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– for what? This statement doesn't make sense (i.e. is a category mistake) because "existence" in not an action or practice and therefore cannot be pr...

:ok: If you say so ...

If you say so ... sorry I can't follow the rest of your post. Superficially maybe. I'd rather put it this way: philosophy consists in reflective quest...

We do it all the time – the "visits and changes" are our memories. Also, all the starlight that reaches Earth is years-to-millennia millennia old and ...

:ok: I must've missed all that ...

This interpretation seems to me both the most evidence-based and consistent with human experience.

Okay, summarize the relevant part of Durkheim's thesis that accounts for (or explains away) this observation: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...

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And what is "the good" to "anyone" – philosopher and non-philosopher alike?

So only philosophers can recognize or seek "the highest good"?

What does "highest good", as you're using the term, mean or refer to?

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml :roll:

Your thesis statement is circular at best (e.g. the study of value is 'the highest value' :roll:).

What you keep saying has nothing to do with what I've written. "Appreciation" is irrelevant to my concerns as expressed here .

No. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/902327 Also in terms of ethics and logic. Axiology is the study of value. https://en.m.wikipedia...

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The systematic atrocity of Netanyahu's mass murdering with impunity goes on because (A) Israel receives too much US-EU finanvial & military support an...

The topic concerns "core beliefs" and not core delusions (e.g. pet conspiracy theories). "Brain worm" troubling you today, BC? :sweat:

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No. Life seems to be suffering plus *temporarily better or worse conditions / interpretations* ... I think one sustainably reduces one's own suffering...

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War crimes are always "justified" by the victors. Your poll is ahistorical, therefore incoherent. :up:

Point taken. I'll remember not to cast anymore pearls before you, @"BitconnectCarlos".

Clearly your "faith" has martyred your honesty and intelligence. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/902594

Nonsense. Martyrs usually possess an overpowering "sense of purpose" which allows (causes) them to annihilate themselves (and often others too) "in th...

"Fear" of what? :smirk: And how does "an important belief" deter ... suicide?

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How does faith deter anything let alone suicide?

:up: :up: Amen. :smirk: A link below to a thread dicussion ... for religious apologists like @"BitconnectCarlos" (of several decades of systematic col...

Go troll somewhere else. You're stupid AF, kid. :yawn:

I don't understand what you mean by "appreciation".

(i.e.) Millennia of slaughtering babies & other innocents in the "Promised Land" ("Holy Land"). Countless human blood sacrifices demanded by the insat...

Only if the process is completely painless for both dogs and humans, then yes of course. I think in order to do good, at minimum, the means must susta...

Ancients called that "gnosis" or "nirvana" ... :victory: :cool:

Have accusations of deicide (Matthew 27:25) and the blood libel at the heart of Christian antisemitism for over a millennium (from pogroms to inquisit...

The profoundly gullible have always deluded themselves with 'cosmic conspiracies' (e.g. Abraham's "Covenant", Christ's "Second Coming", ... Lovecraft'...

Maybe ...

Yes I agree insofar as. I've come to experientially understand (any) "good" as a reflective practice of negating – effectively preventing/reducing – d...

Yes, ritualized reality-denial. Which is why I define "faith" as believing in the unbelievable in order to defend the indefensible and excuse the inex...

IMO, philosophy is 'reasoning to the most probative questions which we do not (yet) know how to answer' by fooloholics committed to daily recovery fro...

:fire: Yes yes – a minimally moral (i.e. empathic-benevolent) person, who knows a child is on the verge of being raped and also has the power to preve...

Democratic Socialism (e.g. the Nordic model). My preferred version is economic democracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy plus demar...

NYC is all prepped for Criminal Defendant-1's imminent perp walk ... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/trump-rikers-jail-eric-ad...

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We marginal lefties (like myself) "aspire to socialism" in this postmodern-identitarian, neoliberal-corporatist, reactionary populist era? And no: "UB...

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Oh yes, but I think all those other "aspects of yourself" are derivatives from what you asked about in the OP: "purpose (in itself)" – and not just me...

Immediate fucking ceasefire! :scream: Yeah well, since that won't ever happen given the zionfascist status quo, I "propose" a just as far-fetched, thr...

1619. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/historical-significance-1619/596365/