Yes, I think this is a significant point. How I behave is of less significance than how a society behaves. The law seems to exist because individual m...
The problem with these frequently cited quotes is that they are often treated as a kind of blank check, used to justify all sorts of reckless or extre...
Could there be a third way? I'm thinking that everyone has the capacity to be a kind of scientist of their own experince, they experiment and test as ...
Because not enough people care about the welfare of animals, and eating meat is deeply embedded in our culture. The moral conversations of many cultur...
I was just describing something I’ve seen. I don’t think it’s a particularly important point. Whether someone is a monomaniac or not hardly matters. W...
Well this is old one isn't it? Is morality objective or subjective or, in fact, intersubjective? We come to this on the forum every few weeks or month...
One person’s prejudice is another’s insight. I think it’s often called critical reflection or in nursing, teaching and social work, reflective practic...
Nice try, I like this and I can see your reasoning but I think it's an inadequate read of what I said. I wrote :- There’s nuance here. I’m not claimin...
As you'll note I said :- This does not contain any absolutist pronouncements like the two dot points you’ve provided. But if I treat these as follow-u...
Nice quote and exactly what I was thinking of. I hadn't thought of it in terms of existential transformation but I guess that works. There does seem t...
Is this a paradoxical way of saying practice makes perfect? I guess it's helpful for us to distinguish a fool from a 'simpleton'. In as much as a fool...
Yes, I was thinking about this kind of thing earlier. I was also considering the difference between attaining ‘enlightenment’ (for want of a better te...
Cool. So can we think of temperament as habitual patterns of sense making? I’m assuming you include in temperament people’s preferences for order, sim...
There’s something a bit cheap and glib about mere cleverness, which seems to locate wisdom closer to nous and virtue. Perhaps there’s moral cleverness...
Never thought about it. I’m not sure if I should be concerned or amused by this figure, I wonder if there are some good stats on this. I mentioned phi...
Which is a reasonable point. Intuitively that seems right too. Certain understandings of wisdom, then, rest on the ability to know or intuit the Good,...
Which is curious, if true. I'm pretty sure people can be 'radicalised' by philosophy. I’ve certainly met those who 'converted' to idealism or became o...
Isn’t it all just stories and myths, with some proving more useful than others depending on the circumstances? I don’t begin with the idea that we eve...
Well said. A perspective people tend not to consider as they seem to attribute everything to learning and discernment. That's worth thinking about. I ...
Perhaps. But value is also construed in postmodern theory through intersubjective agreement, which seems to be as close to objectivity as we can get. ...
That's an interesting point and I would agree. That's an element no one seems to have drawn out so far. Thanks. :up: :up: There's an entire thread in ...
That’s a very nicely written perspective. I particularly like this insight. I forgot about that great response. Thanks! Because, in most situations, e...
Not always. If you watch someone follow a course of action and see the consequences, you also learn what works and what does not. In some cases you wi...
Got ya. Government in a nutshell. :up: I wonder if it is possible to become wise by learning from the foolish? After all, with discernment, watching a...
Oh, say some more about that - context perhaps. Are you saying that operational pragmatism means having to make decisions whether the matter is decida...
Indeed. When I was young, in the 1980's, there was a sequel to this via the New Age movement which had good and bad aspects to it. It's where I first ...
The default position is that it is better to live. But there are situations where death might be preferable; terminal illness being an obvious example...
It happens a lot. Or did. I work in psychosocial services which assists people who are experiencing mental ill health and addiction (amongst other thi...
I’ve never paid much attention to philosophy, but I do find it interesting. I navigate most of life by intuition, rarely reflecting or theorizing and ...
Indeed, in some ways a system might also be seen as a heuristic, a simplifying device that helps us navigate complexity, but it can just as readily fu...
His initial interview with Alex O'Connor seems to be a good way to cut through to his primary focus. I personally struggle to accept that today’s peop...
Interesting observations, thanks. That seems like a pertinent question. You’re seeing education as something quite different from traditional book-sma...
Are you a 'meaning seeking' type of person such as you have described? Where do you sit on this? Yeah well this is a subject so familiar and well cove...
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by ‘altered' could you give an example? But isn’t it fair to say that most beliefs alter us in some way? Politics,...
I don't see homosexuality as a deviance. If you do then you're missing my point. My point is not connected to whether it is necessary to follow a deit...
I don’t disagree with this. All I mean is that some people are 'turned on' by theism and some are not, just as some are attracted to boys and not girl...
Even many theists, especially the apophatics, argue that nothing sensible can really be said about God. It’s all mystery. I just take their move one s...
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