that all the time, I might go as far t...
This is what I was talking about in the other thread: the notion the world (including human life) is inherently worthless because it is not perfect. I...
You are missing the point. When the interest in empire building wanes, the actions which would horde resources for oneself, and so prevent other power...
And that provides for their lives, which makes all the difference. In an established society and growing, were there is an excess of economic roles, t...
It was, though no-one liked to talk about it. "Ahistorical" in the sense that we are actually interested in considering them people and talking about ...
Not if there is no work available or that work can't pay regular bills. Being motivated to clean toilets all day is useless, at least in terms of your...
More like a significant underclass of people that weren't talked about in polite society. Indeed... but you aren't offering that. You are talking abou...
That's economically driven situation. Our economies have changed such that those sort jobs are not available or being replaced by technology. The blam...
Laughable. (1), (2) are not new. Empires have always been about those. (2) has been made available to many people in the West because of their economi...
That's nonsense. The question at hand wasn't whether people were behaving badly, but rather whether that behaviour was responsible for social collapse...
Utter falsehood. You do think them worthless. Without the divine, humanity is scum. That's your position. The notion you've been struggling with ever ...
"Moral decay" is a useless measure for exactly that reason. It doesn't actually name anything that's happening in society. It's post-hoc blaming of th...
His primary concern is actually overcoming the worthlessness of humanity. The praise of original sin here is no coincidence. Agustino is looking at th...
Shouting out all over the place that a small but greater percentage of Muslims is not an open discussion. It's fear mongering with no benefit to the t...
Absolutely. In the present context of the Western media, that would do nothing but stir-up anti Muslim sentiment. The public gains nothing by having t...
Not for those already born. They're stuck with their lives no matter how much anyone says no one else ought to be born. The direction this discussion ...
I was going to, but then I got rather busy and haven't had the time to go through and take apart everything. In a few weeks I might have time. The tri...
From an anti-natalist point of view this is just confusing. The position makes its case against life precisely by avoiding such comparisons. For the a...
This is an absurd question because it never happens. The relief of suffering is only a feeling in moments where someone has suffered. No-one can reliv...
Yes... if the circumstances are such that the law-in-question is unjust. And yes, the point is to remove the power of the law, else we end-up with a s...
I'm arguing causality is ridgidly determative. The future is ridgid because there is one outcome which occurs. My point is this ridgidness is concurre...
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