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September 26, 2022 at 06:18
I disagree completely. This excludes an "OOO" deity. :halo: Besides, Smith, none of the classical arguments^^ for the possibility of g/G°°are sound wh...
September 26, 2022 at 06:05
That doesn't clarify what you meant by "all gods are possibilities" ... possibilities of what?
September 26, 2022 at 02:22
Closure: A Story of Everything, Hilary Lawson
September 26, 2022 at 00:10
What do you mean by "possibilities"?
September 25, 2022 at 23:07
Yeah, but which "god may exist"?
September 25, 2022 at 07:49
:sparkle: :rofl:
September 25, 2022 at 03:31
Are we alone in the universe? Have we ever been? Frank Drake 1930-2022 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhPQRZJAbe0 We may be living within their simulat...
September 24, 2022 at 21:52
Frank Drake 1930-2022 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhPQRZJAbe0
September 24, 2022 at 21:47
You asked to be corrected. I've done so. Grow up. ¡Hasta!:sweat:
September 24, 2022 at 21:19
I've already referred you to Carol Gilligan. :roll: Update: For anyone interested in actually reading a more extensive synopsis of care ethics than th...
September 24, 2022 at 20:37
"Some individual" is only the originator of the form of ethics at issue. Nevermind, sushi.. You're welcome to your incorrigible misunderstandings. :sh...
September 24, 2022 at 20:09
:clap: :nerd: Even when such an AI (publicly) comes online, why should we listen to such an entity spouting nostroms about "human existence and our me...
September 24, 2022 at 20:02
I have already in my previous post corroborated with a link to the wiki article on care ethics along with its founder Carol Gilligan.
September 24, 2022 at 19:52
I interpret your dichotomy this way: Epicureanism-Stoicism v.Daoism-Buddhism (i.e. eudaimonia v. non-attachment). I had explored the latter (with some...
September 24, 2022 at 19:38
You fail to make the case that care ethics "avoids responsibility" because you haven't stated clearly what you mean by (moral) "responsibility". As th...
September 24, 2022 at 19:04
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September 24, 2022 at 18:10
:mask: Well, it's saying at least as much as "7% of the world's population is responsibble for 50% of the emissions", as you've claimed, is factually ...
September 24, 2022 at 15:04
I think this depends on how g/G is defined or described. Consider positive atheism. :halo:
September 24, 2022 at 07:04
:smirk: 1. Why do "ancient Holistic philosophies" need non-philosophical "support"? 2. What is such "support" suppose to change about or with "ancient...
September 24, 2022 at 04:04
The problem identified is net overconsumption of and/or by national populations as shares of the global population. Why even mention "individual consu...
September 24, 2022 at 03:20
Why aim for "harmony"?
September 23, 2022 at 08:15
:100: :up: (For a few decades now, for me – a self-styled Epicurean-Spinozist, it's been) P.W. Zapffe, A. Camus, C. Rosset, A. Murray ... :death: :flo...
September 23, 2022 at 05:33
Addendum to these addenda :mask: Okay. Fact-check ... Overpopulation is one of the main drivers of anthropogenic climate change. Consider: (carbon dio...
September 23, 2022 at 05:11
:100: :fire: No. We're "addicted" to beliefs.
September 23, 2022 at 03:43
Broadly speaking, a value which satisfies a variable of a self-consistent function is a truth (Dewey-Quine?) Narrowly, a truth is also a public fictio...
September 23, 2022 at 02:27
:up: :clap: :cool:
September 23, 2022 at 00:44
A very powerful woman tells a very weak man (and, by extension, his very weak-minded supporters): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/trum...
September 21, 2022 at 23:27
Sustainability (e.g.circular economics), not eudaimonia (aret?); the latter is the intrinsic benefit of a person living ethically and the former is th...
September 21, 2022 at 02:47
Rather than "essentialism", I attribute to gender in nature a kind of functionalism. Gender is what it's easier to do reliably with respect to reprodu...
September 21, 2022 at 00:23
This is not true. Even if it's the case, despite it's conceptual incoherence, "solipsism" doesn't makes any non-trivial difference to existing day to ...
September 20, 2022 at 21:41
Maybe we can "treat" the Monolith as an event whereby each encounter with it irrevocably changes all that has come before. Every encounter is the same...
September 20, 2022 at 21:01
As long as I can remember I've imagined Kubrick/Clarke's "Monolith" as the ultimate intelligent descendant of terrestrial life interacting with its pr...
September 20, 2022 at 11:09
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September 20, 2022 at 09:52
"I wish I could have skipped college." ~Saul Kripke 1940-2022
September 20, 2022 at 05:05
Link to post with a fairly thoughtful youtube. :nerd:
September 20, 2022 at 03:55
You don't seem to grasp either Tegmark's or Rovelli's ideas of fundamental immanence, which like Spinoza's and Epicurus', entail that there is no "out...
September 19, 2022 at 22:18
Interesting. :chin:
September 19, 2022 at 08:34
Well, my point about was that Hawking is that he does not to assume "objective realism" but model-dependent realism. I don't know what you mean by "ra...
September 19, 2022 at 08:30
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Not "funny", just absurd. :death: :flower:
September 19, 2022 at 08:03
:rofl: Yes, you & the Woo-Crew quote the likes of Rovelli, Stenger, Carroll, Deutsch, Hawking, Feynman et al without the slightest comprehension of wh...
September 19, 2022 at 02:25
:smirk: Addendum to :point: et al. (re: TPF's Quantum-Woo Crew :sparkle:)
September 19, 2022 at 00:27
September 18, 2022 at 23:42
So what does that have to do with what I've written? My comments address the practical historical consequences of what I call "technocapitalist progre...
September 18, 2022 at 20:51
So no haircuts, no claipping toenails, no sneezing or spitting, no bleeding, no fellatio or cunny (even in marriage :yikes: ), no "just war" (re: Cath...
September 18, 2022 at 20:44
I don't understand your post to which I replird with that emoticon.
September 18, 2022 at 20:32
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I think they are right. "Sacred cows" are forms of idolatry and encourage superstition. Read Epicurus / Lucretius. Read Spinoza. Read Tom Paine. Reaf ...
September 18, 2022 at 20:29
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September 18, 2022 at 20:20
I suspect, as with other higher-order metacognitions, h. sapiens are born with an aptitude for making moral judgments and for which degrees of compete...
September 18, 2022 at 20:15
As opposed to "subjective realism"? :chin: Btw, I suspect you know that Hawking proposes model-dependent realism to get around astute objections like ...
September 18, 2022 at 19:56