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OK, thanks for the comment. I'll myself shy from the term "designed" for, unlike the notion of purpose/end, the concept of "designed" does to me seem ...

As I think is in keeping with what @"Bob Ross" is saying: Same purpose everyone has: the obtainment of optimal eudemonia as end. (?) But this won't be...

Well, I didn't say "objective" but rather "in as objective a manner as currently fathomable to us humans"; the former either is or is not; the latter ...

Hey, I'll be maybe a little blunt. As often happens in this place, lots of opining on what is the case which purports itself as rational demonstration...

Logically there can, but one needs to make use of premises other than those of current mainstream religions (the very same with which most of today's ...

Got it. Thank you for the clarification. I'm in agreement.

A thoughtful OP. For me, non-duality is certainly helpful, if not pivotal, to my philosophical understandings. Yet this necessitates a very different ...

In respect to this, I'd be happy to change my terminology, this in terms of my use of "value" in the context of ethics, if I thought it might be helpf...

The example wasn't intended as a theory or truth, but as an illustration of where I find the pragmatic theory of truth wanting (and, again, there are ...

Hey, my bad, just found myself with time to spare :smile: So I'll reply presently. I see we analyze this issue via very different schemas. But to firs...

By some, sure, but how would this relate to the Good as that via which we, for one example, discern that a correct argument is good and an incorrect a...

Just remembered this old thread. You've edited your reply I see. Anyways, as far as my (semi-) good name goes, to be clear, I here honestly expressed ...

Glad to confirm that you do not sponsor the entailment which I so far see in you affirming, to restate the quote: You were. I am here applying what I ...

I find all this to be a very adequate assessment. Which is to say, :up: As a possible complexity, analytical issues could then emerge as to what the t...

I'd add to Wayfarer's term "non-existence", more specifically, the non-occurrence of any awareness via which value can obtain. If so, then this end-po...

Just saw these posts. Just in case you'll revisit the website ... Instead of inadvertently getting bogged down with the details of interpretation, I'l...

Despite spending time on the forum, you’ve chosen to make your reply rather late. The weekend has now passed, and I now have real world duties in need...

To address this first point you make that Kant's notion of a Kingdom of Ends is only (an inconsequential?) ideal, this parer, which I previously refer...

While I'm waiting for your reply: This quote addresses means, but not the stipulated end of "minimizing harm and maximizing harmony" which, as end pur...

Got it. And according to you in which way does Kant use the term Kingdom of Ends?

Your answer does not answer my question, but instead seeks to analyze Kant's true intentions. There are quotes such as: Act according to maxims of a u...

And how do you view this stipulated end as differing from Kant's Kingdom of Ends?

OK, If indeed now only means, means toward what?

Am I mistaken in understanding the quote to conclude that my arguments make use of contradictions? And does not a contradiction require that incongrue...

I can very much respect this point of view in certain respects - especially when it comes to interpretations such as those of Social Darwinism. Nevert...

I will second this affirmation. One’s either consciously held or else unconsciously maintained metaphysical presuppositions will guide how one makes s...

Well said. ---- As a general apropos to possible religious/spiritual views, Buddhism, for one example, has had this creed of "no origin" for a few mil...

Yes, good point. This is where philosophical issues enter the picture ... the problem of other minds applied to real world applications regarding less...

That all evolution is in essence entirely accidental is a mischaracterization of evolution via natural selection. In short, NS is the favoring of cert...

I find that the OP muddles the issue by not differentiating between different types of thoughts a consciousness can be aware of. Regardless of where o...

Ah. That explains that then. Thanks.

I agree with much of your post in regard to the issue of evolution. But I would like to verify what you interpret by the term "Deism". Are you using a...

You've never read Venus on the Half-Shell, then? As was told, the protagonist who wants an answer to "why are we birthed only to suffer and die?" at l...

I believe I’m most certainly an outlier, but I’ll answer the question just the same. In short, evolution happened naturally, such that Nature itself i...

Political correctness as concept has always been problematic for me. This because it can be all too easily used in Orwellian manners by antisocial peo...

Ciao, then.

Wait for it ... Nope, it wasn't. As a refresher: Does not translate into: And you haven't answered the question I asked regarding the science. Somewha...

Not what I quite explicitly stated. Do you disagree with the linked to science?

As I so far understand the positions held, to me the issue of direct v. indirect realism is misplaced—not because it’s not important or else handwavin...

To keep things short, I don't find that my account of ethics would make any sense whatsoever were it to in fact incorporate "contradictions", which I ...

Are you equating these models to what science in essence is? If you are, you then seem to disagree with my appraisals of what empirical science consis...

In my own, maybe all too imperfect, intentions to be of help, I’ll express my own views regarding the many at times contradictory, and often non-intui...

I see that I was addressing many presumptions which are not shared. This for instance. By "obstacle" I naturally assumed that that which stands in the...

:up: I think hard determinism can have a mind of its own, meaning that it could find justification even for this. But yes, I'm in general agreement wi...

I’ll for now address the following last portion of your first reply since I see this as pivotal to most all of the other replies I might myself give. ...

Only in an attempt to further your argument: Hunger is a physiological sensation or pang. The experiencing of hunger, though, does not even necessitat...

I skimmed through the paper. The principal example given - that of killing one person to save five - has always been irksome to me due to its ambiguit...

I'm myself finding it a good means of honing my reasoning skills (or lack thereof :smile: ) Myself, I so far find the idealizations of what should be ...

Just wanted to say I'm in agreement with what you've expressed. ...Including your accolades regarding @"Count Timothy von Icarus"'s posts. :up:

Here is a hypothetical wherein the choice made is concluded to be amoral (this strictly in the sense of being neither blameworthy nor praiseworthy) de...