I don't think it's that cut and dried. After all, secular humanists can enjoy the older, religious works of art, and religious people can enjoy some m...
Sure, but have you actually identified socially-made injustices, or are you confusing them with inequalities that are the result of natural endowment?...
As I've pointed out twice in this conversation, both things are possible: inequalities as a result of systemic imbalances and oppression, and inequali...
No, as an amateur of philosophy that's as far as my knowledge of detailed commentaries on the PI goes too! :) Although there are umpteen "introduction...
We just disagree on this. My experience of people is that they are generally very interested in philosophical topics and engage with them with enthusi...
No, it really is a rule structure that is in fact conducive to human flourishing (or any of that basket of closely related goals). The objectivity was...
Yeah, it's a kind of boostrapping process. There are natural Schelling points for co-operation that arise, even with "blind" actors (e.g. at the anima...
I don't think it is either, morality is an attempt at discovering a self-consistent ruleset that's objectively conducive to human flourishing (or any ...
The Hacker and Diamond/Conant recommendations above are good for the specific thing you asked for (Hacker's a bit out of date and a bit idiosyncratic ...
Some yes, but mostly it's binary. Planes either fly or they don't, etc. That's my point - what they get from those things isn't very good, it would be...
Curiously my post to which you're responding hasn't appeared, but what the hey. But that's what's yet to be demonstrated. If you simply pre-judge that...
The fact that you are trying to guess at an identity doesn't mean you can't in fact hit upon it. Of course the identity you're looking for is the one ...
But how the ordinary world behaves is of concern to the vast majority of people in their everyday lives, and part of philosophy's job is (or Rand and ...
Yeah, I agree with that, so far as navigating everyday life goes; but zooming out a bit more, I see identification as secondary (or subsequent to) to ...
Well if you put it that way, then Rand isn't "ignored," but a modestly popular taste on the Right. (Lots of books sold, remember?) And if you want to ...
It's a stupid idea. Much better to limit democracy. I think people have unrealistic expectations of democracy - its core function is simply to avoid c...
That's an interesting way of looking at it, and it would explain why Aristotle actually didn't formulate the Law of Identity as such, didn't seem to t...
I don't understand why belief in God has to be a "taint" on philosophical study. Belief in a world of matter is just as much a bedrock assumption for ...
Sure there are alternative logics, but the question of interest is which form of logic does the world happen to behave in accordance with? At the leve...
Generally a good guide, but not always. (Also, I'd be careful about that sort of appeal to authority - libertarians have the highest IQ of all the pol...
Well that's why I referenced him - like, come on guys, get off your arses, it's not totally alien to your own tradition. So what if you get it wrong a...
I think that a great work of art is basically a microcosm, a miniature universe, with its own internal logic, and its goal or function is, as Schopenh...
Well one obvious reason would be because she was a tremendously influential novelist as well. I mean, I like Anscombe as much as the next guy, but she...
I don't think there's anything wrong with an adversarial approach, and it doesn't negate a sort of "meta-love." Any competitive game is co-operative a...
I think it's both morally okay and entertaining to be abusive in the abstract (re. what one considers to be stupid ideas and whoever holds them in gen...
She wasn't "officially" a philosopher no, but she had a decent enough educational attainment (in the context of her milieu) to be not entirely discoun...
What was all that stuff about "stewardship" then, if not a rough sketch of your ideal? Yes, it's possible, but there's an opportunity cost to everythi...
Whether it is "pseudoscientific nonsense" and "racist "or not is a topic for potentially civil debate - but not on this forum, apparently, and since I...
In the first place, we all recognize that there's a well-meaning impulse behind SJW activism. But you can call a thing a name without the thing actual...
Yes, correct. None of what I said was in the least bit racist, sexist or transphobic. The fact that you think the opposite demonstrates one of the rea...
Which sarcastic one-liner evidently went over your head. The topic of the conversation when you came bustling in with your irrelevant tu quoque was th...
And unless are you saying that there will be no necessity to sort peas or clean toilets in your ideal society, then you're implicitly admitting that y...
No, that's not the case at all. I expect that there will be some core principles on which we'll never agree (unless obviously one of us does shift our...
If there had been any genuine, heartfelt self-critique, the Left would not have continued to do for the past 18 months exactly what it did to lose the...
Again, this:- Contradicts this:- But you seem oblivious - it's like you have two hermetically-sealed compartments in your thought that aren't sparking...
Given that the evolutionary remnant of dinosaurs are birds, and some birds (corvids, parrots) are extremely intelligent (about as capable of solving p...
Free choices are influenced by conditions, including political conditions (a free choice takes into account as many factors and conditions as possible...
Just wanted to add: the fundamental problem with the Left at the moment is that having had cultural hegemony for so long, they've forgotten the basic ...
This is silly semantic quibbling. It's legitimate in ordinary language, to call a government policy the cause of a statistical trend, even though ever...
Lovely stuff. This argument is reminiscent of the Ontological Argument isn't it? It seems to put in clearer terms the intuition that the Ontological A...
I didn't mean that minimum wages are the sole cause of unemployment, just that they do cause unemployment when implemented. The reason is obvious: if ...
Minimum wages cause unemployment, they are entirely counter-productive. Most especially, they prevent young people from getting a foot on the ladder o...
No, they are examples of "particular and rare circumstances." Vast, vast amounts of commerce have been going on successfully for the past few centurie...
No, apart from the wiki list (which actually partly contradicts some of your points) you're presenting tendentious, biased, ideologically-motivated pr...
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