It might be helpful if you shared what your definition of "objective" is. The term is used in very many ways. I think I would be inclined to agree wit...
No, far from it. Even the biggest advocates for "reducibility in theory," wouldn't claim it has been reduced. There are all sorts of ad hoc work aroun...
I wasn't thinking of deism at all. I was thinking of the understanding of the relationship between God, Providence, and nature in ancient and medieval...
The entire concept of "strong emergence," only makes sense in a metaphysics where things are the sum total of their parts though. But that's the very ...
How is it a "cop out?" It seems to flow naturally from panentheism and the classical understanding of Providence. The idea that nature itself is a the...
:up: Yes, that's why I tried to clarify with the reference to methodological reductionism and smallism. Like I said, I think some sort of broadly defi...
IDK, my reading might be biased, but I do read a lot of popular physics. Smallism doesn't always come in for explicit attacks (although it certainly d...
All explanations of the world are going to be ontologically reductive in some ways, because you invariably face the problem of "the One and the Many."...
I thought of saying something about the "terminal malfunction of another moist robot," but I was concerned it would be mean spirited as well. But this...
Teleology is sort of at the heart of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis debate. It is far from being the only issue, but opponents of EES also often ...
It's also held as a dogmatic position itself, which you point out. In existentialism, it's generally held out as freeing people from a "tyranny of ide...
For Hegel, it's more of a "freedom to..." In a great deal of modern philosophy, freedom is thought of in terms of potentiality. This is freedom as the...
Ha, well people certainly can lack a well developed sense of practical reasoning concerning different arts, etc. However, it's certainly not the case ...
Interestingly, for Hegel, this historical question is central the ethics proper. Both what we "have done," and what we "ought to do," are ultimately d...
Begging the question is when you assume your conclusion. E.g., something like: "our perception of objects is indirect because we don't perceive things...
It's worth noting that this problem doesn't seem limited to practical judgement (good/bad), but applies as readily to aesthetic judgement (beautiful/u...
Certainly what is considered a virtue is filtered through different contexts, but there are also threads that seem to run through almost all contexts....
How so? Even if the human good is just defined by personal preference, it is clear that people can make choices that they themselves regret. Hence, pe...
I'll respond to the rest later, but it's worth pointing out that that MacIntyre's interest in Thomism, and his conversion to Catholicism, come after t...
MacIntyre's theses are difficult to adequately sum up. It might be worth quoting his warning from the second edition: The Enlightenment demand that et...
I can think of one reason to preference the reduction of the negative over the maximization of some positive principle (e.g., pleasure for J.S. Mill)....
Glad you liked it! I'm not sure how familiar you are with the tradition. I've written some very general summaries I'll share below. In terms of going ...
I think people get to this in different ways, but I can think of a few examples. There is Sokolowski's "The Phenomenology of the Human Person," (excel...
I'm not sure what your definition of "objective," is here, but it seems like the objective should be a subset of number two. The objective is the view...
To reframe this to see if I am getting it right this would be something like: "I find all these murders unpleasant, you all do too. So let's not murde...
Violation! The fact that the stair has a bottom shows we are dealing with Hegel's "bad infinity." Anyhow, Aristotle claims that we cannot have an actu...
I think it's a good analogy in some respects. Two things worth pointing out: 1. That people differ in their opinions is as true for what are generally...
These and other seemingly absolute statements seem sort of at odds with your prior claims that no one can know anything and that any pretension to kno...
This is a good thread. I will just point out a few things. First, an additional argument that might help out with these claims can be found in the par...
There seems to be space in realist accounts for both what Husserl calls the "truth of correctness" (true/false) and a "truth of completeness" (awarene...
I've tried using this example as a more intuitive way to summarize the "more is different of computation." When you have a grain of table salt and you...
This of course requires the epiphenomenalism is not true, and in turn that reductionism and causal closure are not true, in essence ruling out most po...
If conscience is thought of as a sort of "set of moral first principles," à la Aquinas, it seems possible to explain how people can often get things s...
Since you seem to be building off Aristotle you might look closely at this part. The idea that "objectivity approaches truth at the limit," or that "x...
This is the intuitive idea behind Aquinas' ethics. It is always bad to deny one's conscience, even if one's moral reasoning is ultimately in error (ho...
Hume famously denied finding any real self during introspection, finding instead a "bundle of sensations," in the Enquiry. But I encountered a pretty ...
There is spatial separation when any property is instantiated. Properties are only instantiated in interactions. A thing having a photograph taken of ...
Aristotle makes just this point in the Posterior Analytics. Aristotle, in Metaphysics, IX 10, distinguishes between two kinds of truth: truth as the c...
Sort of. An artist's rendering or a skillful photographer can utilize their skill (a sort of pictorial syntax) to bring out more of a thing's properti...
Exactly. A lot of phenomenological treatments go a step further, claiming that one cannot be aware of the intelligibilities of things without language...
The Phaedrus is also helpful here in the "love" is normally excluded from the analytical frame in a way moral goodness is not (at least not from the E...
It can be seen, but not demonstrated. That's Schindler's thesis anyhow. In each of the three images Socrates creates in the middle of the Republic som...
An interesting mix. Plato and Aristotle have a pretty similar vision of the human good, but Nietzsche and Kant's seem very different from each other a...
And by 1788 we get Legrange's Analytical Mechanics boasting that it has no diagrams, only algebraic equations, because these involve less of the human...
It's worth considering how the description of the polis is framed originally as a means of describing how justice improves the self-governing soul. He...
Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre were the first philosophers I read and I initially took it as a sort of gospel. But having now read a lot more philosophy...
I would read the text first, but I have two recommendations for secondary sources. The first is Wallace's "Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, an...
It seems to me that I know my parents. I do not know them perfectly, as God knows them. I do not need to know them perfectly to know them at all. It w...
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