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In my opinion, it would be something that is generally agreed upon within the scientific community. Given that conventional scientific methodology dir...

Atheists generally make the same mistake as the classic empiricist, they are intellectially comitted to the law of contradiction, to the point that th...

Your are mistaking responsibility for recognition. What you are talking about is an aesthetic assessment, the part about "conditioning" is only a matt...

In other words, although morality stems from biology, biology cannot adequately explain morality, without going further into an unscientific (scientif...

Excellent point. It is important we never forget that we are only discussing a perspective, and not some final or absolute truth Nevertheless, the rel...

I would say that free will plays a large part in aesthetic assessment and the production of human artifice. In aesthetic assessment, the free will cor...

Caprice: a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior. (Meaning not a conscious choice, hence no responsibility.) That is what the caption fr...

Cortical and limbic interactions in the development of self-regulation and free-will

:up: nice analysis As I understand the postmodern trend, it's always moving on to something else...never resolving anything

I feel it necessary to introduce the notion that existence is irrational. There is no necessary correspondence between my immediate existence and our ...

And we can't find an adequate identification, because that would require an adequate explanation of what what and where they are.

If nothing else, we inherit a specific, historically embedded morality from the society into which we are born, we which must take into account.

If true, then there is no room for individual responsibility in regards to the ethical.

That is a matter of opinion whether or not knowledge proceeds from the universal to the particular, or the reverse. I would surmise it is a combinatio...

The processes of ethical judgement do indeed occur in the mind, but the source of morals cannot be adequately explained if we ignore the context (infl...

How is that necessary? It is equally possible that the "bunch of cells" is merely a conceptual fabrication created by conscioussness.

I had no intentions of shocking, but I'm glad I did.

Science provides only analytical data. The interpretation of what that data means is not science, it is speculation. Speculation is necessary for form...

I think we agree on this point.

Less causes More causes

Very interesting. I'm gonna have to research it a little more.

I agree, it is a foolish mistake that is commonly made by seemingly intelligent people.

Thanks. I'm happy to see that their are some who have the courage to answer questions clearly and directly. So, it is correct to say social animals ha...

I have always found it counterintuitive that a biological organism would naturally evolve a neurological mechanism (viz. emotion) that would override ...

The assumption that models are (or can be) identical to what they are modeling is the biggest mistake that philosophers make. And in fact, much of wha...

I would say it can be considered of no practical importance to us, because in aesthetic existence, the individual is simply a passive spectator. Witho...

That is the general perspective I'm coming from. It is my understanding that the philosophers following Hegel (perhaps up to the point of Nietzsche) s...

I suppose there is a portion of dry funniness (perhaps satire) in everything I say. But get what your talking about . Yes that is the problem: it is i...

Leaving out the nitpicking, this is analogous to the notion that humanity is too far ahead of its time. Consider how the more technologically advanced...

From a certain perspective yes. Concepts are abstractions from what I've appropriated in my immediate existence, which are communicated via referentia...

Then it is law

I'm inclined to agree, but you might have to convince me.

Derrida :vomit: !

Isn't it the reverse, abstraction is an error of thinking, or are you regarding thinking as an abstraction in this case? May I add: ... and just becau...

I get the impression that you really dislike philosophy.

I would argue emotion is more closely related to aesthetic judgement, whereas reason corresponds closer to ethical judgement. Aesthetic preference is ...

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A very utilitarian approach.

I'll provide you an answer to work with. One way is by education. A process of communication between teacher and student in which the student appropri...

There is no explaining the source of morals without including the societal component. We are not only born with a predetermined biological makeup, but...

Allow me to go further... The warrior king ("the Homeric ideals, of Achilles and Odysseus, and earlier) is the depiction of the ethical ideal. The ind...

Edit: they will indeed. Lol

And now, to honor the memory of Nobody, a moment of silence.

Campaign finance reform is a viable and direct solution. It would level the playing field and revolutionize the electoral system. Then perhaps I'd vot...

:up: :up: Pay attention you saps, this is what philosophy looks like.

Exactly!

Don't give up, persist and if necessary, prevail.

Is that because political preference is, in the strict sense, only expressed through voting?

I'm just expressing opinion, its not necessarily true, it's just one perspective amongst a vast web of perspectives, hopefully with the effect of inci...

Don't be discourage by ad hom, it is likely an indication that your on the right track. In this case, again, it is a group morality, they can't accept...