This is not an issue in contemporary physics. And causality is not intended to reflect any advance beyond the apriori principle of sufficient cause, t...
Of course, all of this is true. Too true, meaning too commonplace for philosophy. You are thinking a a world of unquestioned assumptions about knowled...
Of course. It is the questions begged that this hinges on. You say light hits the cat, and I ask, light? Cat? I should first be clear that I am workin...
No. I am saying that when one puts the analytic game in play, which is the taking apart of things, ethics does turn out to be a thing of parts. But in...
Not to be difficult, but you should be suspicious yourself at your reluctance to be direct. What the self is is not asked. Nor have I asked how the br...
But I want to emphasize: all you said is evasive. Leave out the meta concerns. There is the cat, here am I, a perceiving agent. Two things. How does i...
I should add that solipsism is a term that complicates a simple question. If it is clear, to you, then just be clear. References to other theoretical ...
Well, that is an easy answer. But I am putting the question to the simple affirmation itself. There is my cat under the table. Here am I. How is it th...
I think most people who think are not moral realists because they also think science defines the world and science cannot discuss morality; therefore,...
Neuroscience is not the ticket into this. And a lengthy justification for what I think is true goes absolutely nowhere. As I see it, the only way to m...
It is about the multitude of things no more than logic is about the multitude of axonally connected neurons. Pain is NOT reducible. Such complexities ...
Consider then: facts of the world. Is my migraine, just because it is an interior event, any less a fact? Is it not somewhere in the grid of worldly a...
I think this is right, yes, though, not to get too hung up on overwrought terms like 'soul' and 'God'. A close reading of K's Concept of Anxiety will ...
Perhaps more than simply good. It depends on what you read. We are what we read. One can either go analytic or Continental in philosophy. The former i...
Here is an account. There is a lot behind this, but in essence (btw, it likely will be encountered as novel thinking. Apologies. Should best be read f...
You seem to take a psychological pov on self reflection. But you need to look at it structurally: pull away from the habitual self, and you are "out" ...
Oh. I see. Well, I frankly understand this. I attended a Catholic high school for a couple of years myself. Very authoritarian, to the point of cruelt...
A hedonic calculator would have to reflect the subjective actualities of engaging the world. This is not possible. Of course, there are good guesses, ...
"sigh" ! You found the Concept of Anxiety ORIDINARY?? Not possible. You thought his existential dialectics ordinary? But it is here that the connectio...
Take another look. It is a descriptive position, and certainly not about how people feel about things, their attitudes. This latter doesn't enter into...
I go either/or on this one: If a person is simply pouring all thought and sentiment into doing the right thing, and gets it all wrong, I am entirely i...
That would have to be determined by some impossible hedonic calculator. As I recall, Bentham did insist that some pleasures were superior in their cas...
If I invest in the stock market, make a fortune and incidentally support a company that does good deeds, it isn't reasonable to say I have some stake ...
Not good deeds, good intentions. But then, this goes further: good intentions affirm the good, but what is this? Metaethical questions always haunt in...
A utilitarian measure, and not sure about the premise that a person's life realizes more pain over suffering is sound. But then, the entire argument i...
Look closely at the argument. It states explicitly as a major premise that regarding value, the map IS the territory, so to speak, hence the impossibi...
The argument here places the need for training in a matrix of concerns that are contingent, all such concerns ultimately beg the value question. It ru...
Don't think of it as value assigned. Simpliciter means not contextualized for judgment. Granted, it is difficult often to disentangle affairs, but the...
Here is the beginning from Metaethics and Moral Realism posted 14 days ago: Consider: the ethical anti objectivist John Mackie's thesis (Ethics: Inven...
Philosophy has been all along a search not for truth, but for value. I think it is close to its end in postmodern deconstruction. Heidegger thought Bu...
What then is security? And I don't mean this in the everyday sense of the term. I defend a rather impossible thesis: within the self there is the odde...
the question is, why isn't noumena dismissible as dialectic overreach, as delusion, with "the mere dream of an extension of the pure understanding"? I...
Emotions could be rational? Well, not as odd as one might think. Consider Dewey: experience is, in my take on Dewey, that is, the foundation, and anal...
Yes, that is true, though it does overstate the case, doesn't it? Wittgenstein and Kant famously refused to give sense at all to such things as the "o...
I see ancient, original texts as openings for new disclosure, and therein lies their greatness. There are no definitive texts, only movement toward gr...
Begs the question" Buddhism?? This is my point. Read about what is said at all, and you will find not a closed system of thought, but an openness of p...
Tell me what you think of what I call the opacity test: In your physical model of the world, there is a brain and this is the seat all we experience. ...
Well, I don't think sucking on lemons is helpful. But the philosophy is just the a matter of making ideas clear, even if the matter itself is revelato...
Not sure what this external reality is meant to be. Not that externality is not meaningful, but what you mean is unclear. Of course, this is a big iss...
Your link provides: "And what is right view? Knowledge with regard to stress, knowledge with regard to the origination of stress, knowledge with regar...
The point is that such things are by their very nature not determinate. The language in play is open. Where do you think Buddha got it? Lived in a cul...
What did Kant "really" teach? If he were here to tell you, would his thought be any less disputatious? The "real" Kant is, of course, a matter of scho...
I will do my best to use terms in a way that is familiar to your discussion. The question I have for the above is, to say words aren't identical to th...
You know, there is a lot in this a take to instantly. First order beliefs and thoughts of any kind puts one in the mode of existing whereby past predi...
As with any doctrine, one can either dogmatically receive it, then take this as an authoritative representation , disseminate what it says, learn by r...
So will is not in play until you want to want. Does it have to be explicit wanting to want, or if I want it and I pursue it I am implicitly willing it...
I always take issue with "will". I simply have never detected such a thing. I will something. What does this come to outside wanting it, and doing wha...
You know, there may be truth in all of this, but I cannot affirm beyond what I have been able to understand myself. Eastern philosophy is revelatory a...
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