I read about half scanned the rest. Do you think objectivity in science and elsewhere is based on consensus, the ability of others with similar levels...
The following is based on the Impure Somatic Theory of Barlassina & Newen, very detailed abstract here. There is a question whether emotions are cause...
I think we all come with some very basic functionalities. We can feel intensities of pleasures and pain, and we have certain basic drives like hunger ...
The economic answer is: have the pleasure first, the future is always discounted. Emotions come in pairs, so even in pain, pleasure is possible. Pleas...
I think they are the main components, but what comprises an act is also an issue. Are our actions series of independent events, some of which may be l...
The conversation depends on the type of therapy. Cognitive Control Therapy begins at media res and proceeds to establish goals which the patient sets ...
I think your hypothesis is only partly correct. I think all actions are a mix of pleasure and knowledge and that the best life is the involves getting...
What is possible includes what is real and unreal, it excludes what is inconceivable. We determine what is possible by reflecting on what we experienc...
Rosenstein (who is not known to be a political hack) is the 'dupe'. Sessions had recused himself from the Russian investigation. In order for the reas...
Samantha Bee said that Comey may be a turd, but at least he is an independent turd. Trump's firing of Comey puts the whiff of obstruction of justice i...
Perhaps instead of pragmatic effect of making murder legal, which strains current conceivability this argument might be applied to pornograpthy, where...
So if it makes good pragmatic sense to harvest the organs of a healthy young person in order to to keep 5 rich old geezers alive, that is moral? Or is...
Yes, far less desirable to live in any such world, if life has no value, or say it has merely pragmatic value, and pragmatism is morality. Then I thin...
I wonder how that would work. Something that is immoral, known to be immoral, is made legal seems to me to be some sort of contradiction., if by 'lega...
Well, Kant's struggle here is epistemic not ontological, it has to do with what is right or wrong and not what is or is not. In my opinion, he loses t...
Kant's did not need to prove humanity's propensity to evil...all you have to do is to look around, it is found universally, everywhere man is...evil i...
with That's the unconscious cause of your current desire for that slice of warm apple pie topped some finely aged melted cheddar >:) , my point of vie...
Suppose you like apple pie and someone hypnotized you to desire apple pie every time you hear the word 'Wittgenstein' ? If you are susceptible to the ...
Then porn has (what) a negative aesthetic, if it's only function is to get you off or to titillate, but if it has utility then it can be improved, it ...
What is porn? While answers may not satisfy, isn't it a form of parody (Rule 34), and isn't war a form of porn, a deadly parody of morality. And how d...
Kant thought that the structure of the world does not necessarily match the structure of thought. His transcendental method attempts to find the 'nece...
Actually, very possible. Someone in EU apparently provided full details of her fracas with Junker over dinner a few days ago in a German newspaper. Sh...
He can deny the real being of absolutes, which he does in his critique, and I think he also denied existence is a predicate in his earlier works. The ...
The phrase just prior to this Eliot left out Kingdom, Power, Glory, or maybe he didn't...perhaps each of these have a fair shot at "This is the way th...
My guess is that China will follow its own self interest, and take some form of 'guardianship' over its ally, NK. NK was historically a vassal of Chin...
The magic-- at least for me, is that there is no ultimate explanation. Seeking explanations for why things are as they are and exactly how they are as...
This a quote from "The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God". published in 1763, which SEP considers Kant's pr...
Yes, I guess so, good pick up. Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address February 27, 1860 I found the following note fascinating, regarding Lincoln's spe...
K, The following from here: The 'necessity' in Kant's refutation of the necessity of an absolute being (i.e., the ontological argument) is real ontolo...
Yes, that is my understanding and there appears to be plenty of online references to back it up. That Old Black Magic, got them in a spell, they saw b...
Social justice has a conscience. King's genius lied in his ability to align and weave the Declaration of Independence with the Bible into a very chris...
. Martin Luther King, as well as Socrates submitted to the might of the law (I am not sure Socrates was not guilty of the charges against him, but Pla...
Does might make right? Ah yuh, but it's complicated. If everyone were only out for their own self interest, then culture & society could not exist (on...
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