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Indeed. You were expecting it to be easy? In any case, since you want everyone dead, what is it to you? The dead cannot act virtuously; even less, tho...

Dude, I'm only seeking to undermine your confidence in the moral fibre of the military. I don't want you getting shot. They have history, brother...

Muddled. Virtue ethics is about growth, becoming; encouraging courage, temperance, liberality, generosity, patience, kindness.

The Orcs.

Shit. Are we agreeing? I thought we couldn't do that...

I'm not seeing a point to this discussion.

Sure.

Ok, then. Drop the word "determine".... Then consider The Three Questions. Or read about Aragorn.

Everything.

:up: 'tis a joyous thing.

Do you really think that there is one true answer to this question that will cover all cases? That doing the right thing is somehow algorithmic?

That's not enough. Kids arrive at five by playing with beans, moving them around, sharing them, sorting the beans from the marbles, cooking them, embe...

...and that is nothing like an argument. Indeed.

Good choice. I find myself moving away from duty and happiness, towards virtue. It cuts out so much philosophical crap. That is also a move away from ...

Jokes, yes... and nonsense. Nonsense is important.

But it could mean chair leg, or chair back, or undetached chair part.... But moreover, how will you point to democracy? To parsimony? To three hundred...

You will doubtless agree that there is a difference between doing something because it makes you happy and doing it because it is the right things to ...

Thanks for the reply. Your argument was that morality is not "really" about caring for others, the evidence being that there are 12 regions of the bra...

Hmm. I recall Quine had something to say about that... https://thepsychophilosopher.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/quine.jpg?w=1280

Ah, a Pulitzer prize winning picture. Perhaps a video clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX95QSKBODo It was a ways back... '71.

https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/v5000022/800wm/V5000022-Caricature_of_Newton_s_Laws_of_Gravity_.jpg ...as gravity might be replaced by levity.

It's been entertaining, again, Apo.

Ooo, take care... that can lead to all sorts of other nasty habits. DO you think such an agreement needs to be explicit?

What? Inertia, inertia, inertia. Next?

Sure. Again, mass is better understood (more useful...) than substance. Puzzlingly, you seem to be trying to argue against this by presenting examples...

Righto, then. All cleared up.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200503111346-01b-kent-state-shootings-exlarge-169.jpg You sure 'bout that?

Yeah, you are better off skipping the question and answering something else. Nice dodge. Just so we are clear,

SEP: Aristotle's ethics. I think the use was at least popularised, if not originated, by Martha Nussbaum in The Fragility of goodness. It is intended ...

Hm. Its also an increasingly common translation of eudaimonia.

Well, thing is... most folk will disagree. So again, you have a specialist use that is at odds with common use. Just sayin'. The law of identity, and ...

The question is, which is to be master – – that's all. The myth is that competition is the engine of the economy. That's bullshit.

As Apo reiterated, look to the use.

Angry dolphins.

Sure. Does the OP say anything that is in disagreement with this?

Stylistically, tacking a list of links on the end of your posts without explanation doesn't work for me. Nor Qualia as properties and fields? Not foll...

Cheers. That went well. Anyone else?

Yesterday, the Mayor of Portland was gassed by the secret police of storm troopers that Donald Trump has sent to occupy the city.

Why the name calling? Why do you agree with me in such a belligerent fashion?

:lol:

And yet, when the kettle is put on the fire, the water boils.

What this shows is that you have read too much - Hidelegger? - to be good for you.

Indeed; in the wrong hands, equivocation is a powerful tool. The question then, is who is doing the equivocating? Meta apparently denies that 2+2 is t...

:lol:

Why not? Again, that is what the mathematics of the big bang theory describes.

...so, where is there a coherent presentation of what it is to be God?

I'm wondering how you used it in your supposition. You're not keen on clarifying? That's why I asked you to explain the difference between a part of t...

Rather, I'm pointing out that there are ways that it is not. There's so much that is problematic with this. The simplest way to show this might be to ...

So you would be happily agnostic as to the existence of, say, four-sided triangles?

...and then there are those who think what is the case ought be the case. Yes, indeed, I'm just twisting language to my own needs.