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no. You might want to address my first post to you.

Hey, as to being debased by others, “javra” does translate into “cur”. @"kudos"’s less than civil reply is nothing shocking. But I’m glad someone is g...

Not that this reply in any way addresses my post, but your biased interpretations re NIN are showing. Check this out, for example; and if you want, le...

As the Buddha is said to have been, this before his quest for enlightenment wherein he sat under a tree and nearly starved to death in his ponderings?...

Already stated. Think of it this way, the same can be generally applied to an innate attraction to justice. What is just is in one way subjective to i...

An addendum to my previous reply: To more directly address this first question, given the aforementioned post's contents, a human conscious being will...

I'll honestly say "yes" and "no" (at the same time but in different ways). But will keep it at that for now.

I'm hoping an analogy might help. Here addressing space alone strictly via geometric points, which, as a reminder, are in themselves defined as volume...

:grin: I could see how that could be allegorically stated. :up: Still, technically, I will argue that sociopaths too want to be good at what they do, ...

I was aiming more at this conception rather than beauty as sexual/carnal attraction. If the Just, the Beautiful, and the Good are interwoven (if not i...

Not sure if this is in tune with what you're after, but the desire to become one with X, here spiritually addressed, would then be eros for X. X could...

I get your stance, but, again, I don't see things that way. I'm starting to question what it is you have in mind when the term "love" is used. Many di...

May I be corrected if wrong, but I’ve so far understood Ancient Greek eros to in essence be passionate desire for or attraction, not necessarily of a ...

Same I think could be claimed for most everything. But this conflates epistemic appraisals of what is true, which are fallible, with the ontic reality...

:grin: :up: I like that sentiment. But I don't have an answer as to the typical atheist's views on something like "Pure Love".

Wouldn’t it then be true that you believe it to be the best option? “Best” means “most good”. Hence, you’d be affirming that you judge “one not owning...

Apropos, what then do you make of the proposition that "love obliterates ego in due measure with it's strength"? Otherwise stated, that one looses one...

Yet this Sufi understanding of love would then be entirely contingent on what one makes of, else how one interprets, the term “God”. For instance, if ...

Alright. Thanks

Since I'm short on time, I'll try to listen to those podcasts if they provide an alternative evolutionary theory for how grammatical language develope...

OK, to make use of some of that armchair stuff called reasoning, first off, when we address "language" what are we referencing: A) communication or B)...

You are aware that nucleic acids, neurons, and brains don't fossilize - much less behaviors. Which leaves us with best inferences when it comes to the...

This is a somewhat cringe-worthy statement. The process is called punctuated equilibrium - a well respected theory of evolution which is perfectly cap...

Speaking in generalized terms, the same applies here. As to regret, in keeping with some of Nietzsche’s writings as I best interpret them, regret that...

Thanks for the link. :up:

Aye. If one gets into the mindset outlined, and if, for example, here tersely outlined, one chooses to understand space as distance-between identities...

In keeping with what a few others have mentioned: Not that the Ship of Theseus has been satisfactorily resolved by anyone to date, but one way of look...

As relates to the English term "love", I so far maintain that it can only bifurcate into "unity of being" of various types and into "strong-liking-of"...

I don’t. Although I don’t want to here get into a debate on how deontology’s sole justification is consequentialist in nature, consequentialism, which...

For about two days now you’ve touched upon just about anything and everything but the core issue I’ve raised in every post I’ve made to you. I’ll try ...

Do you disagree that love is an abstraction abstracted from, ultimately, concrete particulars? If it is, then as abstraction it will hold its own prop...

I’ll try to simplify my perspective: granting that suffering is unwanted by the sufferer(s), if all paths in life end up being “just another avenue to...

Well, OK, thanks, but it doesn't answer why one should prefer an unloving life to a loving one (or else a loving life over an unloving one) - irrespec...

The distinction between agape and eros is all fine and well. But it doesn’t satisfy the issues posed. First off, while agape can certainly be had in t...

And since suffering is implicitly deemed bad, the only logical conclusion that I so far find to this affirmation of supposed fact is that love in all ...

In his "On the Origin of Species", I don't recall Darwin mentioning natural selection to necessarily incorporate "a teleological act by a physical org...

Apropos, what would your take then be regarding this generalized proposition: every "ought" translates into "an optimal means" of actualizing some fut...

Awesome. It's good to know. Thanks.

Although @"Count Timothy von Icarus" already addressed this, I wanted to also point out that "grey" and "rat" (I did say mouse, though) are both abstr...

:up: Nicely said. Although I'll be currently shying away from embellishing this on account of it getting into non-physicalist ontological notions of "...

Lots of questions and issues. Thank you for them. In my defense, I did mention that the post would likely be wanting of sufficient justification and o...

Under the conviction that God = Love, interpersonal love will be one aspect of God. Else, of being closer to God than otherwise. Though more complex t...

Damn, this so far feels like some really melancholically pessimistic stuff. Maybe it’s not. Maybe you’ve obtained a state of being devoid of both need...

Reading this charitably, I already knew that. "Do not commit undue harm" to me seems more in keeping with the Jewish thought I've been primarily expos...

I've perused the link offered. Why should I take this interpretation of monetary compensation as authoritative? After all, given what I've gathered in...

I’m in overall agreement here. Indigenous peoples the world over, all of which are spiritual, come to mind as frontliners against the destruction of t...

So how ought it to be properly interpreted? You take out one of my eyes and I take out both of yours, kind of thing? Or something else?

:100:

As a slight interlude: The ethical dictum of "an eye for an eye" strictly upholds a 1:1 ratio of retribution as moral. So both a 100:1 or a 10:1 ratio...

This will likely to be very incomplete reasoning, but I’ll give outlining my current idea of metaethics a best shot: First, consider that all ethics r...