OK, back on topic it is. ‘Morality pills’ may be the US’s best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist Yes, I am assuming t...
Well, one might think it should at least give a nod and a wink in that direction. Is it that for Apo, one must have to have a complete answer, or one ...
Well, I'm not too keen on sweeping generalisations, unless I make them myself. But we might agree that what is needed, if not already apparent, is som...
The analytic answer is that there is no my red; that rather, red is a notion constructed by our communal use of language. The analytics - that would b...
But you seem to think that what you said here contrasts with what I said. Indeed, you appeared to agree with Apo, who I had understood to be in direct...
I thought as much. "Our behaviour will be on average aligned with the entropic flow" does not tell us what we ought do. Even if we could calculate the...
:smile: Something like that. A sort of Heisenberg uncertainty in which the more we predict what we will do the less certain we can be that we will do ...
Well, tentativley yes. I had hoped to make the further point, found in The Poverty of Historicism, and implicit in the discussion of causality elsewhe...
Yeah, ok; I'm stuck on the bit where the reason we shouldn't use the word "privilege" because it pisses off the privileged. But I will try to take on ...
Just to be sure - should this be understood as "Our behaviour will be on average aligned with the entropic flow" or "Our behaviour ought be on average...
So... seeing that the bloke with a walking frame can't get into the building, but that I can, is not pat of replacing the steps with a ramp? Maybe. Bu...
Thanks for pointing this out. It strikes me as problematic in interesting ways. The thought seems to be that we can rid ourselves of ethical considera...
An interesting read. The problem, then, is that some folk get upset when folk point out that they are better off than some other folk. Inevitably, the...
Well, thanks for that. Ive spent some time thinking about what you said, and I remain confused. I had not noticed this in your writing. I appreciate y...
@"Judaka", can we re-start the conversation? I'm genuinly interested in your view, but have been too self-indulgent on my replies. Perhaps we could lo...
Oh, my goodness. No wonder you were so upset. Indeed, I have written such stuff as may upset, as you say, "the privileged who ignore the other, the se...
Interpretation? So the able bodied gain no advantage by being able to access buildings unavailable to others? No; that stairs exclude some folk is a f...
Meh. Wife recently bought me Stratego, which has been played enthusiastically for a week or so. Unlike Chess, and more like life, there is no perfect ...
Like all paradoxes the solution was found in a re-wording of the issue. Resolving this paradox resulted fairly directly in the logic of speech acts, w...
you concede that the leg of a lamb and a soul are not the same - the former decays beginning at death while the latter doesn't. No, you didn't. That w...
Seems as ethical claims are more than claims of personal preference. Ethical claims invoke a move such as that from "I choose not to eat meat" to "you...
Putrefaction is occasionally seen as the natural process of the body returning to the Earth, and henc eof the soul returning to the cosmos. Digestion ...
Being able to use stairs is a privilege. Why do we build stairs instead of ramps? Well, they are cheaper, they take up less space. They are convenient...
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