JerseyFlight

My god man, you live in a Matrix of one. Fella finds a formula to justify the pathology of his egosyntonicness, then labels it as intelligence.

This is precisely the kind of down to earth common sense that has been marred by religious abstraction and abstraction in general. Yes, it is self-jus...

I don't find it strange that philosophy, after the tragic advent of its analytical form, has moved in the direction of Heidegger's mysticism. This is ...

I share every last ounce of justified and intelligent contempt you here articulate.

If only it were so intelligent.

There you have it. Kreeft can't get no Jesus-Trinity from here.

Yes, but purely a formal one. There is no authority here.

God is just a word without concrete substance. I think this manifest comprehension of a distinction. Here the idea is without being, it never escapes ...

My position is the exact opposite of what you imply here, nevertheless, I can see your struggle, poor fellow, you desperately want to be able to proce...

This is totally false. I have proven*, in your case, that this is exactly not the thing that matters: you are the kind of thinker that is ONLY after c...

You are already sunk, the burden of proof lies with the original question, "Can justice be defined without taking god and others into account?" That d...

I was specifically expounding on the reason why the idea of God negates justice. I didn't have to do this, I did it because it 1) helps to move the co...

This is exactly where the burden of proof lies.

This is not an original argument on my part it was Nietzsche's formation. The statements I made are falsifiable, they are deduced from both Peterson's...

Repeat five times and post on every thread please.

Ignoring a few of the problems with your reply, by definition and social reality, the idea of justice that proceeds from the idea of God is taken to b...

- Any philosophy you read that lacks this attribute should be discarded and thrown into the trash... so much for formal analytics. Life is way too sho...

I second this.

Totally accurate, which means, if Philosophers don't want to live in totalitarian societies, they are going to have to concern themselves with politic...

This is the only thing an Analytical Philosopher can say, but it is false, Philosophy's emphasis should not be idealism, although this is probably wha...

Not just detest, but this is positively dangerous. It literally creates a negative society. However, this is pretty much the structure of the American...

I get the point, not my articulation, but man's ethics do come from man, he is not submitting or looking to God, (even when he deceives himself that h...

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The ethical core. Anyhow, instead of doing this dialectically I will just get to the point. Once we establish that this core is not complete but can b...

Is this core complete or is there room for growth?

Thank you for your detailed contribution and clarity. I agree with many things you said. I'm not exactly sure what language you are specifically refer...

Well then, the burden of proof would be on you to demonstrate that you belong to the tradition, which is certainly a futile exchange you will not be h...

What in God's name, how on earth did you arrive at this from David Mo's confession of substance? I'm dumbfounded. One assumes too much, that those who...

Hard to know for sure from memory recall, but I don't think I have ever used the term "gibberish" on this forum, not that I'm opposed to it, I just do...

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Question can easily be rephrased, is there anyone on here who considers themselves a Christian, believes exclusively in the Christian God?

I think this is where you are going too far. If it's part of the basic structure, that doesn't necessarily mean Rawls is trying to advocate for it con...

That is not the argument, the argument is that there is no concretion to the substance, and the idea is itself entirely contingent (and proceeds from)...

I wasn't aware that it was a disease. Why not cure heterosexuality, after all, it is merely an assertion that the species should propagate itself. Per...

This is exceedingly impressive, it is one of the rarest things I have ever seen within the context of an online format. In general we all just defend,...

Are you sure you're not reading your own domestic preference into his position? Very hard for me to see Rawls arguing against polygamy just as long as...

This is a tragic and fallacious standard that assumes violence and cruelty merely arise from some fictional, metaphysical nature in man, when in reali...

You mean like Sweden's recidivism rate for prisoners? You mean like the measurable success of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy? You mean like, Attachment T...

This is the the first stage of consciousness in an advanced species.

Hard to see how one could refute this, precisely because it's premised in the material nature of being.

If values are not established by culture, where do they come from? Much fatalism you have here. I wonder if the people you find attractive in your cul...

Last time I checked it wasn't faeries that invented agriculture, medicine and science.

Yes friend, I completely agree with you, this is what I was talking about, intellectual work. This is a problem I have thought a great deal about, and...

I agree. I do not believe that people without children have a right to set the rules of the future for society I agree, man's entire life hinges on th...

Are there any Christians on this thread?

Considering the fact that the value of physical attractiveness is set in place through the emphasis of culture, if you want to alter the values of a c...

Emphatically, of course not! But here the capacity of mentalization, which is a psychological capacity, hinges on the social structure into which one ...

Cultivate a stronger cultural emphasis valuing quality of character above that of physical appearance.

I agree with this. The question is how do we go about preventing ourselves from becoming learned fools? "...wouldn't necessarily know it," what standa...

A bit too much formal optimism regarding humans here. "Values," and that's what they should be called, usually arise unconsciously through culture. To...