Not this. It is prior to this. If Freud thinks the pleasure principle rules egoic motivations, I ask, what is pleasure? A reasonable question for phil...
Right. But let's take the matter further, and in this, I am only interested in how we interpret something like this, and have limited regard for what ...
I think it works like this: If you admit that there is within the analysis of the essence of ethics something that is NOT constructed, then one has cr...
I used to live in South Korea and AFKN was the American military broadcasting station. It was not unusual to see men in arms doing exercises, running ...
No, I don't mean your regard for others is ethically irrelevant. I am saying that in the analysis of a given ethical issue, what drives the whole affa...
Then the consequence to this needs to be made clear: If value is both given in the world, not some theoretical construct or simply part of the ethical...
Alas, the proof in IN the graphic details. You are looking at the post wound, the overshadowed hurt, the taking care of and the regret, and all of thi...
If it were a matter of what you call mundane qualia, being appeared to redly, and the like, then I would agree that what presents itself to inquiry is...
Suffering is an interpretative event after the fact, no doubt, when it is contextualized, weighed in theory and among competing justifications, and so...
Frankly, I don't see your position on this. Do you think there is something of the "identity and meaning we give to our lives" that intervenes between...
Of course I know this case. And the greater good is certainly a moral priority. But the metaethical question is begged: What do you mean by "good"? Fo...
Yes, I know. One does have to look more closely at the argument. I am not arguing that the judgment against the child isn't a contingent matter. I am ...
But to understand is to deliver one from the nonsense that would otherwise define it. Look at the understanding as a kind of jnana yoga (as I do): is ...
I would add that ethics is a thing of parts. On the one hand, there are the entanglements of our affairs, which is all you might find in Wittgenstein'...
Experience it will not get you understanding. The understanding is not structured for this; it is rather a tool that has one function: to solve proble...
One source of tension is rather obvious: Talk about what is prelinguistic is done IN language and logic, that is, is propositional, and what can logic...
Expected effects is what truth "really" is about? I think if you map out the lived landscape, insert that all that is there is a kind of, well, "there...
Sorry, this should read: Just like it is with logic. the point being that Wittgenstein saw that certain themes in philosophy are simply pseudo themes,...
But you are being called upon to remove your being the kid, not being the kid, being selfish, and so on. These are quite out of consideration, for the...
No, I say rather firmly on this. What is mitigated is not the inherent badness of the torture of the the one child: the thumbscrews still are equal in...
We know where this comes from, Wittgenstein in his Lecture on Ethics (Tractatus, too). Ethics and aesthetics are value themes, and at the center of va...
I found this point about belief being a broader semantic category to be closer to the truth. Just make an observation of one's own, if you will, ready...
All such claims miss the point rather dramatically, which is to be expected from analytic philosophers. They hover over a problem on wings of categori...
Is this true? I wonder if you would put some meant on this. Not that I disagree, at all. But it is stated, not argued, that is, justified. I think for...
I guess I don't understand this. The whole idea here rests with theism, but it is not open to a discussion to what this can meaningfully be about? Doe...
Beliefs as mental states/dispositions with content vs beliefs as holding some statement to be true. Issues there might be: is a disposition towards a ...
Then why bother with a philosophy forum? There are plenty of science forums. Because science isn't philosophy. Apples and oranges. The latter deals wi...
Can an animal believe? Does my cat "believe" the open front door goes to the outside where the trees and squirrels are? Most definitely! Is it proposi...
Nicely done, I thought. Husserl takes one the threshold, and Fink's Sixth Meditation puts analysis to the generative threshold of "enworlding." I neve...
There is a way, HedoMinimalist, to make this "work": It would require a serious reconstrual of theism, not a popular frivolous one. It can be reasonab...
Dualism is a surviving vestige of a failed attempt, failed because it tries to divide Being into parts, while it is an entirely simpliciter concept, b...
By genetic disposition you refer to, more generally, the imposition made upon decision making, bringing into play possibilities that are yours, that c...
But therein lies the rub: Buddhists do not try to eradicate the self in order to achieve abstract nothingness. Beneath the self, so to speak, the empi...
It is an argument that begins with an analysis of ethics and I will have to present it in pieces. First, ethicsd is a matter of parts, and are all thi...
The ego, or, better, the egoic center to release this term from the grip of psychology. Deeper levels of consciousness? But the self is only revealed ...
That is the way of apophantic theology/philosophy (neti, neti in the East), and this is certainly does seem to be the "end" of philosophy, in both sen...
What you are looking for, Solarwind, is something that is not merely posited to make the ontological difference. You cannot insist that "who one is" c...
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