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Do you have any idea how rude you are being? You are flooding this forum in primarily a one way lecture series. Are you interested in what other people think? If he is being rude he will fit in quite well here. Also, I haven’t seen anyone ask any questions or clarifying statements, so we don’t know...

Self negation requires the negation of the I into a further I given the negation of the subject occurs through the subject; self-negation is the formation of self-hood into an objective state where the I becomes an object. The subject occurring through the subject is an object, thus the subject and...

Greed and envy. "Given what particular set of circumstances? Out in what particular world understood in what particular way historically and culturally and interpersonally?" That's where I always start. Greed and envy in a village community? in a large modern metropolis? in a commune? on ...

This is posted in/on the board pertaining to Ethical Theory. My own interest in ethics, however, revolves more around exploring the "for all practical purposes" implications of theoretical assessments as they pertain to actual circumstantial contexts in which men and women come to conflic...

I'd rather paraphrase " Our subjective experiences exist extramentally. Subjectivity is a mental construct within the master set of mental constructs.The master set of objective constructs is extramental." All the confusion goes away once we recognize the interpretative context. Experienc...

Summary: I have outlined the basis of a psychological development of morality, of blame, and of forgiveness, in the context of viewing other minds as independent sources of actions, which in reality is contrary to the Newtonian deterministic understanding of the physical world which minds and bodie...

Age, Just to be clear, this is Dimebag writing, not Walker, who I can assure you is a separate, independent entity existing within a separate organism. Or at least, the self known as ‘Dimebag’, believes itself to be a separate self from that of ‘Walker’, though, this is also seen and known, but not ...

If objectivism is a meaning and the conscious subject is the source of all meaning, then how could morality be objective in and of itself? All meaning is bestowed upon the physical world by a conscious subject and manifesting its sentiments in the forms of structures and systems in service to those...

Introduction I would like to, with the help of the members of this forum who have a grasp of both developmental psychology and evolutionary psychology, explore the origins of blame, forgiveness and morality in the context of early developing humans and possibly the relating and existing similar tra...

If objectivism is a meaning and the conscious subject is the source of all meaning, then how could morality be objective in and of itself? All meaning is bestowed upon the physical world by a conscious subject and manifesting its sentiments in the forms of structures and systems in service to those...

We walk the Razors Edge of Creation in every moment. There is nothing to understand, nothing to practice, nothing to be. Being needs nothing, being wants nothing. Wanting and Needing can only pertain to the sense of a 'sepearate self'. In reality, this sensing is unknowable, it is one with the know...

I believe free will was a religious concept/creation in that the existence of sin depends upon it, and it so simplifies things in such a perplexing world. Certainly, believers, if they really are believers, are threatened by all the violence religion has in store for them after they die if they don...

Self negation requires the negation of the I into a further I given the negation of the subject occurs through the subject; self-negation is the formation of self-hood into an objective state where the I becomes an object. The subject occurring through the subject is an object, thus the subject and...

The Free Will stance does affect behaviour as follows. Free Will theory says that other people are responsible for all their bad choices a) you are justified in blaming and punishing. b) you are justified in not searching out the causes of their bad behaviour. These attitudes of the Free Willist af...

Some people don't believe in free will, but others do. And then there is the "others". So I'd like to ask if people's beliefs about free will tend to affect how they feel about politics and society. For example, do people with a determinist view of the world tend to follow the rules of so...