god must be atheist

You got the pleasant right. And you're right, it is not to the viewer's advantage, the look of the painting. In the meantime, since I wrote that first...

This is an interesting concept you raised, Baden. You look at the effect in a negative, pessimistic light. I just happened now to look at it from a po...

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Define definition then for me, please, so I can proceed on satisfying your demand to comply to the form of the definition of any thing, as defined by ...

This can be shown by the following thought experiment: A man thinks of a house. He calls that house "House". The name of that house is House, while it...

I don't know where you get this from. I agree with it, but the thread is not about ethics; you are derailing the topic. The topic is, as stated, "good...

That's directional ethics, for lack of my knowledge of a better, well-accepted expression for it. Instructional ethics is another way to summarize it ...

This is now a serious response, Baden: The fragmentation of the self is not haphazard. It is directed by the person's needs, which is in turn shaped b...

This what you described can happen in any society. But Baden is talking about a consumer society. So unless he buys the latest ski equipment every sea...

Maybe. But I assure you: it's still more fun than praying on the call of the muezzin seven times a day and prostrating on a prayer mat and submitting ...

I am not kidding you: I walked into Walmart tomorrow, and I asked 10 random people if this applies to them, and I handed them a slip of paper with the...

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True, but this problem can be circumvented by giving parametric conditions or assigning parametric properties to the quality of "good".

Maybe I would, but I read The Republic a long, long time ago, and stopped halfway, although I enjoyed it tremendously. But I can't see the parallel, b...

You're right. Every definition is circular. But it has been created, and it is not impossible therefore to create a definition for "good". The initial...

It's been a long-standing fracture between 180 and me. I like the guy, actually, I respect him, and I bow for his knowledge and mind. But he doggonedl...

I took it out of context because there was no indication of other context. Banno made his opinion. You approved it with a flame. I did not like that y...

Good question. By examining the logic and finding that the definition fails. ------------------------ Caveat: the definition I gave has been amended p...

I am sorry, 180 Proof, that you expect the impossible. Think about it. Banno put down his opinion in a post. You replied with a flaming approval of an...

Your argument's fault will become clear to you once you establish to yourself and get comfortable that "good" is not an absolute term; it is a term th...

:naughty: :rage: :down: I can't beleive, 180 Proof, that you bought Banno's argument, which is full of holes when you consider my definition of "good"...

I can't respond to the first part to "... intensionally equivalent?" because my education level does not include the knowledge of the names of concept...

It's not good to you, it's not good to society, it's not good to most people, and it's not good for me, either, and presumably not to bert1 either, bu...

No, no, no. Read the previous page. Read my definition of "good". It is not circular.

I think there is one fault in your logic. The rules for justice are set by a law. The law most likely is to promote something that the lawmaker consid...

I have a feeling, that what adjustment Bert1 had done to my definition, and my ensuing insights, already have had an extensive literature, and they ar...

He's my favourite philosopher of them all. He had more fresh, individual and original insight than anyone else. I think this by Hume is the proper ans...

One must constantly live under the caution that nothing in human nature is universal. There are 8 billion of us, and each of us are different. Due to ...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! finally someone who doesn't ignore my input. You separated "good" into two kinds: pleasure, and instruments that lea...

Please don't get me wrong. This is not an ego issue. I would be the happiest if someone came up with an example that invalidates the definition I prov...

Why do all of you ignore this? What's with the crap? Only because it renders all of our discussion meaningless?? you are all invalidating your argumen...

If a unit is an atomic one, as you called it, it still does leave room for delineation from other things. For instance, an atom (in the sense you used...

I am not saying that what you stated there debunks my definition, but what you say may be a simple case of equivocation as defined by Aristotle.

Never mind Kant and consensus and ethics and circularity of definition and stuff. Just give me one instance when three or four of my qualifyers are tr...

What about this: "Good" is an adjective denoting that a thing that is good is a thing that is advantageous and pleasant and helpful and accommodating ...

in 1568 or 1620, I can't remember which, the then-current pope ex cathedra declared that the Earth was flat and anyone opposing that is an heretic to ...

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Likewise. I've come to solve the problem of needing to satisfy two oppositionary forces (need to create i.e. need to get a lot of sheisse off of my ch...

Way before Bataille: The fundamental of all Christian religions.

:joke: Maybe you'll like the other two funny ones as well. Esp. The Cuttingthecraps: A Family Novel.

Thanks to all you guys who put in some words. In retrospect I must admit, because if I did not then I'd burn in hell forever, that I stole the 'if the...

I usually throw mud at Wittgenstein, but he said something I really believe, and I am only sorry that he hasn't got a proof for it: that human beings ...

I liked this story the best of all entries. Including mine. I enjoyed reading the subtext which was not spelled out, and was said still in crystal cle...

Thanks, Caldwell, and happy New Year to you and to all members on this site (but to nobody else off it.) :joke: With this wish I may solve the global ...

This is funny. Jamal (?) you've outdone yourself.

Authority or evidence, external to one's own self. Problem arises when the authority is evil, or has a practical sense of humour.

I am a convertibilitist valuationist. To me justificationists are students who want to get good grades without increased intuition fees. In other word...

And to you.

I read it already. Nice poem. He feels dignified by the presence of a good-looking predator, and throws a brick or something at him when he is in a vu...

Thanks, Vera Mont. I'll look up "The Snake" now on the 'Net. I am not at all familiar with that poem... infact, I hear OF it first time today.