Thorongil

Expand on this statement.

Ah, good to hear.

My claims are gibberish? I've made no claims to such an effect in the first place. That's my whole point, apparently lost on you. I can't give advice ...

You literally just admitted that it didn't.....................

The will in its essence (the phrase you used) I took to mean the will in and of itself, which you said doesn't change. I agree that it doesn't change ...

The word mind usually connotes the brain functions that give rise to consciousness. To state that it is an illusion would be to state that one is cons...

This would be unwarranted.

A strange distinction. There is no essence of the will.

Yes, representations are not caused by the will, since causality obtains only within the world as representation, even while they are simultaneously i...

Being convinced that life is neither worth continuing nor worth ending, you will notice, practically results in continuing to live. It would be the sa...

It probably was good advice. My lack of knowledge about European cars would have disabled me from giving it, just as it disables me from giving it abo...

The one to which I originally responded. :|

It sounds like you've now answered your own query to me.

Apologies, but there is no advice to give, for there is no duty to live nor one to die that the young person could fulfill.

A simple answer: it doesn't (change, evolve, etc)

Representation is not atemporal, though.

I still see a "should," so you haven't gotten rid of what I object to.

Life has no moral worth period, so the question is incoherent and unanswerable.

I seem to recall seeing surveys done of professional philosophers that showed that most of them are moral realists, or at least a majority of them are...

A thoroughly unhelpful and patronizing post. You should do me a favor and not post like that again.

Who does this? If there are such people making such absurd sweeping generalizations, then they are ignored and small in number, as one ought to expect...

I'm coming into this a bit late, but the OP reminded me of something I thought I'd share about the topic referenced in the quote by Schopenhauer. Here...

Yeah meng.

What a social Darwinian crock. And sometimes, the "other" is exactly all three of these things. Race doesn't exist as a biological concept, so they we...

Not the best translation though.

Who were they?

I've always been acquainted with the Latin phrase "Tanta stultitia mortalium est," but forgot Shakespeare used it too.

I'll take 5 of each. Keep the change.

Alternatively, you could petition him to sign it in order to hasten the cannibalistic self-destruction of modern capitalism, thus in turn hastening th...

I'll take that as a no.

See my about page.

And a totally unremarkable red herring uttered by you. Here's an easy yes or no question: Do you or do you not still stand by your original argument? ...

So as of now, you still haven't argued that AN is false, nor that having children is justifiable. Well done.

Whoop-de-fucking-do. This isn't an argument about anything.

They should be granted temporary asylum, provided "they" are actually refugees. The problem no one likes to talk about is that well more than half of ...

The title of your thread and the wording of your poll are not quite the same. I would agree that one has the right to have sex, but I would not agree ...

Is this like Kant's distinction between the empirical and intelligible self?

Okay, sure. It's a reason, but it's still not a good one or a moral one.

I'm not familiar with such a distinction, or at least with how you have worded it.

Touche. It is the individualized self that is dissolved when being compassionate. ;)

If one has the opportunity to survive without eating meat, there is no reason, moral or otherwise, to eat it.

True, I am more drawn to mystical apotheosis than I am to scientific inquiry, though I do not wish to denigrate the latter. :P I added a couple other ...

I voted for Plato. One perhaps unconscious reason for siding with him is that he has much more of an effect on me due to the quality of his writing. A...

You said: "Being non-existent, strictly speaking, they don't get a say in the matter, nor are they entitled to one, nor are they missing out or being ...

A most salient admission. I'll take it as proof that my objection to you was correct after all.

I think you answer your own question here.

Excellent post. However, I think at least in moral matters, human beings have always ever been fallen, for we now know that there never was an idyllic...

The labels "liberal" and "conservative" are almost meaningless. Using your own labels as an example, being opposed to the death penalty and in favor o...

The very definition thereof.