But even though the word "create" is incoherent in that context, bringing into play the fact that he/she exists outside of time makes sense of it; it ...
More like different, measurable rules are prepared for evaluation when they are needed proximately, and a selection process...selects...certain rules ...
What if the meta-rule were to select a rule via evaluation of a plurality of people's subjective/intersubjective values into which the circumstance is...
I really mean the rule is selected based on certain subjective parameters, or values, only insofar as they determine what rule should be selected that...
This reminds me a lot of the consensus view of morality I came up with. And I see what you mean about intersubjectivity; it is pretty much all we have...
It's more a principle of non-arbitrariness; the definition of objective you are using is the more common usage of the word, not the way it is used in ...
How are values, if not descriptive, not arbitrary? If it isn't descriptive and it's a value it must be arbitrary it seems to me. Trying to ground it i...
You might say: "but all ethics are arbitrary". This is not true: while they might not be objective, ethics like consequentialism dictate that the acto...
I think that moral "rules" refer more to specific sets of regulations determining what is moral, while value is more about usefulness and worth. I thi...
I will say that relative to a culture one can make the statement that "this is correct for us", and it can be true, but that's not really a normative ...
It might seem as if I am misunderstanding the social contract, but I'm merely working with this: Morals are often measured in terms of rules, so I am ...
Different normative ethics often times come into conflict; I don't see how one can ascribe to both deontology and, say, consequentialism. One dictates...
But yes, the is-ought problem seems intractable to me too. Divine command theory works, but it still sucks, and there is, of course, no reason to beli...
No, you just aren't subscribing to any normative ethics. The is-ought problem is different from claiming that something is wrong or right with no stan...
But nothing makes those actions right or wrong; even if they fall in line with your descriptive ethics; those just describe what is believed to be wro...
Actually it appears chimps have culture too if this is any good: https://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/212/chimpculture/chimpculture.html A call from a c...
If anything I would say that the plane, as a system, is far more complex than any of the individual parts - unlike a function mapping the mathematical...
I think that culture can be viewed from an evolutionary perspective; David Sloan Wilson describes this well; altruism, for example, allows for better ...
Its more like scavenging a plane for parts and then modifying those parts to make a heater and then assessing if the modified parts are still part of ...
I would think that many people could be convinced of the objectivity of a more nomological view; it is empirical - but I suppose that anyone could mak...
First, thanks for responding. That they are Intelligible and sufficiently representative of humanity; the axioms need to be coherent with respect to h...
Once again I'm having difficulties understanding you. I guess you mean what if people voted for laws based upon optimism/pessimism lines? I don't thin...
But it remains that the right to assisted suicide is predicated upon the conception that a life isn't worth living; perhaps it isn't worth living mere...
Good point; many people probably would recognize the assisted suicide thing as an issue of rights. But the second part of your statement about the rel...
I disagree; as discussed in my earlier post I believe that the politics of the right/left concern the optimism and pessimism that the OP describes and...
Yeah I think the OP is a good one. Do you think that if the optimism/pessimism dichotomy presupposes the left/right that the politics of the left/righ...
Many of the optimists you describe might advocate for abortion or infanticide in the case of a fetus in utero or a baby that is born and will die in a...
Many religious people use Divine Command Theory to "under-gird" their normative moral beliefs reflected in revelation. Divine Command Theory dictates ...
What about something like preference utilitarianism? It is based on a secular principle: the maximization of fulfilment of preferences. I don't see ho...
More so that the rationalizations one might go through while or after being tortured can contribute to pernicious and long lasting effects. I suppose,...
Not going to lie, I don't understand most of what you wrote; it's total gibberish to me. Maybe try writing something a little more coherent? And nowhe...
I appreciate the quality of your post; you obviously know quite a bit about this. Quite frankly what you describe sounds like a form of indoctrination...
Reading some of the common definitions of society, I have come up with the working definition that society is an independent entity that both affects ...
Thanks. You too mate. People should use contraception as much as they can; I don't think at this point that it is even ethical to bring a child into t...
You misunderstand - I think abortion is not only permissible, but an ethical obligation sometimes. I just didn't feel like going over every tired argu...
There are probably too many abortion threads but I'll give it a go. I think a better question is when human life becomes a person. Unless I'm mistaken...
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