I would say most is concerned with considering behavior towards others, and even if it is not a consideration of behavior specifically directed toward...
It's lucky the idea of the impossibility of shared meaning is not universally accepted, but you might be able to find some local deviations if you sea...
The point is that there is no definite limit on any span; which means that an entity is always itself; and so we can indeed speak of the same entity a...
I've tried to show you the differences between what is logically possible and impossible, what is possible and impossible as far as we know and what m...
I think the point you are missing here is that in moral thought we are considering what kind of person we want to be, and that makes no sense in the a...
I'd say it's not impossible that someone might really care about people she doesn't know, but I would say it is vanishingly rare. Usually what might a...
Have you conisdered that what might seem like intuition might be wishful thinking. In any case since it is unknowable what could it matter to us here ...
But all is not language and Wittgenstein never said it was. Our language allows us to form models, but what makes you think those models have any purc...
But it doesn't just happen once, it happens to countless beings. What makes you think it should happen to you or any individual being more than once, ...
I don't agree that laws are necessarily based on "the expression of what the community thinks ought be done or not done, morality..", but reading char...
I think ethics is best defined as the study of how best to live. Of course, if you are a member of a community that will involve others, but it is not...
Perhaps the cycle of samsara is best understood as being encapsulated within a single life, and putting an end to it as assenting, surrendering, fully...
For me, one of the most paradoxical aspects of the Buddhist notion of rebirth (which can only be coherently understood at all as individual rebirth) i...
Yes, the idea of a real T1 is meaningless in view of the fact that the present is not a dimensionless point, but a moment containing both past and fut...
If there is no notion of essence involved in a claim that rebirth is real, then it is meaningless to say that a particular individual is reborn as @"R...
The point is as to whether a causal connection could be established between the one who dies and the one who is born; is the latter a genuine continua...
If you just mean that it is only through interactions and specifically talking with others that one's traumas mys be dealt with, then I would say that...
But now you say this: That seems to be saying that laws are in prinicple moral because they are an expression of a social contract which is the view o...
You're ignoring the fact that something might be, just on account of the way things are, impossible even though we could never know that with absolute...
OK, I tried to open your mind to a more nuanced way of thinking about it, but you have proved to be the most locked-in interlocutor I have ever encoun...
You're missing the point. Being dead or alive are obviously two possibilities the cat instantiates. But being purple with pink polka dots, or being tu...
What does that mean? I have provisional,(that is 'subject to change in light of further experience') faith in what I have experienced, but I don't exp...
I would say they are not that "by definition" at all, but by report. How do you know those reports are accurate? I have met people I would count as hi...
The form of a wheel has objective utility. Mathematics is an elaboration of counting, and counting also has an objective utility. It is also an object...
Why do you keep repeating the same nonsense over and over instead of at least attempting to tender some reason for why I should believe you are right ...
So, any view or belief must be tested against your experience? So, how do you test your view or belief as to who is wise if not against your own exper...
If I had a "near-death experience" it might change my views, but someone else's experience cannot be good evidence for me to believe anything. Even th...
You are still failing to recognize the distinction between something being possible as far as we know, and something being actually possible. For exam...
No, something may well be impossible even thought we could never prove that. So, it doesn't necessarily follow that if we cannot prove it is impossibl...
No, I don't think it's a 'petty" point at all, but a better way of maintaining what is a useful distinction. As to the account you have to offer; I do...
I would not consider anything ideologically based to be a basis for good societal ethics. I disagree because it is the negative effects that such acti...
No, I'm not claiming it is predicated upon authority at all, but on recognizing what is the best and finest thinking on the subject. If you want to be...
Moral thought is most appositely thought of as being concerned with one's relation to others. Concern about how ones' actions will affect one's own li...
How many times do I have to tell you that under my definitions having or holding thoughts or beliefs is not the same as thinking or believing in the k...
I agree that societal morals are "practicalogical" (I take you to mean 'pragmatic'). The question is as to whether they serve power elites or everyone...
Give me a demonstrative example, then. I haven't said that and nor does what I have said entail that. Again you are confusing yourself with your slopp...
I haven't denied that morally responsible individuals can rationally defy the state; so I don't know where this is coming from. As to conscientious ob...
I agree with your first paragraph, but not with the second. I think sociopathy is on account of distorted or absent moral feeling; the inability to em...
How do you arrive at that conclusion? Conversing with you would be less tedious if, instead of merely asserting things, you presented the argument wit...
Well, I think the clarity and depth of your thought would benefit from tightening up your language. , I agree, because all the important social norms ...
I didn't say it was. One can (presumably) visualize a tree without being a competent language user. If we can see them we can visualize (recall the se...
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