Following Nietzsche, Sartre, and a plethora of other thinkers, the meaningful life is the one devoted to the aesthetics. How everyone else who can't p...
I realize that digital characters, for all intensive purposes, cannot actually be said to suffer. But these characters are representations of an entir...
I think it has more to do with women being unequal or "sex objects" than it has to do with sexuality in general. I'm all for making sexuality a common...
True. But I'd say the economic aspect of technology is what makes this so. The reason we have so much technology is because technology is profitable, ...
The technology itself? No...or at least it shouldn't. If it was then that would just be technology-worship. Technology itself is a symptom of somethin...
Making my way through my first play through of the Witcher 3. Out of all the locations, Velen has got to be my favorite. The music especially is just ...
Really? Do explain. You're going to have to argue, then, that infinite regresses or spontaneous creation acts are reasonable. Because if we are arguin...
Alvin Plantinga is a theistic personalist, not a classical theist. In any case these books by those pop-science superstars are not very well accepted ...
Oh, sure, they can, I don't have a problem with them attacking organized religion. It's when they start claiming that their arguments address all conc...
The new atheist critiques work well against the common conception of God as some kind of intervening sky father, touted around by evangelicals across ...
Right, but the Prime Mover hypothesis was postulated before these religions took off. Aristotle wasn't a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim, for example. ...
No, I don't think so. I am curious about a lot of things - and if I don't get answers or discussion about things, I end up thinking about them on my o...
True, but these complex people were not derived from even more complex entities. They exist thanks to a very long process of evolution, which started ...
Contrary to this, the fact that every event must have a cause necessitates the existence of an uncaused Prime Mover of pure actuality. The trouble wit...
Ah, but aren't we fundamentally a part of the world? Is it the fault of myself for thinking wrong, or is it the fault of the universe for having the c...
They can all be predicated upon, i.e. they are subjects (nouns) and thus metaphysically speaking substances, events, processes, or whatever floats you...
Yes, we follow the rules of logic not simply because they seem to match reality fairly well but because it "feels right" to think logically. The decis...
There is value to honesty because if you are caught lying, people will not trust you anymore. It is this dynamic between personal desires and social e...
I don't see why we can't try to progress to a utopia - it's a fallacy to claim that just because there hasn't been progress in the past means there wi...
There is certainly objective "meaning" behind "life". The trouble arises when this meaning does not work well with our own concepts of meaning. This m...
Wittgenstein disproved radical global skepticism by identifying "hinge" beliefs as those which are necessary for reasoning, including the reasoning in...
To call suffering "mild" is to abuse both terms. A little pinprick isn't a case of suffering, clearly, because it doesn't break someone's spirit. If t...
Because it is only natural to seek perfection. In any case, it's not romantic at all because I'm not applying an aesthetic to this issue; non-human su...
And I stand by that quote. I asked you to provide evidence showing that the same reasoning involved in vegetarianism is involved in Nazism. And I defe...
Actually it was you trying to find a connection between Nazism and vegetarianism by claiming that both depended upon romantic thinking. In which case ...
Not really. I agree that vegetarianism has been held by romantics, but also of non-romantics. It is incorrect to assign a causal relationship between ...
Do you have any examples? Until you provide specifics, you'll have the advantage of ambiguity. As far as I can tell this is just Luddism. Philosophy h...
Interesting perspective, I can't say I disagree. You said religion is metaphysics for the common man. What about the metaphysics of Aquinas, or August...
I mean, you were the one who brought up the apparent relationship between vegetarianism and Nazism. A brilliant move, really. Please explain to me wha...
In any case I don't see how this is at all relevant to the discussion. You continue to assert that what I believe in is transcendent woo and I have co...
I've been tinkering with the idea that utilitarianism might be a kind of virtue ethics. I think it was Mill who said that compassion is the virtue for...
Why does anything need fixing or repair to begin with? What is so important that requires us to suffer? What great cosmic transcendental goal are we a...
What exactly do you take transcendental to mean, if not all-encompassing and universal throughout nature? That's exactly what I deny as an anti-realis...
You're the one accusing me of the naturalistic fallacy? And I already explained how I am an anti-realist, so I don't think there is any transcendental...
No, I'm not, because pleasure is inherently valuable to whoever is experiencing it. Like I said in the OP, humans are value machines. They create valu...
And once again I have to explain to you how I am a moral anti-realist. There is no "Good", there are only goods spread out across a population and abs...
The whole "science vs philosophy" shtick is a complete misunderstanding of what either of them are. Indeed such a question can only be asked and answe...
What I am primarily concerned about is the context religion provides a person. Religion has rituals, dogma, and scripture that inherently limits discu...
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