Well, if you are left wondering now, I think at the end of reading this, wonder will yield to either contempt or more wonder. It really depends on the...
I don't thinkg ethics is grounded in pragmatics. Truth is hermeneutical, but there is something, as you say, prior, and this is the essential givennes...
Not quite. The reason pragmatists like Rorty, a post modern language philosopher, hold truth to be pragmatically variable is because language is conti...
I think these are very good questions, but have nothing to do with God being ethics. What I mean by this is that when one withdraws from incidentals o...
Suggesting you really do think religion is reducible to something like this, whic is, I suppose, just a bunch of imaginative story telling, which it i...
Why, yes. Once you banish the atheist's straw person thinking about god being an old man in a cloud and the like from conversation, and ask about what...
Well, you could just move forward and say why you don't see this. But then, I gather from your comments you don't want to talk about it if I don't rea...
A scientist denying the primacy of causality in discussing science? I have heard of this. But the "intuition" of causality, is apodictic, and you will...
I agree with this, almost; there always is a "but": Divinity is an odd word. Has anyone every experienced divinity, divine grace? Or is this an entire...
Theodicy issues from a deficit in the world. Put God and all that tradition aside. Religion is essentially redemptive and consummatory, reflecting the...
Don't know how well this will come off: Everything I say is derivative, of course. I am what I read. I put things together as I see fit, here and ther...
Absolutely. Such is the way things are, one crisis after the next. I take it that looking through an amoral lens is exactly what necessitates a founda...
Implements? Consciousness implements our reality? Not that consciousness takes up reality for some useful purpose, but rather that consciousness is it...
Sorry, I'm not going to read all of that. I read through some, and it occurred to me that it was excessive. Existence must possess the ground for good...
Surely you are right. Have you read Mackie's Inventing Right and Wrong? One of my favorites, because it is SO well wrtten and is meant to be a text bo...
Yes, prior, logically prior, meaning if this dimension of our existence were to be removed, then the very concept of ethics becomes meaningless. So he...
Distant, yet "nearest" of all, prior to bringing up the themes of inquiry. And it is IN, if you will, the fabric of the universe, not discovered in th...
Okay, but language stands in binary structures, not aches and pains and pleasures and delights. These latter are not language at all, notwithstanding ...
Qualia is very much to the point. The brain is not. I argue that true qualia is not the appearance absent its concept (what Kant would call the "blind...
I don't see it. Put plainly, when you have an ethical issue, the ground for this takes one away from structure and into the value dimension of the wor...
Her is where the argument has trouble: Definitions: Good - what should be Existence - what is Morality - a method of evaluating what is good This puts...
Yes, I think you are closing in. But there does remain the final question: what is there that is bad about suffering? You may, as I do, hold that this...
One step further: That phenomenon which is a cup cannot be conceived as apart from its noumenality if 'noumena' can be made sense of at all. There can...
Yes, I have always thought this. Meditative thinking require one to listen to the world, not just constructions of ideas. This latter gives us nothing...
"View from Nowhere" is an attempt to slip past the glaringly obvious world of actualities we live in. But nowhere means nowhere IN the potentiality of...
Not structuralism. Post structuralism, the denial that language really has any rigorous commonality among those in a language group. No, the idea here...
"View from Nowhere" is an attempt to slip past the glaringly obvious world of actualities we live in. But nowhere means nowhere IN the potentiality of...
Ethical substance? I consider the good and the bad of ethics to be analytic terms, abstractions from an original unity. Plainly put, there is no good ...
Existence is good? I am reminded of Voltaire's Candide, or my favorite, Monty Python's version: Chapter one: I Am Eaten by Sharks. You are going to ne...
Actually, I don't think language has any limits at all. Only when one takes language to be something it is not is there an error. If one calls somethi...
Thoughts on actions and judgments: A judgment, as with, Raskolnikov is guilty of murder! But what is there in murder that makes this judgment ethical ...
If ethics is grounded outside of ethical problem solving and thinking that issues from sources of variability, that is, different cultures, subculture...
I wait until the argument settles. What good is saving lives? Saving a life is one thing--there, you saved me from injury, but there is nothing in the...
True. But memory all the more puts distance between oneself as an epistemic agency, and the object, for what stands before one is now not only causall...
The lived realization you talk about refers to Husserl's epoche. There are phenomenologists who take this reduction all the way down, apophatically, i...
No, I claim. I mean, yes, if language were absent then discourse would be absent, but the core matter of ethics remains hidden in the same way, say, t...
Yet all of this remains discursive, merely. Such is philosophy, and the assumption is that this is the best one can do: postulate from a position that...
Yes, it is a philosophical obsession of mine, ethics. I think most philosophy is an abstraction, as is science and the pragmatic os dialy living; an a...
But sentience as such possesses nothing of ethical possibility. And something being alive is equally without an ethical dimension. How do you define g...
Before, not in the temporal sense, but in the logical presuppositional sense: Ask the question, What is ethics? and you uncover the analytic of ethics...
There is, you know, an inroad into telepathy that perhaps you haven't thought of. It is a philosophical inroad, not from empirical science. It begins ...
It does lead thought to a very strange affirmation about the world, these basic questions. The Tao famously tells us to refrain from speaking, as does...
Okay, and it is not that I disagree with Schweitzer, but there is philosophy unsaid in these words, and this is where thought has to go. Reverence for...
To say ethics is the study of ends presupposes the value of an end. This is where the basic philosophical question leads one. One states an end, a pur...
But prior to this, there is the discussion of what ethics IS. Actions, granted, do not have to proceed with with perfect clarity on about the ontology...
Simple, almost, to answer, but it does seem to be, as Heidegger said, the most remote from common sense, yet the most intimate in the midst of our bei...
I appreciate your interest in this, for it weighs on my mind as well. But thoughts here get so bound up in extraneous and historical content that has ...
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