By "get", do you mean "understand who a person is"? I think most relationships are fairly superficial and maintained by a certain amount of dishonesty...
Generally it's wrong to expose people to things they will not appreciate being exposed to because it hurts them in some way. Given that life sucks and...
Nature makes "mistakes", things that don't belong. Frankly it's surprising to me we've managed to hold on for as long as we have. Nature puked us out ...
Actually, this is more of a myth. For as much as it is publicized that different cultures have different moral norms, they aren't generally radically ...
This may be the case for some, but in terms of philosophical pessimism, this gets the cart before the horse. If the world is seen as bad because peopl...
Being-at-home-in-the-world and enjoying the transmutations of others into the Same is fine and all, but this is separate from the question as to wheth...
Because serious, prolonged and consistent reflection inevitably results in a radical disvaluing of the world, after which it is realized that there ar...
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Cioran notes how in order for us to voluntarily do action we have to believe we are important and t...
Nah, I disagree. It's not just hope that keeps people going, it's a disbelief in reality. I think a lot of people know damn well that life is a sham a...
Consequentialism, deontology, virtue theories, etc, these are all ethical theories. Levinas' phenomenology, to be brief, is a theory of Ethics with a ...
If we go the Levinasian route, it's that ethics is fundamentally originative from a peculiar relationship to the Other. The Other is precisely that wh...
How do we come to know the telos of something like sex? How are we to know if we have the correct interpretation? Do we simply look at nature and "rec...
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. I understand how this happens in divine command theories (but why?? BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!), but theories like...
I think feminist, virtue and care ethics have a valid point that ethics has largely had a gap in recognition of love, care and sympathy, and that the ...
How is 's moral philosophy different from natural law theory? Just asking this because I have a few issues with natural law theory that would seem to ...
Sidgwick famously struggled with the dichotomy between agent-centered rationality and rationality used ethically. He thought there were good reasons f...
Very interesting response, Baden, thanks. As I tried to make clear earlier, I'm not against transgender people, I take issue with the movement. I'm a ...
I think in this sense gender is just like race - white people like to be around white people, black people around black people, just as guys like to b...
We need a movement that addresses men's issues that isn't tainted by a poorly-hidden hatred for feminism. Feminism isn't about men, it's about women. ...
I seriously recommend reading the literature surrounding phenomenology. At times it honestly has made me despair at just how in the dark analytic phil...
To be sure, this is mostly an analytic thing. Desires, beliefs, propositional attitudes, they all are analyzed in terms of language, sometimes to the ...
Yes, I agree, I enjoy it when it's winter time because it's cozy indoors yet peaceful and quiet outside (unless you're holiday shopping). I'm more mel...
Edward Feser: Scholastic Metaphysics https://isidore.co/calibre/get/pdf/Scholastic%20Metaphysics_%20A%20Contemporary%20Introduction%20-%20Feser%2C%20E...
Right. I don't think science really means anything, aside of a vague and mysterious group of smart people using instruments to get data about somethin...
The problem I immediately see with this, when applied to philosophy of mind, is that we see emergentism in physical-to-physical systems. It's quite a ...
Read the rest of my claim. If we have no reason to trust our first-hand experiences of consciousness then we have absolutely no reason to trust materi...
But they disagree about what they think actually happened in the past, implying they assume there is actually a fact about what happened. It's not jus...
But historians go about business with the assumption that there is, actually, a fact of the matter as to what happened. Things can't be evidence if th...
The more I study philosophy of mind and phenomenology the more I'm amazed materialism is as popular as it is. It's pretty obvious my mind, my experien...
I will agree that ethics presides in the present. It is difficult to put into words but I think you and I might be touching on the same thing. Basical...
Yes, this is one solution I was thinking about. The past (and future) may not exist but the facts about the past (and future) exist (in some way). The...
This is most definitely question begging. Just because I make a really good burrito doesn't mean I use the "scientific method" to make it. Just becaus...
But there is no singular scientific method, nor is it used all the time in science, and nor is it unique to science. Science progresses by using whate...
Mostly the name "science" is an honorific term. Whatever discipline has high social favor is a science. Consensus and practical consequences are what ...
I'm not sure how this is different from saying the past is an "echo" or a "footprint". What I'm saying is that if the past does not actually exist the...
I think that the past exists as more than just a footprint. At least I think we approach the past as if it still somewhat exists. Soldiers with PTSD a...
Basically the goodness of whatever final metamorphic state is put into question when we reflect on the evil that came before. It's hard to see how som...
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