And I again disagree with your disagreement. With one reference already provided in support of this. The notion of gravitational force as a scientific...
Sure, but neither does this dispel that the force of gravity was unknown till a few centuries back nor does it in any way differentiate humans from no...
The scientific sense of the term "gravity" which we now make common use of is first recorded in the early 17th century. Yes, people before this mused ...
Aye. Me too very much so. To be fair, Aristotle spoke in Ancient Greek whereas "anima" "animal" and "animated" are Latin based. But the associations a...
:grin: Yea. I think I've already mentioned in this thread that I often muse of lesser animals being nothing more and nothing less then lesser "anima-e...
I guess I do, but then much of it wouldn't be in keeping with this thread's topic. To make things more philosophical, though, first off no human conce...
:up: BTW, one can easily find a bunch of videos and articles on great ape laughter online via a search for "great ape laughter" or some such. When its...
I've tried to illustrate what I've stated and so far uphold via examples. Using those previously provided, on what grounds would you disagree that a b...
Yes, true, thanks of the embellishment. Yet the term "shamanism" - rather than witch-doctor or medicine-man for example - does originate in the Siberi...
:grin: I know of more than a few anecdotes of lesser animals giving all appearances of having a sixth-sense, as it's often termed. From cats finding t...
We once, a long long time ago, had a debate about whether bonobos which have learned to communicate with humans via human-devised symbols could be ask...
I happen to very much agree with that. Though I'm uncertain as to how this might relate to reasoning among lesser animals in your own view. To me, for...
Good point. I don't remember (its been some 30 years since I've heard of this experiment). My best hunch is that the hypothesis tested for might have ...
Since you’ve addressed canids, you are claiming that packs of wild canids (wolves, cayotes, dingos, etc.) engage in no reasoning whatsoever when entra...
Granting that I"m properly understanding this quote, I don't identify the conceptual drift toward monotheism(s) with the key instrument to the develop...
I’d say that there can be no concept of divinity without a concept of spirituality, and no concept of God devoid of a concept of divinity. Based on wh...
As I've previously explained and illustrated via example, it is not contradictory to maintain the three stipulations of the OP - for intending the lea...
BTW, I'm leaving the debate open, but if the counter hinges on the notion of "someone" in the third assertion (harming someone is X) this will open a ...
In reply to this edit: Since you're being ultra-formal in reasoning, what pacifist (either directly or indirectly) causes no harm to other life in the...
BTW, you latch onto your individual understanding of the three stipulations and the perceived logic that then ensues, but you have not yet answered th...
Nope, I uphold it. But then, once again, we're likely interpreting it in significantly different ways, When would harm be an ultimate, absolute, pure,...
We then obviously hold rather different interpretations of #2: Is it a bad to choose - or else to intend the manifestation of - the lease bad from all...
Maybe I don't fully follow your quite terse reply - but in terms of all actions having their consequence ... sure, why not? Is there any rational or e...
I'm not familiar with such a (most especially "usual") definition. See for example self-defense as its defined by a global wiki. What references do yo...
Has anyone yet mentioned that self-defense is nearly by definition a preventing of harm to one’s own self? A murderer wants to murder you. On what gro...
Here’s an antithetical opinion: whomever makes a strict equivalency between morality and niceness can only in some way be an immoral individual. For i...
There’s a reason for the affirmation that the path to hell is paved with good intentions. I get that: the axis powers of WWII wanting to pave the way ...
To me this is a wrong framing of the question. One cannot in any way accurately measure quantitatively physiological pain, much less physiological pai...
I can sympathize with a lot of your arguments. An “utopian ideal” without any specificity is nothing more than a nondescript generality. So, for the s...
Ha. Well, in honesty, I can’t help but smirk at such interpretations of Buddhism. So the original Buddha, who reputedly actualized an awareness of Nir...
Isn't the Buddhist notion of Nirvana supposed to be literal bliss? For example: If so, it's still the pursuit of eudemonia by other names and framewor...
I'm not sure in what sense to best interpret this. Is it Aristotle's notions on happiness or the current state of affairs regarding it that is to be t...
That to me does not define utopia but what some assume to be an Abrahamic Heaven somewhere up in the skies. I fully agree that suffering - as possibil...
Regarding communism: The ideology of communism writ large is pivoted around egalitarianism. The reality of any Stalinist communism that has ever occur...
Other's stern enough affirmations of my interpretations being unquestionably wrong aside, it might be of interest that the Ancient Greek term for "to ...
This questioning fully ignores that which I repeatedly have asked of you. This doesn't at this point come as a surprise. But, since you've asked as an...
Although I don’t in principle have any disagreement with the Analogia Entis, it then seems you’ll nevertheless likewise find disagreement with these p...
You're reply, though in no way addressing the questions I've asked regarding what "will" / "intentioning" could possibly mean in absence of an intent/...
I'm not here arguing for (nor for that matter against) "classical tradition". I'm simply arguing for lucidity in thought via cogent reasoning and, if ...
I’ll offer that the commonsense notion of “self” necessarily pivots around what we westerners commonly term “consciousness” - "the self" here always e...
I didn’t intend to here present that stringent of an argument but, yes, I at least so far find the notion of a Divinely Simple, etc., God who in any w...
How does your newly provided caveat (1) added to your previously made statement (2) not fully equate semantically to what I initially explicitly defin...
On second thought, so we don't continue going around in endless circles: E.g.: this water can be green today and blue tomorrow (not a contradiction). ...
No, the exact opposite. Hence the concluding sentence to you in my last post. However, the statement "water can be green and water can be non-green (e...
Is that a question or an affirmation? Consider: The statement, "Water can be green", does not allow for "water can be green" and "water can be not-gre...
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