A Christian Philosophy

If "helping out others" and "remaining safe" are both nothing but desires, and there is nothing else to influence our behaviour, then it follows that ...

I want to clarify that the emotional pain is an effect of the immoral event, not a cause. I.e., the victim feels upset because the event is immoral, a...

My view (and I think the Thomists') claims that individuals are true identities as the starting point; and from there, we find genera (genus in plural...

But in this case, the harm is an effect of the act, and so not part of the act itself. Another way to look at it, is that if you are caught, then you ...

Hello. I have a couple of questions. Why do you claim that if morality is objective, then God exists, then predestination exists? I am assuming that y...

This does not agree with the definition I stated. I courage is defined as "the will to do something that goes against one's inclinations (or desires)"...

I am surprised that you do not see injustice in this scenario. If your 1000-employee company gave everyone a Christmas bonus every year except for you...

I understand. So your view is that harm is an essential property of immorality. But this still does not explain how an attempted murder, causing no ha...

Got it. What about a case that involves no harm, either potential or actual, such as this? Two employees have the same skills and seniority. I give a ...

I don't think that, if we remove the identity or unit such as 'm' from the number, that anyone thought that 1 could not be divided. As you say yoursel...

Does it follow that attempted murder is not immoral?

It sounds like you equate 'will' or 'intention' to 'desires', 'inclinations', 'emotions'. But if this was the case, then the term 'courage' would be m...

Ah! yes, thank you. In other words, unjustified harm is an essential property of immorality. I got confused when he said that it was both, that harm c...

Sorry we couldn't come to an understanding. I thought you meant "harm causes immorality" when you said the following: I.e., if harm makes an act immor...

Hit 'Reply' on several posts from different people.

There is an error. 'Because' has the word 'cause' in it. My question could be rephrased as "Does harm cause immorality, or does immorality cause harm?...

So your position is that an immoral act is always harmful because the person that causes the immoral act always harms themselves. In your view, is the...

This is an interesting topic. I think you are making an error with the claim that because 1 can be divided, then it loses its original nature of being...

That is correct. My point is therefore that an object being mental is not sufficient to demonstrate that it is non-physical. And as it is the case for...

Great discussion. I want in. Is either harm or intention essential to morality? Consider the following cases. (1) Harm without intention: a rock falls...

I completely agree. Well, in theory, we could always ask the individuals whether they have an inclination to seek justice for themselves or not; but I...

Yes, you are on to something! I was not all that familiar with the term meta-ethics, but the way you have described it makes sense. Described as such,...

If by definition, you mean quite literally the description of the concept, and not the concept in itself, then I agree with you. (man this topic is ha...

Not gonna lie, I did not read your quoted paragraphs (tl;dr O:) ), but I read the above. Let's make the distinction between three kinds of reality: (1...

Nevertheless, we agree that the container of info is physical, even if the info it contains is not. But I think that a mental image is also nothing bu...

Agreed. But just to clarify, the current argument is not whether or not justice is objective (it is), but whether all humans seek justice to themselve...

This seems inconsequential, because a relative property is still meaningful, so long as the standard is the same for all things. If I describe the dog...

Well, if unintelligible or meaningless information is nothing but the arrangement of physical parts in a certain way, then I can definitely mail such ...

Particular objects participate in triangle-ness due to their specific physical properties, but the concept triangle-ness itself is not made of physica...

I finally read this. It was good, and on par with my position; not too surprising as Feser and I are both catholic. And... I once again used the wrong...

Hello. What criteria that is learned from experience can be used to judge if an act is moral or not? It cannot be the harm caused by the act, because,...

I am intrigued.

I admit I misspoke when I said that nobody sacrifices themselves willingly. You may be right that some may willingly blow themselves up, and others wi...

So you object to the Golden Rule being the absolute criteria to determine morality, on the grounds that individuals may have different ways of how the...

Your logic is correct; however, we can take a shortcut when it comes to physical things, because of the law of physics that no two physical things can...

It is simple enough to demonstrate that information is not physical (at least certain types). We can use the Test of Imagination, as Chesterton calls ...

I don't mind the standpoint of nominalism or subjectivism, insofar that the arguments are rational and respectful. If a standpoint is false, then a fl...

Conventionally, the "Golden Rule: Will (or intend) unto others as you want them to will unto you" is the absolute criteria to determine if an act is m...

The examples I was referring to are these: "This is not a triangle", and "this is a triangle". I assume you agree that these statements are true, as w...

The law of identity does not suggest that if two separate things change to have all properties coincide, then they become one and the same thing. This...

Through a socratic dialogue, either with yourself or with others, which serves as a falsification method. Much like the correctness of a scientific th...

That makes sense to me. I wonder if an objector might say that it is logically possible to have an infinite loop, where the one derivative power is pa...

I like it. Here are my questions/comments. 4) "It cannot be infinitely long." Is there a way to demonstrate this, other than by Occam's Razor? 6.) "Th...

But what criteria is used to determine that one definition is more correct than the other? I answer that the criteria is the concept, which is the sam...

Thanks for sharing. Yep, still perplexed. Now I gotta add 'phantasms' as part of the terms to understand, on top of 'forms', 'concepts', 'matter', 'mi...

Yet another tautology. Remember that coherent debates require clear description of positions, and also reasons to back them up. In this case, if you s...

Got it, thanks. In other words, it could be there is no such thing as an absolute cartesian coordinate system for space. I am okay with this theory fo...

I could be completely off the mark, but are you saying that sometimes, an action to fulfill justice could move the goal post elsewhere, effectively re...

Your claim is a tautology and thus unproductive. Now, either a thing is red, that is, it participates in the form of redness, prior to us calling it "...

Interesting. Could you explain the differences between "the intellect perceives the Form" and "the mind derives the concept"? I would have imagined th...