They were a totalitarian culture, but they did not promote mores such as their own people lying to one another, or murdering, raping and torturing one...
Since the orthodox opinion is, as far as I am aware, that they don't think that way; the burden is on you to provide evidence that they do. As far as ...
Give an actual example of an alternative goal if you want me to take your answer seriously. So, you claim that Nazi Germany promoted social mores desi...
Thinking (or feeling) that others deserve humane treatment is not the same as thinking that every individual has an equal claim to rights. The Christi...
t Why would mores not evolve with societies? Of course social harmony is the purpose of mores; what other goal could they have? Can you give an exampl...
Oh, you mean me and...? :joke: Seriously, though I actually don't believe he is a troll; I think he is just incredibly powerfully wedded (or welded) t...
Based on what has transpired in this thread you will get no argument from me! At first I thought he was a confused novice attempting to work through s...
I agree that "the power of absence" is a metaphysical concept, so did he really avoid crossing the line into metaphysics? Anyway thanks for the link a...
I have heard of Malebranche and was vaguely aware that his view is similar to Leibniz'. It seems odd to say that God causes, for example, the feeling ...
An object moving does not look like kinetic energy, because if it did you would be able to gauge from the mere appearance the degree of kinetic energy...
If you grant that God really existed after religion, then by definition God really existed before religion. If God did not really exist (as opposed to...
Considering reason to be a sentient subject (and incidentally Reason would also need to be a sapient subject in order to be valuing things, even thoug...
Some things appear bigger than others from particular perspectives even though they are smaller. Some things are simply bigger than others. From the "...
Well we disagree again it seems. If I can't see something at all, for example, it makes no sense to say that I can't see it clearly. To say that would...
Because all you are seeing is an object moving. try this: what does kinetic energy look like to you? For example: how large is it? What colour is it? ...
We don't literally see kinetic energy, we see objects moving and colliding and them moving in different directions. I agree we see flame and burning t...
Sure, but that's because that culture has not dispelled notions of privilege or special consideration and cone too see the individual as such. Perhaps...
I think it is not a master of being able to see energy but of being able to feel it bodily. We feel the resistance, the force and the impact of extern...
I agree that we take it for granted, but I also think it should be taken for granted insofar as it is a rational principle that naturally emerges when...
It's not a matter of opinion as to what's reasonable otherwise there could be no basis for reasonable discussion. As to alternative definitions of wha...
There are reasonable and unreasonable definitions. To offer a definition of morality that says that it is not concerned with personal interrelations w...
That's just wrong. there is a common definition of morality, that it is to be concerned with personal interrelations. To be unconcerned about social h...
The mistake both you and Bartricks share lies in thinking that moral value consists in being valued. It is really much more simple than that: moral va...
Given that we are social animals, then as a general rational principle what counts universally as morally valuable is what promotes society, and what ...
Typically in ancient cultures humane treatment is predominately a matter of compassion, not of what was rationally considered to be fair and just trea...
I think you are over-analyzing this, and making it more black and white than it really is. So, regarding the above what if what I feel like doing is n...
I'm still not entirely clear on what you are saying. But responding to the above if I read you rightly, I would say that saying there is no "static pr...
Perhaps, but it's not clear MU has accepted that model. As far as I understand that model all moments are thought as being present together. The quest...
And yet she is not sapient! Shows how much you care for consistency. I didn't draw any definite conclusion, just listed the possibilities; so, since y...
OK, that leaves me with absolutely no idea how Reason could be considered sentient. You say "she" is probably not sapient, if so how could she know, a...
Yes is not sufficient, it is merely an ungrounded affirmation.You can say "yes' until you pass out, but that will not make your assertion true or even...
Sure, but that's a different thing though. I haven't claimed that there is a rational explanation for that; I am claiming that Einstein's discoveries ...
Again, you are saying that Reason is a subject - "LIke me. Like you" - and hence in light of that claim we can conclude that for you Reason must be a ...
Ethical naturalism cannot tell us what we ought to do in particular situations, to be sure, other than the general dictum that we ought to do what we ...
So, you are saying that Reason is a subject and hence in light of the above we can conclude that for you Reason must be a subject that experiences? Of...
I agree with you that new theories cannot come about via rationality; if by rationality you simply mean deductive reasoning. Charles Sanders Peirce, t...
You keep insisting, using your bad analogy, that I am demanding to know who the subject is, when I have told you repeatedly that all I want to know is...
I think food shortages and even wars over resources are a real possibility. The people will then be rightly be alarmed, and yes, forms of tyranny ofte...
If our reason is fallible, then how do we know what Reason values? I also see an incongruence between "reason" and "Reason" in Bartrick's position or ...
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