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I always thought he was great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q Wait - that's Carnak.

Reason is secondary, a tool. I make moral decisions, not my will, or my reason, or my consciousness, or my intention, or my mind. All of me.

To oversimplify, the only reason we don't put our hands in the fire is because we are programmed not to by evolution as a means of self preservation. ...

I don't remember seeing this word before. Wikipedia Verificationism, also known as the verification idea or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is...

I think there is appropriate anthropomorphism and inappropriate. The fact is, we're animals. We're like other animals more than we're different. Our D...

The two best feelings in the world 1) When my children like each other. See each other. and 2) When my children are fearless in going after what they ...

I like this. I think I'll try it. If nothing else, it'll give me something to do when there's noting good on TPF. A verse I like from Tao Te Ching: If...

Absolutely, positively. This is how I learned to be a human being.

I believe there is a 74.95 possibility you are not serious. It would be higher except that philosophers are willing to consider almost any silly idea.

More seriously - Humans are humans. We act in accordance with our natures. Some of us act honorably and kindly. some of us do not. What other standard...

I must be right. Everyone agrees with me.

Love German. Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung - Speed limit. My favorite - Fausthandschuh, which literally means "fist hand shoe", meaning "mittens."

I agree Obama didn't deserve it when he got it. If he did deserve it, it was for the Iran deal with a side of Cuba. On the other hand, some of the thi...

The Weight.

This is just my interpretation of what Bohr was saying. I was using it as the basic assumption so I could try to trace its consequences. As I said in ...

So, where was I? I don't see this at all. Morality is a matter of human value - I like this, I don't like that. I believe strongly that the mind shoul...

I could at least imagine such evidence and I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes available in the not-too-distant future. Next Sunday AD. If birds can...

I interpret Bohr's comment not to refer to just seeing or other direct observation, but also indirect observation e.g. measuring the effect of the moo...

I don't disagree with you, but the different interest/different temperament argument is often, generally, used to avoid serious discussion. "You know ...

@"Erik" mentions a controversial interview with Jordan Peterson that discusses this issue. Here is a link to that interview in case you haven't seen i...

We were just discussing similar questions in another thread. My position - if the answer to a question is can not be determined, even in theory, it do...

Love this post. Lots of meat for me to chew on. Yes, differences and misunderstandings about definitions make these questions messy to deal with. Gene...

Sure, I talk about moral issues and try to figure things out with my friends, family, and coworkers all the time.

For me, they are absolutely not the same thing. That's my whole point in this thread - we shouldn't act as though certain questions, which I have been...

That doesn't explain much, but that's ok. We can leave it at that.

"The conscience" is no less me than my reason. I don't need to understand any reason to know what's right, and, on a day-to-day basis, that's not how ...

What is the political agenda associated with StreetlightX's view?

This in particular rings bells with me.

In my fairly lazy understanding, quantum mechanics makes us make all our facts a bit conditional, but it doesn't stop us from treating them as facts. ...

That's fine, and I don't really disagree. I just find it annoying that, just because Donald Trump was elected president people keep running around say...

Seems to me we are still in a shakeout period. A lot good has happened in the past 75 years. It takes time for the world to sort things out. The lesso...

My personal experience with myself behaving morally. I can watch my feelings and behavior. I perform most actions, including moral actions, without th...

Except you know that the assholes will survive at above their proportion in the population. That's why they're assholes.

This is not consistent with my personal experience.

Then what does one call compassionate or socially conscientious behavior which is not mediated by reason?

I don't find that a very convincing scenario. Sounds more like one of those post-apocalyptic science fiction stories that are so popular now. As I alw...

It's not clear whom you are responding to. You should use the "quote" function. Highlight the text you want to quote and push the "quote" button that ...

Yes, it's a pretty good summary. Now the question is whether your approach is true while mine is false or whether mine is just more useful than yours.

I don't think I understand the difference. I believe that the concept of objective reality is one way, not the only way, and not the only good way, to...

I'm not knowledgeable enough to really know, but this sounds kind of Kantian to me. There was a recent discussion where this came up and I got beaten ...

I was thinking more of people outside the West. China etc.

I want to take a shot at laying out some questions/issues that are metaphysical and don’t have yes or no, this or that, true or false resolutions: Is ...

I was being a bit tongue in cheek about all of this, but then I found I believed what I had written.

I like the way you've laid this out and your argument is persuasive. Rather than "justice," I think "fairness" is the right word, but that doesn't cha...

I don't know how he fared when democracy was re-established.

Am I correct in assuming you will not be one of the ones who deserve to be visited? My friend from Spain certainly thought he wouldn't be.

1) Craft without sex is like love without art. 2) Art without love is like sex without craft. 3) Sex without craft is like love without sex. I go with...

I think it is too late for this question. I think we are headed for a globalized, corporatized, homogenized society and culture with ever decreasing d...

Oh, I see. People who deserved visits from the goon squads. It is gratifying to see you putting out your beliefs so clearly. Maybe you've done this be...

Reading what you write here reminds me of someone I met when I was in school in the early 1970s. He was a very cultured and educated Spaniard. I remem...