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Well, I suppose that's why I didn't bold "nihilist" in your quote. Free of "transcendence", like me you're more of an absurdist or Spinozist, Nietzsch...
May 01, 2024 at 07:33
:up: STFU.
May 01, 2024 at 05:13
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May 01, 2024 at 03:08
If so, then how do you know that your "science of morality" can help anyone actually do ethics?
May 01, 2024 at 00:33
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April 30, 2024 at 21:45
I don't know what that is. You have not proposed any moral prescriptions, so I'm not sure what you're asking. And I've previously stated my position w...
April 30, 2024 at 21:41
GFY and watch the videos I've linked throughout this thread. Or go troll someone else with your ahistorical apologia and disinformation.
April 30, 2024 at 19:34
I didn't claim or imply that it did. You make it an empty phrase, Mark, by confessing you do not know what "our ultimate moral goals" are and yet prop...
April 30, 2024 at 19:32
:roll: Tell that to the non-Ashkenazim of color (Mizrani Jews, Sephardic Jews, Ethopian Jews, Indian Jews) in Israel who are racially discriminated ag...
April 30, 2024 at 19:26
So what? Non sequitur. So what? Besides, modern Ashkenazim certainly were not – they are European invaders and colonizer-settlers.
April 30, 2024 at 18:44
@"Jack Cummins" Religion is (especially in its manifest theocratic forms are) the denial, or negation, of morality (e.g. teleological suspension of th...
April 30, 2024 at 18:35
Colonizer-settler. :shade:
April 30, 2024 at 18:22
Psychologism is unwarranted. There are plenty of non-depressed, even happy, nihilists pessimists cynics & fatalists. Besides, if "nothing matters", th...
April 30, 2024 at 18:19
How do you know this? (Of course you don't.) Sounds to me like the "happy slaves" trope of white supremacist propaganda. 'Uncle Toms' (e.g. Clarence T...
April 30, 2024 at 18:08
So "our ultimate moral goals" is just an empty phrase, mere rhetoric, and your "science of morality" "determines" that. :ok: Mere scientism ...
April 30, 2024 at 17:54
:eyes: :rofl:
April 30, 2024 at 17:49
:fire: Your willful ignorance or disinformation is pathetic, BC, especially since many of the protestors are Jewish students. :shade: https://m.youtub...
April 30, 2024 at 17:40
It's never been a mystery to me – formerly a 7 year black resident of the "ruby red" deep south following 13 years in the once "bright red" gun-crazed...
April 30, 2024 at 16:35
'Free will or determinism?' doesn't matter. 'Nothing matters' also doesn't matter. If we have no choice (i.e. "free will"), then we are determined (i....
April 30, 2024 at 01:18
Or die before you learn you are – or how to be – unfulfilled.
April 30, 2024 at 01:08
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April 29, 2024 at 01:14
:100: :up: :up: Weak dodge. Your so-called "solution" doesn't matter ? isn't worth considering – if there is not an actual problem (or its merely a ps...
April 29, 2024 at 01:05
What exactly are those "ultimate moral goals" and, since "moral science" is not prescriptive, what is the non-scientific basis for determining such "g...
April 29, 2024 at 00:55
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZM1WQKwpl0 I think ethics (re: moral agency) is concerned with the cultivation of human flourishing whereas politics (r...
April 28, 2024 at 11:32
Certainly this – what you describe here – is mind-independent, no?
April 28, 2024 at 10:32
From a 2022 thread Does nothingness exist? ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/707639 examples: a donut or hole in a bucket / boat o...
April 28, 2024 at 06:48
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Ah cool, we're former barfly brothers! (Btw, fucking "healthy livers" are overrated, mate.) :smirk:
April 28, 2024 at 05:04
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April 28, 2024 at 03:32
We cannot** since only the dead are free from "all harm" or conflict; however, far more often than not, we can prevent greater harms from occuring and...
April 27, 2024 at 23:49
:up: To the extent our "conflicts" are not violent (e.g. win-win), they facilitate our searching for – not our ever finding "unquestionable" – truthes...
April 27, 2024 at 13:03
With all due respect, I didn't ask for hypothetical dilemmas; rather I asked for your experiences of kinds of harm which no one else is vulnerable to ...
April 27, 2024 at 00:11
Really? Name a kind of harm that you have undergone and yet, because it's not "objective" phenomenon, no one else is vulnerable to it or can recognize...
April 26, 2024 at 23:55
Harm, or suffering, is not merely subjective (as I've sketched previously ) whereas "happiness" is whollly subjective (e.g. hedonic set-points are not...
April 26, 2024 at 23:29
@"Leontiskos" – Assuming you intend to reply, I've just edited my previous post so that (hopefully) my statements are clearer.
April 26, 2024 at 21:24
"Assume" whatever you like but you've not offered a valid argument yet and without any demonstrable evidence of either "causality" (Hume) or "some div...
April 26, 2024 at 13:58
What about vaccuum fluctuations, virtual particles or other random events? And, like the "first point", or edge, on a circumference, the cause of caus...
April 26, 2024 at 13:46
Naturalism. Naturalism is internally coherent and consistent with the demonstrable facts of both our species' cognitive limitations and the regulariti...
April 26, 2024 at 13:42
:lol: Our 'imaginary friend' does not tell us anything because we take our meds everyday as prescribed and do not ever oppress and ethnically cleanse ...
April 26, 2024 at 11:50
@"RogueAI" @"Moses" et al ... Several decades of suffering of the dispossessed – Warsaw Ghettoized – Palestinian people. https://imeu.org/article/quic...
April 26, 2024 at 07:36
I don't understand the question. :confused: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism (I interpret this reducing harm-caused-by-personal...
April 26, 2024 at 05:02
Jenna Ellis has already flipped on her boss in Georgia so it's more likely than not she will do it again in Arizona. Rudy Guiliani is due for a meltdo...
April 25, 2024 at 22:56
:up: Exactly! From 2021 ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/501897 :nerd:
April 25, 2024 at 08:02
Maybe I've missed it but could you briefly describe "classical justice" or link to a post upthread where you discuss it. Thanks.
April 25, 2024 at 07:17
You think the points mentioned in thie wiki article below are just pie-in-the-sky fantasies? My guess is we're only limited by current technology sinc...
April 25, 2024 at 07:10
24April24 Today in Trumpenfraude: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/ Wh...
April 25, 2024 at 06:21
:yawn: Here's a video of an interview with Jewish-American (forensic scholar) political activist Norman Finklestein with the title: Memory Of The Holo...
April 25, 2024 at 05:04
Willful ignorance (my mistake assuming the video, etc I'd offered you upthread would help educate you on this matter) or craven deceit. :shade: Obviou...
April 24, 2024 at 14:05
The aggressor-oppressor (apartheid) State of Israel first. :up:
April 24, 2024 at 04:50
:roll: Clearly you are severely allergic – cognitively dissonant due – to the relevant historical and critical information provided most recently by a...
April 24, 2024 at 04:12
They all should be released asap just as all the Palestinian non-militants held hostage and tortured in Israeli prisons should be released. And the ne...
April 23, 2024 at 21:24