If I remember correctly a Catholic, or maybe just Thomistic (idk) perspective on this is to withhold judgement on this and to basically accept that Go...
Oh, now I seem to have remembered encountering him on the old PF when I called him out on some bullshit. Guess that's when he decided to leech on my b...
I'm not sure who you are referring to? The guy who insists on making a logical syllogism proving I am the most disgusting hot dog on the sidewalk in S...
It's what we do when we make certain claims like science being the asymptote of truth. Philosophy basically deals with framing questions, not certain ...
Nietzsche's overman applies to a minority of people. He basically denies that the majority of people can ever achieve such a form of existence, and th...
Metzinger is okay - I mean, his work on the "non-self", the "phenomenal self-model", was sensationalized in pessimistic literature like Ligotti's Cons...
Not sure how this went under the radar, but I'll leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumati...
Reality: whatever "is the case". The actual state of affairs, how things really are independent of our beliefs. That which can kill you if you're not ...
This is one of the questions I have regarding cosmological arguments. In what sense are we to understand God "causing" the universe (and time) to exis...
I think morality is based on intersubjectivity. There needs to be at least two different subjective beings in existence for morality to have any world...
To be honest I'm not entirely sure. I suspect only unities, or things with essences, have a telos but I'm just guessing. I get where you're coming fro...
The way I see it is that a person may exist only when they are conscious (i.e., we "die" when we go to bed but are "resurrected" when we wake up) - bu...
Perhaps, but now you have identified the "good" with "highest common interest of all sentient beings". And like Moore, we can ask, is this really good...
It's hard for me to take seriously the notion of an entity that is so powerful he created the world, but has it in his mind that it's right to punish ...
Children are primarily accidents, or had because of a social expectation. For many people, having children is just another thing on their checklist. M...
If I go to a fiery pit then it will be for unjust reasons. An infinite punishment for a finite sin is unjust, especially when I didn't ask to be a par...
Death is very scary for me but also comforting when I'm suffering. The notion that one day the Earth will rotate without me on it is incomprehensible ...
I remember reading that a long while back and being engrossed by the possibility of reducing morality to a set of calculations. Now it largely just se...
But materialism fails for the self-evident truth that the mind is not reducible or identical to the brain. I'll admit, dualism a la Aquinas are plausi...
The utilitarian rejoinder would be, whatever works. Utilitarianism is not an absolutist position. Whatever government maximizes utility is what we oug...
Used to be a consequentialist, still have some leanings towards it. Consequentialist theories like utilitarianism are seductive because their aim is t...
Psychological egoism is pretty much rejected by most moral philosophers and moral psychologists. Just because you have a desire to do something doesn'...
It's a satisfying solution to the mind-body problem because it denies the body exists in any way transcendental to the mind. Nietzsche's position is t...
Not really a fallacy, more like just bad reasoning. If there's not enough evidence to support an empirical claim, then there isn't a good reason to be...
It's great things worked out in your favor but that is not the case for a very large amount of people. It's certainly not the case for most organisms ...
I voted idealism because I think it's the best solution to the mind-body problem. Also it's a super sexy position. The metaphysical weak are those who...
I don't think philosophic pessimism can be fully separated from a negative mood or state of mind, even if it is just melancholy or moderate depression...
Clinical and severe depression is a mental disease. Those with severe depression have a skewed perception on reality. Oftentimes they develop victim c...
Metzinger's article was interesting. Can't say I learned all too much that I didn't already "know", apart from Metzinger's own musings about how suffe...
Took a look at the Metzinger essay. I can't say I like what Metzinger writes in general - I read his book The Ego Tunnel expecting to be blown the fuc...
Being is not a "thing" (an ontic entity), nor is it some transcendental realm beyond our understanding. Being is that which distinguishes the existent...
Right, like I implied earlier, the artificial is that which does not have an identity or telos itself but rather exists for a purpose that has been ap...
Yes. Heidegger has a famous piece on the problem of technology. Essentially we become obsessed with the present-at-hand and begin to see the world in ...
Cons: Is woefully incompetent in politics. Is a racist and a blatant misogynist. Is physically and mentally compromised. Is lazy and stupid. Is dishon...
This sounds similar to saying, how do we know the girl wasn't just asking to be raped? For all we know, the girl likes to be dominated, overpowered, a...
Liberal feminism is crap and it's easy to criticize it, like shooting fish in a barrel. More coherent feminist thinking, like radical feminism, aim le...
>:O Perhaps it is ressentiment, but ressentiment is not always unjustified. Sometimes it's due to feeling as though something or someone hasn't been g...
I don't see how this follows. Anyone can go out and observe the mating ritual of diving beetles. Anyone can see how the female beetle frantically trie...
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