"Ownership' is a statement about property rights" It doesn't seem that this is necessarily true. If I say that I own someone, then it could be meant t...
It allows them to make assertions, present them as well reasoned conclusions, and deflect any criticism of their assertions as just a poor understandi...
Well, I think that in modern times human nature is be defended with nothing but genetic arguments. If so, then essentialism wouldn't be the only way t...
Russell argued that this is a primitive proposition that must be assumed true without proof. Why, you ask, we do that? Well, it is hard to see what al...
What exactly does "Good" mean if the words "Good" and "God" are used as a referent for what a thing is? At best, we can say that these words are ident...
"The objectivity of moral values cannot itself provide such a rationally compelling reason, since Dr. Wielenberg acknowledges that he has no rationall...
Why should it be that when I own someone that I am afforded a natural right? Rothbard is already invoking talk of natural rights to describe slavery, ...
"Dr. William Lane Craig for example explains these criticisms of Platonic Atheism in these quotes, "So the challenge for the atheist is really acute: ...
Why should a nature of any existent thing, even a thing that was metaphysically necessary, ground morality? "This eliminates the euthyphro dilemma for...
Do you have statistical data of philosophers who specialize in ethics to prove this claim? I didn't know that most moral realists were incline to mora...
When building a political system, there are starting assumptions that are taken for granted. That I own my own body is the starting point of Nozick, a...
Let say that a cause and an effect are temporarily simultaneous to each other, as in your example; by definition an effect depends on its cause for it...
I think your conclusion does not follow necessarily from your premises. One problem is how you go from arguing that immaterial reality has no causal r...
But that is not in itself a reason to jump to the conclusion that premise one should be read as a description of physical things instead of as a metap...
Well, I guess you interpret the "look around you part" differently from the way that I do. When I read it, it seems to be the equivalent of "nothing m...
Premise 1, in the manner that it was presented by the author of "philosophy demystified," doesn't make the kind of qualification that you are making. ...
Right, the author made that claim, but I didn't ask if this statement on the Greek philosophers was correct. I was interested in knowing if his propos...
This answer will differ for different philosophical perspectives, but I don't think that this is relevant yet since noting that functioning ears are a...
If the brain surgeon stimulated those memories by natural physical processes, which were seemingly located in the brain, then I don't see how this exp...
When a dog barks, there are waves that are produced that enter the ear canal and the respective parts that are part of whatever allows one to hear. So...
I agree that there is no such sequence as described: I think that what you are trying to imply here does not necessarily follow from the information g...
What do you mean by What do you mean when you say that different parts were listening to their own drummer? I guess I don't understand what you mean b...
It really doesn't matter since nothing moves itself (according to premise 1). So whatever moves the body, soul or not, must itself be moved by somethi...
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