Tom Storm

I very much like your response to this OP. Can you please say just a little more about the attributes of 'freethinking that's invisible'?

It's not an objection, it's just a statement trying to provide a more realistic account of how mainstream pop music and art works. It seems shallow to...

As I have said, for me ethics is what happens when we try to cope with living with others. Ethics is only possible with others. We can't go any deeper...

You conflate disagreement with personal attack. The time wasting comment was my response to the specific approach described below which seemed to me t...

There's not much to say about gods since they are entirely silent and absent themselves. Gods are holding statements for the unknown. We've always und...

Sounds like Californian New Age pop psychology. And yes there are people who find this 'love' frame helpful. I think a better way of putting this is '...

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People are not interested in philosophy for many reasons - time, opportunity, relevance, difficulty, temperament. Generally people follow their upbrin...

Blame - how old fashioned. :wink: But I note that in remainder of your response you put the blame somewhat harshly on me. Nice work. I don't really kn...

That's it in a nutshell - you're much better at this than I am.

No, I'm totally familiar with these sorts of games. I just don't think they bear fruit. An endless recursion of conceptual snipe hunting Herein lies t...

That's an accurate assessment and probably well covered by the likes of Hitchens and Dawkins.

I know that, but I'm saying that it doesn't become ethical until should and shouldn't or ought and ought not enter the frame. Ethics is about behaviou...

I don't understand why we are talking about examples of a violent crime like we're a couple of high school students. :razz: Are you able to tell me wh...

I'm running to my timetable, not yours.

Over 30 years I have often worked with violent criminals, I know knives and I know basic. Doesn't change my view on the issue of human flourishing. No...

Goodness - I think the answer to this is obvious. Kinkade, Eco and Gaga made the artistic choices they did not to subvert anything but to make money. ...

Go for it Ray... I don't even know how things look now and I am here (I think), so I'm certainly not going attempt anything like that.

I mean they are likely to be constructs we have developed that seem to reflect human experience and we use them conceptually in daily life to help us ...

Of course - they map to human experience.

I have no idea - you seem to be the one advocating mysteries. :smile: But does all this track back to the initial question about the origins of ethica...

Because space and time are conceptual notions humans have developed to understand the world. I am not sure they map to anything beyond us.

I am unable to vote on such a question - I doubt we have access to the relevant information. Personally, the idea of 'nothing' versus 'something' are ...

I consider this to be wishful thinking and mysticism. You said earlier that I was making it more complicated than it need be and now here you are sayi...

This one seems uncomplicated (however I confess to finding Dostoevsky dull). Are you a Jordan Peterson neophyte? If you believe in moral realism (deri...

Well yes - we kind of have two loose options - taking the Platonic ideal that all balance, goodness, order is located in the Logos and knowledge of th...

I don't think the point is to take the Golden Rule in such a concrete manner. 'Do unto others' can mean we respect the other's preferences even if we ...

I suspect many are built into our lizards brains and may not be related to rational thought. Some are about survival and procreation. I hate it when p...

Good. What does phenomenology make of ethics - isn't this the approach you are suggesting? For my money what sits before ethics is behaviour that eith...

That's a ballsy statement. Nietzsche would have agreed but he was... Nietzsche. What's your excuse? :razz: Human beings are meaning making creatures. ...

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It's a portrait of Prince Andrew before the Epstein allegations.

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Thanks. Good luck.

Fair enough. It's good to have a project. I get that. But my question was aimed more at the book's purpose as a book. Can you explain in two or three ...

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Good to know - that's been my approach for the past 40 years.

I feel like the nature of reality debate often gets stuck at this point. I wonder if there are other ways to discuss the realism/idealism debate? I ca...

Thanks.

Yep. Nietzsche argues that even the great philosophers are propelled by a particular moral or ethical vision. Their philosophy boils down to a post-ho...

More contemporary idealists like Kastrup additionally make the point that materialism or physicalism is false (using a particular understanding of QM)...

Thanks. The Kastrup interview is bound to irritate some people. His approach often seems to me to be a more sophisticated Don Hoffman. I the way he pu...

Ok, thanks. How do you get from electric charge in matter to will?

Well it's such a mystery I have no idea what it's connected to. Is charge about cooking or trees?

What is charge?

Thanks. Totally forgot about this one. :wink:

Has there ever been a thread about the presuppositions necessary for the possibility of rationality and intelligible experience?

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I can't imagine it would be easy - my response was glib and inadequate. Ending poverty permanently - not just bailing people out temporarily by throwi...