T_Clark

Come on, Banno. You know you have to do better than that. 5 words? Fucking Australians. There's a good chance the moderators will delete your post, wi...

It's here. Come on. Pick a hard one.

Seems to me that at least some of our values can be traced back to inborn physiological reactions. One of the definitions I found for "values" on the ...

I can imagine a, somewhat, objective standard for ethics. As a possible example - an ethical standard should promote a stable society that provides se...

One of my favorite poems - Aunt Celia 1961 by Carl Dennis. Here's a link: https://books.google.com/books?id=VHB9RDHiEuUC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=Aunt+ce...

Well thought out. I agree. There is a sense in which everything we know about the world is metaphorical. Gravity is called a force by analogy. Here's ...

@"Wallows" I'm not sure this is completely relevant, but I thought you might be interested. Christopher Lasch was a social philosopher who wrote about...

I'm with BC. I remember when I was a a teenager. I was very unhappy. Very. I had all the symptoms listed in the Wikipedia article. We didn't have the ...

You keep speaking authoritatively about how the internet is bad for the development of identity, but you don't provide any support beyond "seems to me...

I guess my point was, don't worry too much about the internet. Love your kids. Protect them. Keep them safe. And you don't even have to do it well, ju...

Although this takes a different track than the other posts on this thread, I think it is relevant. I have always been partial to the concept of "good ...

@"Joshs", @"Bitter Crank", @"Terrapin Station", @"s", @"ssu", @"Possibility", @"i like sushi", @"VagabondSpectre", @"praxis", @"ZhouBoTong". As this d...

I've been thinking about this discussion and I want to look at it from a different angle. About a year ago, there were a series of discussions on the ...

Not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying I'm doing what you describe above? If so, I don't see how.

After I wrote my first posts in this thread, I was thinking about things like this - values that come out of less admirable aspects of who we are. Cou...

What I'd like discuss is specific values held by the people of the forum. I'm trying to put together a list of what I think my central personal values...

I don't think I left it out. I don't think it comes under the heading of "What are our values?" As I indicated in the OP, broader issues of the place ...

Yes, I am a liberal. When I read your comment, I asked myself - Did I leave any of my personal values out of the list that might be considered more co...

The thing that jumps out to me from the interview was Nick Humphrey's comment that the Earth could only support millions of people effectively. If tha...

Following up on the post I sent out a few minutes ago, here is my preliminary take on what some of our values are. What kinds of values are there? Mor...

You write well and I'm interested in the things you have to say, but I think your "Is criticism of the alt-right inconsistent?" was just as much "poki...

Well, here's how you "substantiated" it previously: "Substantiate" means to "provide evidence to support or prove the truth of." What evidence have yo...

It also really changes the texture of this whole discussion. It's hard to make the case that judgments of aesthetic quality are elitist if the artist ...

I've been thinking about this more and I really like your way of looking at things. I've always been bothered by the "I say it's art so it's art" argu...

I agree with the things you've said. As for things that aren't in art museums, I don't really care about whether it's art, I care about whether it's g...

I hadn't thought of it that way before. I think that's a good way of avoiding the whole "what is art" argument. Now we can have a "what is aesthetic j...

As I said a couple of posts up: Judgment of quality is an application of social values and, as I wrote, those are determined based on social, cultural...

I want to make sure we're talking about the same things. @"Pattern-chaser" says there is no good art and no bad art. P-C brought up Robert Pirsig rece...

I'm not a big believer in objectivity for any aspect of our emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social lives. Science, morals, aesthetics. Everyth...

As the saying goes, you're not even wrong.

If by "bad form" you mean unsubstantiated claptrap based on unsystematic, biased observation, then yes, it is bad form. Don't try to pretty it up with...

If you're 37, why are you still letting "their" opinions bother you? Obviously, I don't agree. I don't think there's any way for us to get past this d...

Again, you didn't just say that adaptive variation exists, which I would have no problem with, you gave a detailed description of specific body differ...

Sure, I believe that all organisms on Earth come from a common ancestor and that they developed from that ancestor based on genetic changes interactin...

First - I have no way of knowing how plausible it is and I doubt you do either. If you want to set me straight on that, please do. Second - You didn't...

Well, no. I'm trying to give people who aren't familiar with the work a chance to experience it. I'm trying to share my knowledge and taste with them....

Then we likely don't have anything useful to say to each other in relation to aesthetics. I said "I can tell the difference between what I like and wh...

I have no problem with that. It's the story-telling about how specific traits result from specific evolutionary effects that bothers me.

I am very skeptical of this type of simplistic story-telling about evolution. There is not this sort of one-to-one correspondence between traits and e...

I am the least cynical person I know. I am, however, skeptical. It bothers me when you make a claim with potentially significant social implications w...

As I said, if you have information to provide beyond "seems to me," I'd be happy to look at it.

This is a well thought out and well written post. It's also one that I disagree with. For me, the biggest frustration on the forum is long, wandering ...

I'm a big supporter of keeping to the original post. If you, the original poster, thinks it has gotten off track, you have the right to try to set thi...

No, that doesn't really sound like common sense to me. How many men ever had lives where they didn't have to work long hours in the fields or factorie...

I've read some of Stephenson's books. I didn't really like the science fiction, e.g. Snow Crash, but I loved Quicksilver.

Source for this "fact?"

I can tell you are being sincere in your response. From my point of view as a man, it's not that I "feel guilty as a male." It's that I expect to be t...

Of course their related, but, as we philosophers like to say, one is descriptive and one is normative. One is is and one is ought. They shouldn't be c...

Ah, yes. The high point of my philosophical life so far.

Sure. You're the original poster, so I have no objection. It's just that BC and my posts were in response to the original question.