I see forgiveness as a processes on an interpersonal basis, a processes that varies greatly depending on who all are involved. There is a difference i...
Of course @"wosret" is right, but I think of Apollonian as cold hard reason, blue as a the blade of a sword, masculine, phallic, ironic and Dionysian ...
Virtue as an end is not questioned, what virtue consists of is questioned; is pleasure choice-worthy is questioned. Meno asked Socrates 'can virtue be...
No and yes: No, I don't think going back in the past and shooting Hitler in the head would have changed much. He was a product of his time, his societ...
OK, Plato was not a very psychological philosopher, I am not saying he didn't have his moments but in regards to what is choice worthy or not he was p...
No, I don't think so. Freedom can't be compromised and still be freedom, such a person cannot be a free agent, and any resultant action can't be const...
Yes, but in my opinion Kant had a better answer. The following from his Groundwork, Part III The threat of the murderer effectively relinquishes "a wi...
Maybe so, but as I already stated, this is extraneous to his earlier work (1785) the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morales , which is the basis of...
As I understand Kant, the maxim of one's action is striped of all empirical content, it becomes a formal principal, and only as such can it be willed ...
Along these lines: Repentance has to do with the relationship that holds between justice, punishment and forgiveness. Justice is constructed by man, i...
Perhaps the best way to proceed is by taking each point in turn. First Desire is for something, no? So ends are given. And means vary, they must be de...
The news about Catalan does not sound good. The government in Madrid is passing a law to enable corporations to move their base of operations without ...
It should be noted that Kant's response to Benjamin Constant's objection was approximately 12 years after he wrote the Groundwork for the Metaphysics ...
Not quite. Only those actions whose maxim conforms in form to the demands of duty can be moral and that form must pass the test of non-contradiction i...
The thing is that Kant was not trying to produce a theory of applied ethics, I recall reading this in his introduction to the Groundwork, or 2nd Criti...
Aristotle called it proairesis, the faculty of choice. It is how we deliberate about the means, not the ends. Both means and ends are given, for Plato...
No, I think you are reaching here. Platonic irony has to do with Socratic ignorance. Socrates claimed to know one thing, that he does not know and yet...
Socrates could never willing do what was unreasonable it would be against his concept of knowledge which is at the heart of Plato's philosophy. Paul c...
Paul, the other apostles and their followers after Christ's death, thought the that end of the world was at hand, and that the Last Judgement was imma...
I think it is a different concept. Here is what Paul says in Romans 7 The charioteer's choices are choice worthy if they correspond to reasons demands...
I don't think Plato or Aristotle or any of the ancient Greeks had the concept of a will, as a reflexive faculty of the mind. For them an action was ch...
It ought to be interesting to see what happens next. Hopefully politicians in Madrid and Catalan will sit down and figure a peaceful way out of the si...
Instead of diplomacy, the Spanish Gov opted for violence. 13 of PM Rajoy's very professional police had injury's requiring medical attention compared ...
There is a pragmatic contradiction. The subject posits a non-subject object as not posited. Idealism avoids the realist's contradiction by denying the...
Well he didn't sit down to write the words, and if it is revelation, what is/was/will be revealed is provided by the hands of the men who wrote these ...
I think Democracy is the only system that can legitimately be just to its citizens. The value of elections in USA are hampered by the extreme amounts ...
I think we are nearing the end of the master-slave dialectic. Technology is making the slave in principle otiose and it may in principal make itself u...
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