For realists, "perspective" only exists to mean 'not knowing the truth, but merely having a perspective'. If realists would acknowledge perspectivism ...
Yes. Because guts aren't reasonable. Moral realism is actually metaethical authoritarianism/egoism. Issues of morality are inevitably about how people...
@"Michael" How do moral realists resolve descriptive moral relativism? How do moral realists explain that different people have different ideas about ...
@"180 Proof" You people already elected him once. Do you think the rest of the world (and perhaps even some Americans) have forgotten this? Do you thi...
This has not been my experience. But, nevermind. My "religious problem" has actually lost almost all the life there was to it, simply due to inertia. ...
In Theravada and Early Buddhism kamma is intention. Generally, only intentional actions have kammic consequences. This is why two people, externally a...
And yet circles aren't squares. If you have time on your hands, then maybe look at the work of Matthew Ratcliffe https://york.academia.edu/MatthewRatc...
This is what it looks like, yes. But I make no claim about their intentions in this discrepancy; in fact, their intentions in this discrepancy is what...
What? Does Trump(ism) not capture perfectly the essence of the American spirit, or at least the spirit of those Americans who actually vote or otherwi...
And yet all that anyone has ever heard about the topic "God", one has heard from other people. Even those people who have epileptic seizures and inter...
Actual elections are not always in line with the previous polls. Surprises have been known to happen. I suppose you just have more faith in the Americ...
You're doing the exact same thing the Trumpistas & co. are doing: blame others, place the entire burden for the quality of the interaction on the othe...
If I want to insult someone, I make that clear. Of course, via the language you use. I have brought this up with you at least once before (as well as ...
This posted here from another thread: Perhaps this is why people nowadays can get away with affectation -- because there is no you-shall-burn-at-the-s...
Probably not many, because life is still far too easy and far too good for most people to become radical. Those who experience the diminishing returns...
They are hard to find. Well, depends on one's standards. For example, I know of even university professors of Buddhology who were also "practicing" Bu...
Whatever my religious problem was at the time. The cunning. The tenacity. The mental and physical toughness. The bad faith. The wealth. The socio-econ...
Yes. It's a trend toward infantilization and consumerism. And a victim mentality. Of course. But it's not simply blind trust. If one is going to even ...
You said that you can ask questions about karma that nobody can answer. So far, you haven't asked any such question that I can't answer. I actually wa...
Heaven knows I'm no fan of religion. But I think many atheists, agnostics, and humanists grossly understimate it. As far as I'm concerned, these athei...
Oh Jesus. I have simply identified a boundary. Identifying a boundary is not "sneering and insinuating". Where? In your mind, apparently obsessed with...
Esp. older generations seem to have been taught that they are inherently deficient, by default. The belief that we are born bad and defective and yet ...
I can think of two groups of reasons for this: 1. An authoritarian sense of entitlement; extreme self-confidence; the belief that when one opens one's...
Do you really think Levinas actually approached other people in daily life as if he was "infinitely responsible" for them? That he actually felt indeb...
Possible solution to the personal identity problem The government solves it by issuing a unique personal identification document to every person. It's...
This is just a polite way of saying that Buddhism etc. are inferior to Christianity. It's religious imperialism. I remember some years back reading a ...
That's what the bad faith in which you tend to approach communication makes you see. Critics of Trump & co. often become exactly like those they criti...
Freedom is about "freedom from something" and "freedom to do something". This doesn't have to do with "free will". Sure. Someone with less information...
It is, because it means you're not open to discussion of this topic. And it's predictable that it probably won't go well. The extent of a person's kno...
But you can will to stop a bad habit. For crying out loud, in that video with Matthew Perry, that other man was just giving him well-meaning common-se...
Given that in life you also do a lot of other things, their effects mitigate eachother. If you once stole a loaf of bread, but you later regret it, wo...
When it's done for ideological purposes. The historical reception of Descartes would be comical, if it wouldn't be so sad and had such enormous conseq...
I tend to think of philosophy as a protracted means of finding ways for handling disagreement. Because all the things that philosophy talks about have...
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