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That's true. Hadn't considered that. What I meant was that a person who studies archaeology simply to learn more about the ancient history of the eart...

No, I meant should. The ethical implications of research should be the only factor that decides whether or not a body of knowledge is worth pursuing.

I think the pursuit of knowledge should only be restricted by ethics. To hear people say there needs to be a practical aspect of philosophy is quite d...

If I may interject, I believe Russell held this position regarding his own profession of philosophy. The last chapter in his book "The Problems of Phi...

I get that your opinion over all of this is that it is caused by decadence. Nietzsche thought Schopenhauer was pissy because he was decadent, for exam...

Who are you to claim so?

I think this a massively sweeping claim. The left presumably believes these fundamental values are intrinsic rights to every human being. So of course...

Some more thoughts on this I'd like to share: The world we live in has been transformed by the creativity and labor of mankind. We live in a world of ...

Bingo, Willow. It is existentially narcissistic to expect the world to revolve around the ego. Unfortunately it truly is difficult to tame one's expec...

I enjoy listening to the soundtracks of movies and video games. One of my favorite soundtracks comes from a game that is by far one of the most compel...

I don't necessarily disagree with you, I'm trying to argue with the position that TGW has. But either way if you are a hedonist, then pleasure is good...

Thus, the goal is to maximize your time spent experiencing pleasure. Please note that you are potentially endangering the lives of people who cannot g...

I agree with your assessment, Ciceronianus, that we shouldn't expect the world to revolve around our expectations. Schopenhauer1, you may recall that ...

When I listen to a song I enjoy, presumably I assume you would agree that I am experiencing pleasure. Stopping the song and turning off my music playe...

I disagree with your assessment that time does not rack up. How else are we to live?

I agree, I'm not a bare hedonist.

Just some thoughts: The accumulation of money might make someone happy, thereby granting an example of quantitative happiness. I agree that there isn'...

I'm not entirely sure, to be honest with you. I couldn't say.

From my experiences on both the old and the new PF (and in life in general it seems), many arguments become heated and persist simply because neither ...

Obviously not from a strictly logical standpoint, but let's be charitable, shall we, and take the phenomenological approach here, and realize that if ...

How does it not follow?! If something is good, then why on earth would it not be the case that it should be maximized?

What do you think are the primary reason why a fascist/totalitarian government is bad? A dictator has complete control, so if they go off the deep end...

I just want to make sure there isn't a misunderstanding, I think Weltschermz happens to everyone at varying degrees, not just me or certain individual...

To be a hedonist means to believe that pleasure and pain are the only good/bad (respectively). So it makes sense that a hedonist would want to maximiz...

I don't think age has much of anything to do with this. Weltschmerz could easily come about by realizing that this is the way it is going to be for. t...

So...noncognitivism?

How else does a strict hedonist go about their lives except by maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain?

Not entirely sure what you are suggesting. Perhaps metalinguistic nominalism?

I agree, I find Trope Theory to be lacking in explaining the similarity between tropes without the use of universals.

I would dispute this. A trope theorist would argue that the attributes that are shared are actually just particulars that are part of a set.

I agree with the false dichotomy assessment. I think Aristotelian metaphysics is a good middle-ground between the two extremes.

If it helps, I'm sympathetic to Aristotle's hylomorphism.

Hmm, It makes more sense that the fundamental substance, matter, can be construed in various forms; just as a log decomposes and changes from a brittl...

I need you to understand that I am extremely sympathetic to the perspective of a pessimist; I might as well call myself a pessimist. But my pessimism ...

When I say you are narcissistic, I don't mean it as an insult. I'm trying to argue that you have placed too much value on your opinion on how things "...

Thus betraying your narcissism. Have you considered what a purely blissful state actually is? I would argue that a blissful state is not necessarily o...

Well, if you let go of the narcissistic expectation that life was supposed to be perfect, much of the philosophy of pessimism melts away.

I believe it was in the same thread, but I argued that brute hedonism is not a sufficient explanation for our actions. Preference hedonism/desire-sati...

What are you conceiving the nature of metaphysics of being? There's the pop-culture New Age metaphysics bullshit, and then there's academic metaphysic...

Aww thanks BC. (Y) A computer program might show up on my monitor and display odd shapes of varying colors. Why?, I might ask. Well, the programming o...

I might have a problem with P1. What about the trolley problem? Surely allowing the trolley to kill five people would result in gratuitously more suff...

An interesting idea, MoS, but I'm not sure if a metaphor is sufficient to answer the problem here. How did these factors get set into motion, and what...

Drop the beat. 8-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m7e7tCn7Bk

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Right. I was being a trigger happy, argumentative ass.

The dictatorship of North Korea seems to be in line with fascism. By breaking ranks with more "traditional" Marxism, Juche ended up with a personality...

From what you wrote, this means suffering just beings suffering requires it to have no additional purpose behind it. Meaning cannot be derived from it...

My mistake. Guess I'm just trigger happy for an argument.

I understand this to mean that you believe that killing an animal does not violate morality. (pointing out the difference between suffering and gratui...

Why is it okay to kill an animal but not a human?