On Pragmatic Compromise Despite the utopian ideals detailed above, I recognize also that we should not let perfect be the enemy of good, and that the ...
On Socialism Maintaining a generally level balance of actual power in practice (not just legal power on paper) between all the members of society is o...
On Stateless Governance In the absence of good governance of the general populace, all manner of little proto-states may still spring up, in the form ...
On Correction Still aside from that reactive judicial role, I hold that it is also important to have, as most societies already do, more proactive cor...
On Adjudication Aside from that multi-tiered process of legislation just described to produce an alternative to traditional law books, an entirely dif...
On Legislation Just because I am against any such institution being taken as deontically authoritative does not mean that I am against all social inst...
We can ask each other questions, and respond to those. "I don't understand your view, can you clarify?" - "Sure, I'm saying X, as opposed to Y or Z." ...
Philosophy is a thoughtful act, of course, and so is functionally dependent on having a working thinking-machine, i.e. on having a mind. Something's g...
FWIW Baker misrepresents that I don't care whether my methodology "actually has the potential for ever being applied by humans". It's an aspirational ...
I'll let @"SophistiCat" field this one in particular as he seems on board with this point and I'm tired of staying up way too late every night because...
Philosophy is supposed to be logically prior to any empirical investigation, including psychology. I.e. if your philosophy hinges on particular contin...
Just taking this as an example case for principles to apply more broadly: my objection to the virtues ethicist would be if they claim that virtuous ch...
At this point I'm not talking about law at all, but only about ethics. There is a purely ethical sense of "justice" that's logically prior to the lega...
I'm not even talking about specifically moral beliefs at the level of detail we're talking about here: narrowing it down to just morality in particula...
At first glance, one would think a maximally libertarian society would be one in which there were no claims at all (because every claim is a limit on ...
On Deontic Powers and Immunities That all depends, of course, on who rightfully owns what, which is where the second-order rights come in to play, whi...
On Deontic Claims and Liberties A liberty is something that you are not prohibited from doing. It is the negation of the obligation of a negation, and...
On Deontic Rights From these two types of procedural justice, we can derive a set rights, which can be formulated in terms of obligations and their ne...
On Procedural Justice When we then assign ownership of certain things to certain people, which is to say that the will of those people controls what i...
On Distributive Justice Just as, like many empiricists, I hold that synthetic a posteriori knowledge, empirical truth, is in a sense the primary kind ...
On Types of Justice For most of the above I have been implicitly talking about what philosophers call "distributive justice" and "imperfect duties", t...
On Efficiency This notion of the value put on the line by different intentions dovetails into another prominent principle of intention-formation, whic...
Against Consequentialism https://www.geekofalltrades.org/codex/images/fideism-skepticism.png As should be expected from the positions already argued f...
A school is a kind of social institute, but in this case I was referring to a government, though I do draw parallels between education and governance ...
I’m reminded of a similar way of speaking that’s commonly in computers programming circles, where there’s no such thing as a “difficult” problem, only...
My point (on this specific issue) is not "God doesn't exist therefore this other thing must be the source of morality", but rather "it doesn't matter ...
I can probably just trim out a lot of redundancy and external reference to make it better: The method by which to decide what is good or bad is for ev...
I’m not sure what you’re responding to there? I don’t have any disagreements with what you wrote. Sure thing. - The meaning of ethical claims is to im...
“Ascetic” is a good suggestion. I thought I had considered and rejected it before because it didn’t actually have anything to do with rejecting pleasu...
:up: Well my threads all have different points, as elaborated in response to Isaac two (of my) posts ago. They're just all about parts of the same (my...
Thank you for your response! If you don't mind, I have a few followup questions for clarification: I'm unclear what you mean here by "genetically cred...
Because there are supposedly rational people (thousands of years of professional philosophers) who give arguments for why that's supposedly the right ...
I have not changed it at all. You just don't understand it. Willfully, I think, since you said you want not to distinguish between the two. If you put...
No, because the capacity to suffer is, on my account, a product of the way that the brain functions (though like all mental phenomena it's multiply-re...
Rocks should be however minimizes the suffering of things capable of suffering. Rocks can't suffer, so the rocks themselves aren't subjects of concern...
Yep, though it's more often called the principle of charity in a philosophical context. Failure to to apply it is pretty rampant here, as with most ev...
It isn't like that, but not because it can "calculate moral values based on the Schrödinger equation", but because questions about what is real and qu...
Excluding the religious (and similar) views on morality is the point of this facet of my ethics. The people who object to this ethical view pretty muc...
If that’s your point, it’s completely beside my point. Emergence came up in this thread in the course of making the point that the higher and lower le...
To claim something is to disagree with anything contrary to the claim; conversely to disagree just is to claim to the contrary. It’s the same thing. A...
I only mean trivial in the sense that it's not something in dispute. Nobody denies the existence of subluminal donkeys, so there's no point arguing ab...
I think I already clarified this earlier, but establishing a scale against which to compare the morality of situations where one end of that scale is ...
I'm still talking about weak and strong emergence. Your refusal to acknowledge that we're talking about different things is the root of this entire di...
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