apokrisis

And? My position is that tradititional wisdoms endured precisely because they were utilitarian in this regard. They might invent gods or categorical i...

You just won't deal with my actual arguments, will you? What we did in the past was often based on flimsy reasoning. Morality was something God told y...

Sorry, I can't make any sense of what you want to say here.

No I'm not. I'm taking the view that talk about categorical imperatives is transcendent bunk. As a Pragmatist, I can only support reasoned approaches ...

It is hardly so arbitrary. Humans treat each other well in the hope and expectation they will get the same treatment in return. That is basic rational...

Or we could just ask you to support any claim you might wish to make, having explained why it is in fact arbitrary in mandating universality where eve...

I think I see your problem....

You've avoided any real response so I'll only repeat that pessimism is a cliche - the latest reincarnation of romanticism - and not an interesting phi...

What's ironic is that the Life of Brian was accurate as satire in being so squarely aimed at the narcissism of small differences. The laugh was at all...

Yep. Romanticism tells the story of what it is to be the heroic individual, the legend of your own lunchhour. And in a fossil fuel age, where there is...

So you agree I'm right but now make up this weird claim that I think most people would straightforwardly agree? And yet I've said the majority - in th...

it's a bit unfair to paint me as an advocate of factory farming don't you think?

You don't have to actually articulate thoughts as the inner voice as even preparing to say something is already enough to know where the articulation ...

This is nuts as there is hardly a crying need to protect the human population from the dangers of cultish antinatalists. With 2.5 billion people in 19...

its about your head surely?

Yep I agree. There is the biological or instinctual level of evaluation and then the sociocultural overlay that then still gets called emotion, and ye...

Your post was vague and rambly. So most of it I neither agreed with nor disputed in any particular fashion. It didn't constitute a criticism as such. ...

I think we are on the same page. But the way out of this particular bind is the logic of the dichotomy. Aristotle, Hegel and Peirce all wound up with ...

So two points on that. First, I accept the full force of solipsism on a non-solipsistic basis. So it is because I believe - after Peirce - that our me...

That's the group's need clearly. It doesn't have to be the individual's. It is just likely to be the individual's as logically the group would need to...

Jeez, if the Enlightenment and its Romantic reaction are that unfamiliar to you, where could I even start....

Don't just be a dick. I've explained plenty. For example....

You mean exasperation. No, I'm describing the cop out. But you are never going to address this confused dualism of yours no matter how often I point b...

That's nonsense. But you are free to make up what you like. More vague and uninformed comment. But you believe what you like.

You misdescribe CBT in relation to PTSD in that it sounds like you are thinking of desensitisation or exposure therapy. And the idea of "accepting the...

But that's just you pushing your personal wheelbarrow again and claiming it to be the everyman view. There's no point replying to nonsense like this. ...

Integration and differentiation are both part of the same game. So it is completely natural that everything is all part of the one ecosystem, and yet ...

You don't seem to understand the way that positive psychology is different from how you describe CBT. The whole point is empowering individuals to fig...

There is no doubt there is a problem. And yet ethnologists find high levels of happiness in villagers living very basic lives in large parts of the wo...

You say widespread, but have you measured it? I'm not disagreeing that there is much that seems far from optimal. But also, it is easy to exaggerate w...

Sorry but that is precisely the kind of presumption that I would be willing to question. I wouldn't use it as a starting point. So what I would say is...

First, Peircean semiotics takes spontaneity as fundamental. So it already rejects a deterministic ontology even at the cosmological level. In this fas...

Yep. I googled and found that. So what is your assessment of its credibility? The researchers do look credible and their university is reputable. But ...

Naturalism says something pretty similar and also exactly opposite based on Peircean semiotics. So in the semiotic view, autonomy results from the sep...

Good job I don't say that then. Getting back to what I did say, why should I treat any notion of the good as something transcendentally abstracted fro...

My point is that there is a choice - both choices natural in themselves. So we could create a lifestyle that is predicated on the exponential liberati...

So it IS justified that they suffer for our benefit? We should shut them in horrible little cages, give them a disease and also drugs, just to see wha...

You're rather frothing at the mouth there, Schop. I'll wait until you've had a chance to calm down.

You are welcome to present the scientific evidence then. As I say, I've seen what you are talking about first hand and talked to the researchers who l...

I disagree. I know science gets the blame for Scientism, but science is perfectly capable of understanding organisms as organisms. And a capacity for ...

Anthropomorphic nonsense. And dangerous for the reasons I've outlined. I think Descartes produced that Cartesian view as part of sustaining the transc...

Eliminating predation? What by euthanasing all predators? Teaching spiders to be vegan? What are you even talking about? Occam's razor says it is rati...

No. On the basis of the science, I say that animals of course have experiences and can suffer (or enjoy). But also that it is clear that self-consciou...

But only humans have articulate speech and so a capacity to master the habits of thought that we would associate with being self-conscious. For instan...

How is it not justified exactly? You are arguing the minority position here. It's only absurd to you because you choose to frame it that way using ant...

Well I can only really talk about your instrumentalism in a fashion that fits my point of view. And the interesting idea to me is how the modern fossi...

You want me to define a term you invented....

But it already has a philosophical definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentalism You might need to coin a different word. What's Greek fo...

Along with being born, having fun, being royally entertained. We are back to your one-side view of existence as usual. Are you trying to prove that on...

God forbid that we might narrow our definitions to the point where they would make a meaningful commitment to anything. How could we simply presume ou...