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Hold on there, the Golden Rule is either there due to some power(s) so decreeing it to be right or, else, it stands on its own regardless of what vari...

OK, I’ll put myself in the little lonely ostracized corner of disagreement. The Golden Rule isn’t right because of its mass appeal, nor because of leg...

No, I meant the dictum to be a descriptive aspect of what is, not a prescription of what ought to be. Although, given the variety of characters in the...

A question asked in good faith to moral relativists in general : One reason I'm adverse to moral relativism is that it appears to inevitably results i...

Maybe it the slippery slope toward an acknowledgement of universals. No, it would be addressing what to us are conscious states of being. Yea, this is...

To me we’re still talking past each other some, but so it goes with some debates. I agree that sentience consists of subjectivity, by the way. The etc...

No. That’s you talking. I, again, intended to address the metaethics of good and bad--not ethics. What is good and what is bad, in manners that encaps...

I looked up “ethics” on Wikipedia to validate my assumptions; SEP doesn’t have a generalized entry. They there define it in terms of right and wrong c...

It addresses the metaethics of what good/bad entails, without which no morality/immorality could be purported. I’m thinking of objective in the sense ...

Here’s an argument for objective ethics that doesn’t depend on universals. As example: the goodness of ice-cream flavors. To whom will the flavors be ...

I've gotta say, I so far have the same impression. Gave it another go all the same.

You have not taken the time to directly answer my previous given, generalized question through philosophical argumentation. I’ll be more specific in t...

Spewing off random thoughts, never got that whole detachment doctrine of Buddhism, which is a belief that upholds love to be a good thing. Love is a f...

Have to ask. How then do you explain children’s love for aging parents?

Too narrow a definition. What of parental love? Fraternal? These too can lean toward possession/dominion or not. Besides, in the sexual type, there’s ...

Well, for the record, I also distinctly recall people sporting Obama-the-Hitler posters shortly after the time of his election. Some, in so terming Ob...

Let us frame it this way (not barring disagreements on so doing): there are two justifiable alternatives to the existence of God: a) God is, b) God is...

Some themes stood out: 1. The equivocation between philosophical skepticism (which, in truth, has taken varied forms) and that of modern-day skepticis...

Hey, as I mentioned initially, I don’t have high hopes of me being convincing. This, by the way, due to goodness being here evidenced experientially—a...

It could be both if the expression wasn’t a willfully given deception: the emotion expressed is an event of the world pertaining to aspects of mind—th...

As concerns modern culture, I’d narrow it down to justified belief contrasted with unjustified faith … though I much prefer BC’s answer.

To provide evidence for extramental givens requires rational justification for the particular given addressed being extramental. Yet, I’m so far not f...

Nothing in your post I disagree with, and thank you for it. This underlined part got me thinking. Other than universals being non-phenomenal, the same...

I admit I’ve little hope of succeeding, but I’ll give it a try: The innate notion of good--i.e., of what is beneficial--is, I argue, a universal. By t...

My own affinity to universals stems from belief in those that are, at least to some extent, experiential: the Good, the Aesthetic, etc. (all of which ...

If we frame things in terms of substance(s), for the purpose of my comments let it be hypothesized that substance is equivalent to information—such th...

I disagree with this view. Say you’re down emotionally. You put on a record that resonates with you. You now, after listening to the music, are again ...