But then don't you have three distinct persons - three gods - not one? I don't see anything in those quotes that forces one to posit three gods rather...
What does that mean? A person is a mind, a bearer of mental states. A 'nature' is had by something. You can't be 'in' a nature - that makes no sense. ...
Er, what you presented wasn't an argument. It was just a numbered list of arbitrary propositions! What I presented was an argument. It was valid, you ...
Well, I am just interested to uncover the reasoning. Are there statements in the bible that do not admit of any interpretation other than the incohere...
It's not a circular argument. You clearly don't know what that means. A circular argument is an argument one of the premises of which asserts the conc...
Again, if morality is made of God's attitudes and - as you think is the case - genocides have never been right, then the conclusion is that God has ne...
No, Isaac, for you then proceeded to bang on about the benefits that life confers on the liver, yes? So, you didn't understand the point, did you? Tha...
But what work is the word 'existential' doing? Moral obligations are had by persons. So, one needs to be a person in order to have any. And a defining...
Can a Christian explain to me, a non-Christian believer in God, why so many of you think there is 'three persons in one person'?? I mean, that seems a...
But surely morality is primarily about others, not oneself? If i have reason to do something due to it serving some of my ends, then we describe that ...
I've explained why it is a form of subjectivism. I've also explained why it is often thought to be a form of objectivism (objectivism and externalism ...
You are wrong about an innocent not deserving a happy life. But it doesn't matter as my argument goes through with the agreements secured from you. Al...
You clearly don't understand the point. The person deserves more benefit than they recieve. More. The shortfall represents an injustice. If you borrow...
Yes, it isn't a problem. And if it was, it'd be a problem for all metaethical theories, not just divine command theory. For instance, many stupidly be...
It matters because it's not a criticism of divine command theory. So, you think they are never right. Okay, so this argument is the sound one then: 1....
Why did you think that when I gave - and you quoted - a definition of objective versus subjective? Objective - in this context - means 'exists extra m...
As you only have two options and you'll probably not answer my question but just try and change the topic, I will explain why, whatever answer you giv...
So you now accept that the argument in the OP is sound and thus establishes that procreative acts are wrong, other things being equal. The ceteris par...
This thread is about an argument of mine for antinatalism. It requires that certain evaluative claims be true. It does not require one to subscribe to...
Why do you think there is any inconsistency between those quotes? Morality is subjective. It isn't individually or collectively subjective. Those are ...
I said very clearly in the op that there can be no lag if idealism is true. (It's possible for there to be a lag if idealism is true,but there is no r...
Why don't you answer my question? Do you think genocides have always been wrong or that they were right sometimes even though they are wrong now? Clar...
What were you trying to say? What is your off the peg criticism of divine command theory? Do you think genocides used to be right, or were they always...
That's just your opinion. Have you read the works of eastern philosopher Ispeakcrap? Or Meno Thinkatall? Do try and engage in some kind of argument, g...
Yes, there's no contradiction involved in that analysis. And it is a commonplace occurrence. "Forgive them, Bartricks" I often say, "for they know not...
What? I think that to deserve something you need to exist. So, to deserve a benefit, you need to exist. And to deserve not to be harmed, you need to e...
Why did you say that given nothing I have argued implied otherwise? To be deprived of something, one needs to exist. That's something I think its true...
Unless you are begging the question, you're claiming those activities were once morally right, yes? If they were never morally right, then he never co...
There's no them. They don't exist. Never have. To be deprived of something one must exist (or, more controversially, at least have existed at some poi...
No, the act of procreation creates a person - a person who deserves more than they can possibly be given and who deserves no harm (yet will be harmed)...
From what I can glean from the unreliable internet, there are several new Testament references to the trinity, none of which seem puzzling. "Go theref...
If your sensation represents the event that happened in the past to be happening in the present, then the sensation constitutes an illusion. For what ...
Why couldn't those just be three names for the same person? A cube does not have the same properties as a pyramid. And a pyramid does not have the sam...
Yes, crude utilitarianism can be refuted in many ways, one of which involves appealing to desert (a utilitarian doesn't recognize that innocents do no...
Aristotle said that you should not support the stronger with the weaker and that the job of the philosopher is to follow the appearances. So, if an ar...
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