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Why would that follow? Do you suppose that only beliefs that have been made explicit can be shared? But that's not right. Sure, any belief can be made...

The link is to Knowledge, Belief, and Faith by Anthony Kenny; The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture 2007, given at the London School of Eco...

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Proof that people who believe in god are far more likely to vote in ridiculous polls.

No. I have in mind Kenny's "Faith, then, resembles knowledge in being irrevocable, but differs from it in being a commitment in the absence of adequat...

Yep. The intuition behind it- not believing something without good reason - is Ok in some places, but absurd in others. It works in the examples given...

Thanks. I suppose that historically the idea that we ought not believe anything derives from the notion that doubt is a virtue. It is found in the nai...

It's not required. Not sure why that is relevant. It is the case that Bob believed the keys were in his pocket, yet his belief was false. If we instea...

Lies to children. Both correcting a falsehood and improving a process are examples of back propagation, but I decided to keep the argument in terms of...

Word salad.

So what? Ethics is concerned with the turning of the tide, not what happens after.

Indeed. So a competent defence of Post modernist ethics must show how it sets out what we ought to do. There may be some here up to that task, but I d...

No, it doesn't. It works for the status quo.

Yes, there is: inertia.

This is an excellent, devastating criticism of not just post modernism, but most of what attempts to pass for ethical thinking hereabouts. Ethics is a...

The most telling criticism of post modern ethics comes from a critique of Feyerabend's dictum that anything goes. If anything is permissible, then the...

I don't agree. I think that there are ways of using "belief" and related terms that make for a more holistic and consistent discussion. I think that n...

:rofl: Best post today.

I don't have a copy, and it is not readily available online. The reviews I've seen indicate that it was written for a collection concerning socialism ...

Bewdymate. Bonza.

That sort of argument is for recalcitrants. Before then, an effective teacher will have used The Eye. Under that unyielding gaze the more amenable stu...

To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy? Well, see Confirmable and influential Metaphysics, which follows the line of thinking in...

While one might be hopeful, my suspicion is that there is a tendency for much of what is considered nowadays as "metaphysics", to be little more than ...

The curious thing is that this is quite at odds with her later view, expressed in Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. . The common thread found in her w...

:ok: :wink:

It is pleasing to hear you are reading Murdoch. I'm not as familiar with her work as with that of Anscombe, Foot and Midgley, something I have every i...

But it's not summer.

Yeah, it is.

Sure, all that. But we can do better than we are doing.

In moving 'beyond good and evil' he devolves to feudal ethics, to serfs, feigned nobility, despotism. A great leap backwards.

:wink: And you.

You even had to borrow your insults from me.

You forgot to thank me for the fourth page of your thread.

Indeed, it is cold and wet outside and you are but my playthings. You may thus console yourself.

I read what you wrote; you praise with faint damnation.

The underlying idea? That the bungled and the botched are to be the objects of derision? That's not a sentiment that deserves sympathy. That's the att...

I have, and I do. It's a shame you've missed it. You chose a particularly poor quote for your OP. That's down to you, not I.

Well, yes, indeed, that is what I have been arguing: we grew out of it. If it is the "iconic passage from Zarathustra", so much the worse for Nietzsch...

It's indicative of a lack of critical capacity that those hereabouts are taken in by he of the moustache. Here is my reply to the OP, again, for the s...

, ...and predictably the adolescents pile on, with nothing worthwhile to say.

I concure. Indeed; spouting delusive mistruths. Of course not, the anachronism is obvious. Few are those who have heard Goodall yet still think of ape...

Really? Do you think Jane Goodall would agree? There remains something fundamentally egregious in Nietzsche.

Where?

And how is your "model of the world" different to what you hold to be true? How is it different to what you believe? The New Man ceases to have belief...

:up: It's the same as being amazed that the word "apple" is so well-suited to our talk of apples...

So it wasn't? That's a pity. A missed opportunity, perhaps. So isn't it the case that in order for you to be able to act, you must hold certain things...

The right whinge (sic.) has a problem in that it is based on the (self-) worship of particular individuals - Palmer, Hanson, Katter and so on; it's in...

That's more interesting. Did you parse these into actions on purpose?

Should we also be amazed, puzzled and astonished that 1 is accurate to infinity? That 1 is the same as 1.000...?

Quaint, but wrong. You believe that you were able to put your thoughts together, you believe that you can speak English, you believe that you can type...