It is not a question here of chewing concepts but of digesting them. I'm afraid you have a digestive problem with the concepts of metaphysical, psycho...
It's not that I don't want to understand you, it's just that I don't get it. The only words you quote from Kenny are these: "I do not myself know of a...
I want to talk about knowledge (of God). The only way to do so is through the propositions that enunciate it: I affirm or I deny. Or I abstain. Do you...
"That whats taught by the experts, if by experts you mean philosophical academia". Says you. The Stanford encyclopedia article we saw says otherwise. ...
Sorry, I'm not using a psychological concept of agnosticism, but an epistemological one. I don't think Anthony Kenny is a philosopher very representat...
Your classification is confusing. Besides, I'm not interested because you include beliefs. Beliefs are subjective. I'm interested in propositions. Wha...
This endless discussion would have a solution: do not discuss names but ideas. There are basically two of them: Is there proof of the existence of God...
I'm sorry to say: The confusion doesn't come from the names. Neither does it come from theists. It comes from the definition of atheism in terms of be...
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. For the SEofPh article the main sense of atheism is not a belief, but an affirmation or proposition: "Therefore, in philo...
If anyone wants to use the words atheist and agnostic in a different way than I do, that's fine with me. Even if I don't understand why he does it. Al...
"Well, according to the ancient Greeks, Frankie's doxic noncommital - "lack of belief" in g/G - is ????? (atheos), or in contemporary parlance: atheis...
I'm using those words in their usual sense. You'll find them in any dictionary. If you have a problem with them we can discuss it. Do you have any rea...
According to the author of the text, agnosticism is opposed to atheism and theism on epistemological grounds: lack of evidence. That is the meaning I ...
The article you quote says several times that the term atheism is fine and generally used as Frank and I do. Same for agnosticism. It only discusses s...
The first three lines of the second meaning of Wiki are neutral. Scientism is similar to positivism. Some well known scientists: Dawkins, S. Harris, D...
The group of unbelievers includes atheists and agnostics. This is what is said among experts, including the one who coined the term "agnostic": Thomas...
"I think the definition of atheism “lacking belief in god” is the most sensible. This is accurate because all atheists lack a belief in god, it is the...
..."these are very loose imprecise statements..." They are imprecise if you cross two different concepts: to believe and to affirm. In the academic wo...
Moral unanimity is almost non-existent and therefore useless for solving moral problems. Because it is enough for someone to say "no" for the rule to ...
I think you've read another article. Anscombe raises the problem of abandoning the classic heteronomous morality: the theist. And he explicitly reject...
No need to hear voices. The moral dilemma involves different internal instances (motives). Plato spoke of sensations and intellect. Passions and reaso...
I don't see that the principle of autonomy implies that of moral truth. I mentioned Sartre, who is more radical than Kant. Neither does Hume, who is m...
The argument against Kant is absurdly conformist. Nothing and no one can prevent the moral subject from evaluating the decisions of the majority. I re...
"I think that's what Anscombe is saying here though. 'Ought' doesn't make any sense without laws. Something just is 'unjust' because of the definition...
Anscombe avoids talking about Kant. However, she refers at length to other less relevant philosophers. One explanation: Kant is a strong obstacle to h...
I'm sorry: I'm still traveling and my comments suffer. They are short and written with tablet. In Anscombe's article you quoted I see no reference to ...
Anscombe's argument has nothing to do with private languages. It is only a presuasive use of the word "legislate". See p. 11. She uses a single senten...
What about the autonomy of reason? Anscomb says it is absurd to think that I can legislate on myself. This is a substantialist prejudice. Man's reason...
The problem of contemporary art is not the subjectivity of artistic values. It is the submission of the public to opinion-producing mechanisms with ex...
First of all, I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't read your 500 comments carefully for lack of time.I hope I'm not repeating other comments. The difficulty i...
It depends on what you mean by "human nature". In a classic sense, nature is what makes a thing that thing. Assuming this definition, man cannot go be...
I believe that the only way to overcome solipsism or extreme subjectivism is by starting from Husserl's intentionality. That is, consciousness is alwa...
The solipsist does not deny that the idea of the "I" is constructed in opposition from the idea of the world. What he claims is that I have evidence t...
In reality, Descartes did not think that the cogito was a truth of experience in the usual sense of the term. It was a rational intuition that I think...
The end does not justify the means. Terrorism is not about ends but means. Terrorism is the use of terrible force against non-combatants to force them...
A counterfactual explanation is one that makes hypotheses about the consequences of an event that did not really happen. In history it's a fallacy. Yo...
(I continue). Two main obstacles to peace are often considered to be terrorism and occupation. In the Western media, Palestinian terrorism would justi...
When did Palestinians ever have a chance to "negotiate" with Israelis? Your narrative is a summary of Israeli-American mythology about the negotiation...
Apply the Kantian categorical imperative: What would happen in the world if Israeli policy became the universal norm? Total instability of internation...
Let's not start with counterfactual scenarios. Neither you nor anyone else knows what would have happened if the Palestinians had formed their own sta...
You cannot justify a current injustice on the basis of a hypothetical injustice. In any case, the solution to that injustice cannot be to kill the fut...
All ethnic states are established to the detriment of minorities. In the case of Israel there are specific laws and practices against native Palestini...
You are wrong. The unified Jewish kingdom only existed in the mythical period of Saul, David and Solomon. After that, the Jewish people were divided a...
In a democracy, the people decide. When the richest people decide it is called plutocracy. When the strongest, it is called tyranny. You have to call ...
What seems obvious is that claiming rights from two thousand years ago based on legends would turn the international map into a chaos of claims and st...
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