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Use of the terms "moral obligation", "moral duty", "morally right or wrong", and "morally ought", need not be related to concepts of authority and/or ...

Thanks, but I didn't come up with these particular ideas, they are part of Natural Law Ethics. Correct. The application of an approach to realise (act...

I agree.

This is a common, and valid, criticism of Consequentialism. However: 1) Children make decisions based on considerations of consequence (reward versus ...

I agree. Regarding ethical maturation, Jean Piaget's work was continued by Lawrence Kohlberg's work, which was continued by James Rest's work... Piage...

Agreed. 1) Conscience may be overruled by competing incentives (e.g., desires, passions, etc.) resulting in a decision to select an immoral course of ...

There are no gaps. Object (perceived particular)-Subject (cognised particular), Is (fact)-Ought (value), and Being (character)-Doing (act) are conveni...

Of course she is; she's a Thomist (Natural Law).

I agree with Anscombe's first thesis, because: 1) Much empirical investigation (Science) has been conducted in the various fields of Psychology (espec...

Is conscience an inherent human faculty? If there are no universal or divine rules pertaining to human actions, then: Moral Relativism (which is unten...

Agreed. So, end the article here. It isn't psychologically possible. A deontological approach is required for normative ethics because conscience (an ...

Which level? Physics? Are: 1) Atoms not considered in Quantum Mechanics (e.g., random decay)? 2) Molecules not considered in Thermodynamics (e.g., ran...

Cool. Such as?

More semantic information is gained from understanding biological information than is gained from understanding physical information, because an under...

Writing what you know is easier than knowing what you write.

Expert Etymology From Latin exspurtus. ex: a has-been. spurtus: big drip under pressure.

Feigning ignorance doesn't become you.

And using the (agreed, but for different reasons) falsity of Hobbes' (supposed) two theses to justify anarchism or limited government as alternatives ...

Granting authority doesn't necessarily entail the exercise of "absolute power" (authoritarianism).

The OP seems to conflate authority and authoritarianism. The basis of political power may be either coercion or authority (the right which arises from...

With regard to current Neurological and Psychological evidence: 1) Body and mind are open sub-systems of (at least certain) organisms (e.g., those hav...

Numeracy: ability to understand number arrangements, and perform numerical operations. Minds aren't numerate, brains aren't numerate, human beings are...

Apparently.

Correct. Minds cannot think because they do not exist per se. Use of the word "mind" is a convenient façon de parler (Bennett & Hacker, 2003). What it...

Cheers.

I asked a similar question here. This is the closest anyone has come to providing an answer: I've not read anything in this thread since that comment ...

Thanks for answering this question.

In terms of "the philosophical basis for modern science" (which was also being discussed) what has Kant contributed?

Forget Kant and get back to me.

Physicalist pap.

A useful first step, 1) Avoiding linguistic meanings, as instructed by the OP. 2) Dispensing with "objectivity" and "subjectivity" as "objective" and ...

I agree. Social awareness (perception and cognisance) has objective (fact-based) and subjective (value-based) properties. It: 1) Requires observation....

Same old pattern of avoidance: non-engagement with ideas that contradict your programme through obfuscation.

Have you never experienced empathy, or observed it in the behaviour of others? Any argument which denies empathy as fact is unsound.

If "the attempt to account for the nature of experience in third-person terms is radically flawed", empathy (understanding the thoughts and/or emotion...

Why would you confuse "an argument" with "knowledge statements"?

Reason(n): human faculty which creates and/or develops an argument. As such, it is: 1) An inherent mental function. 2) A type of controlled (conscious...

Invoke @"Dfpolis"

Messiah Complex

Good luck with that.

It would be well to recall that Einstein originally constructed his model of the universe out of nonverbal signs, 'of visual and some of muscular type...

To be fair, I don't think @"StreetlightX" is an intellectual adolescent, as much as I dislike the @"apokrisis" style of (non)argument. Premises: 1) La...

Cheers.

That's good. Did you study under Philomena Cunk?

The OP is primarily concerned with: Chomsky is mentioned incidentally as an influence on this idea. So, my posts in this thread have been concerned wi...

Seems I "parachuted in" on Page 1. Any other excuses?

Surely you are capable of a concise summary?

It might be interesting to know how you think language and communication are "coupled" in a way which is coherent relative to Evolutionary Theory. It ...

Have you tried the advanced search tool? I am unfamiliar with Chomsky, and my interest in language is from a psychological, rather than biological, le...