Hello. May I ask, would you define the cause of the depression more as rational or emotional? Rational would be like the philosopher Satre who was con...
Hello. I like your position of prima facie. Thus us supernaturalists have the onus of proof that not all phenomena can be explained by natural causes....
I don't know the facts but will take a reasonable guess at Plato's rationale. Implicitly, we all understand the word God to mean 'that which nothing g...
Hi. Let's remove the word 'new'. Do we need axioms for philosophy? Yes. To avoid for a claim to be arbitrary, the claim must be backed up by premises,...
Can you provide the reason as to why that is? I think the reason is that if all particular cows in the world were to disappear today, there would stil...
This is not how we should see God. Rather than saying God is infinitely good, it is more accurate to say He is 100% good. As for us, we are somewhere ...
This is odd because I agree with the logic of your argument, just not in the conclusion that free will does not exist. Yes we have free will, no we ar...
Good point. You are a step ahead. We need to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate emotional feelings. A feeling is legit if it truly refl...
Hello. I wrote a short document about emotions a while back. Emotional Feeling: An effect an individual experiences, which results from experiencing a...
The Greatest Commandment(s) in Christianity. Matthew 22:35-40: Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and ...
This indeed could be the case for life (at least simple life). Regarding the claim that 'everything is material', what about non-material things like ...
A good point. There is a misunderstanding in the word 'material'. I use the term in the general sense that includes not only matter but also energy, p...
Not 100% has to agree with it, for I am sure there exists outliers, but they would be just that: outliers. The requirement can be called 'common sense...
Essence or essential properties: properties critical to the meaning of a term, such that if they were to be removed, then the term would lose its orig...
Indeed your proof is invalid because it is not commonsensical to label you as cute and to label the pebble as not. It would only be valid, and thus ma...
I think the golden rule applies to all groups: individuals, companies, states, etc. Of course, the complexity is increased when more members are invol...
I am amazed. Only philosophers could come up with such conclusions. A fair point. It is tough to explain but here goes. I invoke Aristotle's theory of...
It doesn't in any direct way. We got side tracked by you claiming that the essence of A and B must exist for the law of non-contradiction to be applic...
I too like to think that the (modern) man-made laws of justice are based on the natural laws of objective justice. Also when in doubt for a particular...
I think you are saying that might makes these acts legal, authorizes them, calls them good, and gets away with them. To this, I agree. But I think "mi...
I disagree. The only criteria is consistency in A and consistency in B in the law of non-contradiction. You don't need to find the real essence of "ba...
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that you are now arguing for "right judges might" instead of "might makes right", as seen in the followin...
In which case, was it a just act for the nazis to kill the jews in Germany under the nazi regime? And why were the other regimes and armed resistance ...
I honestly find it hard to believe that the law of non-contradiction, typically seen as the first principal in metaphysics, is itself dependant on the...
This is true, but the laws themselves are based on justice and not the opposite way around, aren't they? When the laws allowed for slavery and aparthe...
Your concern about dealing with a-holes is noted. I will give you my full position on this: The golden rule is an absolute in morality, and is an effe...
Golder rule of ethics: Do onto others as you want them to do onto you. I don't want to be killed, so killing others is unethical. I am not an atheist ...
Does might make right? It depends if you are asking with respect to description or prescription. A descriptive statement is simply saying what is, mak...
Premise 1 is not based on the conclusion, but on the law of non-contradiction: the two propositions "A is B" and "A is not B" are mutually exclusive. ...
I picked two easy ones on purpose, to show that there exists data on both sides. Your comment again misses the point of my argument that claims that t...
A thing can be on either side but not both at once. If p is true, then not-p is false, and vice-versa. This applies to all p, including the term "livi...
It is possibly an old definition. At any rate, it is the simplest thing that I know to be living with certainty, and so it is a starting point in the ...
Yeah I admit I don't understand what the term "semiosis" means (process that involves signs?). This may be the end result. But at least I think I can ...
By the definition of the term itself: the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. With this definition, if we were to ever find simple...
You are free to remove the first term "eternal". But without it, the statement is either implied to be eternally true, or not. If eternally true, then...
I apologize if this was already brought up before. I want to bring up one more essential property of all living things: The ability to attempt to be s...
Here is my take on this. Abstract concepts such as laws of logic and formulas exist in themselves and are eternal: 1+1 does not cease to equal 2 just ...
Welcome. I agree that things made of cells are living things. But why is that the case? What makes a cell a living thing, and anything simpler than a ...
Yes, it does in the sense that some concepts must be eternal. To think otherwise yields to a self-contradiction: One thing is eternally true, that not...
I see what you are saying now. Laws of physics are statements and math formulas that predict the behaviour of objects. These objects are compelled to ...
I think you can. Sure, your awareness is not the cause of the existence of God, but it means that we can deduce the existence of God from our awarenes...
I am not sure I understand your argument against the phrase "begins to exist". Even though the exact moment for the beginning of your existence is not...
I think I can clarify this. Instead of saying "whatever begins to exist has a cause", we can say "all that is not eternal has a cause". As you point o...
Only if the rule is only influencing and not compelling. If a rule is only influencing, then following it is a voluntary act of the mind. But if compe...
What reasons do they give for claiming to experience a 'higher state of consciousness'? Is it a self evident experience? On a similar note, what reaso...
I agree with that statement, with one picky modification: There need not be a stick, but something external to us. If I have a mental image of a unico...
This is exactly why we need to find the essence of a living being! With this precedent, what is to stop anyone else from granting human rights to any ...
It sounds like you are asking what is the use of finding the essence of words? It is very useful when it comes to validating or refuting an argument. ...
Not if the designer is God, the uncaused causer. But I agree that we should apply occam's razor and postpone this hypothesis until all the simpler hyp...
Perhaps, as Cavacava points out, it is the difference between potentiality and actuality? This would differentiate a virus from a cell, and still diff...
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