Merkwurdichliebe

True. Absolutely..., but give me an honest description of the alternative and tell me it is any less appalling. As a nation, US is stuck in a rutt, an...

If legal action against ex-presidents becomes a "thing", we are entering a new age of tyranny. Yet, this has been brought on by the negligence of Pres...

I think in this age of social media, people are able to whine louder than ever, yet the complaints about Trump are mostly overblown. There is really n...

just being facetious. However, since you ask, I'm personally opposed to warfare because i believe it is the activity of an inferior subhuman anthropoi...

Nope. Trump is just a political football for the democrats to whine about. If anything, Trump is merely a symptom of a greater problem. Decadence.

Civil war...we can only hope. Unfortunately, just like nothing happened to Bush and Cheney for indisputably being outright war criminals, nothing will...

Lol. Let me take up the mantle and argue on behalf of an indivisible mind.

But how do you know it is not identical? We cannot use spatiotemporal relations to define the demarcations of mind, unless you are willing to reduce m...

I missed this, one sec to respond

I am only saying that from one point of view it appears indivisible, and from another it appears divisible. I am only saying that this is how it appea...

I think you follow fine. I'm not trying to be clever. If I get you, you are saying that mind trumps sense in all cases. Correct?

You seem like a very nice interlocutor, would you be so kind as to recapitulate the debate for us late comers? Pretty please. :pray:

My walls always speak to me, my sister. :kiss:

it is quite simple. From mind perspective it is divisible. From sense perspective it is indivisible. The two perspectives impose upon each other withi...

i am @"Merkwurdichliebe". Im just saying that if we are going to invoke authority over our own reason, easter bunny is as good as any.

just answer the question. Fuck according to whom. Are we dependent on the authority of authorities? Maybe so, what does the pope say?

Firstly. I admire your fealessness. It is a relief from all the question dodgers that dominate TPF. Keep it up. There is no quicker way to work out yo...

Maybe you are a stoopid poopu dummy head. That is not a reason to stop posting your genius philosophies.

Being published makes nobody an authority in anything. Fuck em. This is TPF, I say: say what you have to say here, there is nothing stopping you other...

ok, go back to terrorizing the externalist non-materialists, more power to you

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Im claiming that you are overrgeneralizing a popular interpretion of christiantiy, as well as @"Janus". Im arguing that there are many christians that...

That is not what I see with Christian culture, with all its anti-science shit. If any demographic views itself as master of nature, it would be atheis...

I agree, existentially speaking, universality is irrelevant. The reason I'm bringing up the universal is because I see a lot of opinions on this threa...

Perhaps, that certainly is an optimal view of morality. But what about the cases where being moral necessitates ignoring the existence of competing ne...

that is awesome! I've always wanted to ride in a spaceship :nerd:

what is this earthspaceship theory?

Typical marxist censorship. You are just asking for a black bag over your head. :death:

The "dark side" is generally an unsatisfactory position, and it it is unfortunate that it has as much validity as the "sunny side". Whatever the case,...

That depends. If a person were to live in complete isolation, is it possible for good/bad to exist for him, or would every norm simply be about prefer...

Always with the flattery, You just can't help yourself. :mask: If it matters for any reason, it is because: to stand firm on one's moral principles wi...

That means if an individual reasons that selflessness is an ethical good, he must always choose selflessness. That doesn't mean that selflessness is a...

Morality is not universal in its particular demands (such as selflessness), unless, of course, we can show the existence of absolute morality. Until t...

No. Moral reasoning is not grounded in self interest nor altruism. It is the reverse, self interest and altruism (as well as every other norm) become ...

It's the same algorithm Netflix uses to make recommendations of what you'll like.

I have shown why I disagree. I'll continue to reinforce my position in this issue as long as this thread has life. That is indeed a case of instrument...

Firstly, you are a fine interlocutor. I hope we can have a passionate and edifying discourse. I want to thank you for providing that summary. Let'ssee...

now you owe me some incorrigiblility :blush:

I'll flatter you good like :kiss: . That is probable, but not necessary. As I have previously said, the instrumental and moral are discrete categories...

Did I say that somewhere? If so, I was most likely being extemporaneous, an meant it rhetorically... If so, I retract the insinuation of any literal i...

That is an example of moral reasoning assigning ethical value to self interest (which involves instrumental reason). The normative (ought) in instrume...

Exactly. Moral reasons, although normative like instrumental reasons, are of an entirely different qualitative nature. Moral reasoning can only relate...

and, flatterers are always evading questions about their erroneous logic.

@"180 Proof", @"Bartricks" Are you saying it's instrumental reason if it is the morally right act, and instrumental reasoning if it is a selfish act?....

I get it Moral reasoning

What about when a person does the morally right thing because he thinks it serves his own intetests?

So then, it follows that moral reasoning can be instrumental reasoning, but instrumental reasoning cannot be moral reasoning.

Maybe you know:

What kind of reasoning is it when an individual does something that serves his own ends because he thinks it is the good or morally right thing to do?...

Why not? What if I were to make a vow (based on moral reasoning and ethical principles) to serve only myself in every interaction with others? To hono...