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David Mo

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And I have lived and worked with scientists and philosophers all my life (since my first day of life). In addition I have read some books on the subje...
February 25, 2020 at 08:19
I observe Mars with a telescope. Mars is the reality, the object. The telescope is the instrument. And "Mars is a red planet" is a statement of facts....
February 25, 2020 at 08:02
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The distinction you make between different feelings is irrelevant. They all have references to the past and the future. You fear a dangerous man (past...
February 25, 2020 at 07:29
I'm sorry, but I'm all messed. I wouldn't say that when I put a proposition I "create" a truth. I would say that truth is a quality of my proposition ...
February 24, 2020 at 16:12
If you want to include numbers as ideal or abstract "facts", you can do so. But it's twisting the word out of the ordinary. In philosophy of science, ...
February 24, 2020 at 15:55
One thing does not exist in abstract. This chair in its particular occurrence in relation to other things in its environment is the fact. What you say...
February 24, 2020 at 15:52
My God, what a way to complicate your life! You guys seem in a mood of arguing! Truth: property of a proposition. Fact: what exists in the world. It's...
February 24, 2020 at 07:24
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Sorry, I didn't ask "how many" but "what's" the difference. You admit there's a difference but you avoid saying what it is. I ask you in another way: ...
February 24, 2020 at 07:04
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I asked you the question before and I'm asking it again. You say that "we" call shame... What "we" do you mean? I have not found in my readings a phil...
February 23, 2020 at 16:12
There is no single factual definition of fact. I mean, it's a very ambiguous concept. Like ambiguous concepts, it is easier to understand as opposed t...
February 23, 2020 at 07:26
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When we refer to external vs. internal we do not mean that the causes of a feeling are on the outside or the inside. We refer to the fact that a parti...
February 22, 2020 at 16:25
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Well, I read Benedict's book on Japan: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. She didn't speak much about Christianity. But the biblical example is very wel...
February 22, 2020 at 08:21
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I'm not talking about guilt in the legal sense (crime). I am talking about a feeling that almost always leads to remorse, although not always. Many cr...
February 22, 2020 at 08:15
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Knowledge of the consequences of your action is a necessary but not sufficient condition to feel guilty. Many emotions may be involved in a case but t...
February 22, 2020 at 08:04
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Internal and external are also in the common definition I have provided here makes some comments. I would like not to introduce God here. The Genesis ...
February 22, 2020 at 07:21
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If I define guilt as responsibility towards others based on a moral code, I do not know how I can be understood to be avoiding my responsibility in a ...
February 21, 2020 at 10:32
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I highly recommend this: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shame/201305/the-difference-between-guilt-and-shame And this: https://www.betterhelp....
February 21, 2020 at 09:43
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Guilt is also cultural. In a different way than shame. Maybe. But different paths from guilt. Can you specify? Y (guilt) needs reparation to the victi...
February 21, 2020 at 07:27
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I propose a simple case for analysis: A young woman is looking at herself naked in the mirror. She finds herself beautiful. She doesn't feel X or Y. B...
February 20, 2020 at 15:36
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A person who is not ashamed is a person who doesn't give a damn what others think of him. A person who feels no guilt is a person who feels no remorse...
February 20, 2020 at 15:25
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Traditionally it was thought that shame was the social feeling of primitive societies and that it was evolving towards guilt. The former would be comm...
February 20, 2020 at 08:05
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What "we" do you mean? Whenever I've read about it I've seen the words shame and guilt used the way I do. It is true that the word shame can be ambigu...
February 20, 2020 at 07:38
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Shame and guilt are mixed up in Genesis. This is very common in human justice as well. Adam and Eve were ashamed of what they had become. They feel gu...
February 19, 2020 at 06:42
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Pride is rather the feeling of possessing something that the society praises. In its borders it becomes vanity. I hide my shame (cowardice). I exhibit...
February 19, 2020 at 06:30
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You distinguish between the norm that has been broken and the feeling. That's not what I meant. I was distinguishing between two different feelings. G...
