They characterize you but they aren't the product of your will or anything like that. One morning you woke up and found that you wanted orange juice. ...
Sure, I can agree with that. I think this is why I generally don't like the existentialist slogan of individuality - if there is an individual, then i...
Talk of dispassionate choice reminds me Stoicism. But the attempt to dispassionately choose something is nevertheless motivated by some other preferen...
But what are these reasons, other than preferences (i.e. needs, desires, concerns, etc)? If we are not free when we have to follow a social contract t...
In which case, I would argue that they have other preferences over-riding others. Accomplishment is the essence of action. We want something to be the...
Which is of course true. For every action there is a preference. The act of choosing one's preferences is an act itself, which requires a preference t...
I don't know what you're getting at here. I have a preference to not feel pain - when I feel pain, I tend to the source of the pain. The reason I tend...
No, things can be chosen, but the reasons behind these choices (our preferences) are outside of our control. Certainly we don't have the choice to cha...
"Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes dissimilar things comparable by reducing them to abstract quantities. For the Enlightenment, anyt...
You have any examples of how anti-realist normative literature compares to realist normative literature? I'm getting conflicting information on this. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6QElWIKfDk Couldn't shake the feeling that Clinton legitimately can't believe she has to actually debate a guy like T...
What worries me with some forms of anti-realism is that we seem to (or at least I do) find many normative beliefs to be true, and true in virtue of so...
I think I can agree to this. Fundamentally the reaction I have to things I consider moral or immoral is some sort of approval or disapproval. From thi...
If morality is dependent on how you feel, and if feelings are notoriously illogical, does it make sense for your flavor of anti-realism to use logical...
True, however in many (or most) normative ethical debates, there are appeals to things outside of our minds, like states of affairs or persons or what...
To put it another way: moral realists' data is the world outside of our minds, in which the semantic content of our normative expressions is the same ...
Why should it? I don't see how this changes anything. Does the addition of another person in the world make the world go better or worse or stay the s...
Been reading an interesting dissertation on this: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/13064981/Frick_gsas.harvard.inactive_0084L_11842.pdf?seq...
I think we can be uncertain but still lean towards some option. Granted, this is still uncertainty. But we can presumably approach/estimate certainty ...
Certainty is not required for action. Epistemic vagueness is independent of the value of a state of affairs. Indeed I think this might actually be a g...
Very true, good point. As long as we're consequentialists then we also need to take into account ignorance and uncertainty in certain situations in re...
From this, I think it's fairly easy to obtain a theory of responsibility: to act based upon what you know and your abilities. I cannot be held respons...
Agreed. It seems to me to be profoundly egotistical. I think this is why I particularly am fond of Buddhism: it is an inner-worldly asceticism, better...
Wow, the Witcher 3 is really over-rated. Lovely graphics and voice acting but the gameplay is meh. Basically boils down to spamming my mouse button an...
And this changes...what, exactly? This only confirms what I had been saying earlier - phenomenological experiences are the subject of ethical priority...
Or sentience exists on a spectrum, and we can't play dice with other people's lives. Admittedly there is no precise line. We can say for sure that roc...
No. I am not claiming that these feeling are just floating around somewhere. But neither am I going to deny the appearance, the "projectedness", the t...
What I see to be the fundamental problem with your view is that you aren't taking into account the phenomenology of ethics. I won't disagree with you ...
Absolutely not. Science is on my side on this one. Humans are not the only ones who have sentience. Calling other people out who eat meat as "speciesi...
Not really. I just don't equivocate tendencies with normativity. Does it really? Anchoring your morality in what is prevents you from wondering what c...
I am pointing out that, because of our intelligence, we are able to transcend beyond what our intelligence was originally meant for. We can recognize ...
But why call this morality? It offers no clear guide as to how to act except in general rules, and places the emphasis on something other than people....
Because you're wanting to make this absurdity moral. Why, because it's naturally occurring? You're painting this picture to me that looks as if we all...
:-} Not necessarily. Being-identical-to, existence, etc are no reciprocating properties. You can't have the property of non-existence...otherwise you'...
From a more naturalistic point of view, I can. There is no being 100% sure (even about this claim). Truth is estimated by likelihood. And in fact we d...
In bowl 1 you have 3 oranges. In bowl 2 you have 4 oranges. It is an objective fact that there are 2 bowls and 7 oranges, and an objective fact that t...
Then it quite simply is not morality. Morality is a guide to action, based on what we ought and ought not do. Without absolutism you end up getting ei...
I don't really see how your process system view solves the riddle. Numbers seem to be digital: you have only a discrete amount of objects in a given s...
It's hard to consider something that doesn't make sense, sorry. You said that existents are properties, i.e. a bundle theory of objects. But this does...
Do you think that the flourishing of society is, in itself, good? i.e. no matter what the discontents think, they're wrong when they wonder if society...
Russell said it better than I could. When we identify two things as being of a certain quality, they are of a certain quality, that is, a numerically-...
And this, I contend, it impossible to maintain if you also maintain that they are similar in some respects, for numerical identity between properties ...
Glad you liked it. Just as long as we don't delude ourselves. It's less about altering our perceptions and more about changing our response to the per...
Right. The primitives do the work. But in this case you lack sufficient primitives. Relations are ad hoc, brute facts without any real reason. Whereas...
If Jesus indeed was resurrected, then it wasn't Jesus. It was Jesus2.0. The definition of death is the ceasing of biological functions, and unless we ...
It's also so general as to be practically useless in terms of ascribing action, since what makes a society flourish will depend on who you're asking. ...
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