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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...
October 31, 2016 at 17:16
I realize that digital characters, for all intensive purposes, cannot actually be said to suffer. But these characters are representations of an entir...
October 31, 2016 at 17:09
The quest for enlightenment is a search for one's place in the universe. How the universe works and how one fits in the whole picture.
October 30, 2016 at 21:36
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...
October 30, 2016 at 18:55
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, ...
October 30, 2016 at 07:24
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...
October 30, 2016 at 05:07
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 ...
October 30, 2016 at 04:48
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...
October 29, 2016 at 18:26
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 ...
October 28, 2016 at 20:18
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...
October 28, 2016 at 19:59
The new atheist critiques work well against the common conception of God as some kind of intervening sky father, touted around by evangelicals across ...
October 28, 2016 at 19:49
That's what the God of the philosophers is. Hence why I think it is shallow to try to combine this concept with the philosophical conception of God.
October 28, 2016 at 19:41
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. ...
October 28, 2016 at 19:33
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...
October 28, 2016 at 19:24
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 ...
October 28, 2016 at 19:19
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...
October 28, 2016 at 18:53
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...
October 28, 2016 at 16:45
If not anxiety (curiosity or panic) then what else would cause us to investigate something we don't have to?
October 27, 2016 at 23:13
“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.” - Theodor Adorno
October 27, 2016 at 20:55
They can all be predicated upon, i.e. they are subjects (nouns) and thus metaphysically speaking substances, events, processes, or whatever floats you...
October 27, 2016 at 20:51
Considering there probably isn't a God, this question becomes irrelevant.
October 27, 2016 at 20:36
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...
October 27, 2016 at 20:33
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...
October 27, 2016 at 02:04
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...
October 25, 2016 at 19:20
Oh, how I love retro-synthwave music. This one is wistfully melancholic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4vou_ZfQQ
October 25, 2016 at 07:26
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...
October 25, 2016 at 00:50
Wittgenstein disproved radical global skepticism by identifying "hinge" beliefs as those which are necessary for reasoning, including the reasoning in...
October 24, 2016 at 01:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDLJ3pUZm9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RMfOLvrkX0
October 23, 2016 at 17:56
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...
October 23, 2016 at 17:54
What does this mean? Suffering sucks regardless of intensity, although intensity offers prioritization.
October 23, 2016 at 00:23
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...
October 22, 2016 at 22:25
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...
October 22, 2016 at 22:00
Actually it was you trying to find a connection between Nazism and vegetarianism by claiming that both depended upon romantic thinking. In which case ...
October 22, 2016 at 21:00
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 ...
October 22, 2016 at 20:05
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...
October 22, 2016 at 04:38
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...
October 21, 2016 at 17:36
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...
October 21, 2016 at 05:55
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...
October 21, 2016 at 04:23
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...
October 21, 2016 at 03:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1UdTvLoUSY
October 21, 2016 at 03:27
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...
October 21, 2016 at 03:11
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...
October 21, 2016 at 03:02
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...
October 21, 2016 at 00:21
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...
October 20, 2016 at 22:28
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...
October 20, 2016 at 16:26
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...
October 19, 2016 at 23:42
Exactly, I completely agree. Philosophical systems are inherently disposable and volatile.
October 19, 2016 at 18:45
What I am primarily concerned about is the context religion provides a person. Religion has rituals, dogma, and scripture that inherently limits discu...
October 19, 2016 at 18:42
Oh don't even play that game, apo, you're a master at dodging bullets.
October 19, 2016 at 06:11
For good reason.
October 19, 2016 at 06:06