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Scomo gets a state dinner. Think there's a war in the offing.

I don't wanna play.

It's there in #5 - Messiah complex leads to martyrdom.

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@"Terrapin Station" says you are free to choose...

I'd thought that's what the question in the title was asking; ...now you have gone and given a pat definition, ruining the thread. ...in which case, s...

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Indeed. Long ago. Still cannot see how your comments relate to it. So I let the slide, too. The analytic style of the OP is what interested me in your...

You are the way, the truth and the light? Nuh.

Be excellent: how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis

Biological Difference and Philosophical Universality Now at least we have a bit of ethics, with the introduction of an ought: (italics in original) Bu...

You hit one of the nails squarely.

But you just said we didn't need to read it...

Technology makes it easy to count the 70 places that this is not so.

So you are accusing me of lying? That's not nice. But then you say we need not have read it... That your argument bears no resemblance to the Euthyphr...

Ah. I didn't notice you do this. That seems to take us away from the post that puzzled me: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/329164

Yes - a while back. So, you have the right interpretation of the dialogue, in modal terms, but cannot relate it back to the dialogue. I'm sceptical.

Hm. Can you relate that back to the Dialogue?

OK - so help me understand. What is it?

No. See my previous - https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/330175

Fine questions; yet even if it did, it would remain a long way from supporting the OP.

The (Partial) Renewal of Evolutionary Ethics There remain those who would indulge in eugenics.

Then Darwin and the Evolution of the Moral Sentiments. Not self-interest, but survival through altruism.

You talkin' 'bout 'Merkin schools? Yeah, they're fucked. But not for the reasons you give.

Sure. The conclusion in the abstract is an appeal for greater equity, not a warning against recognising non-cis genders.

A bit of analysis wouldn't hurt. The introduction is pretty straight forward. So to the section Warnings of the Wary. Three points are raised: ought/i...

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(19)30219-3/abstract The actual article does not support your interpretation. McHugh is not himself witho...

How could you tell an hallucination of not being in pain from... not being in pain? :yikes:

Maybe; but what I was wondering is, if god thinks rape is right, does that make it right? I don't think so. I'd say that if god said rape was fine, ra...

Odd. I will leave that here, for you to consider. Something went astray.

so - to borrow your own example - if God were to prescribe rape, that would make it moral?

You can field that one, @"frank"

I'll start again. So what is moral is what god prescribes. Now, is it moral because god prescribes it, or does god prescribe it because it is moral? S...

What?

:grin: Presumably you divide truths into objective truths and subjective truths?

Mmm. Not sure why you found it important to introduce the modal element. I was thinking more along the lines of, if morality is made of a god's values...

Hence the Euthyphro. How would you address it?

@"T Clark" See?

Good idea. Who will we get to instruct us?

Yeah; you probably don't. :razz:

Meh. The test will be if he continues with his philosophising or goes back to working at his lath.

:lol: Bloody trollies. The ubiquitous carnal lust of the dilettante ethicist.

We don't have any problem thinking of the very same object being in the very same place at two different times. SO why should we have a problem with t...

No; this is the very same thread, just in a different place....

Let's crowd fund to set it up. We'll be bigger than Lego!

I gather from something I noticed - not going to look for it now - that you used Euthyphro? That's another direction I would have taken.

I have a fucking awful head cold and am filling in time here. When the cold settles, I will go back into the Real World and again Crusade for the Good...

Resilience. In order to really come to terms with Rationalism, or any other philosophical school, one must feel it in one's guts. How better than to t...

Yeah - I noticed that. It did give me pause to consider the authors authority. But I think it a small point that does not detract from the thrust of t...

:grin: And the time spent arguing over monads and atoms will still have been worthwhile. Wrong turns in Metaphysics are often valuable stepping stones...