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David Mo

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It's not like that. It's one thing what you do, it's another what you know about what you're doing. I doubt very much that in archaic Greece there was...
May 12, 2020 at 05:50
Yes. Because moral obligation is not a physical necessity. Pantagruel answered you in the same way. In the moral sense you decide what rules you must ...
May 12, 2020 at 05:38
Sure, but what I was asking was what. Are we talking about Greek culture or Greek morality theories? The problem started when someone spoke of the Gre...
May 11, 2020 at 15:20
You keep mixing two different concepts of obligation or necessity. If I adopt a rule (not just a moral one) that I believe I must fulfill for a certai...
May 11, 2020 at 15:05
The Greek tradition was not uniform. There were several opposing tendencies. The Platonic tradition was one of the most important. As you know it reac...
May 11, 2020 at 06:08
Moral obligation and psychic necessity are different concepts. Moral obligation functions on the level of duty and necessity on the level of causality...
May 11, 2020 at 05:44
What I meant by my questions, which you have not been able to answer, is that raising an opposition between virtue, duty and consequences is a false d...
May 10, 2020 at 05:51
In your opinion. I have a different opinion of your outburst.
May 09, 2020 at 14:51
I don't understand this opposition. And the civic virtue that was the basis of modern revolutionary morality? Wasn't it a virtue oriented towards the ...
May 09, 2020 at 06:55
Like every generalization there are holes and very big in this case: Plato. Plato believed in the unity of being and ought in the form of knowledge of...
May 09, 2020 at 06:05
I don't quite understand. If virtue is moral it should imply some kind of action with respect to others. I don't know how a character that doesn't beh...
May 07, 2020 at 05:25
I have read some of Russell's books on morality. I have never read a reference to the "four cornerstones" of the scientific method applied to morality...
May 03, 2020 at 05:28
Is there a branch of knowledge that is based on these "four cornerstones" and is not science? I don't know of any.
May 02, 2020 at 05:28
As I told you, the problem is that your first comment had a clear (and wrong) meaning and after modifying it it has become a series of vague and confu...
April 29, 2020 at 08:23
You wrote this yourself in your opening remarks. It corresponds exactly to the objections I made to you. I think your attempts to avoid those objectio...
April 28, 2020 at 15:48
Let's clear up some confusion because you look a little confused: 1. Subject of the thread you proposed: if a scientific method ("scientific mind") ca...
April 28, 2020 at 05:47
Objection: You cannot qualify an act as moral if you do not have a concept of what is moral and what is not. You cannot put a moral act prior others (...
April 27, 2020 at 10:08
You take everything I write as replicas of your writings. I don't. I usually present ideas of my own. Rather than repeat that you have not said that, ...
April 27, 2020 at 09:51
I agree. There's no magic moral solution. What is moral are the conditions that make a moral choice possible. What are those conditions?
April 27, 2020 at 06:31
I'm not sure what you mean. A definition of "morality" is possible by picking up the common usage of "moral good"; a strict/scientific determination o...
April 27, 2020 at 06:24
Rather than discussing the detail of the proposal, I would like to point out two difficulties of principle that are valid for any attempt to solve mor...
April 26, 2020 at 06:04
Yes. There's even an academic journal devoted to him: : Sartre International Studies.
April 21, 2020 at 05:23
Every philosopher who does not enter the Olympus of Anglo-Saxon philosophy. In the mid-20th century, there were channels of communication between Euro...
April 20, 2020 at 08:12
A friend translated a book by Deleuze. It was a translation much appreciated by the critics and quoted by experts. Privately he admitted that he hadn'...
April 20, 2020 at 07:10
Thank you.
April 20, 2020 at 06:20
I don't see what you see... Vision problems?
April 20, 2020 at 06:14
What if we're ugly and we don't want to see it?
April 20, 2020 at 06:03
With Sartre it is like with Freud, everyone abominates them, but everyone uses concepts like bad faith, condemned to be free, hell is the others, etc....
April 20, 2020 at 06:01
Derrida's views on other philosophers seem irrelevant to me. I have only read half of Derrida's book about the gift and I found it insufferable pedant...
April 20, 2020 at 05:54
Not only have I recently re-read Being and Nothingness, but I'm reading the Critique of Dialectical Reason right now. I guess I am getting prematurely...
April 20, 2020 at 05:36
What language is this?
April 19, 2020 at 05:06
Ah well. I thought you were defending platonism. No. The future does not exist as reality but as possibility. Sartre called it the nothingness that is...
April 18, 2020 at 06:45
I don't know what this means. You know something if you have an idea about it that you can rationally justify. Knowledge differs from belief because b...
April 18, 2020 at 06:40
No. I was referring to the basic intuition that one does not fully exist if one does not realize oneself in the world. The opposite is the spleen of t...
April 17, 2020 at 09:23
Curiosity, I suppose. Amazement is the mother of science. Moreover, because of the consequences in practice. Belief in the reality of my actions is th...
April 17, 2020 at 08:39
Mathematics is formal science. Not prediction. A theorem is not predicted, but deduced from axioms. I assume we are speaking of objectivity because of...
April 17, 2020 at 08:32
There is no single method of reaching the truth, but there does seem to be a single concept of truth. It is universal insofar as it designates certain...
April 17, 2020 at 06:56
I'm not trying to say that. First of all, you have too much confidence in the absolute exactitude of chess computers. The possibilities for the develo...
April 17, 2020 at 06:43
You have simply transferred the problem of truth to the problem of "cognition". You've changed one word for another. "When I state a true proposition?...
April 17, 2020 at 06:02
Of course definitions are tautologies. But they are useful or not. It's a question of meaning and reference. Yes, perception is a simple criterion. It...
April 17, 2020 at 05:49
It's not the philosopher saying it, it's common sense. How can you say there is a dog if you don't have a criterion to decide what is a true dog from ...
April 16, 2020 at 09:05
But you cannot say anything about Covid-19 if you do not first have an implicit or explicit criterion of what truth is. Saying "Covid19 kills if and o...
April 16, 2020 at 06:41
That is, it is merely analytical or formal. In that case, Tarski's criterion could not tell us anything about the existence of Covid-19 and the falseh...
April 16, 2020 at 06:26
What kind of objectivity are you talking about? You seem to believe that even if humanity, the planet, the galaxy and the known universe disappeared, ...
April 16, 2020 at 06:22
The substitution axiom is a mathematical axiom. I would like to know what it has to do with the existence of objects outside the mind and the possible...
April 16, 2020 at 06:17
Covid-19 kills people. Does it? We don't care if it's true or not? I suggest that a theory about truth is neither impossible nor pointless.
April 15, 2020 at 14:29
Yes, correspondence theory of truth. Aristotle. But limiting itself to the pure form of the proposition. If we do not epistemologically analyze what t...
April 15, 2020 at 14:23
I still don't know what this is about. Especially if you add that it has nothing to do with this. Anyway Tarski's definition of truth refers to the fo...
April 15, 2020 at 14:14
I don't understand anything. Could you explain it a little more?
April 15, 2020 at 09:14
"T-sentences"?
April 15, 2020 at 08:03