Ciceronianus

The power of jargon is limited, as its use should be. Legal jargon may serve in communications with other lawyers and with judges, but must be explain...

If by "studied" you mean formal study such as that provided by university professors, no. My happy, carefree college days, to the extent they were dev...

2.4k posts? You must be the Great Pretender. Turn if off again.

Well, if we must speak in terms of objects and assume that everything is either an object or "presents" as an object (I'd rather not), one way it coul...

I tend to fall in the pantheism/panpsychism camp. But it's always annoyed me when Christian apologists, for example, refer to the famous proofs of God...

Very fitting, KK.

Sorry, no. I'm saying that if we accept your definitions, we can't escape it.

Hmm. Why wouldn't we objectify an object if we have a non-aesthetical experience? It's still an experience of an object, no?

Yes. That's always been the problem with Aquinas' arguments "proving" the existence of God, and the problem with others trying to take advantage of th...

Why assume such a thing (if we can even meaningfully speak of anything "outside the universe") would be anything like "God" as believed in by some of ...

Well, then, I suppose we should "almost certainly" believe in something uncaused. Whatever that may be.

There's that word "present" again. Present yourself appropriately if you wish to be judged as a "whole person" is the admonishment made. If you don't ...

Let's consider the question. Is it a question which assumes there are things called "aesthetic experiences" we can act towards, accept or avoid in som...

It's true the thought of debating such old chestnuts fills me with a kind of dread. Next you'll be threatening me with quotes from Descartes. Vade ret...

You need not on my account. As I think I said, I don't accept the subject/object distinction. I don't think we're spectators of the world or that ther...

A fourteen-year old would also find the rough sex scenes in both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead interesting.

I'm just asking you to define the terms you've decided to use, you know. But if you prefer to avoid doing so, I suppose that's as good a way as any.

Ah, now there are material objects. Is this a subset of physical objects (the set in which we're included)? If so, what is the distinction between mat...

I see. It isn't moral to objectify some physical objects, then, although we must perforce objectify them, since they're physical objects. The objectif...

The new portrait/image you mean? Just giving Marcus Tullius Cicero his due.

Why, I wonder, is it a "no-brainer" to say we're more than "purely/exclusively objective-objects" (whatever that may mean) if we're physical objects a...

A very wise man once said, and keeps saying: Ayn Rand is to philosophy what L. Ron Hubbard is to religion.

This is the definition of "objectification" with which this thread began: Not to say Wikipedia is the last word on anything, but as this definition co...

Well, as you wish. For me, the ethical implications of objectification are the only implications of significance. The subject/object thing does nothin...

Why believe that finding someone sexually attractive and acting on that attraction constitutes objectification? As far as I'm aware, nobody has claime...

It seems he wasn't a likeable man in general, prone to insult, pretentious and arrogant. But perhaps he associated the woman too much with his mother,...

I'm not sure, but I don't think it follows from the fact that we want to see what someone looks like that we objectify them. As far as I know, there's...

It's quite possible to feel desire or attraction for a person without objectifying them. There's a difference between a thing and a person, and no gre...

What poor, dumb animals we men must be if the sight of female flesh so incapacitates our intelligence that we're compelled to objectify women because ...

I wonder if he said this before or after he pushed a woman down a stairway because he thought she was too loud. Later, he gloated when she died thereb...

What little I've read about honor ethics and honor generally seems to me to be a form of virtue ethics, but one devoted, specifically, to what were an...

That's quite useful, thank you.

This wasn't the oath when I was a cub scout. It's been changed. The word "honor" didn't appear. In 2015, it seems, they even dispensed with "obey the ...

I forgot about the Mafia. Honor and respect, yes. I thought Baden Powell was one of those "muscular christian" types. A Tom Brown's Schooldays sort th...

Our current president is so uniquely offensive that, judging from some of the recent headlines indicating that certain generals find him appalling, ca...

I vaguely recall doing similar things. My family has never been particularly handy, so I remember being particularly embarrassed by my efforts at craf...

Sounds somewhat like a kind of virtue ethics, then. As I recall, the cub scout oath contains language by which the scout promises "to be square and ob...

I assumed aspects of that culture might be part of it. Also perhaps the view that certain kinds of conduct are worthy or unworthy. I think it was Menc...

Well then, when he referred to some god being needed to save us in Der Spiegel, he must have meant some other god, not himself. At least he said "god"...

Ah, thank you for this analogy. Prepare ye the way of the Lord!

My fury is reserved for Heidegger. I'm merely amazed, and baffled, by those who admire him. It's odd, isn't it, for a philosopher to be enamored by a ...

It may be a fault in me, but I'm unable to separate the man and his work so blithely. Sort of like Tom Lehrer and Wernher von Braun. https://www.youtu...

That may be so, I'm afraid, or close to the mark. There is a kind of revulsion.

Everyone knows he was a Nazi, yes. Some even know he was a devoted one. But this is trivial to philosophers and students of philosophy, a concern only...

If only there were such bots, ready to pounce at every reverent mention of his name.

No, no. He'd say Yawhol!, not "yawn." He was quite punctilious, especially during his time as Rector at Freiburg. I doubt he ever yawned in that joyou...

Well, not Caesar. While after his death effective power was held by the second triumvirate, followed by the contest between Antony and Octavian, Caesa...

I congratulate myself on my restraint in not commenting in this thread. It seems I've learned to control my contempt for this vile, loathsome, bigoted...

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream --The Late, Great Warren Zevon, Fistful of Rain 'Nuff said...

Well, I can rant as well. Bear with me. Or don't and pass on. I find it odd that as I grow older, I become less and less conservative. Politically, in...