Well, if you stick to such straw men then this conversation won't go anywhere. And what's with the wacky Jordan Peterson style utterance? Isn't his bo...
I have not said theists are full of shit, just that they can be no closer to an objective morality than a non-believer. It’s subjective any way you go...
But THEIR rules contradict each other. I would argue that it's far from clear what the characteristics of the Abrahamic god are even to believers. For...
I'm not sure about that. If this god exists then it would still be a series of confusions and mysteries. Which parts of the Koran and the Bible would ...
The Declaration of Human Rights. And I have worked for social justice organisations that were secular, busily providing health and housing services fo...
But if you are not an atheist how can you fairly come to that view? You would appear to lack the grounding to make that claim. There are plenty of suc...
A bottle of wine a night is pretty standard. While it isn't good for health, it isn't a huge drinking problem. Many people I know drink 3 or 4 bottles...
You're a highly entertaining and eccentric poster. I'm curious about your various arguments and pronouncements. What made you think this? How did you ...
I imagine a massive range of diverse situations (cultural, economic and historical) probably accounts for this age gap. Also sectors. How this looks i...
Interesting and probably true. I don't have a recent enough memory to be certain. But I did think of Barth a lot when I read Cervantes. I found Barth ...
Sounds reasonable. Quick clarification - based upon this if fairness is not found in the world, then unfairness is not found either? Fairness and unfa...
The problem with pragmatism is that it does matter what you pick - awful things 'work'. At an extreme end, murdering people to get to the top can work...
Keep it up. I don't ususally assess people's' creative work and I'm not much interested in accounts of personal experience. One point of history howev...
I haven't said anything is false - gods, idealism. Just that they haven't been adequately demonstrated. Hence I have no good reason to beleive them. I...
Sure, but I figure intuition of that kind is based on experince and lots of exposure to good and bad decision making which was more formally structure...
Not just philosophers - everyone. I'm a non-philosopher and a minimalist, so I'm not particularly reflective, nor am I a searcher. I superimpose inter...
Fair and just are human terms, subject to some criteria of value. Just which criteria would one use in order to determine if the world we appear to in...
I can see this. I love this wording: Makes sense. I find this ( Solomon)) very interesting. Possibly a digression but since you raised it - I'd be int...
That's not really what I am saying. That was me reframing your point about the epistemic hopelessness before us. Which I take to be the similar Rorty'...
I don't think I fully understand this. Maybe the language is a bit academic for me. E.g., - what does this mean? Can you do it in a sentence? You're s...
I wouldn't call this optimism. :wink: I don't think we can say 'never'. It's too definitive. But certainly it is unlikely. Who knows? The broader ques...
Isn't the point of philosophy to examine the hell out of basic assumptions and our glib answers? Isn't it the case that some of the most obvious quest...
I guess I'm not as pessimistic as you seem to be. I don't think we are doomed, but who would know? I tend to think of 'last hopes' as wish fulfillment...
None of what you say is new to me. My point is it need not worry us. Just act and reflect. We have more than enough to work with in order to talk mean...
Seems to me gods don't offer any more help than 'utopian' political systems. Whether we opt for the magic space wizard or the leader of the glorious r...
I suspect our world-views are too far apart. There are lots of undemonstrated claims here. What is corrupt morality? Can you provide an example? The B...
Only if you insist. I'm not pretending that I have answers to old epistemological questions. I'm not even sure that they matter. But it's not hard to ...
You seem to be hard wired to root out corruptions and inadequacies. I don't share this way of looking at things. A wind turbine is not morality, the a...
Ok. I was just waiting to point out that morality probably has mundane origins. I don't think the societal conversation has been increasingly poor or ...
You seem to be jumping ahead of the story for reasons unclear to me. :wink: All I am saying is people will have views and talk about 'oughts' and 'oug...
Is it really that difficult and elusive? We live together as community and this means holding values. It's impossible not to. Ethics emerges from the ...
Kastrup does a good job using science and quantum physics to argue for idealism. The most compelling arguments seem to be the case against what we use...
I was around for the New Age movement. I think much of it was a reaction to the brokenness and isolation of the 'me generation' and 'greed is good'. I...
As a non-philosopher, I think it is important to explore this line of thinking - given the rather dreadful consequences of a blame culture we have obs...
The problem with this idea is that there is no demonstration that idealism is true. Sure, there are various inferences one can follow (a la Bernardo K...
Well, in fairness, people can also be part of the Catholic church and rape and abuse children with few consequences (unless you're caught by the secul...
I think it's probably the case that most of us just act and rarely think about morality. (But we might think about the law.) Morality is for academics...
The point of the O'Hagan piece is showcasing Assange's narcissism and incipient sociopathy. If accurate, this may have more significant implications t...
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