But it is rational to feel grief when someone with whom one enjoyed a close relationship dies, yes? Someone who didn't - someone who managed to persua...
I think I did that above - Stoics think grief is irrational. But it appears often to be rational. If my partner dies, then I have reason to grieve her...
But that is evidence that your analysis is going wrong. We don't need definitions. Prior to having any definition of goodness or happiness, it seems t...
I do not follow your objection. Let's assume that it is not possible to create free will without thereby creating the possibility that it may be used ...
They are surely obviously distinct, as there seems no contradiction involved in the idea of a bad person being happy, or a good person being unhappy. ...
What do you mean 'reverting'? I have said repeatedly that my case for antinatalism is 'cumulative'. That means I think there are numerous arguments - ...
What was the point in saying that? It is true. I'm in an epistemically special position to know its truth, by dint of being me and thereby knowing far...
I should add that it strikes me as human hubris to put limits on what an omnipotent being can do. And as for God creating himself - well, it is more i...
You have attributed to me claims I never made. My argument was that a being who is not constrained by the laws of logic is more powerful than one who ...
As I understand things, libertarians will typically mainain that substance causation is an essential ingredient of free will. Not all do - some think ...
You have focussed on moral evils and not natural ones, though it is the latter that pose the more acute problem. But even putting that to one side, yo...
Imagine the last women alive do not want to have sex. Is it ok to rape them to continue the species? No. Why? Because it is important to respect their...
because saying something doesn't make it so and this is a philosophy forum so it is reasonable to expect people to provide reasons in support of their...
I don't have any angst! What are you on about? This is philosophy forum, not a therapy forum. I am not rewording the OP so that it addresses you! It i...
Eh? Once more, actually argue something - address the argument of the OP - rather than telling me about religious texts. It's irrelevant. Also, don't ...
Yes you do if you're using words in their conventional way. If I believe in a doughnut - a doughnut I call 'God' and 'Jesus' interchangeably yet that ...
The concept of God just is the concept of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent being. If you want to define God as a potato, that's fine - then i...
As I have already said, the problem of evil addresses the thesis that this world and we in it are the creation of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenev...
I don't believe anyone with an MA in philosophy would reason this badly. You seriously think all Kantians agree on substantial normative matters? Blim...
The problem of evil implies that God does not exist because omnipotence, omniscience and moral goodness are essential attributes of God. Thus one cann...
Not to me, because you can't really believe in God if there's no content to your belief. It can be out of focus to some degree, but it can't not be th...
But you seem to be assuming I'm a pessimist. I'm not, I think. And you're assuming that I think life is not worth living. But I don't. I think most hu...
Yes, although there are far more ways of dealing with the problem of evil as it pertains to God than there are to the problem of evil as it pertains t...
I am arguing. You, by contrast, are attributing to me ludicrous views that I do not hold and that are in no way implied by anything I have argued. Sto...
Are you a representative of 'real philosophy'? I really don't think so. I did not claim that Onora O'Neill is an antinatalist, I simply pointed out - ...
I too am a bit confused by the question. For the question is about what reason is, but what you've talked about is the penetrative power of our facult...
No, you're the one projecting. You're attributing to me views I do not hold and that are in no way implied by anything I have argued. You are, I think...
Hm, I am not sure I understand that. I mean, surely you have to have some idea about what you believe in, otherwise you don't really qualify as believ...
Er, no - that's not implied by anything I've argued. It's your reasoning skills that are truly scary - there's really no telling where your reasoning ...
But there are ways in which the world may well be one in which the good outweighs the bad and yet still it would not plausibly be a place an omnipoten...
thank you for that insight into your mucky younger days. But I don't think Reason approves of rampant fornication, so despite your success at not bree...
yes, but that's why I said it is 'default' wrong. There will of course be cases where an act that affects another without their consent seems right. B...
What point are you making? The antintalist view I hold is normative. That is, it is about how we 'ought' to behave. Murders happen. They probably alwa...
I am not making a consequentialist argument. Once more you demonstrate confident ignorance. What I take exception to is people confidently pronouncing...
Imagine I'm the product of rape. the rapist phones me and asks me if they should rape my mother. Would my answer - whether positive or negative - tell...
Yes. It. Is. Name the philosopher who drew the distinction between 'Kant's moral philosophy' and 'Kantian' moral philosophy. If you can't, you're igno...
I am not entirely sure I follow you, since the Kantian claim I am making - namely, that it is default wrong to do something that impacts another in so...
You think 'that' deserved applause? Why? My argument is very simple: it is default wrong to do something to someone else that has a serious affect on ...
I somehow did not see this reply so am replying now, rather late in the day. No I didn't. Why might a surgeon sometimes be justified in performing sur...
But I, an antinatalist, am not arguing that life sucks. Antinatalism does not entail pro-mortalism (that is, the view that we have overall reason to k...
I don't know what massive flaws you're talking about. Perhaps the mere fact an argument leads to a conclusion you dislike constitutes a massive flaw a...
Yes, I accept that an omnipotent, omniscient being has more options than we do, for they have the option of either changing the world so as to make it...
As I have just said to Jellyfish, I am not arguing that the problem of evil refutes the thesis that God exists. All I am arguing is that, other things...
No, I am not arguing that the problem of evil refutes the thesis that God exists. Rather, I am arguing that the problem of evil implies it is wrong fo...
Well, there's not a problem so much as a normative conclusion that we can draw: namely, that we ought not to exercise our power to create innocent sen...
You are misusing terms. A 'theodicy' is an attempt to explain why God has allowed evil. Anyway, I do not understand what point you are making. Where i...
Yes, that's what I'd expect it to be like. Just as if you told me that in the next room there is a meal by the finest cook conceivable, I would expect...
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