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That mouthguard looks like the Enterprise from Start Trek...

But Gallagher immediately stepped up form behind him with the correct information. Do folk pay attention to these set pieces? Lazy journalism.

Meh. Take it up with the mods.

The simple point is we do not need two threads on the evils of hell at the same time. I doubt that this thread had much to do with the recent edits, p...

Have you noticed how the best of the Labor Party seem to be in the Senate? Wong, Keneally, Dodson, Gallagher...

Well, yes. However there is a SEP article on The Trinity That the sudden influx of "hell" threads has been tidied up should be duly noted. Thank you, ...

Is it? It seems there have been over 15 000 games played. Given that games rarely score more than a hundred points in total, the number of possible sc...

Have look down this page and contemplate the quality philosophical content.

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Woof.

Cool. So why? And which threads do you think ought not be on the forum? I noted that pointed to the factual error in the OP of that thread and didn't ...

What you say two times is true? Of course. I post on religious topics myself. The purpose of this thread is to discuss the demarcation, and to offer a...

No.

I disagree. That is insufficient. There remains a need to keep the identity of this site as a philosophy forum, not a place for religious blather.

Sure, but:

A favourite of mine. See ought/is, above. Of course, it is far more complex than I acknowledged in that discussion, but there is a point in raising wh...

The rash is back. So I'm bumping this thread. There are good philosophical and social reasons to remove certain threads. The list in the OP would toda...

That's really very interesting. I see the studies you present as, unsurprisingly, showing the intrinsically social nature of humanity. Reinforcing thi...

A stray thought: Freddy Mercury personifies the Übermensch. Have a read of the famous Jazz review. If Queen is fascist rock, Freddy is its Fuhrer.

Folks, there's a bit that keeps getting left out. I'll bold it for you:

I concure. Moral decisions cannot be decided in an algorithmic fashion - they are far too complex. Just as no rule can accomodate the definition of "g...

Seems you are using "biological urge" in much the way I might use "desire".

It's simply that an item that does not appear in the assumptions of an argument cannot appear in the conclusion. Hence a series of assumptions or obse...

I don't think it is. Have you a reference?

So giving a command has the direction of fit mind-to-world, involves others, but would not ordinarily be considered a moral act.

Oh, let me be clear, I do not think that mind-to-world statements mark moral statements. Moral statements are a sub-class of mind-to-world statements,...

None of which makes your case.

Interesting. No, I disagree. quantitative/qualitative differences are distinct from descriptive/normative differences, as the examples I gave show. I ...

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Glad to see you using the notion of direction of fit. And yes, there is more to fitting word to desire than just mora...

I don't. A qualitative statement can be a statement of what is the case. "The clouds were fluffy" is a qualitative statement, setting out what is the ...

Well, actually, it is. It's kinda why we are here. Anyway, the wider point is that those who take descriptions of the way brains work or of social dyn...

Hello?

Welcome to philosophy. It's not fun to have your assumptions questioned.

So humour me. Do you agree that a description of how things are is not a description of how things ought to be?

No. It is better understood as a difference in direction of fit.

So back to the topic: there is a distinction between what is the case and what ought to be the case. Do you agree? This is a quite basic, pivotal piec...

Interesting. If someone were to say that physicists don't need to pay attention to f=ma, that talking about Newton's ideas was just chronicling and no...

Here's a principle for you: there is a difference between saying how things are and saying how they ought to be. Do you agree?

What? As in, I do not understand what you are trying to say in that post.

But comprehending the is/ought distinction is.

This ought be compulsory reading for anyone entering into a discussion of ethics.

Well, no. it is a logical error in your account. But we can come back to it later.

So... these objective moral evaluations don't tell us what to do?

Oh, sure, that's understood. But I don't see that we have to chose between the existentialist account and the Bergsonian account. Either might be the ...

A morality that does not tell us what to do is not a morality. Look again at this. See if you see a problem. You are not telling us what to do, but ju...

, to be fair to , Kant derived Prussian ethics from first principles; this Teutonic order fed into the Nazi ethic. Oh, perhaps not. WIth being part of...

Yes, it's this I have difficulty with... ...because my cynical eye tells me it ain't so; there can be no "cosmic grounding", it has to be all our own ...

But you and I might well have a disagreement with them... Ethics 101 includes a rundown on the is-ought argument from Hume, which is a basic starting ...

@"Nickolasgaspar", AH, so because you did not mention the word ought, you are not telling us what we ought to do. Your claim is that you are telling u...

Yes, and in a sense I am pulling your leg. I object to your reliance on creed, but find mcuh of what you have said congenial. You and I ought be worki...