A metaphor shows something, rather than saying it. See What Metaphors Mean but Donald Davidson. A metaphor does not have a second, explicable meaning....
Why are those the only choices? It's a form of life, with all the implications of that sanctum. Or a lifeworld, Lebenswelt, as mentioned in @"Wayfarer...
Another point of agreement. Please stop providing interesting quotes and links. I really wish to get through a newish book by Searle, but haven't prog...
A note on murder. Murder is unlawful killing. It's immorality stems from whatever morality there is in breaking the law. If one ought follow the law, ...
I'm pretty confident that you agree that rape is wrong. I'm confident you would join me in condemning this misanthrope. So I can tell him that rape is...
If you do not find rape repellent, then that is about you, not about rape. If you need an argument to convict you that you ought not do such things, y...
And this happens. So what? Further conversation might well reveal their differences. Alternately, which of them is right? How will you decide? All tho...
Well, so much the worse for that understanding of definitions. It doesn't;t match what we actually do. Or was it that they thought they were picking u...
...and I don't think it does. I think the idea Wittgenstein expresses is somewhat like the Polythetic definition, but there's more to it. True, a fami...
Hmm. That's different, but I don't find it especially clear. I think a better formalisation is disjunctive normal form... ...in which A, B, C... are g...
To follow your example, the article posits two types of approaches. The first are the Monothetic approaches in which all circles overlap so that some ...
But what is being suggested is not foreclosing on the entire "sapiential" project, so much as setting aside a part which our analysis shows is fraught...
So who will do this for you? Something else for you to decide. The directionality of ethical considerations will not relieve you of such responsibilit...
Anyway, interesting as all this is, it distances us from the topic at hand, which is the nature of religion. While others may differ, I don't see a wa...
I think you might agree with me that the uncritical acceptance of authority has its part to play in, say, the residential schools affair in Canada, Au...
Oh, very much so; but that's different to accepting this or that authority in some actual case. While our philosophical forefathers might show how one...
And was he right? What do you think? See where the choice sits? Perhaps not. There will doubtless be folk too enamoured with external authority to see...
While I agree, I think there is a more fundamental problem with taking god as the grounding for morality. Even if one presumed that some given creed i...
Ok, so what is this "core insight"? This thing on which they both agree and disagree? This thing which cannot be "merged"? I don't think you, or any o...
Yeah, that phrase left me cold. From what I can see charity derives mostly from Jesus' teachings, so I will grant that. Otherwise, that virtue is Chri...
So psychologising in the place of answering. Yes, I have a dislike for what passes for conversation regarding religion, and yet an interest in the top...
Indeed. Wayfarer, one assumes that posts here are open for comment. You suggested that religion is justified because it provides a reason for being go...
Well, no. The notion that one needs a reason for being good is... problematic. As if one needed a reason to do what one ought do... The claim that eth...
That was a very odd thread; it's origin and purpose remain a mystery. @"Ennui Elucidator" has reduced his concerns to Israel killing Civilians in Gaza...
Indeed, that is the direction of fit, found in various works. Searle uses it in his Phil of mind and social philosophy, some of which quiet cogent and...
There's a fair bit of nuance in Monk's comments, and some disagreement as to accuracy. But regardless, the point I made remains. A better source on th...
The essay in which the term "New Atheist" first appeared is apparently The Church of the Non-Believers. It's an average piece of inconclusive journali...
This aspect of Wittgenstein's thought, found in the Tractatus, hence predating Heidegger, does continue in the Investigations. The Tractatus concerns ...
Also, https://i0.wp.com/arnoldzwicky.s3.amazonaws.com/VikingKids.jpg?w=450 A child will thrive if they arrive in a supportive and loving world, regard...
You need a free logic to parse such an oddity. A free logic includes a first-order existential predicate: E!. Note that "all cows exist" is not true; ...
Cheers. Further reading on the thread https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12496/if-men-wish-to-be-free-it-is-precisely-sovereignty-they-must-ren...
No, Ethics. Sure, politics is just ethics recast. Ethics concerns our relation with others, as does politics. It is a misguided emphasis on individual...
No, I'm talking about the emphasis on individuality over cooperation. That is the flaw in neoliberalism, not found in the more nuanced accounts of cla...
Overwhelmingly, yes. The emphasis on competition is an anomaly deriving form a misguided account of how capitalism works. The idea is that competition...
Searle has me re-thinking this. Rather then a relation, B(a,p), it's better to think in terms of "p" as the content of the belief. That brings out the...
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