Well, there are stated agendas, and there is deep psychological commitment. Politicians seldom come out in favour of elitism and favouritism, but stil...
I'm not sure if utopianism is synonymous with laissez-faire materialism though. The belief in "progress" that says things are always getting better. W...
I do think there is correlation happing here too though. I think that something like what Durkheim calls anomie is a product of the wholesale acceptan...
I didn't really suggest it was an appeal. Rather, an underlying factor or condition for evaluating an inherent quality of human motivation. Perhaps it...
I'm thinking more of the propagation of values at and through the level of individual interaction. The translation of that core credibility into the s...
Yes, there are nuances and flavours, but I do believe the essence of the reasoning holds. I agree, if you see your offspring as a continuation. I'd ar...
As I said, it was a sidebar on a second thread, in which I referred in the same way to a third thread. Anyway... "I am sorry for having disturbed your...
That was a reply to some observations made by some other people. It was contextually relevant to their posts and alluded to an interaction on another ...
So far you are the only one I hear. As far as I can see, I am bang on topic. It isn't like it's some abstruse tangent. It's literally the title of you...
How is anything I said emotional? Like I said, you are never not perceiving the world. If your mind is operating, it is "in touch with the world". The...
Think about what this says. "Prove that there is a world". Whatever doubts exist with respect to the existence of the world likewise exist with respec...
Just so. That's funny. I said the same thing with respect to the thread on empirical normativity. Which goes to show you that consensus forms an integ...
That is the whole point about promising. It is a voluntary binding of the is and the ought. It isn't trivial. It is the voluntary human enaction which...
And this is why it is all about your expectations and your goals. Whether those are conformant or consistent with the goals of the community of practi...
My point is, are you asking because the tradition appeals to you, but you find it too challenging? Or because you are seeking an alternative? Or is th...
The fact of the obligation implies the obligation, not the utterance. The utterance is secondary. The real statement of facts is: Jones borrowed five ...
Correct. If I promise to do something it presupposes I have decided already that is the right thing to do. The only way to make it an is would be to d...
Hmm. Saying that a meaningful expression inherently contains its own context of correct application is "normative" is not the same kind of normativity...
Language can be used to make normative statements.. Stating that language is normative is overreaching. Normativity describes a standard of behaviour....
I completely agree that this we can and should contextually interpret such things as requests. One hundred percent. I have made the point myself. But ...
Perhaps if you specified exactly what "Ought" you are deriving I might be able to offer a more specific argument. If you are suggesting that "You shou...
A command is not the same thing as a moral ought. An ought is something that we do "because it is right" not because we are commanded to do it by anot...
Yes. You would have to establish some kind of necessary connection between the existence of a necessary truth and the existence of the conditions that...
Mmm. Yes and no. Being-for-others itself can be genuine. Perhaps someone acts bravely, even to the point of self-sacrifice, catalyzed by the gaze of t...
The notion of truth and falsity are inapplicable in a completely deterministic context. The fact that you are able to offer a statement about the trut...
@"Bob Ross" Do you believe that ethical reasoning ought to be effective in influencing actual moral behaviour? Or does it simply exist for the purpose...
The early Confucian philosopher Hsun Tzu holds that man's original nature is bad or imperfect. Thus man desires improvement in the same way that anyon...
Yes, if man tried to explain the universe to an amoeba it wouldn't translate. But essentially, the amoeba eventually becomes a man. So maybe it does h...
But, for the cat's brain to actually register something, that thing has to already fit with its perceptual schema. There is an experiment I keep citin...
James has a unique approach to interpreting the connection between beliefs and reality. Materialism, for example, is not so much a fact about the univ...
I agree with Dewey's characterization here. Realistically speaking, pragmatically speaking, consciousness is evoked by problematicity. Functional cert...
This is all non-sequitur to me. Laws in the early universe were expressed stochastically. I'd hardly describe that as conforming to locality. The oppo...
I don't see where panpsychism implies anything specific beyond that consciousness is a primordial feature of reality. I don't think it really coincide...
I don't think that the future state of the universe is trivially, mechanistically computable from the past. So the kind of "truth" that interests me i...
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