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I cannot see how morality comes prior to cultural indoctrination. And in fact, I cannot see the arrival to ethical existence prior to the ability of t...

I'm following.

I can agree upon that. Let's leave the individual's influence on culture on the margin for now, may become relevant later.

Sports Illustrated has been officially lame for decades.

Hmmmmm...I dont know if culture is so much , determined by individuals, as much as that it is determined by an intentional conformity to the interests...

I don't necessarily agree. I believe it is an entity beyond the individual. Just try to change culture through your purest conviction. Won't happen, n...

I would amend this position by assuming that it isn't so universal. That is, not all evaluation of primitive thought/belief are primarily acquired fro...

Why, of cours3!!!

@"creativesoul" Let us approach it as a live dialectic, a proven methodology, you ask the questions and I will answer. It is an experiment, so it won'...

Yes I do

@"creativesoul" Seriously, it's not just a joke.

This is the best time to disagree.

We are on same page, same sentence.

Np. It's flatulence. Ok. Let's get back on topic. We only need to satisfy those categories insofar as they satisfy us, and I think you and I both know...

:lol:

How can we avert the Notion of: man as the measure of all things?

Glad to oblige (I find it to be a fascinating topic). The short answer: In the dialectical methodology, logic is not static and finite, but is in infi...

It's the human robots that you gotta be real scared of.

Everything up to "the capacity to develop, achieve or succeed as a whole". At this point, if everyone had proceeded into their "own potential broadene...

I think this thread would've got more hits if it was titled: Marijuana for Philosophy .

Right? Thank God for the free world.

I'm all for social anxiety. If everyone in society smoked the fine herbals, and it amplified their anxiety, they would be forced to live with it, or d...

Haha...nice! Would you say such a presupposition is more a matter of immediate instinct/intuition, or rational reflection/deliberation?

This is a very important point. In basic terms, for the primitive human, the world has meaning in one particular or another. The introduction of langu...

No, you are right... Cameras freeze three dimensional fields of color onto two dimensional a surface. ...so, yes, you are wrong.

Don't mind that, I was just feeling out my present interlocutor - you.

No dispute, here. I just meant to clarify your position. I would say, if there is a primitive morality, it comes well after primitive thought/belief. ...

You are a writing machine. I admit, it is a poor choice of words, but you get what I mean. The a priori/a posterior distinction has its merits in expl...

It is only immoral in the eyes of the state. This does not necessarily hold true to the opponent of state law. A criminal has every right to consider ...

I don't know if it's been pointed out yet, but if illegality equates to immorality, then the state is the ultimate authority when it comes to determin...

What is it that assigns phenomenological significance to my immediate sensory experience? The mind. Without thought/belief to mediate my raw unintelli...

That is precisely what a multi-varied analysis would prevent. Btw. Such a hardcore physicalist as you shouldn't mention the phenomenological, all phen...

Intentionality and “free-will” from a neurodevelopmental perspective

Not when we're talking about it. You are getting religious.

Don't let me get off topic. Let's experiment. If we establish (not really) an incontestable premise in thought/belief, then let's just pretend, how wo...

Versatile approach.

Well, to be looking at it is something quite different from overly simplifying, despite how difficult it may appear to be.

I think that is overly-simplified, and I'm the king of oversimplification, just ask @"S".

You modest sunavabitch! :grin:

If anything we are discussing can be accused of having a priori significance, it is the notion of thought/belief. 8n relation to the tabula rasa of th...

Word is born my man. I can learn a lot from you. :up:

So it is a more primitive morality, more closely related to the autonomic processes of the nervous system, whereas a more sophisticated mode of morali...

I understand what you are saying. The cosmological and neurological are type of thought belief too, as in they have zero a priori significance. Though...

Can you give me an example? If I could, I would prefix ? term with the term "the". :joke:

Please, point them out. I'm ignorant to them.

Is that Spock logic: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth" ?

In the creativesoul sense, I might argue that socio-cultural factors stand as the primary ethical influences on the thinking/believing individual. In ...

What can you agree to?

I would agree. This would represent the bedrock upon which all manner of conceptual edifice could be constructed. But it seems a bit idealistic. I don...

We could, say, restrict the entire conversation on the source of morality to ethical terms. But that would rule out all reference to the authority of ...