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Just a bit. I say: There are toothbrushes!

Do you deny that there are true sentences? You understand that this is a sentence in English, in a forum on philosophical issues, in reply to your pos...

And what cooperating to kick puppies shows is that this is misguided. It does this by setting out an instance of cooperation that is not morally accep...

Of course. Similarly, the separateness of up and down, of left and right, of in and out, is undeniable. You don't get one without the other because th...

Indeed, if folk would just agree to cooperate in kicking puppies, there would be no more need for all this talk about morality. And we would finally l...

Yes, a good blog. But again the argument invents a thing-in-itself about which nothing can be said, then proceeds to tell us all about it. Again, it s...

Yep. Physics would survive dropping causation. Theism can not survive a god who wills evil.

We ought cooperate in kicking puppies. We need to introduce televised puppy-kicking events. We ought offer public rewards to those who can kick the pu...

Yes. At issue is how one derives what one is to do from how things are. In WIttgensteinian terms, direction of fit.

A similar logical structure. Both are metaphysical in Popperian terms. A core difference is that in physics the cause is (usually) proximal; the billi...

Good call. "The sovereignty of good over other concepts" might be what @"Fooloso4" is after. Ok, other folk have shared that interpretation. But did M...

I read the Stanford article earlier today. It seemed to me to quickly descend into the nitty gritty rather than give an overview. The rejection of Aye...

Both those quotes appear to be about Moore's realism with regard to the physical world, rather than about his intuitionism with regard to good.

If you say so, although I've no clear idea what "something known in itself by themselves by the mind itself" means. What could it be for something to ...

Moore's "intuitionism" was only that moral truths are not derived from any other sorts of truths. That is, it is an error to ask for a reason to concl...

It's an all-and-some; for any evil there is a corresponding good, an existential statement nestled in a universal statement rendering it both unprovab...

Sure. But far from interesting. That is what values are. That they are subjective does not, as you seem to suppose, render them irrelevant. Sure. Ther...

One man's imperative is another's orthodoxy. I understand the idea was to create an "enclosure" so as to make it permissible to carry stuff outside, i...

And why some Jews hand a string around their neighbourhood. Again with the failure of deontology.

Somehow the issue slid from whether women should have bodily autonomy to whether one should chew on a wafer.

It's not so much what you might think that is at issue here, as what Cardinal Pell might have said. And i take it that he would have preferred that ev...

Roughly, yes. But I think there are broader issues, concerning the supposed applicability of rules to all possible situations. No sooner is a rule sta...

So you value facts more than values? How's that? Try this. Look at the direction of fit of a couple of sentences. Say the kettle is boiling... you can...

I don't see how to understand that in a coherent fashion. What is ethics if not what one ought do? But I see a few posts that take a more restricted v...

If what you mean is that values are our responses to things in the world, then of course they are. You seem to conclude that somehow therefore they do...

The absence of critique leads to mediocrity.

The problem arises when folk do stuff. Criticism is just words. Refusing choice to women, removing books from schools, teaching children that masturba...

There'll doubtless be those who hold that others must behave as they do - the core conservative value: do just as I do. Given a chance they will be ch...

Those who think god's favour is dependent on our actions will have quite different attitudes towards what we ought do, to those who suppose god uninvo...

I noted your previous use of heuristics. It seems to me that heuristics are a central part of virtue ethics, and that their use follows more directly ...

I suspect that rather, they held it of the utmost import that other folk be made to behave as they themselves thought appropriate. Advocates for confo...

What utter twaddle. Your fallacy is....

Just to be sure, ethics is political.

"Intelectual". :rofl:

As @"Tom Storm" pointed out, that'll be because of conservative christian attacks that prevent policy improvement. I suppose fundamentalist christians...

This thread seems to fall to the same criticism as the other - deriving an ought from an is, but not in a good way. Such scientistic thinking seems od...

Probably. The classical metaphysical arguments have been overwhelmed by developments in physics and logic, but it is hard to see that amongst the regu...

Presumably the value of an ace is not 1 but 0.9999...

The Vienna Circle read him that way. erroneously, and to his chagrin. The SEP article on Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics bears a read, putting an end to any...

Yawn.

Contradiction? Perhaps not. But as you agree, it does not tell us what to do. Sure, cooperation is a core characteristic of humanity, but it is adept ...

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The point, as small one, is that there is a distinction between stipulating a rule and taking it as self-evident.

I agree. Science is about how things are, ethics is about what to do; these are very different questions. At the core, that we do cooperate does not i...

No, not the axiom! Being axiomatic is considered being self-evident; but it is clearly not self-evident that aces beat two's! Nor is it something that...

I'll offer a slightly different approach. Metaphysics sets out the rules, as discussed, but what counts as true or false is part of those rules. That ...

Herodotus, book 1, from 30: Perhaps it would be wise not yet to judge your fortune nor your happiness. There's still time to change the road you're on...

Cheers. Sure. Ethics is not easy. That doesn't mean that it never leads to any conclusions. I want to be clear about what is being claimed here. Sure,...

Spot on, but pretty much ignored in the rush to approve of the life-as-competition theory.

Sure. I received a cup yesterday from Kiev, a present purchased by my daughter, delivered from the other side of the world without the use of a gun. L...