Jack Cummins

I guess that I have always thought that it is the 'I' of consciousness which thinks, but it may be that it is not that straightforward really. The I i...

I will remember that, but I do feel that I do wish to read some, if not all, of Hegel's book.

I read the linked article, and I thought that it was impressive. What I thought was good was the criticism of the constructs which people take for gra...

Okay, can we leave it there. I am about to go to bed and we don't wish to derail this thread.

Obviously, that debate is going on in the other thread, but what I got a bit worked up about was your view that philosophy is simply about experts bei...

Thanks for the link. It looks useful, and you definitely love dictionaries.

Absolutely, I am about to go to bed and don't wish to end up having nightmares about words transmogrifying into monsters.

I would agree with that, and it was really an abstract discussion, but in reality the use of terms does depend on the context in which they are used. ...

I think that this debate about philosophy plumbing applies to the discussion which has just taken place on the thread on the meanings of the term mora...

What I believe is that there is a danger that concepts are thought about in a concrete and static way. I was just reading 'A Short History of Ethics',...

Really, I am not going to keep arguing my point, but what I do see as being a problem is the view that there are 'experts', who have the last word. Al...

I am not saying that I don't respect your opinion, but we can see if anyone else contributes to the discussion at all. I see it as a topic for explora...

The psychiatrists I knew were open to debate. In the first place, I simply raised the topic for discussion, and I am not really concerned to prove a p...

But I am not aware of other professionals thinking that they have exclusive knowledge. For example, I have worked with consultant psychiatrists, inclu...

I can see that it is worth being aware that psychologists have a different training, but I am still not sure that it means that only academic philosop...

Thanks for finding a useful article, because I do think that there are probably differing opinions on the matter.

So, do you have a Ph D and peer review in ethics? Also, I am sure that the academic philosophers are worth listening to, but I would have thought that...

I will look it up, but I am wondering is that the Chicago journal? I am not trying to argue definitively, and if it is that they really are identical,...

I agree with you, and that was the kind of way I was thinking about when I wrote the thread. I think that morality and ethics are slightly differently...

I think that it is not that simple, because we have imperfections. I believe that it is important to have principles, but I would not say that I feel ...

I can see your idea of morality being a philosophy and ethics as science as useful in some ways. However, they probably cannot be polarised, but it do...

I am sure that the ideals about right and wrong should be able to be about establishing a just social order, but I don't think that it always works th...

I would have been interested to know where your quotation came from. But, yes, it is interesting to think about whether morality, or ethics can become...

Yes, I think that this question about wisdom and ethics is interrelated with wisdom, and my own threads are almost like tangled wires really. But, I g...

I just began thinking about it while I was reading and writing on the thread about 'wisdom'. It may be that some people see the differentiation as not...

I am not sure if I can think about putting the mind into sets. I am not even sure if mind can be contained, because even though it arises and is inter...

I definitely agree with you, and think that is probably why Kant's use of the term ethics was different because he was writing in a time when religiou...

I think that it is hard to say that an act which is unethical is moral, such as stealing. But, it is not so easy to see all actions which are about pe...

I agree that they can be used in the same way, even as in a code, such as The Nursing Code of Ethics, which is more of a set of guidelines to be adher...

In some ways, I agree with you that it can be a choice of term, and I am aware of some historical basis of the interchangeable use of the word ethics ...

I aggravate myself, let alone anyone else. But, I think that the people who are the most smug aggravate so much because they cannot see their faults. ...

Perhaps we need to learn to be scouts for ourselves and others, to prevent us getting lost in the fog.

I probably wrote that sentence months ago, but I am sure that a lot of the ideas about immortality are based on the fear of death, and perhaps those w...

Interesting idea, the philosophy of boxes as containers. We may be boxed in, or we may even wish to break free from such boxes, and maybe bags are les...

I am not really trying to say that wisdom is purely subjective, but that the outward quantification of ascribing it to individuals could be problemati...

I think that you are right to point to uncertainty as a starting point. It may be that for people from many eras, long before Wittgenstein that this w...

I think that I was really trying to speak of the different contexts in which ideas about morality and ethics arose. Morality was often based on ideas ...

I have looked at you link, and I do think that poetry can capture aspects of wisdom so well. It may be about the finding bridges between intuition and...

But I do believe that we have to be careful of slipping into mystical muugidwash. I think that this applies to the many philosophies, ranging from the...

I agree that there is so much which we cannot know for sure. Some go back to the real basics, while others go into so much speculation. Personally, I ...

The biggest question which I would have about the idea of CS Lewis, is what would it mean to exist in the mind of God, especially as many challenge th...

I do think that the question of how morality and ethics are identical or not is important Sometimes the terms morality and ethics are used as if they ...

I am sure that I do speak of the idea of a 'mind bomb' as a symbolic rather than literal reality. But, I do think that this also raises the larger que...

I definitely believe in the importance of slowing down. Sometimes, I rush answers through on this site, but, I am aware of their temporarily, with lim...

It probably goes beyond philosophy, but one of my favourite albums of all times is, 'Mind Bomb' by The The. Music tastes aside,we could ask to what ex...

I think that you raise such interesting questions, but I need time to think, but in the meantime, it is possible that others will come up with many id...

Thanks for your reply, and I hope that you are not late to the party, and that it is not over, just yet. I see the main issue which you raise as being...

Thanks for your detailed reply. I think that the important question is to what extent is wisdom connected to ethics? I think that part of this relates...

Trying to look at this question from a philosophy perspective, I am aware of the idea of souls arising within the tradition going back to Plato and Pl...

I have just read the many entries on this thread, which seems to have resurfaced, and it feels like about 10 years ago since I started the thread. Tha...