T_Clark

Yes, congratulations. My life is full of many wonderful things, including love and friendship. That doesn’t change what I wrote. There’s room for both...

Karma--What could possibly go wrong? Catastrophic mistakes we are now paying for: The Democratic Party in the US lost touch with it's core value of lo...

I’ll put it on my list. Give us your thoughts when you’re done.

I was once skeptical, but when I saw how happy the newlyweds were when gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, I didn’t have the heart to disappro...

You seem to have slipped over into the @"Hanover" universe.

What a great article. It reads like a really good legal brief. Thanks for the link.

I’m going to visit my family in Washington DC in February. When I go, I always bring gifts for my nieces, Cameron and Piper. I just went back and look...

Very nice. I want to buy prints of all the paintings you show us. I remember the little girl sitting at the table with peaches.

Sure, but that doesn’t mean ICE agents aren’t subject to local laws or that they should necessarily expect local cooperation.

No, I don’t think moral philosophers are motivated by control. As for the need for proper moral control— I don’t really care about immoral behaviors. ...

Yes, I thought of you when I was making my comment about how cold it was in Massachusetts. I recognize that 4°F is not all that impressive, but it gav...

It’s cold here in Massachusetts; 4 °F (-1,000 °C).

I think that's probably true of any understanding of the world.

Yes, I think this is right. Where does social responsibility come from? I can think of three sources socialization, desire to be thought well of, and ...

Politics always involves values which are primarily matters of opinion, not fact. Expecting objectivity is unreasonable.

I think President Trump is a very bad president. He’s also a very bad man. Still, I can understand why people might have voted for him. I consider it ...

I don’t think there’s any way while Trump is still in office. I’m really curious to see what will happen when he’s gone.

I don’t think that has anything to do with it. It’s just that they’re getting what they want and they don’t care how they got it. I’m not sure what th...

My response was based on strong personal feelings. All that stuff I learned about in civics class—three coequal branches of government, checks and bal...

It’s not that it could, it’s that it has. American political, governmental, international, and social institutions have been damaged seriously.

The fact that not all social control is related to ethics or morality does not mean that ethics and morality are not types of social control.

Ethics and morality are just fancy words for social control. Laws are one kind of social control, but not the only or most common one.

I’ll turn your comment around. It’s not majoritarian tyranny. It’s necessary social control to maintain societal equilibrium. That’s not to say it doe...

No. It’s adequately justified belief. Truth isn’t in the equation. As I define it, adequate justification means sufficient to allow responsible decisi...

Which is exactly what JTB does. I understand you’re trying to modify it to address that issue, but I’d rather just toss the whole thing in the hopper....

I think you're right. If you look back at my first couple of posts in this thread, you can see it wasn't clear to me whether my input would contribute...

Have you tried toasting it?

I'm trying to think of how I would translate this into a way to approach this issue from an engineering, or at least pragmatic, perspective. I guess I...

Yes, this is headed into the direction that I find most useful. Here is something I stole from a post I made a few years ago. A site conceptual model ...

Also--I am not really familiar with Wittgenstein, so my comments will not be in terms of his way of seeing things.

I've read all seven of your chapters. Just for workability, I'm going to respond to each chapter separately. This may mean that what I have to say wil...

I will wait until you’ve posted everything and I’ve had a chance to read it. Then we can see where it goes from there.

An interesting, well thought out, and well written OP. I have an overall question to help me decide whether to participate and then I’ll wait till you...

Should we comment as you go along or wait till you've presented the whole thing?

What ChatGPT should have responded is “Get away from me weirdo. You belong in a looney bin.”

Also, around here these days in most places it’s illegal to smoke or allow smoking indoors in a public place or workplace.

You’re a regular renaissance man.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png

Simple or not, I have no idea what this means. For what it’s worth, there is a bit of a difference in the sounds in American English for some people. ...

Wale, wail, whale

Just to point out—this thread is seven years old.

Finally, the forum gets around to a worthwhile and fascinating subject—me.

If your problem with my post is that you can’t figure out what Miriam Webster is trying to say, we should probably drop the whole thing.

Yes, dear.

Here are some definitions of “ ideology from Miriam Webster. And here are some definitions for “ideologue.” I would say any systematic and established...

Perhaps, perhaps not. I still think it might be considered necessary to have the capabilities to send people into space, including to other planets or...

I can think of a couple of reasons. First, there are lots of resources in space and getting them will probably require people going out to the asteroi...

At the same time you stop writing “2025” when you write the date.

A real philosopher doesn’t have an ideological cause. Tell us what you think “an essential human good” is. How about an example or two.

I said I was hurt, not that I’d become a little girl.