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In: What is un-relative moral?  — view comment
Apparently not.
September 27, 2020 at 03:44
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Should've posted this here ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/456135
September 26, 2020 at 23:19
In: Should We Fear Death?  — view comment
:death: :flower:
September 26, 2020 at 23:17
In: What is un-relative moral?  — view comment
Disputing it? No. As I've already stated, your "precept" is a vacuous truism akin to 'Eat well and avoid starvation'. :roll: If charitably read as 'ha...
September 26, 2020 at 22:16
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Ok. :yawn:
September 26, 2020 at 09:08
In: What is un-relative moral?  — view comment
"The nature of the good" is clearly implied (i.e. doesn't require "explaining" in order to be recognized-exercised): refraining from doing to anyone w...
September 26, 2020 at 08:51
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Ok. Clearly you don't understand our grand jury system and how it substantially differs in operation and function from our trial jury system. The pros...
September 26, 2020 at 08:29
In: Amy Coney Barrett's nomination  — view comment
Deus fuckin' vult, right? :shade:
September 26, 2020 at 03:49
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
If you read the NYTimes investigative article (9.24.20) I've already appended in a previous post linked (@bottom) here - "While the department had rec...
September 26, 2020 at 02:54
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBHyE18L3o “ I was born here, and I'll die here Against my will I know it looks like I'm moving But I'm standing still ...
September 26, 2020 at 02:29
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Yes. I didn't focus enough on this discrepancy.
September 26, 2020 at 01:55
In: Amy Coney Barrett's nomination  — view comment
As Maw rightly suggests the "confirmation" is a fait accompli. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/453745
September 25, 2020 at 23:29
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
:up: :smirk: You old farts are the bees' knees. Sláinte. :mask: Seems fallacious to blame an entire philosophical school for the sins of one (or a eve...
September 25, 2020 at 23:16
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
:clap: :100: Reread my previous posts and my replies below. I stand by what I wrote. I appreciate the correction. I wasn't as careful with the terms a...
September 25, 2020 at 23:07
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
:up: Benkei doesn't seem to understand that a grand jury (for deciding whether or not to indict suspects on the sole basis of the prosecution's 'theor...
September 25, 2020 at 16:43
In: Can you refute this argument?  — view comment
This is a misplaced concreteness (i.e. reification) fallacy. "The mind" is only a concept. We use our minds in order to attain some understanding of t...
September 25, 2020 at 15:36
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
:clap: Nonsense. There's been no jury trial where "the facts" were cross-examined. And findings in civil suits can play an evidentiary role - if only ...
September 25, 2020 at 15:08
In: Who was right on certainty...Descartes or Lichtenburg?  — view comment
September 25, 2020 at 14:49
In: What makes a good philosopher? (If you consider Nietzsche and Marx to be good)  — view comment
Clear, concise, cant-free anti-sophistry (i.e. demystifying bullshit via dialectics). Bullshit. (e.g. Wittgenstein, Popper, Meillassoux)
September 25, 2020 at 13:17
In: Know Thyself, is it the beginning of all wisdom?  — view comment
'To know that one does not know whatever one believes one knows with certainty' seems the beginning of wisdom.
September 25, 2020 at 13:13
In: Does Analytic Philosophy Have a Negative Social Value?  — view comment
Old fortune cookie: :death: :flower:
September 25, 2020 at 13:08
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
The boyfriend fired one shot in self-defense when the apartment door was broken down. The police reflexively returned fire. They had precipitated the ...
September 25, 2020 at 12:49
In: A plea to the moderators of this site  — view comment
Kind of circular then: there is no proof of the existence of an unbeliever's g/G - well, of course, but vacuous. I think was saying something more (ye...
September 25, 2020 at 04:15
In: A plea to the moderators of this site  — view comment
Not according to any believers, theologians or religious traditions I'm aware of.
September 25, 2020 at 03:54
In: A plea to the moderators of this site  — view comment
Which g/G is that? :roll:
September 25, 2020 at 03:40
In: What is un-relative moral?  — view comment
A vacuous truism like Kant's (rationalistic) 'categorical imperative'. I prefer
September 24, 2020 at 10:05
In: Where could I find a quietist philosopher or resource to defuse philosophical problems with quietism  — view comment
:up:
September 24, 2020 at 06:37
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Addendum: "Say her name!" :fear: :angry:
September 24, 2020 at 06:31
In: What is un-relative moral?  — view comment
:up:
September 24, 2020 at 05:54
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Agreed. ( :yikes: )
September 24, 2020 at 05:52
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
An all-too-often illiberal, minority-ruled (i.e. Senate & Electoral College) - contra-democratic - Madisonian "republic" (aka military-keynesian, neol...
September 24, 2020 at 02:09
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." ~Thomas Jefferson, slave owner
September 23, 2020 at 22:04
In: "My theory of..."  — view comment
Please.
September 23, 2020 at 07:14
In: Do any philosophies or philosophers refute the "all is mind" position?  — view comment
:100: :up:
September 23, 2020 at 05:48
In: All mind, All matter, Dualistic  — view comment
Separating the (science) signal from the (pseudo-science) noise ... :sweat: :up: :up: :up: :clap: :100:
September 23, 2020 at 05:39
In: A short theory of consciousness  — view comment
:up:
September 23, 2020 at 05:19
In: Who was right on certainty...Descartes or Lichtenburg?  — view comment
:smirk:
September 22, 2020 at 02:52
In: Who was right on certainty...Descartes or Lichtenburg?  — view comment
Lichtenburg.
September 21, 2020 at 17:20
In: All mind, All matter, Dualistic  — view comment
Other: Void. (re: Democritus ......... D. Deutsch) From old thread discussions, excerpts of my 'anti-idealist, anti-supernaturalist, anti-nonphysicali...
September 21, 2020 at 07:18
In: Yes, no, and maybe.  — view comment
Define "god" or specify which conception of divinity is at issue, otherwise the question is incoherent.
September 21, 2020 at 01:36
In: Knowledge of Good and Evil  — view comment
:naughty: Preliminary throat-clearing: Categorically Unjust "teachings" 1. inherited guilt (re: "the fall") 2. vicarious redemption (via human sacrifi...
September 21, 2020 at 01:10
In: Is Technology a New Religion?  — view comment
Seems to me the other way around: it's more likely 're-ligare' (i.e. ritual "death denial" idealism of everyday life (Becker)) is the oldest 'technolo...
September 20, 2020 at 05:21
In: Greek versus Roman Philosophy  — view comment
:100:
September 20, 2020 at 04:17
In: Let's talk about The Button  — view comment
:fire:
September 20, 2020 at 02:58
In: Should we care about "reality" beyond reality?  — view comment
"A principle of courage ..."
September 20, 2020 at 01:45
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
If Putin's Bitch & Moscow Mitch replace the late Justice RGB, then, unfortunately but by all means, the next POTUS (Biden or Pelosi) and Democratic Co...
September 19, 2020 at 15:31
In: Greek versus Roman Philosophy  — view comment
:smirk:
September 19, 2020 at 04:10
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
more september readings: • Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger • I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche, Sue Prideaux
September 19, 2020 at 02:50
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-49488374 "Baruch dayan ha'emet!" ...the shofar blows this night in your honor ... 26...
September 19, 2020 at 02:24
In: Should we care about "reality" beyond reality?  — view comment
Okay.
September 18, 2020 at 22:37
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