About "noble lies" in particular? Because a false reason to do something is a bad reason to do something. If the thing the noble lie gets people to do...
You can show something is wrong regardless of external premises, via reductio ad absurdum. If assuming the thing itself leads to contradictions, then ...
I think it would have been much nicer if the southern continent of the western hemisphere had been called just America, and the northern continent cal...
Nobody here is saying that "knowledge is inherently flawed", we're saying that knowledge doesn't operate the way justificationists say it does, becaus...
Nothing but anarchism was practically possible for most of the history of the human race. It's only in this age of abundance since the agricultural re...
A trilemma is a kind of argument. The top Google result for the word is about an economic argument, but OP is talking about the Munchhausen trilemma, ...
That's because you're stuck in the distorted Cold War version of a one-dimensional political spectrum. The original one-dimensional political spectrum...
There are people on the right who call themselves anarchists, within at all understanding the history of the anarchist movement and how against their ...
Anarchists are definitionally left, but so much further left than Democrats that Democrats are scarcely better than Republicans in their eyes. Some of...
No, they’re both bad, the Reps are just the much worse of the two. America needs something much better than either. The system is designed in a way th...
McConnell was a bigger villain in all of this than Trump ever was, and I think you're right that he represents the real core of the Republican party. ...
This is a good argument against retributive justice. True justice is making sure that the harm that someone does is contained to themselves, i.e. it's...
https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/youre_serious_futurama.gif (Sorry, this is actually a deeper OP than I expected, but that was m...
I have long expected that the EU would follow the pattern of the US and evolve from a union of countries called states to a country called the Union w...
I’m surprised that that was your initial view from which you have since expanded, as the common political frame since the 20th centuries seems to be o...
I'm having a little difficulty parsing your sentence here, but I hope this answers the implied question: - "maximal change" was to mean you want rapid...
One thing I found interesting about the results of this poll is that while only the smallest group identified their views as "right", nearly half iden...
Being friends with your neighbors, having no enemies, finding love, exploring the beauty of nature beyond the comforts of your nice house in the subur...
What is salvation but being saved? And who says we need some special predestined chosen one of divine birth to do the saving? That's a bit of a trite ...
Is the story of an unplanned child abandoned in the wilderness who nevertheless somehow survives and goes on to become a great hero who reshapes the f...
I hate that "two cows" bullshit. It's transparent capitalist propaganda (the only good scenario is the "traditional capitalist" one) that's unable or ...
The question at hand though is do you wish you hadn't and wish you wouldn't again? That's what it is for you personally to think something is wrong, i...
Why? I expect these cases will involve a quotational sense of “wrong”: something you know others would call wrong, but you think is excusable anyway. ...
In another thread recently I was putting forth a philosophical conception of how (the concept of) willing should be understood in relation to (the con...
I'm not sure if you're talking about me in particular here or about people more generally, but I do have a BA in philosophy and I have also read about...
Firstly, because I'm not in any kind of dialogue with them personally. It's not like they're hanging around forums like this for me to talk to. Also, ...
I already posted this in response to the first version of this comment in the Trump thread, but since there's a new thread I'll repeat it: There is a ...
Well there is a long tradition of thought in philosophy that holds, essentially, that "evil is reducible to ignorance", i.e. nobody knowingly does bad...
Yeah, last time I went to a therapist about as far as we ever got was a loop of her saying "there are two ways to change how you feel about a situatio...
In truly postmodern fashion, “postmodernism” isn’t even a really well-defined idea to begin with, so I think you’ll need to be a little more specific ...
omg! Do the police have any leads on finding him? This guy needs to be locked up for mass murder! Weird name, too. Is he Italian? I think I’ve seen so...
Regardless of whether Trump personally was inciting the insurrection, it's looking pretty clear that it was not just a spontaneous thing that happened...
Theism does not have a monopoly on disagreeing that "the ends justify the means". One doesn't even have to appeal to any ends besides altruistic hedon...
And in doing so, aside from the rational pressure of your actual arguments against those beliefs, apply social and emotional pressure discouraging peo...
I think the emoji function is useful for this. If I see someone say something that I think is worth saying that's not being properly appreciated I'll ...
Regardless of what folks are after on a forum like this, what purpose should a forum like this serve? I.e. what's a place like this good for, anyway? ...
Some political movements considered left-leaning have. Some political movements considered right-leaning have used the state toward their ends as well...
I would prefer that it not be seen at a battle at all, but if it's going to seem like some people are attacking you, instead of us all just cooperativ...
For my part, the thing that I tend to find stressful is the perception that nobody agrees with me. Even if I know better, if I'm well aware of promine...
Yes, exactly. Much as belief differs from perception in the same way. You see something in the distance on a hot day that looks like a pool of water. ...
To will is not just to want, but to want to want. Weakness of will is when you want to want X (you will X), but nevertheless you do Y. Strength of wil...
I’d say even that should be “tolerated” to the extent that that means taking it as an idea about which we can discuss the pros and cons. It’s just one...
“Leftism” is not a form of statism. Both left and right have abused the state, but the original left-right divide had the state on the side of the rig...
It's funny (or it would be if it weren't so tragic) that right-wing anti-democratic rhetoric so often employs the notion of "the mob", the hoi polloi,...
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