Yes, there do seem to be simple ethical principles that we tend use, like the Golden (or Platinum) rule, personal accountability, compassion, virtues ...
mmm more like they're forced to not be a hunter-gatherer...human potentiality is defined in reference to a prison. Who wants to live in a stupid city ...
Chapter 2: Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism Summary: Allison claims that there are two metaphilosophical positions that one can hold...
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Problem Summary: What Allison calls the "standard picture" of Kant's transcendental idealism is roughly defined by P...
Do you have any specific examples in which you think someone on here has defended these stereotypes? I wonder if there is some psychological projectio...
Work is stupid but if you don't work, you will eventually die, because (surprise surprise) society has not conditioned you to be able to survive outsi...
For the most part, people believe in God for very poor reasons that are easily refuted. Disbelieving in the sky-daddy God is not all together very imp...
Generally speaking, bullies tend to be on the far right, and losers tend to be on the far left. The far right attracts bullies because of its emphasis...
I'm not sure if I agree with your comparison of the issue with teapots. There can be good reasons to believe something even if this belief is not fals...
In terms of religion, whether or not a supernatural being created and maintains the universe and has a purpose for doing so, what characteristics this...
Yeah, I see what you're saying about god-of-the-gaps, and I think that is often what happens. Though I would say that that is because religion has bee...
Well, I think the point I was trying to make is that religion is simply a bad way to go about investigating empirical phenomena. If there is any recon...
??? Science can be used to predict as much as it can be used to explain. Religion can only try to explain, it has zero predictive abilities, and in fa...
How can you speak for every agnostic? That is simply not true. You can be an agnostic about the existence of God while also believing that, if God exi...
:up: This kind of all-or-nothing thinking is quite delusional and serves to only further fragment the left. I suspect that some leftists hold such pur...
In his book Five Proofs of the Existence of God, Catholic philosopher Edward Feser provides several long-winded metaphysical demonstrations of the exi...
I would not necessarily say that they are new iterations of these arguments; at least some of the proponents have provided evidence that the standard ...
Not sure if you were being deliberately flippant, but I think this is a bad argument. There could be many other reasons why more philosophers are athe...
This question might be more suited to psychology than philosophy, but in general I am still chewing on the question as to why people don't seem to do ...
I think this is a very good point. It seems as though, while people may fear death, it is usually remote enough for them to ignore it, and even preten...
In order words, technology circulates the myth of the "average" man (who does not exist), and each person is then compared to this average, which is o...
Paranoid schizophrenic, attempted murderer and radical feminist Valeria Solanas wrote: If Solanas is correct to say that aging and death can be solved...
I think there's a few points to be made about this: I take being self-sufficient as not necessarily entailing surviving all by oneself, but can also i...
With any kind of major technological development comes the inevitability of it being misused. People with good intentions will make discoveries, craft...
I'd wager that depression (aka an urban neurosis) is caused primarily because the depressive has all of their essential needs met by simply filling a ...
I think an even deeper assumption is that only man in his civilized form can possibly live as he was meant to live; that other ways of life are savage...
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright begins with asking this same question using Gauguin's words. It's not a bad read (though not groundbreaki...
Interesting points. WRT artificial intelligence hiding its existence, I think it's a fun idea, but I do not seriously think that any digital computer-...
What about a civil war that fractures the country into smaller factions? Would ICBMs be relevant? I think an AI singularity is science fiction. I don'...
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