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I agree that it's not just from ourselves by ourselves and that potential is constructed socially. Even the proud hermit is only proud and only a herm...

Respectfully, the idea of "human potential" is so tainted with economic ideology that there's hardly any way of conceiving of what human potential mig...

I'm wondering if maybe he uses a bot for his twitter feed.

I just don't understand the random geographical references he has. Uganda?

I think I'm just unlucky and run into hot heads who can't deal with disagreement.

Haha, this is the second or third time someone has made a blog post dedicated exclusively to smear my reputation :lol:

My thoughts exactly, lol

Link to moses88's most recent public slander of myself :smirk:

Just elsewhere on the interwebs.

Nice.

Does anyone know what the fuck Moses88's problem with me is? He continues to stalk and publicly mock me ever since I somehow insulted him back on the ...

Actually, the way you approach this seems to be a rather modern way of looking at things: God must be a "thing", existing in the "real world", which t...

When you say: The (serious) arguments for supernatural "entities" call this into question. Of course anything and everything is natural if you already...

But that's just question-begging. The whole point of supernatural hypotheses is to explain something about the world that seemingly cannot be explaine...

According to (my understanding of) Kant, no: morality is the manifestation of a categorical imperative that is intellectually grasped by the rational ...

Recently finished: A Short History of Atheism by Gavin Hyman (very good, recommended). Ethical Intuitionism by Michael Huemer The Birth and Death of M...

But the fact that we find it difficult to express the essence of many things, sex and gender included, can also mean that there are not specific, esse...

Yeah, the privation theory, also prevalent in Scholastic doctrines of good and evil. With respect to that, then: I do not understand how we are to ide...

Sure, and I've mentioned before elsewhere that sometimes the word "evil" is used only as a description of a person's character or actions, and sometim...

Sure, I don't blame the lion for eating the gazelle, it's only in its programming and it would starve if it didn't. I'm disapproving of "Life" as a ge...

Why can't life itself be barbaric?

I agree that not all pain and "suffering" is bad. You climb a mountain and endure the struggle to get to the vista, you grind in university for that l...

One positive conclusion would be to focus more on preventing this kind of stuff from happening. But really I think on the personal level it comes down...

Yeah, that's the "basic" idea. Though I would say we tend to recognize that goods at the expense of evils are not acceptable in the future, but tend t...

Yes! I'm glad there is someone familiar with Collingwood!

So far I have to agree, and I'm only through the introduction. Scarry has a powerful talent for writing. I'm excited for this one.

Will do!

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry.

Yeah, I agree. I think it's wrong to accuse postmodernism of rejecting analytic truth. That there is no truth cannot be analytically true on pain of l...

How else can it be interpreted? Either the proposition that there are no truths is true, in which case it refutes itself, or it's false, in which case...

God Without Being by Jean-Luc Marion.

On the other hand, can this claim escape itself? Can the assertion that there are no truths but only truth claims, itself claim to be more than simply...

In Immanuel Kant’s 1784 essay, “What is Enlightenment,” he wrote that it is man’s “emergence from his self-incurred immaturity” through the “public us...

But now you've shifted the goalposts from "personhood" to "adulthood".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cidkIL7zZs

The fact that he is a popular public intellectual in the United States already qualifies him as a suspect jejune, in my opinion. Popularity in a (fail...

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...pass :vomit:

I think an Aristotelian natural law objection to this would be that as soon as an egg is fertilized, or perhaps even before then (such as when the spe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBd46BbdTfs

I'd imagine a lot of it has things in common with activism about any other social issue. Although certainly I think there's something "more" to the an...

From Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense: "In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar syst...

They tend to be really pretentious assholes with over-inflated egos and an inferiority complex.

Things are pretty bad, but they could also be a whole lot worse. This makes me believe there is no God, or that he's incompetent / uncaring. If there ...

Government without a state. A decentralized network of independent, collaborative and consensual collections of democratically-elected individuals wit...

Yeah, I was also surprised at how many virtue ethicists there are on here. Also nominalists.

If you thought Being and Time was impenetrable then I don't know what you'll think of Levinas, haha. Well, that's not entirely true, some of Levinas' ...

Thank you, Erik.

Thank you, Wayfarer.

Definitely read Heidegger, but I also recommend Levinas. Both are critical of historical philosophy. Heidegger critiques what he sees to be a diminuti...