Bartricks

That is because the artist would suffocate. IF you can't see that Van Gogh's paintings are brilliant outside of their historical context, then you hav...

Yes I did. It's in the OP. The great recognize their own greatness by discerning it. That's why they're not being epistemically irresponsible in belie...

Another ignorant assertion. It doesn't even make sense. if Van Gogh didn't come into existence in 1853, then his art would not have come into being in...

First, you're thinking that brilliant people are also virtuous people. There's no necessary connection. Brilliant thinkers and artists think they're b...

How on earth do you get that from the quote above? Moore is not a subjectivist about morality. A subjectivist about morality is someone who believes m...

Come on Shawn - you clearly think that something in that quote from the SEP contradicts something I wrote. What? Or do you not really know what the wo...

Like I said, Banno regurgitates SEP entries. Now I think neither your nor Banno actually know what that quote means. Now, do you think I'm someone who...

You do realize, do you, that Banno doesn't know what he's talking about? What you get from Banno is half-understood regurgitated SEP pages. Before Moo...

1 and 2 are refuted by this argument: 1. If one is obliged to do that which would promote good when doing so is easy, then someone possessed of talent...

What do you mean?

It is self-evident that those who are able to produce beautiful things are not obliged to do so. if 1 is true - that is, if people are obliged to crea...

What you mean is "shit, I don't actually know what I'm saying..." yes? Stop trying to sound clever. It isn't working. Now, once again, did you take yo...

No. It's this:

What do you mean? Note, I provided a very clear explanation of the error that Moore was highlighting. The error involves confusing two very different ...

What do you mean? What is the difference between the extension of good and the intension of good? In your own words. Is a normative theory a theory ab...

What's that got to do with anything? Er, what? I did deny it. Read the OP. Clearly I believe that it is self-evident that those with the ability to pr...

You're just making random assertions. You're not arguing anything or engaging with the argument I made. Let's take this in small steps. Do you think s...

You don't need a definition of great. They - the great - discern their own greatness. You, like so many, seem to think that understanding and awarenes...

I didn't say otherwise. The point, though, is that you need to think you're capable of doing great things in order to try to do them. And you need to ...

You make no case. Note: I made a case. You haven't addressed it. All you've done is express a view - one that is clearly false, as any knowledge of th...

Interesting it is that disjunctive transcendental stupidity reigns in supervenient ways upon rebarbative reason concepts, don't you think?

No you can't, because the term 'normative reason' refers to a favoring relation, and one can't disagree with those for they do not have attitudes or b...

Utter nonsense. First, you can't disagree with a normative reason. That's like thinking you can disagree with cheese. Do you disagree with cheese? You...

You agree that it was not great? Note too that I was not asking you what was okay, but what the concept of okayness is the concept of.

Note, that was nonsense too. Rather than stringing words together and hoping the result makes sense, try understanding what you're talking about. That...

What is "okay"?

And what do you mean by those words? It too was nonsense. "For normative reason". You don't learn, do you? Is are doing normative are consequential tr...

Well, not that reply for one thing.

Oh really. And when I said "is are being rational is are" I meant "I'd like a packet of crisps, please". Again: you don't know what you're talking abo...

Is are rational being is? Transcending Cartesian epistemology is what some rationalities are about is. But rational are is being is presupposing dicho...

Er, you said this: That means you're presupposing that there are rational normative reasons - that the idea makes sense. Which it doesn't. Seems you k...

There's no such thing as 'a rational normative reason'! Normative reasons are what make actions rational. Jesus. Stop using words you don't understand...

There is no such thing as 'normative reason'. You can have normative reason to do something. They 'are' reasons to do things. So, this "John has norma...

You have no case. First, you clearly know nothing about art or artists if you think any of those artists I mentioned didn't know they were creating er...

Why did you quote me without comment? Are you suggesting that the sentence you quoted - - makes no sense? Show your working. Explain why you think it ...

No, it is because I keep calling you on your nonsense. This: doesn't begin to make sense. And note that we once more have 'normative reason' and not '...

Yes, and who are they? If 10 of your dumb friends think that the mole on your arm is nothing to worry about, but one medical doctor thinks it looks su...

What you were saying was incoherent. It was not missing a single letter. For you didn't intend to say "a normative reason' and accidentally left off t...

How can you get back on topic when you don't even know what the topic is? You don't know what you mean by ratonality, do you? And now you're at it aga...

No, they're called conceptual truths. It's a conceptual truth that 'rationality' is only something an agent can exhibit. Look, you don't really know w...

No, not possibly. It's a conceptual truth. Acts and beliefs - and only acts and beliefs (and note, to-believe something is to be doing something - so ...

Once more, try and answer the question. Stop saying stuff that you hope makes sense. Answer the well formed question I asked you.

Oh, what a brilliant distinction......not. Same applies. See? (Psst...look up Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso and Sargent......note that they produced e...

Why can't you people answer questions? Do you accept that 'rationality' concerns 'action'? That is, that only actions - construed broadly so that we i...

No. It. Can't. I don't think you know what the words you are using mean. Do you accept that rationality concerns action? That is, it is only actions -...

Yes, but YOU just asked how what I said about what rationality involves was consistent with it sometimes being the case that two actions can be equall...

It's not reducible to normative reason, rather 'being rational' is 'being responsive to normative reasons'. And so being rational - perfectly rational...

You're confusing normative reasons with causal reasons. When it comes to 'being rational' we're talking about what it is rational 'to do'. That is, wh...

Imagine you are in a loving relationship with Marjory. You are offered the following choice. You can take a blue pill that will give you the experienc...

It includes matters of right and wrong, for if doing x is wrong, then we have overall reason not to do it, and thus doing it would be irrational. But ...