Descartes tried writing systematic treatises many times, but never finished them. Bear in mind that he was actually a scientist and mathematician (in ...
St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Ibn Arabi, Je Tsongkhapa, Nagarjuna, Laozi and several hundred other notable religious thinkers from many r...
Again, you are completely missing the point that there's no there there, unless there's some sort of ongoing relationship of use or control between pe...
Yes, I liken it to a massive ocean liner and a tugboat. The tugboat is relatively small, but it has enough power to move the liner given a bit of time...
I largely agree with this, but it's not true that "most philosophers" today think what you say they think. Most philosophers today understand that the...
A person is generally defined socially, and by biography, but those are tethered to biology. IOW, you first identify the physical object, the human an...
Which is fine in some circumstances. But stewardship needs a central authority to decide who gets to "steward" what when. The advantage of the system ...
This:- Contradicts this:- (My bolds) The claim of misappropriation rests on the idea that the natives were the original owners of their land. Before y...
I think you're overthinking. There's a hallucinatory quality to ideologues trying to outdo each other in terms of originality in uncovering ever-subtl...
Human beings have the habit of creating models of the world, because it's useful. However, once established, the habit can go off on its own, with its...
That's not the Thomist argument, the Thomist argument is that everything we experience has a cause. That's precisely why the classical Cosmological Ar...
I'm inclined to go with Kant: treat others not as means ONLY but ALSO as ends in themselves. IOW, the waiter treating their customers like shit is at ...
Yeah this is fairly standard theodicy. The only problem with it is that it's all very well and good in a world of sophisticated adults learning from t...
No, the classical liberal or propertarian position is against colonialism because the natives were there first, doing stuff with their environment, th...
Well in a sense, yes, our more ape-like ancestors survived like that. But our recognizably human or human-like ancestors co-evolved with technology as...
Your impression is mistaken, interest in the topic has been lively for several centuries and there's a whole branch of philosophy dedicated to it, cal...
The problem with your position is that very few parts of earth, of the useful matter on earth, are a passive resource just waiting to be plucked off a...
Whether it does or doesn't in reality, it's certainly true that we're unable to conceive of something happening without it happening somewhere and som...
That's what I mentioned in my comment though, it can't be the absence of possibility in general. It's definitely the absence of the specific possibili...
That's an interesting thought that relates to something I've occasionally wondered. If you think of non-extension in every dimension, non-existence in...
Yeah, there have been some analysts who reckon Gen Z is more Right-leaning than any generation since WWII. On the other hand I've seen other analysts ...
I don't think it's actually a Left/Right thing so much as it's a Globalist/Nationalist thing. There's definitely a resurgence of nationalism in Europe...
Rights imply concomitant obligations. So-called "Negative rights" imply an obligation on others to refrain from doing something (to not-do something, ...
But then in that case, there's nothing special about a "claim" as opposed to an "opinion." The most you could say is that a claim is an opinion with s...
Heck, even Daoism is much more intimately connected with particular ritual and praxis than people think. The idea of a pristine "philosophical" Daoism...
It's a question of degree. I think while peoples' experiences are ontologically distinct (different experiences) they share enough similarity so that ...
Hedonism is generally understood as a philosophy that sets the pursuit of pleasure (understood in the sense of pleasures that are sensorily gratifying...
It's difficult to observe, but not impossible - for example for "human flourishing" you can have, as a first approximation, proxies like mortality rat...
I really fail to see the difference, one's opinion about how things are is one's opinion about how things are, and that is an assertion. Nobody expect...
I don't think you can prevent misunderstanding by an means "internal" to rational discourse itself, "being on the same page" comes from having shared ...
By the objective standard of whether our behaviour helps towards the ultimate ethical goal. Morality is objective and instrumental in one sense ("if y...
Not necessarily, the person may just be struggling to overcome contrary tendencies in their psyche. "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak," and...
No, an assertion just presents how one thinks things are, and if questioned one gives one's reasons. If something crops up that shows one was wrong, s...
No, not merely a faith, it's corroborated, such that the world would have to be very different from how we both think it is, for our estimates to be n...
Yes it does, the thinghood of the group is dependent on communication, as I keep saying, and the generic "humanity" qualities aren't fine-grained enou...
OK, I've read those, I still think you're putting the cart before the horse: you still require a common basis of shared culture and communication befo...
Eh? Not at all, they might agree with me. But they may not, and because I may be wrong, I am morally obliged to to look at other points of view, to cr...
I get to do that, everyone gets to do that, including the people who's assertions about reality I'm taking into account in formulating my own. And my ...
This:- Contradicts this:- "Our kind" is circumscribe by the possibility of communication and co-ordination, which is limited by biology and culture, w...
Yes, it's roughly in line. A more modern way of looking at it is in terms of Bayesianism, and an idea proposed by neuroscientist Karl Friston, called ...
Uh yeah, it's a direct response to your:- Clearly, if I'm ready and willing to take into account others' perceptions, experiences, feelings and impres...
Cognitive bias: you are forgetting all the joyous music about love found. A comparatively recent phenomenon, as is the general unhappiness we see arou...
Have you heard of Hans Vaihinger? He's one of those philosophers who was popular for a time but now forgotten, he wrote a book actually called The Phi...
There's an element of "born with" for some people, but sometimes people learn pessimism or optimism too (e.g. from lots of failure or success). Genera...
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