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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsyZcKUP_-k I generally side with Peterson here.

I'd rather this not turn into a reddit-style forum, so I'm opposed to the request. I might be okay with only upvotes, but there definitely shouldn't b...

Anecdotes....

That article doesn't answer the question of the title. It says that the number of philosophy majors has increased and then goes on to state how diffic...

Pragmatism with respect to morality doesn't sound appealing to me, and I wouldn't trust anyone who thought it was. It would, but ironically, philosoph...

"Laws of nature" is often just shorthand for inductive generalizations, so materialism rests on even shakier grounds than you describe.

I agree with the solution presented in this article: https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/the-trolley-problem-solved/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

I don't think pleasure has much value at all, let alone intrinsic value.

Reminds me of the beginning of this video. https://youtu.be/iAaye7dU3N4

True. But we might say that it looks like nothingness from the perspective of someone still shackled to samsara, a "relative nothingness" that Kant an...

Tell me what a deity is and I'll let you know.

I don't know what you're talking about. I interpreted your post one way, asked if my interpretation was correct, and it seemed it was, only now I gues...

Are you saying that celibacy makes people miserable? I don't see that it does. It's a way of life that can be tested and found wanting or not wanting ...

Hmm, yeah, could be. That must mean I'm the originator of this trend. I now expect royalty checks.

True.

I've had my little lute playing cherub since 2011, and I cannot bear to part with it.

Alas, it seems to me that the number of loving parents, call them Schopenhauerian parents, is rather small. Indeed, Schopenhauer's own parents lacked ...

What's with all the bird avatars?

Forgive me, but I find the attempt to objectively weigh the good and bad in life in order to decide, depending on which direction the scale tips, whet...

This isn't a response to what I said.

I'm assuming this is sarcastic. From my perspective, you haven't adequately addressed and refuted the criticisms of such arguments. What you do is att...

It seems she really took Matthew 18:9 to heart....

It certainly is, and I wish more people raised it, particularly philosophers and theologians. But that shouldn't inhibit one from seeking an answer. H...

I think you misinterpreted my comment, which was based on a counterfactual.

An interesting thought. If life has no meaning (and here I refer to salvific, objective meaning, not the created, subjective meaning of the existentia...

He might. I mean, God is not the sum of 3 and 7. That is an eternal truth but not the eternal truth. God is the truth itself. The argument is basicall...

I guess I don't understand you then.

Well, you have highlighted the self-refuting nature of nihilism. I only stated what nihilism claims, not whether it is coherent.

You're right, he's a bit unclear. God would be eternal truth as such, whereas the eternal truths in the examples are Ideas in the mind of God for Augu...

I think a better term than dogma would be foundationalism. That seems to be what you have in mind. I think there's a fourth choice: nihilism. Relativi...

I agree too. Sexual assault continues because human nature remains fundamentally unchanged. Utopia achieved by humans is an impossibility, so there is...

Quite the reverse in my opinion. I don't know where this "sexually repressive environment" of which you speak is located. Maybe among the Mormons, the...

Let me add a point more relevant to the OP. As I have pointed out before, the single greatest need on this forum is a mod who can act as a counterweig...

In what way?

As it happens, I came across the following article the other day, which I think is a clear and perspicacious summary of Augustine's argument, which is...

Metaphysician Undercover is winning by a landslide, in my estimation. I'm glad he picked up the torch after me.

Perhaps we should reintroduce the upvotes (not the downvotes, as that will lead to reddit style abuse). If it is seen that people find certain posts h...

And these means of production require workers, and workers require wages. So reinvestment does include hiring people from profits made. And what are t...

This statement and the following one: ... are in opposition. If profits are used to reinvest, and reinvestment entails hiring and paying more workers,...

>:O

Do note that in your reply you haven't shown what I said you needed to show. So you're not opposed to exploitation, just so long as the "right people"...

No, it can and is used to pay wages. The assumption that business owners just sit on their hands collecting a paycheck isn't true. But even if you cou...

Which profit is paid in wages and used to reinvest, which results in hiring more workers and paying more wages. Also, the "value" the workers produce ...

It's a term almost entirely used by Marxist economists. Again, this conversation will go nowhere until you acknowledge your own presuppositions about ...

This doesn't entail exploitation....

I'm not generally a fan of WLC, but he presents a pretty interesting talk here: https://youtu.be/_NAOc6ctw1s

But they are. No scholar denies this. They may contain more than mere historical record, but that doesn't mean they don't record history.

I don't deny this. I never intended to describe the historian's craft in its totality. No. I have no idea why you would read this into my words. If ma...

Buxte is exactly right. The historian is methodologically agnostic. A lack of evidence is not evidence of absence. One may believe that the former is ...