This is where the Cassirer that I am currently reading starts. Being, as the original impetus of philosophical reflection, is actually "consciousness ...
Most likely the law of supply and demand will dictate the future of medical research and treatment. Prudence would dictate extreme caution with respec...
All systems have to be in some sense localized. I thought you might be referring to the fact that entropy is conserved universally but then I thought,...
Modern science is a methodology, whose primary result is knowledge. Obviously, knowledge predates modern science. Science has carved out a domain, but...
I've come to believe that the term metaphysics itself is the problem. Inasmuch as metaphysics purports to examine the nature of being, and being neces...
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language Ernst Cassirer Deleuze provided a concise picture of the various aspects of legislative-creative ...
Yes, which is unfathomable to me. Whatever the contributing factors to ecological damage are, they are magnified by the size of the population. If we ...
I think the overlooked problem is the relationship between human impact on the ecosystem and population. Global population has tripled in the last 70 ...
To me this hearkens "masters and possessors of nature" which likewise suggests an invalid anthropocentric hierarchy. The truly enlightened perspective...
That goes without saying. But legality is not the basis of medical legitimacy. Medical legitimacy implies legality. Certainly as a general principle. ...
Medical treatments are determined by medical need, not legal rights. How you manage to draw this inference is a complete mystery to me. Or is it the t...
People have a right to maximum say in what affects them personally. It is where people start claiming the right to know what is best for someone else ...
It is not. Which is why it is equally not society's business to address such issues. No your sexual preferences should not relate to your legal rights...
Is it not significant though? Granted, for the general population, the number of cases would have to be very large to be statistically significant. Bu...
Right. So you are not invalidating Andrew's claim, merely asserting that there are in fact many cases of people misconstruing their own wants and need...
And more important, since that is a question of protection of the vulnerable. I wonder if the whole trans issue isn't just another rider on the entitl...
Things get wound up pretty quickly, don't they? So many people who think they know what is best. And some of them might even be right. But they can't ...
Yes, in the context of comparative religion or comparative cultural instruction. Those are fairly advanced subjects. I agree with instruction at this ...
Or maybe it's just indicative of the fact that society supports a spectrum of rationalities, and there are different ways of respecting one another. S...
I would rephrase this as 'failing to recognize that tolerance and treating people equally is sufficient.' You can't do better than universal equality....
Sure. I guess not having any special identity, I just wonder, as I said, about being disenfranchised by not having a cultural-advocacy group. I was ba...
Sure. And in this paternalistic sense, I think that protective-supportive measures are warranted. Society as a whole should be supportive of all views...
Absolutely. Although transgenderism is more of a symptom of the direction in which society is evolving, in that any and all groups will aspire to a sp...
I think that the people who hate trans folks are also the people who hate a whole lot of other folks too. And I think that group is also a minority, j...
Exactly. Ask me to do it and I will. Don't enforce a society-wide mandate of pronomial designation. I beg to differ. The city of Toronto is in the pro...
The imposition of gender-selective pronouns on a whole lot of people who don't make that part of their own self-identification process. The exposure o...
Identifying oneself as belonging to the trans community seems to me no different in principle than self-identifying as a Hasidic Jew, or belonging to ...
Perhaps in the sense that a dictionary has such an inbuilt understanding, in that it exists as a potential. But it needs to be triggered by something ...
Everyone is excited and scared by the concept of AI actually becoming conscious. I don't think there is actually much danger of that, and I don't thin...
À la recherche du temps perdu #6: Time Regained by Marcel Proust The Golden Bough: A New Abridgement Sir James George Frazer I think that modernity su...
Wouldn't this depend on whether we are willing to give AI 'a stake in the game,' so to speak? These systems could easily be designed with an eye to ma...
Yes. All the more reason for fairness to be an objective. And returning to your original formulation, it seems to me that the failures of proscriptive...
Sure. Which doesn't mean that the human tendency to fairness derives from the egalitarian school. Rather, the egalitarian school is a codification of ...
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