Seems to me that, in order for this to make any kind of sense whatsoever, one would need to presume that the hunter-gatherers who live in “nature itse...
The first paragraph in the subsection "Social and economic structure": There's a lot more to read to the same effect, with most of it being well-enoug...
If by "the distant past" you're willing to go all the way back to when everyone was of a hunter and gatherer tribe, all indications seem to suggest ot...
Well, hey, you want to make this all philosophicalish and all? To get back to the breakfast of ham and eggs theme: "Commitment in a relationship resul...
No, no, no. Just a general joke thrown out there to a general audience. Thought it appropriate this being the shoutbox. Nothing personal intended by i...
Commitment ain't always all that bad of a thing. Whether to a cause or to a significant other. Better than being a chicken about it. (If this needs ex...
I’ll add that both global and national percentage differences between male and female populations, though not perfectly equal, are so negligible as to...
:smile: OK, you, I'll take you're word for it. All the same, I can't escape the hunch that many, if not most, tend to disagree with this. "Power" bein...
OK, going back to the OP in addressing the problem of masculinity: Is the occurrence of "masculinity" of itself contingent on there existing "a weaker...
Dudes and Dudettes, were gender to be fully biologically determined, empirically verifiable examples such as these would never occur: I saw a document...
I’ll be away for a while, but in case this comes up: Though I can imagine how what I mentioned in my previous post might sound uncouth to some, so int...
Would you then agree that, from within an Abrahamic perspective, the same “rules” of ethics would minimally go back to Gensis 1’s so-called “sixth day...
I ask (in my previous post) because to my way of understanding, this so called "pivotal intent" of maximizing eudemonia (which can be translated as "w...
Ok, so maximal eudemonia is the goal or else consequence pursued. The pivotal intent, so to speak. Doesn't the exact same apply to all theistic people...
In case you did not know, if you want to reply to a specific post, go to the bottom of the post and you'll see an arrow pop up. Press on that arrow an...
Not one iota. Power is strictly in the enforcement of the law. Human laws are in effect nothing more than dictums, statements - which as statements ca...
The answer to this question is contingent on how these words get defined and thereby understood. Suppose that among its other attributes “subjective” ...
It goes by the name, "planet Earth". Yup. Power relegated to the people. Not just some at expense of others, but all. I'm here guestimating you disagr...
I don't think I'm "confusing science with scientist". Isn't it only via science that we can affirm things such as that ESP has no objective bearing? I...
Too many criminals getting away with their crimes in this world for me to consider it the nature of reality. But perhaps you've addressed "reality" as...
It here sounds like you're referring to something like karma, rather than a deity's judgments. That's what taxes are all about, right? One's giving of...
Given what you've previously said - namely, that the opposite of "philosophical determinism" is not randomness but supernaturalism - this term of "sci...
In general agreement with 's observations, I personally think that the OP might (?) be emotively taking a long, roundabout, and maybe scapegoat way of...
Not essential to the issue, but I'll add this to my former post just in case it might eventually come up: Yes, the naturalistic pantheism of someone l...
In trying to presume the best here: your usage of the term does not equate to the usage of the term. If it did, then theological determinism would equ...
Quite true. I wasn't. Since monism too comes in different flavors - to include both neutral monism and idealism - it can only be a naturalism in the f...
D1, as specified by you, is "philosophical determinism". Not "naturalism". And you yourself provided the SEP link to reference D1 as such. From the li...
It seems to me one can here only point to the Good, of a platonic / neoplatonic repute. It by entailment would be a) a completely fixed aspect of all ...
OK, thanks of the replies. Want to point out that this example is not good, though. Given a metaphysics of determinism, though epistemically unpredict...
First, I take it that we then agree that by randomness we are not addressing mere unpredictability but, instead, some ontic attribute of reality. You ...
To this effect: If one intends to save a life (and has good enough reason to believe oneself capable of so doing) but accidentally kills it (say in th...
This is the principle area where I'm losing what you're trying to say (all other differences of opinion to me follow suit): If determinism, of any var...
As an afterthought to my previous post, to bring this purely philosophical issue of determinism more into the purview of physics, to me determinism - ...
:grin: No worries about the link. And many thanks for the thoughtful clarifications. I get that there can be found ambiguities in many definitions if ...
Without in any way denying this, in parallel, what I’ve previously termed “the dark side of faith” can also manifest thusly: The conviction that the s...
I very much like the general thrust of your thesis and find much agreement with it, but as a minor quibble: Knowledge so construed would be lacking in...
Are you sure you provided the correct link? To be clear, as it stands, this forum post (which your link takes me to) does not reference any SEP articl...
The link you provide does not provide links to philosophical references regarding the term "determinism." But I grant there's a bunch of variants: bio...
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