That's irrelevant. I'm not claiming that every situation demands that we focus upon the emotional aspects. The issue here is what all pre-reflective t...
No. I was not. Cats are quite capable of thought/belief. The cat believed the prey went behind the computer without ever perceiving the computer as a ...
My mistake then. Earlier the comparison/contrast was between pure reason and emotion. This is even worse. Thought/belief without empirical content? Wh...
Back to morality... All rules of acceptable/unacceptable behaviour are first adopted via language acquisition. One's initial morality is thus subject ...
The language-less creature touches fire for the first time... It learns that touching fire causes pain. It has correctly attributed/recognized causali...
This suspiciously looks like an equivocation of the term "perception". It doesn't seem to square with our earlier conversation regarding physiological...
No, it's not. That is a huge mistake. The job of logic is to preserve truth(correspondence). Truth(correspondence) is presupposed in logic by virtue o...
The bedroom scenario is a false analogy. The discussion is about so-called 'pure reason', which is called "pure" because it is supposedly empty of emo...
Of course it can be. Coherency is insufficient for truth. This is particularly the case regarding accounts of and/or when one is reporting upon that w...
All pleasure may qualify as contentment on your view, and all pain may qualify as discontentment as well. I would not disagree with that. There is no ...
On Kant's view, perhaps. Not on mine. I see no reason whatsoever to conclude that physiological sensory perception does not happen autonomously simply...
I invoked "rigid designator" as the best means I know of for avoiding misinterpretations regarding my use of the term "morality". In addition, it avoi...
Kant clearly claims that there is a distinction between emotion and thinking about thought/belief. His conceptions support this idea. He defined all h...
Kant is working from two notions, one of which is pure reason in comparison/contrast to the other which is emotion. The two are inseparable. Pure reas...
Any and all evidence to the contrary of one's belief system becomes such as a result of it's being used as such. Prior to the use, what becomes eviden...
My report of Kant's shortcomings are existentially dependent upon Kant's words. Kant's linguistic framework is utterly incapable of taking proper acco...
"Herd mentality" and "herd morality". Are these real things? Sure. How? They have an effect/affect. They are ideas. Nothing more. Their effect/affect ...
To doubt what is being taught, one must have a baseline from which to doubt. All doubt is belief-based. To doubt 'X' is to doubt that 'X' is true. Let...
Is morality the sort of thing that can exist in it's entirety prior to language acquisition? If we follow current convention, it cannot, unless the wr...
Morality, as current convention has it, is a term used in many ways. It is well-worn. There are a plurality of referents, conceptions, notions, and/or...
Yes. I'd like to confirm points of agreement and/or mutual understanding. One can change one's mind about what counts as acceptable/unacceptable thoug...
The "too entrenched" bit was about your answer being in Kant's framework. The good man bit was about Kant. How can one overcome racism in the example ...
Indeed. We must know how deliberate change in one's deeply inculcated moral belief happens; what it takes in order to happen; what is required; etc. W...
One's initial worldview includes one's initial morality. Both are subject to the influence of individual particular circumstances. World-views and the...
Everything ever written, spoken, and/or otherwise uttered comes through a subject. All codes of conduct do as well. What is the term 'objective' doing...
All people deserve to have a certain amount of respect already bestowed upon them prior to actually meeting them, or knowing anything about them. Some...
We all surely agree on some moral utterances of ought. Universal agreement is neither equivalent nor adequate for truth. So, while it is certainly aim...
By the way... Can one of the participants here that is using the notion of moral truth offer a criterion for truth, and then one for a kind of truth c...
All are originally acquired solely by virtue of being adopted via common language acquisition. Regardless of all individual subject particulars, all o...
Something original would be a novel correlation. Something new could be a novel correlation to the individual, but it also could have already been mad...
It takes something else. It takes thinking about one's own thought/belief(worldview) in terms of the re-evaluation of behaviour and/or the historic 'm...
New thought/belief about the societal/familial rules of acceptable/unacceptable behaviour. All new moral thought/belief that knowingly and deliberatel...
It's not impossible. It does require something new. New correlations between some old things and some new things. Not worth getting into here, but it ...
For those capable... Here we have yet again another position based upon a sore lack of understanding what thought/belief is and how it all works. All ...
I'm a monkey in a jungle. I've been raised by other monkeys just like me. I'm taught all about the others who are not like us. I learn how to talk and...
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