Gregory

I do not think it's civilized in this country to have a Nuremberg trial situation. I think they should make abortion illegal, promote healthy birth co...

You didn't say you wanted to be an abortion doctor. Anyway, the death penalty is applied by the state as we all know. It won't happen for abortion bec...

Philosophy can be a very dangerous thing

As a sign of respect to your humanity, I'll tell you that you don't have any unique arguments for abortion anyway. It's the same private opinions on w...

There a difference between keeping someone alive and killing them, just as there is a difference between murdering someone and killing someone who is ...

I'm not going to respond to you on this because there were other ways to respond to what I initially said instead of saying you'd be happy to perform ...

I'll add this tonight: Imagine you watched a nature show where a female bear violently hits her side against a tree to kill her cub inside her. You wo...

Pro-choice arguments are all 1) low IQ arguments, as "pro-choice" indicates 2) an appeal to emotion, as the title "pro-choice", again, indicates 3) a ...

Teenagers should learn morals instead of being taught its OK to kill their offspring. An abortion would ruin her life more

German idealists are different in some respects from each other, but there is a reason the four greats of that tradition are of one school in the eyes...

Fitche, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer all held the same philosophy after you put unnecessary details away. They are materialists and turn their m...

I'm a materialist and I feel exactly like when I was a Catholic

My point was that how religious people think materialism must be like is kinda a myth. Materialists and religious people usually experience life the s...

If they are not already dead then duh you don't kill them. Science is not blurry when life is, both at the beginning and end. It's people who say "not...

You said Socrates wasn't an atheist because he believed in immortality. Yet you like Buddhism? Western religious people don't really understand was at...

Pro-choice people shut down their conscience and think of the issue with reason disconnected to conscience. What right have they to arbitrarily say wh...

Morning after pill is obviously abortion. People have reasons for defending abortion and these reasons blur their reasoning. Just as people justified ...

It's pretty obvious what human life is unless you are trying to justify abortion

The basic premise of pro-life belief is that we follow common sense and respect all human life. It's not about philosophy. People used philosophy to j...

I'm not going to argue philosophy with a doodoo elderly Nazi

That's gross. I'm not a Christian btw. Christianity is pro-abortion because God in their system can command abortion and so maybe does I'm an atheist ...

Scum of the earth..

Abortion doctors should all literally be crucified. If you wouldn't actually kill a fetus yourself you shouldn't be supporting it

Yes I believe the universe is limitless potentiality with an eternal actual element that has always existed and moves by the laws of physics. Potentia...

I made a specific point about Aristotle: that "cause" and "reason" are not *necessarily* related. I thought it was connected to what you were saying, ...

Maritain was a modern student of Aquinas whom more than all Catholics worshipped the sun. Aquinas relentlessly talked about natural light and color, a...

Maritain wasn't spiritual

There is no way to prove purpose in Nature fom science so if natural explanations work for someone then you can't reasonably talk of "reasons" for Nat...

The ends of life are interior but you mention Aristotle who put ends in everything and who is always incoherent.

I'm emphasizing that not everyone expresses their inner experience the same. So the ends of one person may seem different from someone else. We don't ...

Aquinas's arguments are grounded (unfounded) in a very specific ontology. There can't be two "Pure Acts" he says, even though they CAN be distinguishe...

I got the reference but my point was that scientists who study Aristotle do worse in science than those who purposely reject it

I'm saying that life doesn't has to be seen as predetermined by a Final Causality that permeates everything. You don't seem to disagree

Kant's hard to understand correctly, but Aquinas thinks it's self evident that material things are contingent and something necessary is needed and it...

Points are always tricky things. They are dimentionless but not nothing

I guess I'll add that Aquinas held the idea of simplicity vs corporality very close to his heart. Without this distinction his arguments fails. If you...

Leibniz invented calculus and seemed to say objects have infinite parts (monads). He argued for God using the ontological arguments, which was best ex...

There is no "final cause" because the end of the universe hasn't happened. Ends are within the framework of an eternal set of effects with the latter ...

The fact the "ideas of physics" are not the same as "ideas of biology and chemistry " means we cannot reduce the latter to the former. Ideas are the o...

Many scientific ways of thinking about it

That's looking at one aspect life when there are infinite ways of seeing it

No, the Aristotelian error is thinking of cause and reason in the same line of thought

The cause of the universe is the infinite series of physical effects. That might not have a relationship to a reason for the universe

Physicists have to think in lots of novel, unintuitive ways to come up with breakthru ideas. Aristotle thinks unintuitive thinking is by definition wr...

Aristotle had a system in which form is actualized by existence to form essence. But yet form didn't even exist before it had existence! This paradox ...

The "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematica" in science is about the unreasonable effectiveness of science in general. That is, if reasonableness i...

Aristotle would have popped himself if he was told that a tightened string has more mass than a relaxed one, but yet it's true. Aristotileans have nev...

Basing a metaphysics on substance pure and simple has A causing B as the principle of all metaphysics. But there are other ways of conceiving this as ...

When scientists explain the emergence of mind from brain /spine action, they speak with terms that help conceptualize the concept. Using more basic at...

My point is very simple. If we explain a flower with biology terms and understandings, we use concepts that are scientific and much closer to reality ...