Thorongil

The number of alleged virtue ethicists so far is somewhat surprising. I put that, but only because I don't know what else to call Schopenhauer's ethic...

I marked theism but had in mind "lean toward," as I do lean more toward it than atheism.

No it doesn't. Many of the school shootings are suicides, for example.

No. Not a huge fan of Caravaggio, except his St. Jerome and St. Francis.

That's a great idea.

Damn, just learned about the painter of Obama's portrait. Pretty nasty, racist guy, it seems, who paints garish kitsch. https://www.washingtontimes.co...

There are handguns and hunting rifles more powerful than it.

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Vulcan, of course.

Now you're dodging my questions.

These are excellent admissions. Still, you're not off the hook yet, for the fact remains that you want white privilege eradicated. Why want that, if n...

I'll see if the compilation I mentioned includes them. I think I've read Useless Suffering before. Sounds very familiar. Yes, but even with Schopenhau...

No, not assumed. Contained. What you are doing is arguing against deductive arguments per se, every syllogism. Of course, some philosophers have regar...

Yeah. By the way, your article's authors assume implicit bias, but that's been debunked: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Impli...

You can't read your own writing? Look at what I originally quoted of you: If you can't see the implication here, in addition to the explicit meaning o...

There's no conspiracy to that theory. :P

So you've probably taken a few anecdotes and extrapolated from them some grave problem, though not grave enough for you to label it an "epidemic." Oka...

Shit. You're right.

Yeah, I heard about that. The Yeti is interesting, too. I can imagine there having been a Himalayan great ape. We, as humans, so often bemoan the sign...

Does this link up with the buses? Asians are being racially abused on buses at epidemic levels? Sorry, but racism isn't anywhere near the most signifi...

That you want to eradicate it is prescriptive enough. It's actually a rather horrific thought.

Right, so provide me a counter-example. Find me someone who genuinely believes in white privilege who doesn't think it's "problematic," to use another...

How naive. Naturally, when challenged, the claim is asserted by proponents to be innocently descriptive, but not a single person who uses it fails to ...

I'm glad, because your examples were the most ludicrous things I've read in some time.

Yeah, that was one of the nastier ones I left out.

To believe in and invoke white privilege is the polite, academic way to be a racist against white people. I haven't watched the video, but inasmuch as...

Bullshit on stilts. I can't believe people write this stuff with an apparent straight face.

The people who think it's a problem tend to live in Western countries whose native populations are declining. Population growth is occurring primarily...

Right, that's how arguments work.

They don't, though. That's what the arguments are attempting to establish, that God exists.

I actually tried reading Being and Time many years ago and found it utterly impenetrable. My thought recently has been that some of his shorter essays...

Well, then we've been talking past each other, alas.

I still fail to see what point you're trying to advance here. When I spoke of logical axioms, or principles of logic, I wasn't referring to premises i...

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Mhmm, I've taken Intro to Logic. I'm still waiting on the punch line.

Oh come on, they were hardly positing the same thing. Alright, as was I.

I wasn't trying to prove "the existence of everything."

Name me another major philosopher who advances the ontological primacy of will over intellect. Most, if not all, philosophers throughout history have ...

I don't see the problem. One cannot demonstrate the principles of logic, but then neither can one reject them, for in order to reject them, one must e...

I would contend that Schopenhauer is highly original. Whether you are convinced by it or not, the ontological relationship between intellect and will ...

I'm sorry, but I'm still not following you. We might have to leave it at that.

Then we're responding to different points.

I'm not too familiar with Heidegger, but what you attribute to him here accords well with my position. Leibniz lurks in the background of my thoughts ...

They would, but Berkeley naturally wouldn't hold that they exist as matter. There is a reason why Berkeley called his position "immaterialism" not "id...

Those seem like poor reasons to me. What philosopher doesn't rehash the ideas of his predecessors? What philosopher is without poor arguments? If you'...

I just got done telling you I don't have one to give and don't have the time to go and do that properly. I mean, you could try Google and find somethi...

If you don't think of him as much of an authority, then my appeal to him will be meaningless to you, that is true. I don't know why you would think th...

Yes, but I in turn can expect that philosophers one hasn't read won't be rejected.

Well, Schopenhauer regarded Berkeley's idealism as more or less capable of standing on its own, while dispensing with God.

You seem intent on making me do your work for you. My comment was an attempt to persuade you to go read Berkeley himself and examine his arguments, as...