I agree. Inasmuch as if the human eye sees an object, it is likely that the object seen is real, so it can be that if humans have a moral feeling, it ...
Let's use an example. Person A wants to live. Person B wants person A to die. How do either person A or B can act so that the equality in treatment is...
To preserve equality in treatment, if you treat others and yourself as you please only, then you would be forced to accept others to treat you, others...
Justice should also be offered to children you know; why are you omitting children? :joke: By 'men', I mean mankind. A minor misunderstanding. You may...
As per example 2 in the OP, justice can be relative to some rational factors. In this case, it is relative to how starving some people are. Giving une...
Yeah thanks. I think you are correct that I could have used the term 'fairness' in this case too. I think 'justice' is the more general term to accoun...
If by 'revenge' you mean "a desire for justice (and nothing beyond it)", then it is not immoral. But if you mean "a desire that goes beyond justice (i...
The practical solution is found through the Golden Rule: "How can I act in a way that I would want others to act towards me?". The golden rule is dire...
I agree that what is quantitative is objective, but a thing does not need to be quantitative to be objective. The proposition "what is not quantitativ...
Are you saying the definition of justice is subjective? Definitions of concepts are always objective. If not the case, then the Socratic Method of fin...
Alright. What if the information told by your conscience contradicts the information told be somebody else's conscience. The usual way to resolve a co...
But if you claim that conscience informs you without the use of reason, then it seems you are told what to do, by the conscience, without understandin...
To my knowledge, conscience only gives general principles; it does not inform us of the specific morally right action for the specific situation; whic...
Can you give a concrete example of merciful act? I cannot think of one where the morality is contrary to justice. I think you agree with me that killi...
My bad. I was responding to the OP. I have changed my previous response above. While I am here, I might as well respond to your previous post. I agree...
Hello. You are correct that intention or will is a necessary ingredient to morality. In general: Morality is treating each being according to its prop...
You presuppose that all beings are particulars. Why is that necessary? I would agree that all physical beings are particulars, due to having particula...
Indeed, it does not make it necessary but possible; and this possibility is sufficient to refute your argument that, since we give different descripti...
Just to clarify, I was not accusing you of self-contradiction, but rather pointing out the limitations of such a topic as whether truth can be attaine...
You are correct that there is no self-contradiction in the sense that the statement "the complete truth cannot be obtained but truth in the lesser sen...
Hello MU. I am back; at least temporarily. Though it has been a while, I hope you are okay to resume this conversation. I will resume it in the next p...
Hey MU. Sorry for not being as responsive as last year. Obligations are getting in the way. This trend may continue for a while, but I do plan to answ...
Your explanations are incomplete as they only push the mystery one step back. (1) Why is monogamy valued? (2) and (3) Why do we feel empathy? For both...
If I understand you correctly, your position is that our concepts are not completely true, but are consistent among all humans, and this indicates tha...
Golden Rule. As I said in the OP, intention of good and evil is a necessary component of morality. As long as your intentions are not evil (don't viol...
To add to this statement, the Golden Rule "do unto others as you would want them to do unto you" is called that way because it "occurs in some form in...
Hello. You are correct that my argument (1) does not disprove moral subjectivism. However, it does showcase the consequences of believing in our weste...
That is right. Moral principles, like "do unto others as you would want them to do unto you", and "treat everyone equally", are innate. Then in practi...
We already covered this issue here. It is solved by making the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge of the universal form or concept. T...
You are correct. This was not what I was saying, but I was mistaken because I forgot that universals may be a members of higher universals, like the h...
Hello. The concept itself must be insensible; because if it was sensible, then we would have no use to communicate the concept through a second layer ...
Let's consider again the two statements below. (1) Each universal form is particular because if it was not so, then they would fail the principle of I...
That is precisely my point, that if moral knowledge cannot be taught, then we must acquire it through observation of our own innate knowledge of it. U...
I appreciate that you guys are consistent in your belief system, that if morality is wholly subjective, then Hitler and the Nazis were indeed not obje...
It is just a misunderstanding on how the term "particular" is defined. The way you use it for the universal forms, I now understand it to mean that ea...
Does it follow that Hitler and the Nazis were not objectively morally bad during the Holocaust, and that they were simply the minority in terms of opi...
Hello. I think you are close to the mark. Let's make the distinction between principles of morality, and then moral rules. The first principles are th...
Is it the individual's survival, or survival of the species as a whole? If the former, then your morality can be reduced to the survival of the fittes...
So the feeling of guilt is what makes us no longer attuned to the Holy Spirit, and thus the removal of the feeling would make us attuned again, is tha...
Yeah I said that. I did not mean it in the sense that individual persons must have individual ontological value, or do not share a common human nature...
I am trying to understand what you mean by this. Each universal form or concept is "particular" in the sense that it is unique relative to other conce...
Back! Happy New Year all! >:O >:O >:O Actually, the very fact that we can determine that our description of universals are inaccurate proves that we h...
Hey MU. My turn to apologize; I will be busy and likely not as responsive on the Forum, possibly until the beginning of next year. I hope to resume th...
Hello everyone. I apologize for the delay in responses. I have been very busy lately and will not be as responsive on the Philosophy Forum, possibly u...
Hello. Nice writing; very poetic. I just want to analyze some of it. You make it sound like the gods were the cause of our guilt, which in turn separa...
Hello. Are you asking if the knowledge is within the subject? Yes, knowledge is always in a subject, for only subjects can know things. However, the k...
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