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We've been over this.

Certainly. Some of the numbers I've seen is that a person needs to easily enough make 20,000 USD per year in order to be happy; a more recent number i...

As things stand, I'm focusing on who the beneficiaries of the incident are. In this case, I don't think the group was artificially created, but that a...

It's not just that. Think of old monocultures where there is a culture of "public secrets", ie. there are things that everybody knows (and talks about...

Because there are actually two statements in place, but just one of them is put into words, while the other one is implied or otherwise needs to be di...

Oh dear. This is the standard problem with Buddhism: the pitifully low standard of quotation. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10232/the-moti...

The problem with it is that she has not arrived at her high socioeconomic status by following virtue ethics; she didn't start somewhere at the bottom ...

How do you account for cunning? Note that cunning is something that can also help people thrive.

Oh, I think Nussbaum's upper middle class status is helping her thrive, not virtue ethics.

How do you save ethics from drowning in a sea of individuality?

Those are not canonical references. They are just some quotes that someone attributed to the Buddha.

Yes, I know what win-win means. I'm saying that in the culture I live in, it is largely unknown. In the last 20 years or so, it has gained some popula...

There is the problem of sourgraping, presenting socioeconomic success as less relevant than it is.

Granted. It depends on how much there is to a religion, in one's opinion. In my opinion, there isn't much more to either of the two religions than mor...

I asked you for a canonical reference, ie. an actual Buddhist source.

I've been having a keyboard problem that appears only in some reply windows here: the written text appears _after_ the cursor. This doesn't happen in ...

Must be, because in my native language, we don't even have a native phrase for "win-win".

Because the happiness of an enlightened being is not about having agreeable food to eat, good family relationships and friends, satisfaction at one's ...

On principle, Dharmic religions (notably, Buddhism and Hinduism) are not expansive, evangelical religions, the notion of religious conversion is forei...

Only superficially. We'd need a whole thread for this. Buddhism (the kind that strives for the complete cessation of suffering), is, essentially, a de...

Yes, absolutely. - - - The Buddha's happiness couldn't be further away from what psychologists consider happiness. What is your source for Buddhism? J...

Morality, sila, is central to Buddhist practice. Sila (virtue, moral conduct) is the cornerstone upon which the entire Noble Eightfold Path is built. ...

In Early Buddhism, there are four Brahamaviharas (or four sublime attitudes, or four divine abodes) (see here in the index for links at the entry Brah...

It's peculiar you'd say that. The Naikan questions are about what one did to others, so they are very much a matter of self-examination.

You do realize that the above description can be applied to obedience? Obedience is eusocial, adaptive. It helps people flourish. In my native languag...

A problem with the discipline of virtue ethics is that it does not operate with a definitive list of virtues. Why not consider obedience to be a virtu...

Well, proving a conspiracy can be next to impossible, or entirely impossible, that's the whole point of a conspiracy. It's hard to know what is really...

It's not about me having a "better suggestion". I can't quite put my finger on it, but I have a nagging suspicion that people like Plato would dismiss...

Some examples: The Catholic examen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_conscience Naikan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naikan The questions/...

Or the whole thing is a PR strategy and he's not a narcissist at all, he only plays one, as an actor. It's feasible to do so, because in our society, ...

But he was just a literary character. A literary construct, constructed by the author to make some point. - - - In highschool, I knew a boy who looked...

Don't go where they teach you to drink.

Indeed. And politicians and the medical establishment have been working hard for decades to destroy people's trust in politics and medicine.

Indeed, but I don't think it will ever be possible to discover the truth about this incident. Awww. The China paranoia! Well, China is making lots of ...

Their stance is that the covid virus does not exist. Are you familiar with the series Person of Interest? There, a group of people, Samaritan, who wan...

Sure. But do you want to know what (and how) people believe just out of curiosity, or do you have a more urgent and useful reason for it? (Such as tai...

I doubt Plato or Socrates would ever say such a thing, at least they wouldn't mean it in the general sense that your sentence suggests.

And yet all ideas of the "examined life" are prescriptive. There exist lists of questions one _should_ ask oneself in order to "examine one's life".

He strikes me as the person of other people's envy, and the envied person.

The historical reception of the literary character. There must be something appealing about Narcissus that catches people's attention. Which, of cours...

No. For the ordinary person, they are the same. For the ordinary person, with physics, the story is a given too, and one spends one's time trying to m...

This is some kind of Mahayana doctrine.

I agree with the sentiment! It's just that there are two large books of poems in Early Buddhist scriptures, Verses of the Elder Monks (Theragatha) and...

This assumes that people want or should want to cooperate, that their basic belief is something like "We should all be willing to cooperate with every...

Where is that world??!

But when there is such consensus, what will people talk about? In my experience, when I have so much in common with someone as you describe above, and...

The degree of goodwill for the other person. An infatuated person has little or no goodwill for the person they are infatuated with (down to lacking t...

So you want to do philosophy of language, but vaguely back it up and give it a sense of authority with references to the Bible (and other assorted scr...

You misread my tone. Have you read Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz? It could very well be that being a liberal humanist, one expects too much from life...

So what were they? The primordial armchair philosophers? I'm being both ironic and not. I doubt a few men can have such influence, so I'd look for ano...