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Why the Greeks? They wrote our history books.
February 21, 2019 at 21:07
Your world is too neat.
February 21, 2019 at 20:26
That's philosophy.
February 21, 2019 at 20:25
Isn't it more that is can't be useful? But any behaviour can be made to match any rule. Just play with the constraints. Further, the Übermensch need n...
February 21, 2019 at 20:09
Behaving in a systematic, rule-guided way does not appear to be a characteristic he admired. Being admirable, was. Thanks for your contribution. Just....
February 21, 2019 at 20:04
Thanks for this articulation of the issues.
February 21, 2019 at 19:49
Does the Übermensch follow rules?
February 21, 2019 at 08:44
PI p.207e So how can morality be a private object?
February 21, 2019 at 08:37
OK, so suppose I did know they were Slav. Which rule was I following?
February 21, 2019 at 08:10
So an act's being moral is hidden, private - and hence irrelevant. Between you and your maker, I suppose. The private rule is that one ought act with ...
February 21, 2019 at 05:33
OK. But is "what feels right" a rule?
February 21, 2019 at 05:16
A rule that cannot be stated. I really have no idea how such a thing could be made coherent. SO I guess we can leave that aside. A rule that might be ...
February 21, 2019 at 05:15
According to the private language argument following a private rule is incoherent. There could be no criteria for doing so. SO that's the direction he...
February 20, 2019 at 20:59
A tedious read.
February 20, 2019 at 20:39
@"Moliere" - thanks for you reply, you can see the issue. We choose, and choose agin and again. If that choice follows a pattern, it follows a rule. B...
February 20, 2019 at 20:35
Noted. I'm over thinking it again. I'll offer no excuse but procrastination.
February 20, 2019 at 20:17
That's it. Nietzsche could have no criteria for correctness in his moral principles. That's different, it seems to me, to Satre, who publicly stated s...
February 20, 2019 at 20:15
Yes - that's the wiggly tooth I want to probe. How does following one's own private rules differ from mere accident?
February 20, 2019 at 08:31
Nuh. I'm on the cricket pitch. :razz:
February 20, 2019 at 04:08
the arguments against a private language are a specific form of a more general argument against private rules. A rule that was unstated, internal, not...
February 20, 2019 at 00:20
Yep. We will disagree on rules, since private rules are not rules or not private. That's another discussion. What's interesting here, at least for me,...
February 19, 2019 at 07:41
morality consists in rules, Or if you prefer, judgements. So while he might not have had a moral system he might of had an ethical system. But an ethi...
February 18, 2019 at 23:50
That's how i understand it. Stepping beyond good and evil, to bring about what it is that one wills.
February 18, 2019 at 09:38
An approach that might work is looking at capabilities. Martha Nausbaum. Usable stuff.
February 18, 2019 at 08:27
It's now a game of Posts Most Wins. Nice diagram.
February 17, 2019 at 19:42
Then stop looking to me for help.
February 17, 2019 at 08:51
It's there, in most of the stuff I've writ over the last ten years. Or ask me next week. I might care about you by then.
February 17, 2019 at 08:48
Yep. The dichotomy fails. Think I mentioned that.
February 17, 2019 at 08:39
Why not both?
February 17, 2019 at 08:35
Good good. I had poached eggs on smashed avo and toast. I don't think your suggestion to chat about goldfish is going to take off.
February 17, 2019 at 08:29
Going around and around is not much fun.
February 17, 2019 at 02:45
But would you be wiling to say that our moral judgements involve the world? Yet how could they not?
February 17, 2019 at 02:03
And how is this different from how we judge the cup to be blue? We look at the cup and judge it to be blue. We look at the broken pup and judge it to ...
February 17, 2019 at 02:02
Look at your post - we are embedded in the world yet our moral judgements do not involve the world?
February 17, 2019 at 01:50
Clang. The door slams.
February 17, 2019 at 01:46
We are embedded in the world. Claiming that what we ought do is strictly mental, denies this. It's wrong. We have to look around. Some folk get obsess...
February 17, 2019 at 01:44
If moral problems are mental, will you claim that the broken dog is mental? Or not part of the problem?
February 17, 2019 at 01:42
You ask me to use an instrument to demonstrate how things should be. This is a problem of direction of fit, not of subject and object.
February 17, 2019 at 01:41
In the end, this is bad and this is blue both require a judgement. So neither is without mental content.
February 17, 2019 at 01:39
What's that? And I will drag this argument down to first principles, at which point you will have to make a judgement.
February 17, 2019 at 01:37
Well, go on, then. But do so with an eye on my reply, which will be to take your explanation and paraphrase it into the discussion of the pup - again....
February 17, 2019 at 01:36
Yeah, but I have; the broken pup.
February 17, 2019 at 01:22
That's what the open question is. Go read up on it. I gotta go move some straw and clean the chooks.
February 17, 2019 at 01:08
(my bolding). You assume that it is either mental or not mental; that's the same as assuming it is either subjective or objective. But being blue is n...
February 17, 2019 at 01:07
Yep.
February 17, 2019 at 00:59
All of which is post hoc. It happens after blue. Dude, I'm not claiming that it is an objective property.
February 17, 2019 at 00:56
And that's the same as saying "you can't just say that the cup is blue". I can, and indeed we must, in order to explain just what property it is, how ...
February 17, 2019 at 00:49
Me? Again, i would just throw the open question argument back at you.It shows that there is something more fundamental than the most common, cross-cul...
February 17, 2019 at 00:44
I thought so, too. But apparently not. You see, the upshot of the argument is that rational leaders in an organisation ought do as little as possible....
February 17, 2019 at 00:41
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February 17, 2019 at 00:31