Must must must. What is it with this must?? Presumably a philosopher, as a lover of wisdom, will act wisely with his time and resources and won't reha...
I suspect that commonality has to do with more than just some moral and epistemic egoists/narcissists discovering that they have something in common. ...
What do you mean? My grandmother was a Catholic her whole life, and then renounced it in her 70's. Apparently, some idea had become so prominent to he...
My point is that if one doesn't believe in objective morality, then how can one hope to get along with others in the pursuit of some common goal (whic...
Presumably a philosopher is still a human and still in the process of learning, so to him, there are ideas that are new, even if someone else might ha...
At this point, I am moral-realism-adjacent. I think most people are moral realists, but are aware that it is taboo to actually declare oneself as such...
Indeed, this is why a philosopher cannot be a politician, nor a politician a philosopher. A philosopher is supposed to "give all ideas a fair shake", ...
How can political discussion on an internet forum be productive and effective? Political discussion can be productive and effective in, for example, a...
Yes, absolutely. In European countries, things are not so either-or or black-and-white as in the US. Although there is a less or more visible trend to...
In order to understand capitalism, you need to put aside your socialist sensitivities. In capitalism, people are expendable. It's about living for an ...
You're the one making an argument in favor of antinatalism. That means you have to find justifications for why people should not have children, and yo...
The middle group, AKA the "fence sitters". A decidedly derogatory term. These people are a liability because they are undecided, so it's no wonder the...
When one grows up as the only non-Catholic among Catholics and is bullied by them, and tries to make sense of it by reading a lot of Catholic literatu...
Or because you're just not an artist? :p Oh, the drama, the horror! Don't you find it unsettling that unhappy people seem more interesting? Why is tha...
I think that in part, it's about the mystery of art: How is it that a thoroughly screwed up person can create works of art that people are so delighte...
What's the difference? The difference would be salient if either of them would feel oppressed by their outfit. Quite likely, neither of them do. Rebel...
Further from your link: /.../ Several other writers and scholars have challenged the evidential basis for Cohen's and others' views about Dodgson's se...
Would you say that in the process of giving up the bad habit, you always had control over your intentions and your intentions were exactly what you wa...
Hardly any word/concept has been so debated as "natural". Why should social forces that are at work in human society be somehow not natural? If, say, ...
The mental action of desiring to help someone doesn't automatically lead to a particular verbal or bodily action. There is an element of choice inbetw...
No, the First Noble Truth says "There is suffering", not "Life is suffering". Then do reflect how come these, on average, happy (although unenlightene...
Why would such lives contain far more undeserved suffering than pleasure? Can you explain? You are seeking to make an argument in favor of antinatalis...
I agree. But I don't see how your attitude is conducive to inspiring others to change. What do you mean by "less energy"? For many people, such change...
Here's the sequence again: good intention: to help A bad/inappropriate action: take away A's phone bad outcome: A misses an important call Another one...
It's a dilemma if our aim is to judge, condemn, and punish others (or ourselves). For all practical intents and purposes, the primary use of a moral t...
Personally, I believe that there are three kinds of actions, depending on where/how in reference to the person they occur: mental, verbal, and bodily;...
This is incomplete. The sequence should be: Good intentions, bad action, bad outcome, and wrong. Your intention to help is good. But there is a consid...
Do you know how many ideas there are about what "the meaning of Buddhism at the basic level" is? As many as there are people willing to entertain them...
No, it doesn't. Life Isn't Just Suffering Associating with run of the mill people (the average) is conducive to suffering, which is why one is told to...
By deciding what your purpose for reading those texts is, and then reading those texts with that purpose in mind. And making notes and reviewing them ...
Actually, early Buddhism teaches something similar (and it prescribes celibacy as a prerequisite for liberation from suffering). Or perhaps this is ba...
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