February 19, 2020 at 06:23
I am curious.
February 18, 2020 at 16:14
Sure. As an anthropological subject or sample of horrors religion is interesting. For something else I don't know what its use is.
February 18, 2020 at 09:42
Ricoeur was supposed to be a Christian philosopher who separated his philosophy from his religious beliefs. I started reading his book on finitude. Af...
February 18, 2020 at 09:37
Perhaps this applies to the Anglo-Saxon world. I have checked the indexes of a dozen philosophical magazines in my country and found only one article ...
February 18, 2020 at 09:27
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That's because you give a special meaning to the word "shame." How do you call the feeling of embarrassment of a young woman who is ashamed of her fir...
February 18, 2020 at 06:41
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Am I lost in translation? Yes, in a strong communitarian society - Homeric, for example. No, in a strong individualistic society - like the neo-capita...
February 18, 2020 at 06:32
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Excuse me, it's not my style to call anyone an idiot. Anyway, suppose I ridicule your French Omelette three stars. You'll be embarrassed if this is "s...
February 18, 2020 at 06:12
My proposal is that meanings are behaviors or ways of doing things. We don't need the qualia/sensations to mean. The qualia/sensations are experienced...
February 17, 2020 at 07:44
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No. Authenticity is about recognizing yourself in the other's eyes. The woman who abandons her hand in the hand of a seductive jerk because she doesn'...
February 17, 2020 at 06:55
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Everyone is an image of themselves. First of all, your consciousness is a project that it is not in reality because it is in a future that is uncertai...
February 17, 2020 at 06:43
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Let's look at an example: Carlo Levi is embarrassed because he and a fellow concentration camper drank some putrid water they found in a pipe without ...
February 16, 2020 at 07:43
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I don't think that is shame. It is guilt. It basically depends on whether you feel shame when someone sees you or whether you feel guilt inside yourse...
February 16, 2020 at 07:34
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But the perspectives are different. Anscombe is searching for a theological justification of morality and Ginzburg is making an anthropological analys...
February 16, 2020 at 07:19
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This is Cordelia's situation in King Lear. She rejects the dishonourable conduct of her brothers and the nobles towards her father. And she feels sham...
February 15, 2020 at 11:03
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I don't see the link between Ginzburg and Anscombe. Can you clarify, please? Going back to Ginzburg, he poses a problem with shame. Shame is usually c...
February 15, 2020 at 07:20
It is a myth that logical positivists denied the existence of unobservable entities. I'm traveling now. Tomorrow I'll be home and give the exact quota...
February 12, 2020 at 08:13
"The practical reason why atheism should be simply "lacks belief in god(s)" is because it is the tidiest pairing with the word theist, and describes t...
February 12, 2020 at 08:00
Can you make a case as to why the latter should hold more weight? No, if you offer a compelling reason to adopt non-academic terminology. It can happe...
February 12, 2020 at 07:41
There are many people on the Internet who feel threatened if they are called agnostic rather than atheist. As if names have power over ideas. I don't ...
February 11, 2020 at 16:54
I don't think it's very serious to start a discussion about our respective academic grades. I think the sources that have been cited on both sides are...
February 11, 2020 at 16:43
"Like I said, I'm not arguing about your particular position"... You accused me of giving support to a psychologist definition. Now you don't seem wil...
February 11, 2020 at 16:35
The ends justify the means: without an end a means would be a mere instrument without value . But ends do not justify means that corrupt them. The pro...
February 11, 2020 at 09:02
The variety of philosophical positions is infinite. This is a problem for the inexperienced: they give all of them the same importance. A good encyclo...
February 11, 2020 at 07:38
The problem we are discussing is not whether Einstein or Sagan were pantheists but how they used the concepts of atheism and agnosticism. Frank gave a...
February 11, 2020 at 07:21
I don't think Wikipedia is a model of academic knowledge.
February 11, 2020 at 07:11