On the broad topic this thread is about, I am curious: are there contemporary people in “non-Western” countries doing philosophy that is connected to ...
@"David Pearce" I just now stumbled across a quote from Blaise Pascal that brought to mind something you said in this thread several days ago (can't f...
Maybe in the sense of just "getting someone to comply". But people arguing -- exchanging reasons in an attempt to convince the other person -- aren't ...
I didn't think it was necessary, on a philosophy forum, to specify that I mean rational discourse when I say "resolve differences": exchange reasons w...
If you're already invoking a question of "rightness" in any way separate from mere agreement (and of course everyone already agrees with themselves), ...
I had a thought the other day that seems like a plausible explanation behind a lot of behavior that I see here and similar places on the internet. Met...
The 'almost' there is an important difference, that we've circled around a lot before. It's the difference between a claim that Alice thinks X and Bob...
The closest thing to my ethical system that's well-known out in the philosophical world would be a kind of negative preference rule utilitarianism, wh...
It is universally correct that "green" is the word used in the English language for the color of grass, and not the word used in the French language f...
I acknowledge that those are all difficult questions to decide. My only point on this topic is that the grounds on which to decide them, the costs and...
Sure, making a choice that unintentionally ends up hurting someone doesn't reflect any kind of character defect on your part. You may have been doing ...
Right, which is why another of the principles in the OP besides universalism is phenomenalism, which says that what makes something true or not is its...
I'm aware that that is what such relativists think. My argument is that it's transparently incoherent. Being correct only relative to a perspective or...
I'm not promoting psychological hedonism, just ethical hedonism. (But also, in your example of the man saving his family, presumably his gut-reaction ...
This basically circles back to the issue we've discussed to death before, of how something being hard doesn't make it wrong or unworthy or trying to d...
Thanks. That is the kind of answer I would give as well, but as I see it that still boils down to hedonism. In (I), the reason perseverance in the fac...
By whom? And (other than the possible answer to that) how does that differ from what you say no divine command theorist in their right mind would say:...
If "good" just meant "commanded by God", then there would remain the question of whether or not to do what is commanded by God, and why or why not. Li...
That's exactly the point at issue here, distinguishing between, them, so if you're just going to refuse to do so then there's no point discussing it f...
Sure we cannot be culture-less or language-less, but that doesn't mean we cannot change culture or language, just by "doing culture" / "doing language...
That's not what expressivism is. Saying "don't do X" isn't just an expression of desire about someone not doing X. It's a command. My view is much clo...
You apparently didn't re-read the OP of this thread, that this latest post is a follow-up to, where I apply these terms as labels for specific things,...
The person uttering the moral proposition is the one making a prescription. There then remains the further question of when and why to assent to such ...
One again your argument boils down to "some people don't believe in moral universalism therefore moral universalism is false". Although seeing as most...
If we have a generally libertarian society where everyone gets to be master of their own little domain instead of being subject to the whims of others...
Ethical naturalism is right about a natural ontology, but it wrongly assumes ethical propositions are descriptive cognitive propositions like non-ethi...
And to the extent that they are genuinely trying to answer those questions and not throwing up their hands and saying "because ___ said so!" or "it's ...
Yet again assuming things about my character unreflective of anything I've said. People come up with folk beliefs about what is real all the time too,...
That doesn't sound like a description of any legislative process I've ever heard of. That sounds like a description of how some folk ideas about moral...
No, I've said that if I am right, then every difference from to my view, if applied consistently, is tantamount to "just give up" (on answering moral ...
I didn't say anything about only considering present first-person experiences. Future suffering or enjoyment is still a first-person experience. True,...
It's likely that someone somewhere has recognized and practiced that process, because it's unlikely that any thought is ever completely new; but we as...
Propositions have logical relations to each other whether or not the person assenting to all of them is aware of that. The process of argumentation is...
You understand the difference between first-person experience of mental phenomena and third-person observation of the physical processes correlated wi...
:up: My ontology is likewise mostly negative: not so much about the kinds of things that there are, but about the kinds of things it wouldn't make any...
Yeah I can see how it fits so well with a Protestant work ethic, and I wouldn't be radically surprised to see it live and common in the real world. I ...
If you missed the first few sentences of the OP, this is not something I think is required in general for just anybody to act morally at all, but rath...
A doctor (rightly IMO) takes as given that reducing pain and suffering is an end goal, and then concerns himself with the means to do so. If someone w...
I'm aware that in common parlance people take "hedonism" to imply egotism, but that's not the way it's used in philosophy, and hasn't been for thousan...
Sure; it is good to be happy, but you being happy isn't all there is to being good. (Other people being happy, or generally not suffering, is importan...
If the "good" part of "greater good" is people feeling good, then it is. Hedonism isn't egotism. Also if the only reason you're acting for the greater...
I'd be interested to hear the quote you mean, yeah. Thanks. :-) I think I broadly agree that "acting for the greatest good yields the greatest pleasur...
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