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So what? Most criminals 'believe' they are not guilty of their crimes. Moral reasoning and judgment is preventative, or proactive, not an in media res...

Without warrant you ascribe the property of being "finite" to "person" which is not intrinsic to the concept. Also, circles (or spheres) are both infi...

Yes, metaphysiically, not logically.

Can you distinguish between politics (or jurisprudence) and ethics, Joshs? Hillel's principle, as I call it, concerns moral encounters with others (M....

"Infinite person" is one person that is infinite in extent, not "more than one" person. The concept is no more contradiction in logic than "pegasus" o...

I can't follow you. Literalism is the death of reasoning and judgment. It is hateful to me to be amputated unless it is medically necessary to prevent...

Elaborate on what?

The above misses the point. You are talking about 'public policy"' and Hillel is talking about moral conduct. No "loopholes" when comparing apples and...

I still don't know why I bother. I've been scribbling incessantly since preschool. Why do it? Like for most who write, putting down 500 words of prose...

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Welcome to the forum! :up: IMO, no one yet, secular or religious, has improved on ... i.e. harmful¹

:up: :up: IMO, that's instrumental reasoning (re: things, i.e. means-to-ends) and not moral reasoning (re: persons, i.e. ends-in-themselves) which I'd...

A metaphysical impossibility such as 'an infinite person' is logically possible, no?

"Conservatism?" To conserve the status quo (ante). The oppressor always desires peace in the form of a completely pacified, oppressed population – per...

"Shalom!" :mask: :up:

:lol: Wtf are you talking about, tim?! Your (Dunning-Kruger level) historical illiteracy and/or self-deception are stunning.

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Plenty of "controlling" females have crossed my path but not enough commanding women (or men for that matter). :fire:

Brilliantly succinct – Wille zur Macht – oh yeah! You 'mansplain' that much much better than I ever could, lady! :clap: :cool::flower:

This. Chance. The universe. "Life" (i.e. local order) is just entropy's rarified way of increasing entropy (i.e. global disorder). Compared to what? A...

So what's your point? Israel (& its settler-colonialist apatheid policy) has been a US-client state for over a half-century.

You shouldn't be. :sweat:

@"BitconnectCarlos" @"RogueAI" @"tim wood" @"schopenhauer1" Can you handle some more truth? https://youtu.be/qMRIqznX9IM?si=WHH2oXU83Obx6sDc "This is ...

You are my example. :zip: Of course, science cannot address non-scientific topics (and vice versa).

Thanks for proving my point that you have no idea what you are talking about, Pantagruel. :clap:

:sweat: Gotcha, it's so basic or fundamental to science that you can't provide a single example.

That's not my understanding of scientific practice. Science certainly does not "study itself". Again, you got examples? There must be countless many i...

I don't think so. :up: Please clarify. Examples would be helpful.

Thank you for pointing this out. @"FrancisRay" is like too many others who traffic in "doctrines" and dogmas and take offense when someone attempts to...

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Proscrastination feels like being killed slowly.

This is what thinkers, particularly philosophers, do, Francis: we disturb the peace (i.e. smug givens, unexamined assumptions, etc). You're right, tho...

:up: Well said. Reminds me mostly of the ataraxia teachings of Epicureans and Stoics (which, no doubt, influenced Montaigne, Spinoza, et al). :up: :up...

:rofl: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/855739

:roll: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/859880

You say "Perennial Philosophy" explains but you do not give (or summarize) the explanation. You also say it "predicts"; but in the absence of any inte...

Only semantically. :roll: Rather, we only have to show by the preponderance of the evidence that the universe observed is just as predicted by theory ...

https://youtu.be/PwvF23bvgTM?si=YlbySfcmDXwgLIJe "Cars Hiss By My Window" (4:10) LA Woman, 1971 The Doors b. 8Dec43 https://youtu.be/nIR6AAjEg5U?si=3M...

i. What 'facts of the matter' do "the nondual doctrine of the Perennial Philosophy" explain? ii. What 'predictions' can be derived from this "Perennia...

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Use someone else's story from a past TPF "story contest" as a prompt – take it's premise, protagonist / antagonist or setting and run with it to explo...

Denny Laine d. 2023 https://youtu.be/Plhtk_XJqhM?si=Kzp8W_qa1Rqxeg00 "Mull of Kintyre" (4:45) A-side single, 1977 writers Paul McCartney & Denny Laine...

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Confusion =/= perplexity. 'Clarity of the latter' (inquiry) is not the same as 'more of the former' (word salad). :roll: Anyway, I recommend reading P...

On the contrary, Jack, I make a distinction between philosophical questions and non-philosophical observations such as you've made. I find your OP con...

:up: You've made some 'empirical observations' but still have not yet raised a philosophical question as far as I can tell. Yes, this is what a modern...

Context.

Please be more precise: what is (your) philosophical question – perplexity – about "emotions"?

No "cool kids" here, just thinkers and blinkers.