Given the factcity of disvalues (i.e. whatever is bad for – harmful to – natural beings)^^, it is a performative contradiction not to reduce disvalues...
You're mistaken again. I've not asked for "proof" of anything including for you to "prove a negative". Apparently, Amadeus, you don't have an answer f...
IME, for most members of amy congregation are engaged in groupthink and conform to sectarian traditions reinforced repeated ad nauseam sermons of thei...
It's no "problem" for theists: "the good = God" and f*ck the Euthyphro! After all, the habit of believing long precedes – even trumps – thinking. The ...
wtf :clap: :rofl: "In the beginning there was no beginning" (i.e. there is no north of the North Pole just as there is no edge of a sphere or first po...
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ~Spinoza :100: The religious (dogmatic) mindset's catego...
"Arbitrary?" In ethics, "moral" means something else? My parenthetical stipulation, which you've underlined, expresses empathy (absent some pathologic...
Yes. Here's a recent post from another thread that might make clearer and more precise what I mean by moral naturalism ... https://thephilosophyforum....
I'm not a "dentist" either and you're completely mistaken about moral naturalism as I've used the term in this thread. "Morality" is certainly not "in...
My brother and I were raised in the same observant Catholic family and educated for a dozen years in the same Catholic schools but he remains a life-l...
My understanding is that non-pathological "dreams", like base emotions such as desires & fears, are offline (subconscious-involuntary) cognitions whic...
In sum, "faith" is trust in magical thinking (that too many adults never outgrow re: ) in stark contrast to fallibilistic "belief" based on trust in d...
@"Manuel" :up: Re: "spirit" (that which breathes, or breaths / voices / winds) & "ghost" (i.e. traum or geist ... dream or in/of the mind ... daimon, ...
I think of them as personal (or ancestral) memories and traumatic (or social) histories, respectively. IMO, such beliefs (i.e. literal projections) ar...
:up: :up: From what I can tell, sir, that so-called "relationship" is pretty weak. While interdisciplinary disciplines like moral psychology, evolutio...
"Empathy" and other emotions are not "cooperation strategies innate to the universe" anymore than (e.g.) strawberries are caused by strawberry-flavore...
Neither (A) whether or not there is "free will" nor (B) whether or not one believes one has "free will" changes the fact that actions (causes) necessa...
This claim seems to me quite an unwarranted (reductive) leap that, so to speak, puts the cart (cultural norms) before the horse (human facticity). Exp...
:death: :flower: I've neither claimed or implied otherwise. Obviously, as an existential fact, suffering is not avoidable; morally, however, suffering...
Same here, despite a decade or so of Catholic Catechism, altar boy service & bible study, I couldn't shake the (naive?) question: why believe in this ...
The question for me, however, is whether or not 'claims about g/G (e.g. theism, deism) are demonstrably true'. AFAIK, such claims are not demonstrably...
I wonder if you can think of something interesting to say without taking either my words or Nietzsche's out of context. https://thephilosophyforum.com...
IME, the manifest function of 'US corporate news media' primarily has been to inform the business class & its mandarins (i.e. shareholders) while simu...
I'm not saying that. Again, I'm saying this: for the reasons given in that post. No apology needed. I don't think so. BBT explains only the developmen...
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