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I'm not saying that all religious practice is neurotic, but I do think that the New Age prosperous upper middle class phenomenon of "spiritual seeking...

I thank the Lord (nature) that I grew out of this state of self-obsession that is referred to as the "religious disposition". I was raised in a secula...

Could you explain some more what you mean here? I don't understand phenomena as being reified. I see them as the objects of sensory (mostly visual and...

I wasn't suggesting the universe is social, but parts of it, i.e. social organisms, are. So, the logic of sociality would be inherent in those.

OK, I missed that you were responding to "logic of the universe". To be charitable I would interpret the latter to mean something like the 'logic of s...

So, substance has a poetry but poetry has no substance? What is or has substance for you?

I don't take Einstein to be claiming that the moon is, in itself and exhaustively, just how it appears to us. I take him to be saying that what appear...

Sorry, you lost me there...what do you want to say...please spell it out. Edit: Oh, I see you have written some more now...

This seems quite wrong to me. All views are human views. The salient distinction is between those views which are subjectively and passionately (i.e. ...

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I do think of philosophy as being a matter of achieving clarity, rather than knowledge. What are we clarifying then? I'd say we clarify what we are do...

Actually your weight fluctuates all the time. You weigh around 80 kg when alive and when you die you weigh around 80 kg; so what does that show if you...

You are still failing to try to put yourself in their mindset. From their point of view they were not inventing anything, but accepting what they beli...

It seemed there were assumptions being made that any "for profit" corporation's only concern would naturally be profit-making, and that "not for profi...

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It doesn't seem to me to be a matter of metaphysics, but of phenomenology. So, I would view it as phenomenology of what you are terming the "normative...

As far as I know Jains and Buddhists don't generally think that what exists on the earth, or the earthly plane, exhausts the totality of reality.

I didn't say that, I said the Jains (like the Buddhists) thought that hell or the hells are part of reality that must be accepted.

You mean a perceptual part?

I agree, and also have no problem with the rest of what you say. My only (simple) point is that the ground of moral thinking is concern for others. Th...

I think my reply to apokrisis should answer this.

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That's right, but I was referring to not not-for-profit companies.

Sure, but as I said earlier I draw a distinction between moral thinking and ethical thinking; where moral thinking is concerned with the effects of ac...

Sure, we might say they were inventing reality, but that doesn't have any impact upon the fact that they believed they were realizing and accepting re...

I agree. That the fox went down the third path, given there is no fox-scent on the first and second paths is not deductively certain, that is, it does...

There is the old story (perhaps apocryphal, but it seems right according to my experience of dogs' behavior) about the dog tracking a fox by scent alo...

Not necessarily; if they believe that this is simply the nature of reality, then there is no question of condoning or not condoning, but the injunctio...

Most corporations or companies are "for profit". As @"ssu" noted earlier if they fail to at least cover costs, then they cannot survive, and if they m...

No, you ought to act in a way which doesn't injure me, or detract from my well-being in some considerable way. Pissing me off doesn't count; it won't ...

I see dichotomies as the absolute dualistic conceptions of the extremes of continua. So the dichotomy between determinism and chance or freedom is fal...

"Being true to yourself' could mean many things. You might have a rigid concept of duty and see being true to yourself as being true to that, for exam...

Not to speak for @"apokrisis", but I don't see dichotomies, I see continuums. So there is not any "third thing" which resolves dichotomies, other than...

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This seems like a meaningless formulation to me. Morality is intrinsically concerned with others; that's basically what it's all about. I'm not includ...

Not emanate, but more consist in, or relate to, the basic principle of care or concern.

I do have a broad conception of science in mind. I am thinking of everything we know as science. We know, for example, that raping your neighbours' da...

I think this is an unfairly narrow definition of science you are using. Science in the broadest sense is everything that can be observed and agreed up...

It would have been better to say that science has shown the way, but that it is philosophy that tells us. So the practice of science has clarified the...

The simple answer to that puzzle is that once we became reflective about these issues and we were already in the post-agricultural situation of greatl...

But what would morality consist in if not moral thinking and the actions proceeding therefrom? Or are you suggesting that moral thinking cannot be cor...

I can't see the point of bringing genes into it. All we need to flourish is a healthy state of mind and body. That is taken away from many, even most,...

I don't understand what you are saying here. As I see it you cannot force flourishing on others; you can aid them in their pursuit of flourishing, tho...

Yes, exactly, a common mistake is thinking that anarchism necessarily rejects all hierarchy. Rather it rejects all hierarchy imposed from above, that ...

The difference is, as I said, between the ideas of eternal flourishing and temporal flourishing. So all moral systems are concerned with flourishing, ...

The problem with your argument is that the two Xs, different ideas of flourishing, are not the same. The fact that one of them is not subject to empir...

Is it moral to entertain negative thoughts which inhibit the flourishing of others, or even your own flourishing?

Basic needs should be fulfilled for all wherever possible. But there are practical, and not merely moral or political impediments to bringing that abo...

Given that I think there is no purely rational, or unbiased, way of justifying proposals that some deserve moral consideration and others don't, then ...

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