You don't get to shoot someone just to teach them a lesson. To win a game. No matter how big a potatohead they are. First of all, given the artists co...
Compassion isn't an interaction, it's a set of attitudes and feelings. I like people. The first thing I want when I meet a new person is to find out w...
Not true. I don't think you are an unfeeling monster, but I think you may be looking at compassion through the glass of your own cynicism and insecuri...
I think either your approach is too rigid or your definition of ideology is inappropriately broad. We have a little community going here. Please descr...
As you convinced me when you quoted Ari S. Totle, he and I agree that the capacity for a particular behavior or ability is built in. Ari, Janus, you, ...
There is evidence that the capacity for some human social characteristics - language, morality, sociality - are built in - hardwired. We are not blank...
I think it is really interesting also. It would be neat if it were true. It is my understanding that it is also possible. But, if the question is how ...
It was reported in the mainstream press and the discussions of it's potential were between reputable scientists. I checked - I was wrong, it was 20 ye...
You clearly don't know the meaning of the word "compassion." Compassion doesn't mean guilt or retribution, it means kindness. Being kind doesn't mean ...
I find it hard to believe this is intended to be a serious statement. Or am I misunderstanding. Are you saying women are more ethical than men? I don'...
Joke of the Day - October 16, 2017 Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, and Frank are at a gay bar. Bohr sees an attractive young man at the bar. He goes over...
From the webpage, it seems like they are saying single cell organisms from other planets are brought to earth, where they seed life here. Is that your...
I think I have a good understanding of how people work. I'm sure you think you do too. I think maybe you and I are talking about different things. I'm...
People with no access to media of any kind can be violent and immoral. I would guess just as much as people who have books, TV, computers, and cell ph...
My wife was raised Catholic. She still goes to mass, not every week, but often. She is a good person, and would be whether or not she goes to church o...
Not being a follower of any religion, I think of those idiosyncratic rules partly as a way to differentiate the members of a church from others and to...
Inside - we are built that way. We are endowed by our creator with certain inherent capabilities and behavioral and emotional tendencies. Everyone is ...
As I wrote back at the beginning of this discussion, when I was young I lived my life internally. That meant that much of my life experience was fanta...
You and your buddies Marx, Foucault, and the rest are projecting your political ideology onto human nature. To a large extent, the ways people are wit...
Even though I created this discussion, I have no authority over it. All my efforts to keep it on track have been in the form of requests. I enjoy putt...
I looked up "ontological commitments" on Wikipedia. It was pretty confusing. Here's a definition of Ockham's Razor from the web that I find easier to ...
I looked him up on Wikipedia and I see what you mean about progression. I like his later paintings, colorful with a sense of composition that feels go...
You are old enough to remember what Jimmy Carter said. I think it was before he got elected. He said that he had sinned by "lusting in his heart." The...
You don't take chances with your children. Also, whether or not they would participate in a particular behavior, the fantasy says something about how ...
How is that different from what dualists have been saying for thousands of years? From your original post I had assumed that we are talking about phys...
I suggest you take a look at some of the discussions and posts from @"MysticMonist". He is working his way through Plato. He just started a new discus...
I think this is relevant - My brother-in-law is a visual artist. He paints geometric images. I asked him why he makes abstract rather than representat...
It's a long time since I've read Plato and I was not impressed with him then. I think that was because his view of morality and virtue, along with oth...
Do you mean it can't be something we share with other animals? If so, I strongly disagree. Our sociality is a huge part of our nature, but the same ca...
Whenever this kind of issue comes up, I bring out my list. Thank you for the opportunity to do that now. Identity, self, soul, mind, ego, heart, self-...
Of course some human capabilities are different from what other animals have. The question that divides us is whether the capacity for language, self-...
No, I'm not saying that, but we share much, most, of our nature with animals. Smooth transition? I think there is continuity between other animals and...
Joke of the Day - October 15, 2017 More lesser known philosophical sayings I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. Jack’s son...
I tried to read Foucault once. It was like beating my head against a wall. You and a lot of people here are a lot more patient and philosophically wel...
I've talked with a lot of parents who share an experience I had with my own children - they were themselves from the second they were born. Obviously ...
I don't disagree in general, but we should acknowledge that we share much of what we call human nature with other animals. I'm reading "The Feeling of...
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