Semantics without substance. Non sequitur, Andrew. Don't be evasive. Well, since I haven't referred "to all cooperative and altruistic acts as moral",...
Maybe ad absurdum (e.g. "destroying the village in order to save the village" :roll:) but it's not an ethical conclusion because moral utility only ap...
I don't think so. Assuming that the occasional joys of life do not justify or compensate for life's inexorable and useless suffering, antinatalism pro...
:up: "Cooperation" itself (e.g. Nazis' "die Endlösung") is only a means which doesn't entail an ethical end (i.e. flourishing / well-being). To wit: A...
My apologies for the defect in my character whereby my brand of historical nostalgia fails to be myopic and pollyanna enough for your liking. Enjoy yo...
Okay. We're now just talking past each other. Thanks for the exchange. Well, as I've pointed out previously, I prefer 'economic democracy fortified by...
I've always appreciated Bohmian ontological holism (à la Spinoza?) as a climb up from (and tossing away the ladder) above monism aka "reductionism" wh...
Assuming that the observable universe is the interior of a black hole, this dynamic structure – Spinoza-Einstein's natura naturans – expands an unboun...
Do cripples value crutches? :chin: I suppose history and math have failed too ... When does it ever make sense, Andrew, to blame a tool because fools ...
This digression might interest you, Benj: The DNA molecule (and DNA-RNA system) is a self-replicating autopoiesis process 'recently' modeled by Chiara...
If by "theories" you mean explanations of how states of affairs change or formal abstractions work, then I don't think "religions qualify as theories"...
Ah yes, "ruled by reason" such as that of misogynistic slave cultures like Classical Greece and Rome upon which our ethnic cleansing settlers' "consti...
Both are true as I further elaborate in this subsequent post ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/807274 In the context of the discus...
For me "view from everywhere" refers to objectivity / perspective-invariance (immanence), whereas "view from being there" refers to subjectivity / per...
Well, in comparison to ST TOS's aircraft carrier-like Enterprise, the ST TNG's Enterprise-D is a "Love Boat"-like cruise ship. :smirk: https://m.youtu...
:up: Mostly, yeah, especially since the 1980s. To my mind, 'the administrative state' beginning in the 1930s had postponed for almost cenrury this US ...
Regarding the US, our political democracy without economic democracy is a democracy-in-name-only (DINO) which, from periodic national crisis to crisis...
NB: I have thoroughly read Meillassoux & Brassier but immediately lose interest whenever I start reading Harman. Clarify what you mean by "understood"...
The NYS civil trial begins October 2nd; it's a black & white "documents case" that should last no more than two months with a verdict just in time for...
If Sexual Predator-1 is on the ballot in the fall of 2024 he will be running as an Independent / Third Party candidate and not as the GOP nominee. Why...
By 'nihilism' I understand the belief that nothing human (i.e. mortal, finite, caused, contingent, imperfect) is meaningful or significant or real. Th...
Read any religious philosopher's (auto)biography and note how subtly, even ingeniously, the juxtapositioning inconsistency of reflective reason with d...
No, "just us"; specifically: only human brains cannot scientifically explain human consciousness. IMO, ChatGPT is a toy compared to the AGI that's com...
Maybe. I think it's more likely, however, that a "religious philosopher" is an apologetic critic of naturalism, irreligion and/or religions (or sects)...
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ~Benedictus de Spinoza :up: Yes, of course, beginning wi...
You're using "ideal" in a colloquial sense as synonymous with aspirational and I replied to it in a philosophical sense as epistemological. Nevermind....
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