Of course we take into consideration what happened to us before, and what our desires are. That’d be why we have memory and desires, I suppose. To tak...
It doesn’t apply, period. Even a god cannot freely will what he wants to will. But we do have, I believe, the capacity to make choices, with a certain...
Charles Mingus - Devil Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWOvT45Du-s Charles Mingus: Bass; George Adams: Sax/vocals; Don Pullen: Piano; Jack Walra...
There’s no reason for the will to be an illusion, even in determinism. Determinism and underterminism are both compatible with taking the mind serious...
The materialist cannot reduce consciousness to some material phenomenon without thereby manifesting the power that consciousness has to think matter: ...
I believe it was written by Holiday, not just sung. // sorry, my mistake, it’s a poem by Robert Meeropol. Holiday contributed to the music, not the ly...
Chip Taylor — Fuck all the perfect people (about life choices) To be or not to be To free or not to free To crawl or not to crawl Fuck all those perfe...
It’s a well known fact that values can come in conflict with one another. If you don’t know that, you’ve never met a moral choice. More probably, you ...
Not to be pedant but this is not really the case. DNA is merely a protein cook book, and it does not "govern" much. In particular it doesn't seem to "...
I have also pointed out that moral questions are about ourselves, and that we cannot be objective about ourselves, nor even inter-subjective as easily...
I have pointed out that it is impossible to weight widely different values against one another in an objective manner. Or can you tell me how much mon...
Nick Cave — Into my arms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02k-obmDw2Y I don't believe in an interventionist god But I know, darling, that you do But if...
For one thing, you haven’t provided any evidence that one side is wrong. For another, the underlying point in both example is that the result depends ...
Okay so you would think very hard and take some kind of decision, based on some sort of guessing... The point is that to weight those arguments and ar...
Yes. Not for the sake of your answer, but to help demonstrate that there is often no right or wrong answer. There's the answer given by Hillel, which ...
Unfortunately you are doing bad philosophy yourself in my view, by trying to formalised common morality. For one, because we already have the law, whi...
I suspect you're merely describing common morality here. Or can you cite one or two moral prescriptions about which your model disagrees with the aver...
I like this demarcation. At the core of philosophy is an exploration of the human condition from within it, as seen from the very human perspective of...
I didn't. This section explicitly speaks of appetites: "we should appeal to everyone's direct appetites, free from any interpretation into desires or ...
Of course empiricism is about inter-subjectivity, i.e. agreement between several subjects. But it's easier to come to such agreement with other subjec...
What makes it subjective, is that it's about the perceptions and opinions of subjects, aka persons, about themselves and other subjects. That's why an...
Simply put, I think we already have a process to take moral decisions, called our moral sense. We also have a process to set socially important moral ...
Thus proving that any process can be perverted. And if you were to propose a process to transparent adjudicate moral claims and if it was ever adopted...
Indeed, they conned the public, defunded public education, created media like FAUX specialized in lying, gerrymangered districts and more. Hence the c...
That sounds optimistic and doesn't concur with recent political evolution in the US and a number of other countries. It seems that someone far worse t...
Note that even the due process of science -- which you see as something effective enough to emulate in the moral or legal sphere -- can be actively co...
Yours is a very theoretical framework. Politics are not primarily about ethics, they are about power. The dilemna is that political power is both nece...
As long as you understand that this is a process, not a final destination, and that what is deemed moral in certain times can be seen as immoral in ot...
No one can be sure to be always true, or always just. People with no scientific education often hold unrealistic expectations of science. The scientif...
In most countries there is some due process to set the law, to interpret and to apply it, with parliaments, courts, etc. IMO, representative democracy...
Do people really try to convince one another of their moral views? I don't think so, not in my world. Your moral sense is like your sense of equilibri...
Nor are those sightless stars a whit more wise, Impotent silver dots upon the dice ?The lords of heaven each night and morning throw, In some tremendo...
Because the mind's reflexivity makes it impossible for the self to disagree with its present self that blatantly. Macintosh can't at the same time agr...
Yes. Similarly, music is but acoustic waves... and supposedly it takes some specialized knowledge to speak competently about acoustics and waves. And ...
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