creativesoul

You have a long way to go. There are all sorts of things problematic with your worldview here. Far too much to take to task in one year, let alone one...

I agree that without emotion there is neither compassion nor empathy. Emotion is necessary but insufficient for both. It takes thought/belief about an...

Nothing there that I would balk at... I just avoid the 'feeling' talk. I think it is no where near as nuanced as it need be. But yeah, I agree that co...

I'm more comfortable not calling it a "moral" feeling. More like rudimentary thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour. These would inclu...

Your expectation of empathy, and now your recounting of my words. I said no such thing.

If what counts as being real is having an effect/affect, then of course God is real. What's the difference however, as a matter of elemental constitut...

Google formal debate fallacies. There's many. Opt for an academic sourced list.

Like a performative contradiction, yeah? The Great Moustache was most certainly more obsessed with the God of Abraham than many believers.

So don't say that. I sure didn't.

Read the post again. Look at what I quoted. In general, I'm disagreeing with the criterion you're holding empathy to. While it seems evident that ther...

Empathy is not about understanding one's socio-economic background, personality, or whatever... It's about knowing how other people are feeling, knowi...

This is a bit misinformed. In a face to face with someone you've never met, if you witness them in pain, you'll know it. Mirror neurons. If you witnes...

No. All concepts are language constructs. I hold that not everything conceived of is. Some concepts have referents that exist in their entirety prior ...

Rather, our conventional notions/conceptions of morality are constructs of language. All conceptions of morality involve in some way or other what cou...

We come up with all sorts of names for all sorts of things. It quite simply does not follow from that that all of those things are artificial. Trees c...

Here's a problem I find common when people are discussing morality. The use of the term "moral" quite often is being used in different senses by diffe...

Perhaps it might boil down to someone, somewhere, offering a better - more adequate - definition(delineation). That would need to include how it emerg...

Well it is in layman's terms, not typically in philosophical circles though, I would venture to guess... Typically, as I understand it, the difference...

Indeed. It consists in part of both. It consists entirely of thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable thought, belief, and(mostly) behaviour inclu...

In short... we discover some things. Moreover, that which is discovered exists in it's entirety upon it's discovery. That is not to say that no thing ...

Maybe a later day... You mentioned concepts. I suggest that you be a bit better prepared to defend the notion next time.

Good. I was getting at the question of method. Some conceptions are of that which exist in their entirety prior to being conceived. That holds for goo...

All for it. I'm not holding my breath for anything new. Has yet to have come.

Terrapin denies shared meaning. A fatal flaw that is contradictory to everyday events. I have negated his position, which falls apart at the seams, by...

I did. All conceptions are linguistic. Not everything conceived of is. Goodness is one such thing. So, the trick is as old as many a historical debate...

Does it?

All conceptions of "goodness" are existentially dependent upon highly complex thought/belief replete with value assessment. All conceptions are heavil...

Let us simplify by performing the following operation... Not all conceptions of goodness can account for that which exists prior to our conceptions. ....

Pffft, Meh.

We can say, without doubt, that our exit from life on earth has absolutely no bearing whatsoever upon whether or not 'time passes on'. What would we u...

Misunderstanding of the role that meaning plays in making a promise, particularly regarding truth conditions setting that out. That's what I was discu...

Thanks. We do seem to share a position, or at least they're very close... Goodness is not a fact on my view either. Facts are what has happened. Rathe...

Not all conceptions of goodness can account for that which exists prior to our conceptions. Goodness, on my view, does not requires our awareness of i...

Yup. You're all three mistaken. Let me know when you find a way out of the pickle? Yes? Do you remember where you ended up contradicting yourself if y...

Gotcha. I would concur. Drawing and maintaining the distinction between thought/belief and thinking about thought/belief is imperative to understandin...

Perhaps it be better put a bit differently. That which already exists in it's entirety prior to our account/report of it, is not existentially depende...

This is prima facie evidence that a gross misunderstanding of thought/belief is at work. If he believes what he says, then he is most certainly statin...

No. All you've done is further prove my earlier point/criticism of relative/subjective morality. You're conflating belief and truth. It is clear that ...

No. Andrew. You're ok here. The standard is necessary for us to determine whether or not the action is moral or not... that is... it is necessary for ...

Then it's not the same exact claim.

I think that I know. However, what I think I know does not always match up to conventional understanding/notions. I asked not to be intentionally obtu...

Misunderstanding accompanied by a dichotomy that is inherently incapable of taking proper account of morality.

Being subjective is dependent upon thought/belief. I suppose then that being objective is not dependent upon thought/belief. But if morality is subjec...

One ought not do X... If that is a command, and commands are not truth-apt, then neither is that utterance of ought.

It seems to me that moral judgments not only assert that something is immoral/moral, but also that they are universally applicable. If X is morally wr...

In what way can something be dependent upon something else if that something else doesn't exist? In what way can something be dependent upon something...

Goodnight.

I already said that S... It's irrelevant and petty.

What counts as a moral statement? Are we limiting the scope to moral judgments? "X is moral/immoral"? "X is good/bad"? "One ought do/not do X"?