Andrew4Handel

I think the problem is definition. Killing is wrong is a weak statement because it clearly never adhered to completely if even partially. So I think t...

I have mentioned that I am a moral nihilist. I don't think reality is moral and how you feel about something is personal preference. I thought we were...

What way would you like animals to die?

In what way? I am beginning to think that making something a moral issue is always arbitrary because hypothetically we could try and make everything a...

These two quotes from a article I have started reading reflect an opinion I am sympathetic with. "Does "Ought" imply "Can"? And Did Kant Think It Does...

I am not saying it is common but rather an innate part of the life-cycle where everything gets eaten at some stage and recycled. I do have a problem w...

I think it is hard to defend the claim that anyone ought to do anything whether or not they can do it. I could take swimming lessons in case I needed ...

It is possible to turn anything into a moral issue. In the Bible God commanded people to stone a man to death for picking up sticks on the Sabbath and...

But vegans and animal rights activists are eager to stress the similarity between humans and animals as the reason they should have rights and not be ...

Several high profile vegans on YouTube put continuous emphasis on the claim it is unnecessary to eat meat even though acknowledging that it entails ta...

It must be true because if humans were carnivores we would have to eat meat and there would be no plausible veganism. I don't see good grounds for veg...

The issue with determinism and preserving the truth value of mental states concerns the ability to evaluate and reject false perceptions.So that we ar...

I am not sure what this means. A meaningful thought might be "President Trump might cause World War 3" I suppose the name Trump is caused by the perso...

Either they would be facts or brain dependent entities. If somethings existence doesn't rely on the brain then I would describe them as mind independe...

But are you arguing that all mental activity causes some physical behaviour? I think to make a strictly determinism account of a thought you would hav...

The issue for me is that facts are more important than the patterns of neurons firing. As I said in the opening post 2+2=4 is true regardless of which...

This is a misrepresentation. I selected the example here "Paris is the capital of France" as opposed to those words causing me to type anything. Usual...

Sir Charles Sherrington (physiologist) once claimed that most brain activity was related to action. "The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action p...

I don't see how semantic content is causal like say neuronal firings. Ideas are conceptually related but that does not equal causal relations. Thinkin...

I experienced a breakdown of meaning when life stopped making sense to me. It was like the more problems you have the less sense life makes. It is lik...

Can you think of things that happened before this event that might have led you here? What worldview did you have beforehand? What beliefs and values ...

That was Henry David Thoreau apparently. a nice soothing quotation for those feeling alienated I suppose.

This is an interesting observation. Do depressed people have a low self esteem due to prior experience? Is there an internal desire for perfection or ...

Existential Psychotherapy is a philosophical based form of therapy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy Because there is not much concre...

I have just read the following article that seems okay. "Our environment can either open up or constrict possibilities for spiritual and intellectual ...

This thread has got me thinking that maybe feeling unable to cope with life is a problem created by society more than I originally thought. It seems v...

I have sympathy with that viewpoint thanks. With the dynamics of society it is not clear that the good flourishes, that we have the correct priorities...

Thanks for the responses so far. Part of this feeling stems from an incident on Sunday where I went to a casual philosophy meetup to talk about taboo'...

I don't think that inability to cope with life is seen as a real problem that needs intervention. When I refer to an inability to cope with life I sup...

I am not sure what causes someone to be unable to cope. What concerns me though as how we treat this condition, whether we intervene, complain and ost...

The allegations are things like malingering and attention seeking.

Maybe being truthful is a good in one's self? At least it something I definitely value in myself. Self discovery?

Hitler may have seen goodness as a weakness. I am not sure doing the right thing equals being good because people can say "I have to do this horrible ...

I would consider myself a moral nihilist. I can't say that I can guarantee that any behaviour is moral or what that might mean. I am interested in how...

That is the question. I thought if people had moral concepts maybe they could identify them in themselves. I am not sure what is good. Or whether I am...

I have done things that might make me considered a bad person..but then so have most people I know.

Unfortunately you have unjustifiable claimed reason and logic equal science. Reason and logic maybe applied in the sciences but that does not make the...

I don't see how you could do science without objects of the senses and I don't see what the point of science would be with no objects to explain. I do...

I agree with this to an extent. Science does not appear to be asking the question of whether gods exist or not. This relates to what I have been sayin...

I think a pseudo science can get an air of credibility by frequently citing the successes of science per se. It seems that a dubious scientific idea o...

I have already answered this. I said things like sentience, intelligence, creation and design as found in humans are possible indirect evidence for th...

I don't know how we have gone from discussing science to the topic of reason and logic. Reason and logic do not rely on an external object. Science in...

I think science definitely imposes assumptions on evidence because that is unavoidable. We would not need science if the evidence spoke for it self.

I am not making a commitment about the method of science I am attacking the notion that it is the only explanatory framework and that problems will al...

I was responding to a different argument by you and arguing that alternative causal explanations would count as evidence against gods. Every time you ...

I think this kind of claim is confusing and psychologically manipulative and also could dilute the notion of violence. Trying to censor what people sa...

You could decide something was non existent because it was totally dispensable, or illogical. You could for example say that a square circle couldn't ...

I think the notion of a creator god is non trivial and not simply a superstition. Causal explanations and other explanations are radically effected by...

The existence of atoms is not obvious either, they were postulated thousands of years ago by Democritus but proof of the them was given thousands of y...

If someone doesn't believe in gods and if someone only believes the physical exists I want to know how they reached that conclusion. I don't want to h...