I disagree. Neither religion is "about morality" IMO. Christianity is mainly concerned with eschatology and Buddhism is mainly concerned with soteriol...
Which is wiser (i.e. less foolish (self-immiserating))? :chin: Christian: "For Heaven's sake, save your soul from Hell!" (Suffer as Christ suffered.) ...
“You can be poor, but you can educate yourself for free.” ~S.A. Cosby * "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy" ~Jo...
September readings: • Classical Indian Philosophy, P. Adamson & J. Ganeri • Razorblade Tears: A Novel, S.A. Cosby https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/b...
Looking at the sun "With-Both-Eyes-Open" will completely blind you. Remember, the old skalds tell us, Odin sacrificed an eye for wisdom. "The right ey...
:up: :up: An interpretation of 'virtue ethics' (re: Philippa Foot, Martha Nussbaum) in a Spinozist-Peircean sense: In sum: inhabiting a habitat with o...
You're conflating legal and moral claims. The topic at issue concerns legal prohibitions, not moral blame. Unless I misread the OP, you're now moving ...
On topic. Victimless? Legally, my friend, not morally. Addicts self-harm willingly to begin with and only are victims when at the mercy of street deal...
Do you really think drugs are criminalized to "protect" rather than produce (e.g. Nixon's "war on drugs") potential victims? :roll: The opioid epidemi...
Consider this legal rule or principle: A free state (i.e. open society) shall not prohibit victimless consensual conduct except in cases where such co...
The vacuum is prior to spacetime – an expanding fluctuation – and not merely coterminous with it. The vacuum, though an ostensible object, or factual ...
You may be right. As Kafka wrote: "There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us." Still, the teachings of e.g. the Buddha, L...
More approaches come from explicitly combining two or three of the approaches which you've mentioned in various ways. In my case, 'becoming a better p...
Thanks, Jack. The virus caught me sometime in late February (fortunately, before the "Delta variant" hit the US) but the infection's symptoms weren't ...
If hard determinism is the case, then your (any!) argument is merely determined and no other consideration matters. Only if hard determinism is the ca...
Okay. Another, in fact, ineluctable "justification" in this context is one has no choice and yet does not feel compelled because all conduct is hard/p...
And economic dependency on a husband as the sole bread-winner in a household (in the current neoliberal, anti-wage earner / pro-investor economy no le...
I disagree with your interpretation, Gnomon, because Max Tegmark explicitly says – which I point out in my previous post – that he is not proposing th...
I'm afflicted with dysthymia so it's been several years since I've enjoyed food enough for meals themselves to be memorable. I have to schedule meals ...
In the summer '77 I was probably the only 13 y.o. in the northern hemisphere, at least, who wasn't WOW'd by Star Wars and grew to dislike it, even hat...
In principle I'm nonpartisan as well. I also think that matriarchy is more eusocial than antisocial, which makes it more consistent with our "monkey b...
I suspect when The Fabs had recorded "Something", George's marriage to Pattie was on very thin ice and his best mate Eric (Clapton) was already "court...
My working definitions: Patri-archy, n. – exclusive sovereignty of males which benefits ancestors (monuments) at the expense of descendents. Matri-arc...
If hard determinism, then one adopting a morality is determined; therefore, every evaluation of "moral and immoral", "good and bad", "right and wrong"...
Tegmark quite explicitly says that "minds" are (like) recursive mathematical functions and "matter" is a type of interaction by recursive mathematical...
Well, aren't women's bodies (property) and civil penalties (money) at issue now? "The state's interest" in protecting the property rights of slavers (...
https://youtu.be/4cq7CzSC7u0 A Love Supreme (33:02) 1965 composer John Coltrane, 1964 The John Coltrane Quartet J. Coltrane - saxophones J. Garrison -...
Why assume (commit a category mistake) that anyone would try to use a logic which regulates making "decisions in everyday life" for domains which "no ...
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