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Let me try and formulate the converse then. 'I don't care about how to live ethically, I only care about what it means to live ethically'. Somewhat im...

I can imagine examples of how thinking in terms of consequences is different from thinking in terms of duties, but do you ever get any wisdom in how t...

I think you're interpreting my ire towards ethical systems as a kind of quietism towards them - that theory is irrelevant for motivating ethical decis...

It would be strange to love wisdom without trying to let that wisdom influence your actions, no?

That makes sense. Do you think being ethical is possible without this sense of doubt? I've met a few people who were convinced that they had good will...

I don't think your 'system' is one of the ones I'm trying to tar in this thread. It seems like a bunch of generalizations from difficult scenarios you...

I think something like this. All ethical inquiry consists in reasoning about what to do. This includes what it means to do something right (is this th...

Can you elaborate on the darkness? I don't understand the allusion. I suppose being able to negotiate is a presupposition of conflict resolution.

Bollocks. Whatever view you have that entails this contradiction should be discarded.

What's the difference?

Declaring something beyond philosophy, one must think both sides of the limit...

That's the kind of approach I was trying to promote. But I think there's some place for ethical systems. For example, if you're speaking with someone ...

Can you be more specific about how your system of values constrains the means you can use to achieve your ends? Regarding the independence of what's g...

In isolation, yes I think this is something that's ok. In principle, no, if a meta-ethics or normative ethics gives you no heuristics or ways of think...

Examples of how your ethical system has guided you towards certain actions concerning people?

If using ethical systems in your day to day life is an important part of ethical philosophy, it is a glaring omission that we speak about what structu...

Time is mysterious. Duration in every day contexts is not. It isn't as if the mysteries of time impede interpretation and calibration of watches. That...

They're almost certainly not independent lines of inquiry though. Do you think it would be normal for someone to study normative and meta-ethics all t...

Ok Wayfarer, I can see the link directly to 2. Someone who practices mindfulness or meditation is probably more able to deal with that, maybe also som...

A few examples would be nice. Say your friend turns up really late to a restaurant you're eating at, you can see they're a bit flustered and worried w...

I exempted you from it because, if I've understood your comments and some of your blog posts, you actually care about the description and structure of...

I don't think that people who have ethical systems or meta-ethical beliefs on the philosophy forum are hypocrites. What I'm criticizing is the idea th...

I made an effort to act less like a jackass when I was 21, it worked. Unfortunately maybe, but it did.

I used to get a thrill out of committing small social faux pas, I imagine they annoyed some people. My favourites were: (1) When someone asks you to g...

The kind of time we're talking about isn't some phenomenological or lived time, it's temporal duration. So: Ways of measuring duration - decided by co...

Since I couldn't do a text impression of Zizek with a link (sorry whatever mod deleted the post), he has an interesting view on love. At least romanti...

I don't have a problem. Was only asking for clarification.

Aight, I read the link, were you using it to say symmetry breaking is still a thing, contra the OP?

O I thought you were a staff. Sorry. But thanks!

What informed you about: amount of symmetry breaking is insufficient and lurked in the big bang, chiral symmetry breaking in the weak force through th...

Supporting links?

Or alternatively 'no reason to assume the universe is anything but a contingent accident'.

If, then at least until someone stops you.

Can you guys stop your bickering please. Neither of you is going to back down, neither of you is going to 'win', there's absolutely nothing at stake i...

What's the book?

Enjoying studying stats?

You're leveraging the principle of indifference to assign these probabilities, which is inappropriate without constraints on the situation. You also s...

You can ascribe a 50% chance to a conscious creator with blue hair, a 50% chance to a conscious creator with red hair, and a 50% chance to a conscious...

I'm gonna re-post something I did in your previous thread @"Marchesk", but will add to it. This is one of those philosophical issues that I don't see ...

@"unenlightened" fiddles while Rome burns.

This is one of those philosophical issues that I don't see the point in, but I don't think this is because of quietism, rather because I don't really ...

Thanks for the clarifications Tiff. I usually have difficulty telling parodies, sarcasm and ironic chatter from the real thing, so it was a request fo...

No Posty, if the system contained enough arithmetic it would still be subject to Godel's theorems.

It applies to any system that contains arithmetic. This is why it's so important. If you want a system to do maths in, it should definitely contain so...

I'm just going to leave the Painting Fool here. Neural nets can already learn ontologies (operational stratifications of concepts). It's probably bein...

If every atom of oxygen is equally likely to be drawn from a series of independent random draws, this implies that the probability of obtaining a part...

I don't know how the law of excluded middle relates to Godel's theorem, or how rejecting it relates to Godel's theorem. One way to find out how it rel...

I couldn't tell if that exchange between you both, @"ArguingWAristotleTiff", @"Sapientia" was sincere, camaraderie, camaraderie laced with poison or s...

I think @"andrewk" did a thread on the old forum going through Godel's original proof, so he might have some good input here. I have a hazy understand...

Makes sense. Doesn't it feel disappointing to you that 'the odds were in our favour', so to speak, but we still failed to have many active woman poste...