But it's the burden of the agnostic to clarify why they are agnostic, so the moral realist can know what to focus on, no? Certainly agnosticism has to...
Okay. Just to be clear, dictionary definitions are not always the best tool to go to for philosophical things. How atheism is defined colloquially is ...
Agnostic atheism is an incoherent position that begs the question. Lacking belief in God does not mean you believe God does not exist just as lacking ...
No, it's more like, the absence of evidence for A is not evidence of the absence of A. Saying something isn't true is equivalent to saying it is false...
Don't misconstrue this as the same thing as the equally-silly notion of an "agnostic atheist", where atheism is just assumed-to-be-true-unless-proven-...
This doesn't sound quite right, since it's question-begging. Why should morality, in the absence of any argument that demonstrates it to be objective,...
But again, you're just asserting this. Why is value merely subjective? But you're implying that morality stems only from our "valuation" of things, an...
In effect, then, if a proof is successful in demonstrating the existence of an omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent being, then the problem goes fro...
I suppose the counterargument is that, if the existence of God can be demonstrated by another means (such as a cosmological or teleological argument),...
What is the evidential argument, that one that says that because of the amount of suffering in the world, the best explanation is that there is no God...
So you assert, but why should I believe this? Why should I believe that what seem to be truth-apt, cognitive statements like "murder is wrong" ultimat...
The problem with subjectivism in moral theory is that it sort of precludes the possibility of genuine dialectic, because it threatens to collapse into...
Knowledge, virtue, justice (the distribution of goods based on merit), beauty. Hedonism is false because it misinterprets these other goods as being d...
A better way of putting it, in Cabrera-esque terminology, is that Nietzsche was an affirmative pessimist, i.e. someone who recognized the pessimistic ...
I don't know what to think about this, the claim that the sheer existence of life makes it good. I mean, I'm familiar with Scholastic attempts to show...
As much as I'm getting tired of the repetitive pessimistic rants here (despite being a pessimist myself), I cannot agree to what you are saying here (...
If you want a solid alternate realist position it's Husserl's. I'm with Feser on this, universals exist (though I'm not sure what sort of realist I am...
The "value" or "sanctity" of life does not come from it being intrinsically good, but from it being completely devoid of any positive value at all. Ev...
Pseudoscience is a bad concept because it's lazy. Anything someone disagrees with can be labeled as pseudoscience. If you think there is something wro...
Other have mentioned this, but part of the difficulty of pinning down the present is that we never just "exist" in the present. Experience irreducibly...
(Y) The interest in space travel is fueled primarily by a naive, adolescent, starry-eyed anticipation for some future metamorphosis in human civilizat...
Anyone else here watch Mr. Robot? This season has been phenomenal, the acting is great and the cinematography jaw-dropping. Certainly one of the best ...
I think if you're going to do philosophy, you need to be aware of what you are doing. What is philosophy?, what am I doing, exactly?, what purpose doe...
At the most basic level it would seem as though most if not all pleasure (hell, even pain for that matter) is in some way dependent on certain structu...
Creating work for people is much different than making people work. In an ideal socialistic => anarchistic society, work is not "negative", at least n...
It's a joy only because it offers an alternative to the depressing notion that we exist by accident. It's comfy to think our bodies were made "with us...
If we value liberty and freedom, and see them as good, is it reasonable to assume that God, if he exists, also values liberty and freedom, and therefo...
I guess I just don't see the big issue with people believing in things, even if it's ultimately unjustified, if it doesn't hurt anyone. I usually don'...
"Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropp...
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