*sigh* Hold your Rocinante! I myself realized, unfortunately rather late in my life and much to my regret, that the pessimism I used to be so fond of ...
Living off a cozy trust fund has it upsides, such as one being able to afford decadent pessimist views. Too bad it doesn't work the other way around: ...
Different theories of morality saliently differ precisely on this one point: the issue of the motivation/justification for acting morally. Each such t...
If he's stuck, then he can't sacrifice himself. He has no choice in the matter, he literally can't do anything. And how exactly would you do that? He'...
But the real question for assessing moral reasoning is _why_ we should do something and not do some other thing. For example, five people can say that...
To get a context on the matter. You said earlier: This view is far from universal. For some people, for example, morality is all about laws and rules:...
Yes, and this is a considerable part of the problem. Once a law is passed, it's like boarding a plane: one is stuck with it / on it for a duration of ...
I mean that it is people's belief (the fact that people believe) that might makes right that is the mechanism that ties the law to morality, or, rathe...
When discussing the dog-eat-dog nature of life, only a simpleton would be indiscriminately charitable, or goodwilled. IOW, the topics of philosophical...
That assumes that there exists a "larger meaning" and that one only needs to "decipher" it. Based on what should one assume that (or better yet: take ...
In order for people to take the law seriously, they must assume that the law is somehow a reflection of objective reality, objective morality, of "thi...
I think it's an urban myth that this is so. But it can certainly happen that a person who has expertise in one field takes for granted that said field...
No. If anything, the deciding factors are 1. a person's socio-economic class, 2. that classes don't mix well. Simply put: rich people (or those aspiri...
Yes, and "hedonism" can mean so many things, to the point that the term becomes useless. There are Buddhist and Hindu dharma teachers who looking at p...
But there is a justification, namely, one to the effect of, "It is worth it to commit to an ideology that promises salvation, even when the situation ...
Indeed, but they can still be relevant, because often in life, it's about what is at stake, not what the stakes are. For example, believing it's worth...
If the good is, as you said earlier, neither definable nor analyzable, then a great many moral philosophers have been merely spinning their wheels. Ho...
At the end of the day, one lives alone and dies alone. A theory of morality has to account for this somehow. Even more so when we're living in a socie...
You said earlier: and I requested a clarification: because your formulation doesn't exclude a position like "Whatever enhances my wellbeing and dimini...
It seems that one cannot not attempt to rationalize one's existence, so it's moot as to whether it's worth to rationalize one's existence or not. Who ...
In that case, the prospects for a theory of morality are rather hopeless, if we have to wait for "nature" to deliver the verdict. (We'll possibly be d...
As far as the Pali suttas go, the Buddha taught nibbana, kamma, and rebirth. Yes, the standard passage when one is looking for a thought-terminating c...
If the solution to the problems of good and bad is as simple as you outlined earlier: then one has to wonder what all those moral philosophers have be...
What use is, for example, Buddhism without nirvana, karma, and rebirth (as the non-religious secular Buddhists would have it)? It's like a car without...
Yes, the resentment festers. There is a point of no return. When one ventures on the path of resignating oneself to a shitty situation, there comes a ...
But who decides what being right is? No, just that since everyone is subject to death anyway, death is nothing special, not a sign of failure. Becomin...
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