A dualism??? :gasp: Bullshit, God lived in the hearts of countless human beings over the course of millennia. God was said to have grounded morality, ...
You don't have to, but then we wouldn't have much to talk about, then. None of this pragmatism talk looks anything like ethics or value theory to me a...
Well, they wouldn't actually be happier since they wouldn't be alive. But yeah I think if people were a little more observant and candid about their o...
Yet the choice to commit to the "pragmatic route" must also be subjectively motivated, no? As I said before, there are multiple perspectives on procre...
It's not that you're listening to what science is saying more than it's that you're interpreting certain cherry-picked scientific theories in a partic...
I don't see why anything I said would have left you speechless. Antinatalism, at least in the form I'm delivering here, is simply the consistent appli...
Yes, it seems as though antinatalism can be but one manifestation of the problem of evil. Atheists can complain that God sits by idly, watching innoce...
Once again, the fact that the majority of people do not often wish they had never been born (but actually claims about being glad you were born are of...
It's not fanatical to abstain from having children. People do it all the time. And I think you are using the term "reasonable" illicitly here, in that...
Top ten anime betrayals western philosophers of all time, in order based on nothing but my personal opinion: Plato Hegel Schopenhauer Augustine Nietzs...
By definition, just about anybody posting here about anything at all has a full belly, a roof over their heads, and time on their hands. And they all ...
Terror management theory has been around for a while, and depressive realism is only slightly younger than positive psychology, as far as I am aware. ...
This sounds too good to be true, probably because it is. Alongside positive psychology, we have theories such as depressive realism and terror managem...
Yet there is a difference between science of life and life as it is lived. You say the self is fluid, but the self we value as a self is precisely the...
The objection I will raise here is that you are making it seem as though because the self is socially constructed, it must be within our control to de...
The intra-worldly is morally disqualifying - most if not all of our actions have repercussions that are regrettable, even if they aren't within our co...
I was a consequentialist for a while, yes. I've come to see consequentialist theories as inherently intra-worldly and incapable of acting as any funda...
If I remember correctly, some Buddhists (?) see procreation as a necessary evil that prevents souls from regressing into "lesser" states of being. Par...
It's a bad habit, I see a discounted book offered by a third party for dirt cheap, and I buy it. Before I know it I have more than I can handle, so th...
If we are to go the Scholastic route, then God is beyond all human propositions. The most we can manage with are analogies and metaphors, as well as c...
It's not about getting rid of metaphysics. To do science, you must do metaphysics. But the metaphysics scientists need to operate is not something onl...
Seems to me that constructing models requires background assumptions - that's all metaphysics is, at least in the sense philosophy of science tends to...
Julio Cabrera sees this idle behavior as ultimately negative - the authentic decision to commit to projects and whatnot is an onerous reaction of disg...
I think, for me at least, it's like going through disillusionment about technology. When I was a child I thought technology was magic and that scienti...
New products tend to break because they were rushed, always wait for future versions. With a little bit of technical background you can fix a lot of t...
Hahaha, this is somewhat ironic in my case since I just recently switched majors from engineering to computer science. One thing I realized in my expe...
Work will continue to be alienating so long as capitalism is instituted. If capitalism is to go, then there has to be something to replace it with, an...
But we need not be Epicureans if we are atheists, and in fact this Epicureanism is the same sort of thing that Hume is complaining about - it doesn't ...
GPA seems to be more relevant for larger companies who can afford employee training; they use GPA as a simple way of sorting through applicants, just ...
I am speculating is that theism is a form of psychological repression that has origins not only in the economic structure of society but also existent...
Right, but all three struggled with their faith. Dostoevsky's characters reflect a man with many contradictory perspectives, such as the duality betwe...
Yet there are also many, many people who were believers, and who went through all sorts of awful experiences and came out stripped of their religious ...
Hume's point seems to be that talk of cosmic harmony and theistic benevolence only comforts those who aren't suffering. As such, theodicies fail to pr...
Philosophy is thinking that puts the thinker into question. It is not merely an intellectual endeavor but an ethical one as well - a person must be re...
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there to bear witness, does is make a sound? Does it even fall at all? Often a contributing aspect of an ac...
On Suicide - A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery. Have been intrigued by Amery for a while now. He writes gently and without an air of pompos...
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